Ivana Španović

Ivana Španović

Ivana Španović
Personal information
Nationality	Serbian
Born	10 May 1990 Zrenjanin, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)
Sport
Country	Serbia
Sport	Track and field
Event(s)	Long jump
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	Outdoor: 7.10 m Indoor: 7.07 m
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 0 0 1 World Championships 0 0 2 World Indoor Championships 0 1 1 European Championships 1 1 0 European Indoor Championships 1 0 0 Total 2 2 4 Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Long jump World Championships 2013 Moscow Long jump 2015 Beijing Long jump World Indoor Championships 2016 Portland Long jump 2014 Sopot Long jump European Championships 2016 Amsterdam Long jump 2014 Zürich Long jump European Indoor Championships 2015 Prague Long jump Continental Cup 2014 Marrakech Long jump Summer Universiade 2009 Belgrade Long jump World Junior Championships 2008 Bydgoszcz Long jump World Youth Championships 2007 Ostrava Long jump European Junior Championships in Athletics 2009 Novi Sad Long jump European Athletics U23 Championships 2011 Ostrava Long jump European Youth Olympic Festival 2007 Belgrade Long jump 2007 Belgrade 4x100 relay

Ivana Španović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ивана Шпановић, [ǐʋana ʃpǎːnoʋit͡ɕ], born 10 May 1990) is a Serbian long jumper, reigning both European indoor champion and European outdoor champion. In 2013, she became the first Serbian track and field athlete to win a medal at the IAAF Outdoor World Championships. She is the Serbian record holder in the long jump, indoors and outdoors, and also she is the national indoor record holder in the 60 metres and in the pentathlon. Her coach is Goran Obradović - Čele and she is a member of the Athletic Club Vojvodina in Novi Sad.^[1]

Career

Španović earned gold medals at the 2008 World Junior Championships and the 2009 Summer Universiade. She was selected as Serbia's Best Young Athlete of 2008. She also won silver medals at the 2007 World Youth Championships, the 2009 European Junior Championships and the 2011 European U23 Championships.

Španović participated in the qualifying round at the 2008 Olympic Games, and was a finalist at the 2012 Olympic Games.

In 2013 she started at the European Indoor Championship when she was ranked fifth. At the World outdoor championship she had achieved the best result in her career by then, bronze medal with the new national record 6.82 meters. The Olympic Committee of Serbia therefore declared her the best female athlete of the year.

In 2014 she won the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships and silver medals at the European Outdoor championship and IAAF Continental Cup in Marrakesh. She also improved her outdoor personal best on 6.88 meters in the Diamond League meet in Eugene. Španović was second in long jump at 2014 Diamand League race.

In 2015 she won her first gold medal as a senior athlete becoming European indoor champion with new national record 6.98 meters. She won the second bronze medal at the World outdoor championship, improving her national record twice, both in qualification (6.91) and the final (7.01 got twice). Španović was second in long jump at 2015 Diamand League race. The Olympic Committee of Serbia therefore declared her the best female athlete of the year for the second time.

In 2016, during the indoor season, Španović won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships improving her national record twice, 7.00 (at first round) and 7.07 (at fifth round). She was ahead for all the competition but she lost the gold medal because Reese had a fantastic 7.22 at the final round. During the outdoor, first Španović won the gold at the European Outdoor championship with 6.94, then she won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games with 7.08, new national record. Španović won for Serbia a medal in athletics at Olympic Games 60 years after the last medal. Španović clearly won 2016 Diamand League race in long jump. She won 5 of 7 meetings (a new record for Diamond League because before her none won more than 4 meetings in a year) and she was second in the other two ones. At the end of her long season Ivana improved her national record to 7.10 in a street meeting in front of her home fans in Belgrade on September 11th. This manifestation was held to promote 2017 European Indoor Championships in Belgrade.

Španović has achieved ten victories in the IAAF Diamond League circuit: at the DN Galan in 2013 (although in that year women long jump were not present in the Diamond League program of the meeting); at the Prefontaine Classic and Weltklasse Zürich in 2014; at the Herculis and Weltklasse Zürich in 2015; at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix, at the Bislett Games, at the DN Galan, at the Athletissima and at Meeting Areva in 2016. Also, she has achieved two victories in the IAAF World Challenge circuit, at the ISTAF Berlin in 2015 and at the Hanžeković Memorial with 6.96 new meeting record in 2016.

Since 2013 World Championships Španović has won medals in 9 consecutive major championships.

