Ivaylo Mladenov

Ivaylo Mladenov ( Bulgarian Ивайло Младенов, English transcription Ivaylo Mladenov, . Born October 6, 1973 in Vratsa ) is a retired Bulgarian long jumper.

At the Junior World Championships in 1992, he was third. The following year, he was 7.86 m in sixth at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Toronto and fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart with 8,00 m.

In 1994, he finished at the Indoor Athletics Championships in Paris with 8.07 m in fourth place. Compared with the third-placed Romanians Bogdan Tudor bronze he missed only by the poorer second best jump. At the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki is Mladenov qualified with 7.83 m in twelfth just for the final. In the finals in the first attempt he managed a jump of 8.02 m. In the second experiment, the Czech Milan Gombala went with 8.04m lead. In the sixth and last attempt Mladenov jumped 8,09 m and referred Gombala to second place.

After he failed to qualify for the finals at the World Indoor Championships in 1995, he succeeded at the World Championships in 1995 with 7.93 m and the eighth rank his final placement in a grand finale. At the European Indoor Championships in 1996 although he was qualified for the finals, but did not occur, and at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta Mladenov succeeded in qualifying a valid jump.

Ivaylo Mladenov is 1,84 m tall and weighed 68 kg in his playing days.