Bozhidar Sarâboyukov
Bulgarian athlete (born 2004)
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Bozhidar Saraboyukov (Bulgarian: Божидар Саръбоюков) (born 6 August 2004) is a Bulgarian long jumper, triple jumper, and high jumper. He won the gold medal in the long jump at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.[2]
Saraboyukov in Metz in 2026 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
| Born | 6 August 2004 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
Events | Long jump, High jump, Triple jump |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests |
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Medal record | |
Biography
Saraboyukov competed in the high jump at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, tying for silver alongside South African Brian Raats with a jump of 2.10 metres.[3][4]
He won the silver medal in the long jump at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, jumping a national under-20 distance. He also won silver in the triple jump at the event.[5][6][7] He competed in the long jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, jumping 7.73 metres.[8]
2024
He competed at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, placing eleventh in the long jump, in Glasgow, Scotland.[9] He finished sixth at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in the long jump, with a jump of 8.08 metres.[10] He competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[11]
2025
He won Bulgarian national indoor titles in both the long jump (8.00m) and triple jump (16.53m) in February 2025.[12] That month, he won the long jump at the 2025 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade.[13]
He won the long jump at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, by a single centimetre, with a jump of 8.13 metres, ahead of Italian Mattia Furlani and Spain's Lester Lescay, who both jumped 8.12 centimetres.[14][15] It reversed a result from the Jerusalem 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships where the Italian won gold by a single centimetre with 8.23m from Sarâboyukov.[16]
He won the silver medal in the long jump at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships, with a jump of 8.21m (+1.4 m/s) in Bergen, Norway in July 2025.[17] In September 2025, he competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, qualifying for the final and placing fifth overall.[18]
2026
On 8 February, he set a new personal best of 8.39 metres for the long jump moving to equal seventh on the European indoor all-time list whilst competing in Metz, France. He also jumped 8.37m during the competition. A few days later he set a new personal best and Bulgarian record of 8.45 metres whilst competing in Belgrade.[19][20] Later that month in Belgrade, he set a new championship record of 8.42 metres to win the Balkan Indoor Championships title.[21]
Competing at the Bulgarian Indoor Championships in Sofia on 1 March 2026, he won three titles. He won the triple jump with outright lifetime best of 16.61m to move into the top-10 on the 2026 European list. He also won the long jump title with a first round 8.12 metres, and won a third title in his first high jump competition for three years, with a 2.28m clearance, surpassing the automatic qualifying standard for the 2026 European Athletics Championships.[22] On 22 March, he won the bronze medal in the long jump at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland, with a best jump of 8.31 metres.[23] On 4 June 2026 he won the long jump at the 2026 Golden Gala in Rome, winning with a final jump of 8.26 metres to win ahead of Miltiadis Tentoglou with the final jump of the competition.[24] In July 2026, Saraboyukov improved his own Bulgarian long jump record to 8.49m in Plovdiv.[25] On 11 August, Saraboyukov won the bronze medal with a jump of 8.26 m at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.[26] At the 2026 Diamond League Final in Brussels in September, he finished fourth with 8.00 metres.[27]
Personal bests
Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted. Outdoor
- As of 2 March 2026
| Event | Performance | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long jump | 8.49 m (27 ft 10+1⁄4 in) | Plovdiv | 14 July 2026 |
| High jump | 2.28 m (7 ft 5+3⁄4 in) | Sofia | 1 March 2026 |
| Triple jump | 16.61 m (54 ft 5+3⁄4 in) | Sofia | 28 February 2026 |
| 100 metres | 11.18 (+0.2 m/s) | Veliko Tarnovo | 16 July 2023 |
| 200 metres | 22.31 m (73 ft 2+1⁄4 in) (-2.6 m/s) | Sofia | 21 May 2025 |
| 110 metres (99.0 cm) | 15.75 (-0.4 m/s) | Sofia | 29 May 2021 |
| Event | Performance | Location | Date | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decathlon | N/a | Sofia | 15–16 May 2021 | 5,991 points |
| 100 metres | 11.9h (+0.6 m/s) | Sofia | 15 May 2021 | 671 points |
| Long jump | 6.97 m (22 ft 10+1⁄4 in) (-0.3 m/s) | Sofia | 15 May 2021 | 807 points |
| Shot put (6kg) | 12.02 m (39 ft 5 in) | Sofia | 25 June 2022 | 608 points |
| High jump | 2.18 m (7 ft 1+3⁄4 in) | Sofia | 25 June 2022 | 973 points |
| 400 metres | 55.35 | Sofia | 15 May 2021 | 585 points |
| 110 metres hurdles (91.4cm) | 15.4h (+0.0 m/s) | Sofia | 16 May 2021 | 802 points |
| Discus throw (1.5kg) | 35.50 m (116 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | Sofia | 16 May 2021 | 570 points |
| Pole vault | 2.30 m (7 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | Sofia | 16 May 2021 | 199 points |
| Javelin throw (700g) | 36.30 m (119 ft 1 in) | Sofia | 16 May 2021 | 389 points |
| 1500 metres | 5:04.40 | Sofia | 16 May 2021 | 535 points |
| Virtual Best Performance | 6,139 points | |||
Indoor
- As of 2 March 2026
| Event | Performance | Location | Date | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heptathlon | N/a | Sofia | 3–4 March 2021 | 4,265 points |
| 60 meters | 7.67 | Sofia | 3 March 2021 | 659 points |
| Long jump | 6.86 m (22 ft 6 in) | Sofia | 3 March 2021 | 781 points |
| Shot put (5kg) | 11.15 m (36 ft 6+3⁄4 in) | Sofia | 3 March 2021 | 555 points |
| High jump | 1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄4 in) | Sofia | 3 March 2021 | 749 points |
| 60 meters hurdles | 8.93 | Sofia | 4 March 2021 | 761 points |
| Pole vault | 2.40 m (7 ft 10+1⁄4 in) | Sofia | 4 March 2021 | 220 points |
| 1000 meters | 3:13.31 | Sofia | 4 March 2021 | 540 points |
| Virtual Best Performance | 4,265 points | |||
