Svetlana Mitkova Isaeva-Leseva (

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: Светлана Миткова Исаева-Лесева; born 18 March 1967 in

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) is a retired

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n athlete who specialised in the

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. She represented her country at the

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as well as two indoor and three outdoor World Championships. Her biggest success is the silver medal at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart. Her personal best in the event is 2.00 metres outdoors (Dráma 1987) and 1.94 metres indoors (Pireaus 1994).

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