SPANOVIC Ivana

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Long Jump
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3rd (7.08)
2012	London, GBR	8th (6.35)
2008	Beijing, CHN	Qual. (6.30)

World Athletics Championships

Year	Location	Long Jump
2017	London, GBR	4th (6.96)
2015	Beijing, CHN	3rd (7.01)
2013	Moscow, RUS	3rd (6.82)
2011	Daegu, KOR	Qual. (DNS)

European Championships

Year	Location	Long Jump
2018	Berlin, GER	12th (DNS)

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

Year	Long Jump
2021	2 x 1st, 1 x 2nd
2019	1 x 2nd, 1 x 6th
2018	1 x 2nd, 1 x 4th
2017	2 x 1st, 1 x 2nd

Diamond League - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2021	Long Jump	Stockholm, SWE	6.88
1	2021	Long Jump	Florence, ITA	6.74
1	2017	Long Jump	Brussels, BEL	6.70
1	2017	Long Jump	Lausanne, SUI	6.79
2	2021	Long Jump	Oslo, NOR	6.66
2	2019	Long Jump	Birmingham, GBR	6.85
2	2018	Long Jump	Lausanne, SUI	6.90
2	2017	Long Jump	London, GBR	6.88
4	2018	Long Jump	Stockholm, SWE	6.81
6	2019	Long Jump	Rome, ITA	6.62

World Challenge - Ten best performances since 2020

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location	Result
2	2017	Long Jump	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	6.66
4	2019	Long Jump	World Challenge	Berlin, GER	6.57

World Indoor Championships

Year	Location	Long Jump
2018	Birmingham, GBR	1st (6.96)

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

Travelling. (kurir.rs, 15 Oct 2018)

Athlete

Partner Marko Vuleta

English, Serbian

AK Vojvodina [Novi Sad, SRB]

Goran Obradovic [personal], SRB

Her mother Vesna competed as a sprinter and was a national champion in Yugoslavia. (blic.rs, 09 Mar 2015; mojnovisad.com, 30 Nov 2018; spikes.worldathletics.org, 17 Jan 2014)

She fractured a metatarsal bone in her right foot after twisting her ankle while training at home in June 2020. She needed two months to recover. (marca.com, 02 Jul 2020; Instagram profile, 24 Aug 2020)

In September 2019 she sustained a hamstring injury while competing at a World Challenge event in Berlin, Germany. The injury prevented her from participating at that year's world championships in Doha, Qatar, and meant she could not train until mid-October. (blic.rs, 01 Nov 2019; nezavisne.com, 01 Sep 2019)

In July 2019 she suffered a heel injury and was out until late August that year. (kater.news, 18 Aug 2019)

In August 2018 she ruptured her Achilles tendon while competing at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, Germany. It took six months for her to fully recover from the injury. (rtvbn.com, 11 Aug 2018; balkans.aljazeera.net, 10 Feb 2019)

In August 2011 she fractured a bone in her foot during training. Her rehabilitation lasted for 10 months, and she recovered in time to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (hellomagazin.rs, 09 Sep 2012)

She took up athletics at age seven in Zrenjanin, Serbia. (IAAF, 27 Feb 2014; mondo.rs, 21 Nov 2013)

She followed her mother into the sport and was initially coached by her mother's coach Jani Hajdu. "I grew up in a sports oriented family. I tried several sports. I enjoyed doing karate with my brother, playing handball and volleyball, but in the end it was athletics that won my heart. I was inspired and motivated by my mother's medals, she was a very good sprinter." (mojnovisad.com, 30 Nov 2018; IAAF, 27 Feb 2014)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (blic.rs, 01 Nov 2019)

Winning bronze at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and winning gold at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, England. (PRVA YouTube channel, 06 Mar 2018)

Soviet and Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka. (IAAF, 30 Dec 2013)

Her mother. (IAAF, 27 Feb 2014)

"It is not about waiting for the perfect moment. It is about risking it all at any given moment and making it your perfect moment. You need to feel it in your bones." (spikes.iaaf.org, 21 Apr 2015)

She was honoured with the Order of Petrovic Njegos by the president of Serbia in 2018. (rtrs.tv, 16 Oct 2018)

In 2017 she received the Order of Karadorde's Star from the president of Serbia. (blic.rs, 13 Feb 2017)

She was named the Best Female Athlete of the Balkans in both 2013 and 2015 by the Association of the Balkan Athletics Federations. (vijesti.me, 18 Nov 2015)

She was named Best Female Athlete of the Year by the Olympic Committee of Serbia [OKS] in 2013 and 2015. (rts.rs, 08 Dec 2015; b92.net, 27 Dec 2013)