Atanas Mladenov
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Atanas Mladenov is a retired Bulgaria
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and represented the club Trakia Plovdiv. He competed at the 1980 Olympic Games without reaching the final. He became Bulgarian champion in 1980 and 1981. His championship record of 2.15 metres set in 1980 was improved already in 1981 by Georgi Gadzhev. He also became Bulgarian indoor champion in 1980 and 1982. He equalled the championship record of 2.16 metres but was surpassed by Valentin Getov in 1981. His personal best jump was 2.20 metres, achieved in 1980.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
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High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....
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Career
He was born in PlovdivPlovdiv
Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia with a population of 338,153 inhabitants according to Census 2011. Plovdiv's history spans some 6,000 years, with traces of a Neolithic settlement dating to roughly 4000 BC; it is one of the oldest cities in Europe...
and represented the club Trakia Plovdiv. He competed at the 1980 Olympic Games without reaching the final. He became Bulgarian champion in 1980 and 1981. His championship record of 2.15 metres set in 1980 was improved already in 1981 by Georgi Gadzhev. He also became Bulgarian indoor champion in 1980 and 1982. He equalled the championship record of 2.16 metres but was surpassed by Valentin Getov in 1981. His personal best jump was 2.20 metres, achieved in 1980.