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Svetla Stefanova Zlateva ((ブルガリア語:Светла Стефанова Златева), born 25 February 1952) is a retired Bulgarian sprinter and middle-distance runner who specialized in the 400 and 800 metres. She is a former world record holder in the latter event. ==Career== She was born in Gorna Oryahovitsa, and represented the club Levski Sofia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Svetla Zlateva )〕 She finished sixth in the 800 metres at the 1970 European Indoor Championships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1970 European Indoor Championships, women's 800 metres final )〕 At the 1971 European Indoor Championships she finished fourth in the 400 metres and won a bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1971 European Indoor Championships, women's 400 metres final )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1971 European Indoor Championships, women's 4 x 400 metres relay final )〕 She then won the 800 metres bronze medal at the 1972 European Indoor Championships,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1972 European Indoor Championships, women's 800 metres final )〕 finished fourth at the 1973 European Indoor Championships3〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1973 European Indoor Championships, women's 800 metres final )〕 and again at the 1974 European Indoor Championships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1974 European Indoor Championships, women's 800 metres final )〕 She finished fifth at the 1977 European Indoor Championships〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1977 European Indoor Championships, women's 800 metres final )〕 and won the silver medal at the 1981 European Indoor Championships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1981 European Indoor Championships, women's 800 metres final )〕 In winning an 800 metres medal at the 1972 European Indoor Championships, she was a part of a strong tradition of Bulgarian 800 metres runners, who won medals at the European Indoor Championships in 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979. Other than Zlateva, these medals were taken by Stefka Yordanova, Rositsa Pekhlivanova, Nikolina Shtereva, Lilyana Tomova and Totka Petrova. Zlateva also competed in the Olympic Games twice. At the 1972 Summer Olympics she competed in 800 metres, winning her initial heat with the result 1:58.93 minutes. She finished second in her semi-final, and then fourth in the final race with 1:59.72 minutes.〔 1:58.93 was an Olympic record, and Zlateva even led the first 600 metres of the final race, but was overcome by both Hildegard Falck, Nijolė Sabaitė and Gunhild Hoffmeister; Falck deleting Zlateva's Olympic record.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Athletics at the 1972 München Summer Games: Women's 800 metres )〕 However, Zlateva improved Falck's world record by 0.97 seconds, when she ran in 1:57.48 minutes in Athens on 24 August 1973. She retained the record until 12 June 1976, when Soviet Valentina Gerasimova ran in 1:56.0 minutes.〔 〕 At her second Olympic Games in 1976, Zlateva attacked her own personal best time. She first repeated the victory in the initial heat, then finished third in her semi-final with 1:57.93 minutes, and then sixth in the final race with 1:57.21 minutes. She also competed in the relay race, but the team failed to progress from round one.〔 1.57.21 minutes remained her personal best time.〔(World women's all-time best 800m ) (last updated 2001)〕 She had 52.9 seconds in the 400 metres, achieved in 1973.〔 She became Bulgarian 400 metres champion in 1971 and 1976, and both 800 and 1500 metres champion in 1973. She became Bulgarian indoor champion in the 400 metres in 1971, 1972 and 1973 and in the 800 metres in 1981. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Svetla Zlateva」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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