Inna Eftimova ( bg, Инна Ефтимова; born 19 June 1988 in

Kostinbrod Kostinbrod ( bg, Костинброд ) is a town in western Bulgaria. It is the seat of Kostinbrod Municipality. It is located 15 km west of the capital city of Sofia. It is located on two important transport corridors: Lom — Sofia — T ...

) is a

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

sprint athlete who competes internationally for

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.Athlete biography: Inna Eftimova
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 27, 2008 Eftimova represented

Bulgaria at the 2008 Summer Olympics Bulgaria was represented by 72 athletes at the 2008 Summer Olympics, held in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Medalists Archery The country has allocated one spot in the men's individual event. Daniel Pavlov qualified at the 2007 World Cha ...

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. She competed at the

100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been conteste ...

sprint and placed 4th in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of 11.67 seconds. In May 2012, the Bulgarian athletics federation announced a two-year ban for Eftimova after testing positive for

somatotropin Growth hormone (GH) or somatotropin, also known as human growth hormone (hGH or HGH) in its human form, is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction, and cell regeneration in humans and other animals. It is thus important in h ...

at the

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held in August 2011 in Daegu,

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. As a consequence of the ban she missed the

2012 London Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

. In 2019, she competed in the women's 100 metres event at the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held betw ...

held in Doha, Qatar. She did not qualify to compete in the semi-finals.

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* 1988 births Living people Bulgarian female sprinters Bulgarian sportspeople in doping cases Olympic athletes for Bulgaria Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Doping cases in athletics Sportspeople from Sofia Province World Athletics Championships athletes for Bulgaria European Games competitors for Bulgaria Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 European Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic female sprinters 20th-century Bulgarian women 20th-century Bulgarian people 21st-century Bulgarian women 21st-century Bulgarian people {{Bulgaria-athletics-bio-stub