Sofiya Bozhanova
Sofiya Bozhanova (Bulgarian: София Божанова) (born 4 October 1967) is a retired long and triple jumper from Bulgaria. She set the world's best year performance in 1994, jumping 14.98 metres at a meet in Stara Zagora on 16 July 1994. She won the bronze medal at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships, held in Seville, Spain, but the new event was a non-championship contest.
Doping[]
Bozhanova tested positive for amphetamine at the 1994 European Athletics Championships and was subsequently banned from sports for 4 years.[1]
References[]
- ^ Athletcis/Looking back at 1994 - Records and doping got the limelight, New Straits Times, 22 December 1994
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- 1967 births
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Doping cases in athletics
- Bulgarian sportspeople in doping cases
- Bulgarian female long jumpers
- Bulgarian female triple jumpers
- Living people
- Olympic athletes of Bulgaria
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