Tereza Marinova
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Full name | Tereza Moncheva Marinova | ||||||||||||||||||
Born | Pleven, Bulgaria |
September 5, 1977 ||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Triple jump | ||||||||||||||||||
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Tereza Moncheva Marinova (Bulgarian: Тереза Мончева Маринова; born September 5, 1977 in Pleven) is a Bulgarian athlete who competed in long jump and triple jump.
Career
In her earlier days she became both European Junior and World Junior champion, and she still holds the world junior record at triple jump. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal with a personal best jump of 15.20 metres.
In long jump her personal best is 6.46 m. She did not compete internationally after the 2004 World Indoor Championships until 2006. She finished sixth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships.[1]
Her father Moncho was a prominent 800 metres runner who once set a Bulgarian record[2] and still holds the Bulgarian one mile record, and her brother Tsvetomir was a talented 400 metres runner.
Tereza Marinova retired from athletics shortly before the start of the 2008 Summer Olympics.[3] Nine months after that she started work as an athletics instructor.[4] Marinova was one of the commentators for the Bulgarian National Television during the 2012 Summer Olympics.[5] She is currently an instructor at the National Sports Academy.[6]
Personal life
Marinova gave birth to her first child, a girl named Darina, on 17 February 2011.[7] Her second child, a boy called Kalin, was born on 23 December 2012.[8]
Major achievements
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Notes |
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1994 | World Junior Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 15th (q) | 12.82 m (wind: +0.8 m/s) |
1996 | World Junior Championships | Sydney, Australia | 1st | 14.62 m (wind: +1.0 m/s) |
1997 | World Championships | Athens, Greece | 6th | 14.34 m |
1998 | European Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 3rd | 14.50 m |
2000 | Summer Olympics | Sydney, Australia | 1st | 15.20 m PB |
2001 | World Indoor Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 1st | 14.91 m |
World Championships | Edmonton, Canada | 3rd | 14.58 m | |
2002 | European Indoor Championships | Vienna, Austria | 1st | 14.71 m |
2006 | European Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 6th | 14.20 m |
Honours
References
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External links
- Tereza Marinova profile at IAAF
- sports-reference
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- Articles containing Bulgarian-language text
- IAAF ID different in Wikidata
- Pages with broken file links
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Female long jumpers
- Female triple jumpers
- Bulgarian long jumpers
- Bulgarian triple jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Bulgaria
- Olympic gold medalists for Bulgaria
- People from Pleven
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists