LALOVA-COLLIO Ivet

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100m	200m
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	SF (DNS)	8th (22.69)
2012	London, GBR	SF (11.31)	SF (22.98)
2008	Beijing, CHN	SF (11.51)	QF (23.15)
2004	Athens, GRE	4th (11.00)	5th (22.57)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	100m	200m
2019	Doha, QAT	-	7th (22.77)
2017	London, GBR	SF (11.25)	SF (22.96)
2015	Beijing, CHN	SF (11.13)	7th (22.41)
2013	Moscow, RUS	SF (11.10)	SF (22.81)
2011	Daegu, KOR	7th (11.27)	SF (23.03)
2009	Berlin, GER	QF (11.54)	Heats (23.60)
2007	Osaka, JPN	QF (11.33)	-

European Championships

Year	Location	200m
2018	Berlin, GER	5th (22.82)

Diamond League overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	100m	200m
2020	1 x 7th	-
2019	-	1 x 4th, 1 x 9th
2018	-	1 x 2nd, 1 x 7th
2017	-	1 x 4th, 1 x 8th

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
2	2018	200m	Rome, ITA	22.64
4	2019	200m	Stockholm, SWE	22.99
4	2017	200m	Stockholm, SWE	22.82
7	2020	100m	Stockholm, SWE	11.49
7	2018	200m	Brussels, BEL	23.36
8	2017	200m	Eugene, OR, USA	22.88
9	2019	200m	Stanford, CA, USA	23.12

World Athletics Continental Tour - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
6	2020	200m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Szekesfehervar, HUN	23.66
8	2020	100m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Chorzow, POL	11.81
8	2020	150m	World Athletics Continental Tour	Ostrava, CZE	18.76

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
1	2019	200m	World Challenge	Osaka, JPN	22.55
1	2017	100m	World Challenge	Kawasaki, JPN	11.40
1	2017	200m	World Challenge	Kawasaki, JPN	22.98
2	2018	200m	World Challenge	Hengelo, NED	22.79
4	2019	200m	World Challenge	Nanjing, CHN	22.68

Legend
SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, 1R - 1st Round, Qual. - Qualification, QR - Qualification Round, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DQ - Disqualified, NM - No Mark, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not run in final

Ivet Lalova

Reading, cooking, singing, music, keeping diaries. (monitor.bg, 18 May 2020; standartnews.com, 22 Apr 2020; worldathletics.org, 12 Jun 2019)

Athlete

International Relations - South-West University, Blagoevgrad, BUL

Husband Simone Collio

Bulgarian, English, Italian

Simone Collio [husband], ITA; Roberto Bonomi [personal], ITA, from 2011

Her husband Simone Collio represented Italy in athletics [100m and 4x100m relay] at the Olympic Games in 2004, 2008 and 2012. Her father Miroslav Lalov was the Bulgarian national champion in the 200m in 1966. (monitor.bg, 08 Jan 2016; sports-reference.com, 2012; worldathletics.org, 14 Jul 2004)

In June 2005 she broke the femur bone in her right leg after colliding with another athlete while warming up for the 100m at a meet in Athens, Greece. She required multiple operations and did not return to competition until June 2007. (monitor.bg, 08 Jan 2016; european-athletics.org, 10 Aug 2014; ivetlalova.webcindario.com, 14 Dec 2007)

In 2003 she broke a finger on her left hand while training with a shot put. Soon after she broke the big toe on her left foot after kicking a piece of furniture which was on the floor of her bedroom. (worldathletics.org, 14 Jul 2004)

She took up athletics at age 10. (whitecaucasian.com, 23 Nov 2013)

Her parents were both sprinters. As a child she found a national team tracksuit that belonged to her father, and he told her if she wanted one she would have to become a good athlete. "Both my parents were track athletes so I guess it was meant to be, I couldn't escape from it - from a little girl, it was track, track, track. I'm really thankful my first coach saw something in me because I was so skinny, I was running so funny. It started as a joke but then I started to like it, I started to win, and the fire really started. Suddenly it became my job and my life." (european-athletics.org, 17 Apr 2020; monitor.bg, 08 Jan 2016)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 20 Jun 2020)

Winning gold in the 100m at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki, Finland. (european-athletics.org, 17 Apr 2020)

US sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner. (worldathletics.org, 14 Jul 2004)

"There is always something inside me that tells me I can do better, I can go for more next time so I keep going. I love to learn and I think that is one of the most important things in our life, in our careers - you never stop learning things, to explore things what's best for you. It's been a great journey and to be honest I don't want it to end, I never want it to end." (european-athletics.org, 17 Apr 2020)

In 2011 and 2019 she was named Female Athlete of the Year by the Association of Balkan Athletic Federations [ABAF]. (nova.bg, 28 Nov 2019; olympic.cn, 05 Dec 2011)

She received the 2006 Sports and Fair Play Award from the Bulgarian Olympic Committee. (whitecaucasian.com, 23 Nov 2013)