Goran Nava
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Nava (in red) at the 2010 European Athletics Championships
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| Nationality | Serbian | |||||||||||||||
| Born | April 15, 1981 Bologna, Italy |
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| Sport | Track | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 1500 metres | |||||||||||||||
| College team | Radford | |||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 800 metres: 1:46.63[1] 1500 metres: 3:38.04[1] |
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Goran Nava (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Нава, born April 15, 1981) is a Serbian-Italian middle distance runner who competed for Serbia in track and field. Born in Castello di Brianza in Italy,[2] he attended Radford University in Virginia, United States.[2] He is a graduate student at the London School of Business (LSB).[3] Nava competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics and was also named "Most Successful Athlete of the Year" by the Serbian Athletic Federation in 2009.
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Running career
Collegiate
Nava represented Radford University at the 2004 NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, where he ran the 1500 metres in 3:48.85 (min:sec).[4] Nava holds multiple track records in various distances for Radford.[5]
Post-collegiate
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, he represented Serbia in the 1500 metres, running a time of 3:42.92. At the 2009 Summer Universiade, he finished second overall in the 800 metres with a time of 1:48.06, only 0.04 seconds behind the first-place Sajjad Moradi. In the same competition he earned third place in the 1500 metres, at 3:42.88. Later in his career he began to race more often in the indoor 1500 metres, competing in the European Indoor Championships in 2011 and 2013.
Achievements
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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| 2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing, China | 35th (h) | 1500 m | 3:42.92 |
| 2009 | European Indoor Championships | Turin, Italy | 8th | 1500 m | 3:48.65 |
| Mediterranean Games | Pescara, Italy | 5th | 1500 m | 3:39.58 | |
| Universiade | Belgrade, Serbia | 2nd | 800 m | 1:48.06 | |
| 3rd | 1500 m | 3:42.88 | |||
| World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 31st (h) | 1500 m | 3:44.13 | |
| 2010 | World Indoor Championships | Doha, Qatar | 16th (h) | 1500 m | 3:42.79 |
| European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 12th | 1500 m | 3:45.77 | |
| 2011 | European Indoor Championships | Paris, France | 7th | 1500 m | 3:42.37 |
| 2012 | European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 8th | 1500 m | 3:47.74 |
| 2013 | European Indoor Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 15th (h) | 1500 m | 3:45.58 |
| 2014 | European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 18th (h) | 1500 m | 3:41.43 |
| 2015 | European Indoor Championships | Prague, Czech Republic | 17th (h) | 1500 m | 3:48.80 |
See also
References
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- Goran Nava profile at IAAF
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- ↑ Goran Nava – RU Today
- ↑ [1] Athletic.net: Goran Nava – Track and Field
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- Pages with reference errors
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- IAAF ID different in Wikidata
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Italian expatriates in England
- Italian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Serbian expatriates in England
- Serbian expatriates in the United States
- Serbian middle-distance runners
- Male middle-distance runners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Serbia
- Radford Highlanders
- People from the Province of Lecco
- Sportspeople from Bologna
- Sportspeople from Lombardy
- Italian sportsmen
