Medal record | ||
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Women's Athletics | ||
Representing Slovenia | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2004 Athens | 800 metres | |
World Indoor Championships | ||
2004 Budapest | 800 metres | |
European Championships | ||
2002 Munich | 800 metres | |
European Indoor Championships | ||
2002 Vienna | 800 metres | |
2007 Birmingham | 800 metres |
Jolanda Batagelj (previously known as Jolanda Čeplak 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.