Ivana Spanovic

BIRMINGHAM - Serbian long jumper Ivana Spanovic on Sunday won the gold medal at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.

Spanovic, who is the European indoor champion from last year's championships in Belgrade, previously also won the silver and bronze medals at world championships in Portland in 2016 and Sopot in 2014, respectively.

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BELGRADE - Athletics Federation of Serbia President Veselin Jevrosimovic said Sunday the European Athletics Indoor Championships at Belgrade's Kombank Arena had been the best-organised ever and that Belgrade and Serbia had thus qualified to host the 2020 World Indoor Championships.

Serbian long jumper Ivana Spanovic has won a gold medal at the European Indoor Athletic Championship held in Belgrade March 3-5.

Spanovic's result - seven meters and 24 centimeters - was her personal and Serbia's new national record.

Serbian long jumper Ivana Spanovic has won a gold medal at the European Indoor Athletic Championship held in Belgrade March 3-5.

Spanovic's result - seven meters and 24 centimeters - was her personal and Serbia's new national record.

ZURICH - Serbian female long jumper Ivana Spanovic has wrapped up her IAAF Diamond League title with a second-place finish at the season-ending Zurich meeting.

Spanovic produced a 6.93 m leap, finishing behind Brittney Reese of the United States (6.95 m) and ahead of Darya Klishina of Russia (6.63 m).

SHANGHAI - Serbia's Ivana Spanovic won the long jump event at the start of this season's Diamond League in Shanghai on Saturday.

Spanovic produced a 6.95 m leap - her second-best result this season and a new record at the Shanghai meeting - also winning the first ten points.

World's best tennis player Novak Djokovic and long-jumper Ivana Spanovic have been named Serbia's athletes of the year.

This is the outcome of the vote of the Olympic Committee of Serbia (OKS).

Novak Djokovic has said that he may travel to Lille to support the Serbian men's national basketball team in person in the final stages of EuroBasket 2015.

BELGRADE - Long jump world record holder Galina Chistyakova is the promoter of the 28th Belgrade Marathon, to be held on Saturday, April 18.

Chistyakova is coming to Belgrade for the second time since 2008, when she was the promoter of the women's race, Belgrade Marathon Director Dejan Nikolic told a press conference on Monday.

NOVI SAD - Novi Sad Mayor Milos Vucevic met on Wednesday with European champion in long jump Ivana Spanovic and thanked her for staying in her city despite being able to pick any place in the world to live and train in.

It is a privilege for the people of Novi Sad to be able to regularly welcome Spanovic back after winning medals in big competitions in recent years, he stated.