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Jolanda Čeplak

Jolanda Čeplak
Medal record
Women's Athletics
Representing  Slovenia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens 800 metres
World Indoor Championships
Silver medal – second place 2004 Budapest 800 metres
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Munich 800 metres
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Vienna 800 metres
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Birmingham 800 metres

Jolanda Batagelj (previously known as Jolanda Čeplak About this sound pronounced  until 2002, born Jolanda Steblovnik on September 12, 1976) is a Slovenian middle distance athlete. She was born in Celje and lived in Velenje until briefly moving to Monaco. She has lived in Celje since.

In her early career, she did not specialise, and ran at many distances. She later settled on the 800 metres where she found relative success on the IAAF Golden League circuit, despite having to compete against Maria de Lurdes Mutola, who went unbeaten at all major championships from 1999 until the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Her most successful season was 2002. On March 2 at the European Indoor Championships in Vienna she beat local favourite Stephanie Graf and set the indoor world record at 1:55.82. In the same year at the European Championships in Munich she became the European champion.


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