She set 28 national senior records: 12 outdoors (all in long jump), 16 indoors (14 in long jump, 1 in 60m, 1 in pentathlon).

Personal bests

Ivana Španović (left) in 2011

Outdoor

Event	Performance	Date	Location	Notes
100 m	11.90	14 June 2014	Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia
Long jump	7.10 m (23 ft 3 ^1⁄2 in)	11 September 2016	Belgrade, Serbia	NR
Triple jump	13.78 m (45 ft 2 ^1⁄2 in)	14 June 2014	Belgrade, Serbia

Indoor

Event	Performance	Date	Location	Notes
60 m	7.31	31 January 2015	Novi Sad, Serbia	NR
Long jump	7.07 m (23 ft 2 ^1⁄4 in)	18 March 2016	Portland, United States	NR
Pentathlon	4240 pts	19 January 2013	Novi Sad, Serbia	NR

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Serbia and Montenegro
2005	World Youth Championships	Marrakech, Morocco	16th (q)	Long jump	5.97 m
Representing  Serbia
2006	World Junior Championships	Beijing, China	7th	Long jump	6.23 m (wind: 0.0 m/s)
2007
	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	18th (q)	Long jump	6.18 m
	World Youth Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	2nd	Long jump	6.41 m (wind: +0.5 m/s)
	European Junior Championships	Hengelo, Netherlands	5	Long jump	6.22 m (wind: -0.2 m/s)
	European Youth Olympic Festival	Belgrade, Serbia	2nd	Long jump	6.20 m (wind: -0.1 m/s)
			3rd	4 × 100 m relay	46.85 s
2008
	World Junior Championships	Bydgoszcz, Poland	1st	Long jump	6.61 m (wind: +1.3 m/s)
	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	30th (q)	Long jump	6.30 m (wind: +1.8 m/s)
2009
	Universiade	Belgrade, Serbia	1st	Long jump	6.64 m (wind: 0.0 m/s)
	European Junior Championships	Novi Sad, Serbia	2nd	Long jump	6.71 m (wind: -0.1 m/s) NR NJR
2010
	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	8th	Long jump	6.60 m (wind: -0.3 m/s)
2011	European U23 Championships	Ostrava, Czech Republic	2nd	Long jump	6.74 m w (wind: +3.2 m/s)
2012	European Championships	Helsinki, Finland	15th (q)	Long jump	6.33 m (wind: +0.1 m/s)
	Olympic Games	London, United Kingdom	11th	Long jump	6.35 m (wind: +0.9 m/s)
2013	European Indoor Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	5th	Long jump	6.68 m
	World Championships	Moscow, Russia	3rd	Long jump	6.82 m NR (wind: +0.1 m/s)
2014	World Indoor Championships	Sopot, Poland	3rd	Long jump	6.77 m
	European Championships	Zürich, Switzerland	2nd	Long jump	6.81 m (wind: -1.6 m/s)
	Continental Cup	Marrakech, Morocco	2nd	Long jump	6.56 m (wind: -0.1 m/s)
2015	European Indoor Championships	Prague, Czech Republic	1st	Long jump	6.98 m NR
	World Championships	Beijing, China	3rd	Long jump	7.01 m NR (wind: +0.6 m/s)
2016	World Indoor Championships	Portland, United States	2nd	Long jump	7.07 m NR
	European Championships	Amsterdam, the Netherlands	1st	Long jump	6.94 m (wind: +0.9 m/s)[2]
	Olympic Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	3rd	Long jump	7.08 m NR (wind: +0.6 m/s)[3]

Personal life

Ivana's parents are Ljubiša and Vesna Španović. Her mother was also a competitive athlete. Španović is in a long-term relationship with fitness trainer Vladimir Kumrić.^[4] She favors a distinctive and playful personal style. Even on the field she can be seen fiercely competing with her fellow elite athletes while sporting fashionable nails, often polished in neon colours.^[5]

References

1. AK Vojvodina - O klubu. AK Vojvodina (in Serbian). 2015-04-10. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
2. "Long Jump Women". European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016. 8 July 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
3. "Long Jump Women". 17 August 2016. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
4. Mitrovic, M. (2015-04-10). Ko je momak kojem je Ivana Španović rekla sudbonosno "DA"?. Blic (in Serbian). Retrieved 10 April 2015.
5. Ivana Španović i nokti kao imidž. Telegraf (in Serbian). 2015-04-10. Retrieved 10 April 2015.

External links

• Ivana Španović profile at IAAF