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| Born | 15 December 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Sprint Long jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 60m: 7.47s (2024) NU18B 100m: 11.46s (2024) NU18B 200m: 23.73s (2024) Long jump: 6.29m (2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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She won silver in the long jump at the 2023 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Maribor. [2]
At the 2024 Balkan U18 Championships in Maribor, Bulgaria’s Radina Velichkova won the 100m title in a European U18 leading time of 11.48 seconds. [3] She won gold in the 100 metres and bronze in the long jump at the 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships. [4]
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