Una Stancev
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| Nationality | Spanish | ||||||||||||||
| Born | Una Stancev Stevanovic[1] 27 August 2002 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | High jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | High jump: 1.91 m (Geneva, 2025) | ||||||||||||||
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Una Stancev Stevanovic (born 27 August 2002) is a Spanish high jumper. She is a multiple-time winner of the Spanish Athletics Championships and the gold medalist at the University Games in 2025.[2]
Early life
[edit]She was born in Serbia, but moved to Spain when she was less than a year-old when her family fled the Balkan conflict. Her father worked as a university sports professor and her mother as a scientist in Serbia. They settled in La Herradura, in the province of Granada, Andalucía. She is a member of Trops-Cueva de Nerja athletics club and started training in high jump from the age of 14 years-old.[3][4]
Career
[edit]She won the Spanish Under-18 Championships in 2019.[5] The following year, she won the Andalusian Under-20 Championships, achieving a height of 1.73 metres.[6]
She won the senior Spanish Athletics Championships in 2022 for the first time, in Nerja, sigh a jump of 1.85 metres.[7] She cleared 1.81 metres to win the Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships in Madrid in February 2023.[8] She defended her national title at the 2023 Spanish Championships, with a personal best 1.86 metres, an Andalusian record.[9] She won Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships again in February 2024 with a jump of 1.84 metres.[10] She cleared 1.87 metres to win the Spanish outdoor title in June 2024.[11]
She jumped a personal best clearance of 1.91 metres in Geneva, Switzerland in June 2025, which moved her to on the Spanish all-time in the event, behind Marta Mendía and Ruth Beitia.[4] She became the first Spanish athlete to win gold in high jump at the World University Games when she won the gold the 2025 Summer World University Games in Bochum, Germany, equalling her personal best of 1.91 metres to finish ahead of Italian Asia Tavernini and Elena Kulichenko, representing Cyprus.[12][4] She cleared 1.89 metres to win the Spanish Championships title Tarragona in August 2025.[13]
Stancev cleared 1.86 metres to win the 2026 Spanish Indoor Championships in Valencia.[14] In August 2026, she competed at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England.[15]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Almuñécar City Council congratulates local athletes Una Stancev and Luis Barbero for their successes". diariosexitano.com. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ "Una Stancev". World Athletics. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ Axinescu, Ion (30 July 2025). "Fleeing war, flying high". Euroweeklynews.com. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- 1 2 3 Axinescu, Ion (28 July 2025). "Jumping queen: Una is the one". Euroweeklynews.com. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ "Luis Aragón sends his congratulations to the athletes from Sexita, Una Stancev and Darío Bruzón, Spanish Under-18 diving champions". infocostatropical.com. 27 June 2019. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ "The athletes from Sexi, Darío Bruzón Salado and Una Stancev, Andalusian Under-20 champions in long and high jump". diariosexitano.com. 30 September 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ "Spanish Championships". World Athletics. 24 June 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ "La atleta herradureña Una Stancev, campeona de España en altura en pista cubierta con 1,81 metros". diariosexitano.com. 19 February 2023. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ Rivas, Marina (1 August 2023). "Club Nerja athletes Una Stancev and Herminia Parra, win gold and silver at the Spanish Championships". Sur. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ "Spanish Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 17 February 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ "Spanish Championships". World Athletics. 28 June 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ "FISU World University Games". World Athletics. 27 July 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ "Spanish Championships". World Athletics. 1 August 2025. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ↑ "Spanish Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 27 February 2026. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
- ↑ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 14 August 2026. Retrieved 14 August 2026.
World University Games champions in women's high jump | |
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- 2002 births
- Living people
- Spanish women high jumpers
- Athletes from Andalusia
- Spanish people of Serbian descent
- 21st-century Spanish sportswomen
- Spanish Athletics Championships winners
- Medalists at the 2025 Summer Universiade
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Spain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2026 Mediterranean Games