Venelina Veneva-Mateeva

Wenelina Wenewa - Mateewa (born Wenewa, Bulgarian Венелина Венева - Матеева, English transcription Venelina Veneva - Mateeva, . Born June 13, 1974 in Ruse ) is a Bulgarian high jumper.

At the World Athletics Championships 1991 in Tokyo, 1995 in Gothenburg and in 1999 in Seville, as well as at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 she left in qualifying.

In 1998, she was at the European Championships in Budapest and Fifth at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Ninth. The following year, she won bronze at the World Indoor Championships in Lisbon and was fourth at the World Championships in Edmonton. Fourth Also it was two years later at the 2003 World Championships in Paris / Saint- Denis.

A preliminary rounds off at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 was followed the next season winning the bronze medal at the Indoor Athletics Championships 2005 in Madrid and a tenth place at the World Championships in Helsinki.

In 2006 she won silver at the European Championships in Gothenburg. At a doping test, which was carried out on 24 January 2007 at her, an excessive testosterone value was determined. An appeal of the athlete at the International Court of Sport (CAS ) has not been granted. She was detained for violating the doping regulations for two years, and her bronze medal of the European Indoor Championships in 2007 was denied her.

In 2009, she failed at the World Championships in Berlin in qualifying.

Your best performance is outdoors at 2.04 meters, achieved on June 2, 2001 in Kalamata, and on 18 August 2006 in Zurich. In the hall they reached 2.02 meters on 2 February 2002 in Łódź.