Bozhidar Sarâboyukov

Bozhidar Sarâboyukov
Saraboyukov in Metz in 2026
Personal information
NationalityBulgarian
Born (2004-08-06) 6 August 2004
Harmanli,[1] Bulgaria
Sport
SportAthletics
Events
Long jump, High jump, Triple jump
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • Long jump: 8.49 m NR (2026)
  • High jump: 2.28 m (2026)
  • Triple jump: 16.61 m (2026)
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Bulgaria
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place2026 ToruńLong jump
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place2026 BirminghamLong jump
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place2025 ApeldoornLong jump
European U23 Championships
Silver medal – second place2025 BergenLong jump
World U20 Championships
Silver medal – second place2022 CaliHigh jump
European U20 Championships
Silver medal – second place2023 JerusalemLong jump
Silver medal – second place2023 JerusalemTriple jump

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]

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]

Personal bests

Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted. Outdoor

As of 2 March 2026
Individual Events
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
Combined Events
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
Individual Events
Event Performance Location Date
Long jump 8.45 m (27 ft 8+1⁄2 in) Belgrade 11 February 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
Combined Events
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

References

  1. ↑ ""Ще го гоня докрай". Божидар Саръбоюков и мечтите за олимпийски медал" (in Bulgarian). svobodnaevropa.bg. 4 July 2024. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
  2. ↑ "Bozhidar Saraboyukov". World Athletics. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  3. ↑ "Pottinger mines Jamaica's third gold in men's high jump". Jamaica Gleaner. 5 August 2022.
  4. ↑ "Men's High Jump Results: World Athletics Junior U20 Championships 2022". 1 August 2022.
  5. ↑ "btaBulgarian Saraboyukov Wins Silver in Men's Long Jump at 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships". bta.bg. 9 August 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  6. ↑ "European Athletics U20 Championships". World Athletics. 7 August 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  7. ↑ "Rising Stars: Five Outstanding Athletes Who Shined at the European Athletics U20 Championships". Watch Athletics. 12 August 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  8. ↑ "World Championships 2023 Men's long jump results". World Athletics. 19 August 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  9. ↑ "Greece's Tentoglou retains world indoor long jump title". European-Athletics. 2 March 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  10. ↑ "Bozhidar Saraboyukov sixth in a singular European remaining within the lengthy bounce, he's not blissful". time.news. 9 June 2024. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
  11. ↑ "Men's Long jump Results - Paris Olympic Games 2024 Athletics". Watch Athletics. 6 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  12. ↑ "Doroshchuk clears 2.32m world lead in Kyiv". European Athletics. 24 February 2025. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
  13. ↑ "Belgrade Hosted the Best Balkan Athletes". Balkan Athletics. 15 February 2025. Retrieved 9 March 2025.
  14. ↑ "Kambundji breaks European indoor 60m hurdles record in Apeldoorn". World Athletics. 7 March 2025. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  15. ↑ Crumpey, Euan (7 March 2025). "Mixed 1500m fortunes for Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Georgia Hunter Bell". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  16. ↑ "Sarâboyukov shocks Furlani in dramatic long jump final". European Athletics. 7 March 2025. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  17. ↑ Broadbent, Chris (18 July 2025). "8.25m! Konate regains golden touch to win long jump as Diessl and Sielska win hurdles crowns". European Athletics. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  18. ↑ "World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025". World Athletics. 18 September 2025. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
  19. ↑ "Furlani and Saraboyukov leap 8.39m in Metz, while Schrub and Bol impress on the track". World Athletics. 8 February 2026. Retrieved 8 February 2026.
  20. ↑ "World leads for Werro and Sarâboyukov in Belgrade". World Athletics. 11 February 2026. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
  21. ↑ "Youngster duo reminded golden times". Athletics Podium. 21 February 2026. Retrieved 25 February 2026.
  22. ↑ Mills, Steven (1 March 2026). "Saraboyukov's incredible treble! Three titles at the Bulgarian Indoor Championships". European Athletics. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  23. ↑ "Baldé surprises to complete Portuguese long jump double in Kujawy Pomorze". World Athletics. 22 March 2026. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  24. ↑ Mills, Steven (4 June 2026). "Third fastest European in history! Zapletalova improves to 52.58 in Rome". European Athletics. Retrieved 4 June 2026.
  25. ↑ Mills, Steven (14 July 2026). "Saraboyukov improves Bulgarian long jump record to 8.49m in Plovdiv". European Athletics. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
  26. ↑ "TENTOGLOU BATTLES THE WIND TO MAKE IT FOUR EUROPEAN TITLES IN A ROW". Athletics Weekly. 11 August 2026. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
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