Nike Talks World Indoors 2018: Week 2, Day 5: Ivana Spanovic looks to Birmingham

This is the second week, fifth day of the Nike Talks World Indoors Series. Thanks to Nike Sports Marketing, @runblogrun will provide a Monday-Friday story on a key athlete from US, Great Britain, Europe, Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. On the weekends, we will go back in World Indoor history and provide a favorite moment. This sponsorship goes from January1-March 5. We hope you enjoy. And please check out www.nikerunning.com. Remember to support our sponsors. They are supporting the heart of running.

Today, we are writing about 2017 European Indoor LJ Champion, 2016 World Indoor silver medalist and 2016 Rio bronze medalist, Ivana Spanovic.

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Ivana Spanovic, photo by PhotoRun.net

Last March, at the Kombank Arena, I watched Ivana Spanovic complete the greatest series of indoor long jumps in three decades. The crowd, a local crowd for Ivana, and the sound was deafening!

Ivana Spanovic, photo by PhotoRun.net

In the World Indoors in 2016, Ivana took silver to Brittney Reese (who had a massive jump of 7.22 meters).

Well..its not going to lift itself… 49 days to go. #DreamBIG #IdeTo
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Ivana Spanovic took the bronze in the Olympic long jump, and after the European Indoor Championships gold, and was surprised by the fluidity of the long jump at the World Champs and a final jump by Dariya Klishina, with Spanovic finishing fourth.

Ivana Spanovic wants to medal in Birmingham. Heck, she wants to win, how could she not? And with her 7.24 meter indoor PB, Ivana Spanovic has the tools to challenge the Americans (Brittney Reese, Tianna Bartoletta ) and Russian star Dariya Klishina. This event will be one of the true highlights of the World Indoors in March 2018, so do not miss it.

ãƒ»ãƒ»ãƒ» The world’s longest jump indoors since 1989! ðŸ™Œ #TheMoment Ivana Spanovic thrilled the home crowd at the European Indoor Championships in Belgrade with this winning effort of 7.24m. Spanovic will be looking for another European title in Berlin this summer at the first multi-sport European Championships from 2-12 August.
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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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