Rumyana Karapetrova
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Rumyana Karapetrova is a Bulgaria
n javelin throw
er.
She finished sixth at the 2006 European Championships with a career best throw of 61.78 metres. She also finished tenth at the 2005 World Championships
, and competed at the 2007 World Championships
and the 2008 Olympic Games
without reaching the final.
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...
n javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...
er.
She finished sixth at the 2006 European Championships with a career best throw of 61.78 metres. She also finished tenth at the 2005 World Championships
2005 World Championships in Athletics - Women's Javelin
The Women's Javelin Throw event at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on August 12 and August 14...
, and competed at the 2007 World Championships
2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's javelin throw
The Women's Javelin Throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 29, 2007 and August 31, 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan...
and the 2008 Olympic Games
Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Women's javelin throw
-Qualifying round:Qualification: Qualifying Performance 61.50 or at least 12 best performers advance to the Final.Q - Qualified by right / SB - Season Best / NR - National Record/ NM - No Mark / q - Qualified by result-Final:21 August 2008 - 19:20...
without reaching the final.
Achievements
| Representing | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | World Championships 2005 World Championships in Athletics The 10th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations , were held in the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland , the site of the first IAAF World Championships in 1983. One theme of the 2005 championships was paralympic sports, some of... |
Helsinki, Finland | 11th | 57.06 m |
| 2006 | European Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 6th | 61.78 m = PB 2006 European Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw The Women's Javelin Throw event at the 2006 European Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden had a total number of 27 participating athletes. The final was held on Sunday August 13, 2006, and the qualifying round on Saturday August 12, 2006 with the mark set at 61.00 metres.-Medalists:-Schedule:*All... |
| 2007 | World Championships 2007 World Championships in Athletics The 11th World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations , were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007... |
Osaka, Japan | 32nd | 48.50 m |