Tezdzhan Naimova
Tezdzhan Naimova at the 2013 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg
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| Nationality |
 Bulgaria
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1 May 1987 Parvomay, Bulgaria |
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| Sport | Running | ||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres | ||||||||||||
| Coached by | Stoyko Tsonov | ||||||||||||
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Tezdzhan Naimova (Bulgarian: Тезджан Наимова; first name also rendered as Тезжан, Tezzhan or Tezcan, born 1 May 1987) is a Bulgarian sprinter of Turkish descent. She specializes in both the 60, 100 and 200 metres.
Born in Parvomay of Turkish ethnicity, Naimova took up athletics at the age of 10 and was initially trained by Tanyo Tanev, but changed to former triple jumper Stoyko Tsonov, who has been her coach since seventh grade. She competed in the 200 metres at the 2004 World Junior Championships, but was knocked out in the semi-final.
In 2005 she became the Bulgarian national champion in the 100 and 200 metres (with Ivet Lalova absent). She also won a Balkan 60 metres title in the indoors in 2006. She competed at the World Indoor Championships, but was again knocked out in the semi-final. In August, Naimova won two titles at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Beijing, in the 100 (11.28 seconds) and 200 metres (22.99, a personal best), thus completely dominating the sprint disciplines. Her personal best in the 100 metres that year was 11.23 seconds, achieved in June in Sofia.
In the 2007 indoor season, she ran the 60 metres in 7.13 seconds in February, a world leading result at the time. That season her time was only beat by Kim Gevaert, who won the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships in 7.10 seconds. Naimova finished fifth in the same race. In the summer, she competed at both the 100 and 200 metres at the 2007 World Championships. She again reached the semi-finals, but finished fifth there in both events, one place short of reaching the final races. She lowered her personal best times to 11.04 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in July in Plovdiv; and 22.43 seconds in the 200 metres, achieved in June in Sofia.
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