Paola Borović (born 26 June 1995) is a Croatian long and triple jumper. She is a 30-time senior national champion -- fifteen times at the Croatian Athletics Championships outdoors, and fifteen times at the indoor national championships.
Biography
Paola Borović first gained international experience in 2011, when she competed in the World Youth Championships near Lille, finishing eighth in the triple jump with a distance of 12.82 m and failing to make a valid attempt in the long jump qualification.[3] Subsequently, she reached ninth place in the triple jump with 12.24 m at the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Trabzon. In 2013, she was eliminated in the triple jump qualification at the European Junior Championships in Rieti with a distance of 12.74 m, and at the World Junior Championships in Eugene in 2014, she did not advance past the preliminary round with 5.83 m in the long jump and 13.02 m in the triple jump.
In 2015, she finished ninth in the triple jump with 13.21 m at the U23 European Championships in Tallinn, and again failed to make a valid attempt in the long jump qualification.[4] She then ranked seventh in both the long jump with 5.98 m and triple jump with 13.11 m at the Balkan Championships in Pitești. The following year, she finished fourth in both events at the Balkan Championships in the same location, with 6.36 m in the long jump and 13.25 m in the triple jump. At the 2017 Balkan Indoor Championships in Belgrade, she placed fourth in the triple jump with 13.39 m and then was eliminated in the long jump qualification with 6.14 m and finished tenth in the triple jump with 13.14 m at the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz. The next year, she won the bronze medal in the triple jump with 13.43 m at the Balkan Indoor Championships in Istanbul, and also secured the bronze medal in the outdoor championships in Stara Zagora with a distance of 13.55 m, while finishing seventh in the long jump with 6.12 m.[5]
In 2019, she again won the bronze medal in the triple jump with 13.38 m at the Balkan Indoor Championships in Istanbul, and the following year, she won the silver medal with 13.54 m at the Indoor Championships in the same city. At the outdoor championships in Cluj-Napoca, she placed fourth in the triple jump with 13.42 m and seventh in the long jump with 6.01 m. In 2021, she finished fifth at the Balkan Indoor Championships in Istanbul with a jump of 13.37 m, and in late June, she ranked eighth at the Outdoor Championships in Smederevo with 12.96 m. The following year, she placed fourth in the triple jump with 13.48 m at the Balkan Indoor Championships in Istanbul, and in June, she finished tenth at the Balkan Championships in Craiova with 12.96 m. Subsequently, she was eliminated without a valid attempt in the qualifying round of the European Championships in Munich. In 2023, she missed qualifying for the final with 13.24 m at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul.[6]
