Bozhidar Saraboyukov

Bozhidar Saraboyukov (born 6 August 2004) is a Bulgarian long jumper, triple jumper, and high jumper. He won the gold medal in the long jump at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships.

Biography Saraboyukov competed in the high jump at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, tying for silver alongside South African Brian Raats with a jump of 2.10 metres.

He won the silver medal in the long jump at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships in Jerusalem, jumping a national under-20 distance. He also won silver in the triple jump at the event. He competed in the long jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, jumping 7.73 metres.

2024 He competed at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships, placing eleventh in the long jump, in Glasgow, Scotland. He finished sixth at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in the long jump, with a jump of 8.08 metres. He competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

2025 He won Bulgarian national indoor titles in both the long jump (8.00m) and triple jump (16.53m) in February 2025. That month, he won the long jump at the 2025 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade.

He won the long jump at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, by a single centimetre, with a jump of 8.13 metres, ahead of Italian Mattia Furlani and Spain's Lester Lescay, who both jumped 8.12 centimetres. It reversed a result from the Jerusalem 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships where the Italian won gold by a single centimetre with 8.23m from Sarâboyukov.

He won the silver medal in the long jump at the 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships, with a jump of 8.21m (+1.4 m/s) in Bergen, Norway in July 2025. In September 2025, he competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, qualifying for the final and placing fifth overall.

2026 On 8 February, he set a new personal best of 8.39 metres for the long jump moving to equal seventh on the European indoor all-time list whilst competing in Metz, France. He also jumped 8.37m during the competition. A few days later he set a new personal best and Bulgarian record of 8.45 metres whilst competing in Belgrade. Later that month in Belgrade, he set a new championship record of 8.42 metres to win the Balkan Indoor Championships title.

Competing at the Bulgarian Indoor Championships in Sofia on 1 March 2026, he won three titles. He won the triple jump with outright lifetime best of 16.61m to move into the top-10 on the 2026 European list. He also won the long jump title with a first round 8.12 metres, and won a third title in his first high jump competition for three years, with a 2.28m clearance, surpassing the automatic qualifying standard for the 2026 European Athletics Championships. On 22 March, he won the bronze medal in the long jump at the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland, with a best jump of 8.31 metres. On 4 June 2026 he won the long jump at the 2026 Golden Gala in Rome, winning with a final jump of 8.26 metres to win ahead of Miltiadis Tentoglou with the final jump of the competition. In July 2026, Saraboyukov improved his own Bulgarian long jump record to 8.49m in Plovdiv. On 11 August, Saraboyukov won the bronze medal with a jump of 8.26 m at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.

Personal bests Information from World Athletics profile unless otherwise noted. Outdoor

+Individual Events Event Performance Location Date Long jump Plovdiv 14 July 2026 High jump Sofia 1 March 2026 Triple jump Sofia 28 February 2026 100 metres 11.18 (+0.2 m/s) Veliko Tarnovo 16 July 2023 200 metres (-2.6 m/s) Sofia 21 May 2025 110 metres (99.0 cm) 15.75 (-0.4 m/s) Sofia 29 May 2021

+Combined Events Event Performance Location Date Points Decathlon Sofia 15–16 May 2021 5,991 points 100 metres 11.9 (+0.6 m/s) Sofia 15 May 2021 671 points Long jump (-0.3 m/s) Sofia 15 May 2021 807 points Shot put (6kg) Sofia 25 June 2022 608 points High jump Sofia 25 June 2022 973 points 400 metres 55.35 Sofia 15 May 2021 585 points 110 metres hurdles (91.4cm) 15.4 (+0.0 m/s) Sofia 16 May 2021 802 points Discus throw (1.5kg) Sofia 16 May 2021 570 points Pole vault Sofia 16 May 2021 199 points Javelin throw (700g) Sofia 16 May 2021 389 points 1500 metres 5:04.40 Sofia 16 May 2021 535 points Virtual Best Performance 6,139 points

Indoor

+Individual Events Event Performance Location Date Long jump Belgrade 11 February 2026 High jump Sofia 1 March 2026 Triple jump Sofia 28 February 2026

+Combined Events Event Performance Location Date Points Heptathlon Sofia 3–4 March 2021 4,265 points 60 meters 7.67 Sofia 3 March 2021 659 points Long jump Sofia 3 March 2021 781 points Shot put (5kg) Sofia 3 March 2021 555 points High jump Sofia 3 March 2021 749 points 60 meters hurdles 8.93 Sofia 4 March 2021 761 points Pole vault Sofia 4 March 2021 220 points 1000 meters 3:13.31 Sofia 4 March 2021 540 points Virtual Best Performance 4,265 points