Bulgaria's Lalova Makes 200 m Sprint Semifinal at London Olympics

Bulgaria's Lalova made it to the 200 m sprint semifinal in London. File photo

Bulgaria's top sprinter Ivet Lalova has qualified for the semifinal in the 200 m sprint at the London Olympics.

Lalova, 28, finished fifth in the fourth series of the 200 m sprint discipline in London, facing extremely tough competition. She qualified for the next round based on time.

Ivet ended with a time of 23.01 seconds, her own personal record for the season, and the 20th best result in the series.

The first three from the six series and the six fastest after them qualified for the semifinal.

Earlier, Lalova failed to qualify for the final in the 100 m sprint at the London Olympics.

Widely known as the fastest white woman, she has come back to her glory days before she broke her leg in a freak accident and underwent seven operations.

Lalova won the European Title in the 100 m sprint at the European Track and Field Championship in Helsinki at the beginning of July.

The athlete is competing for the third time in Olympic Games and says she has learned and grown up a lot since her first Olympic steps.

"I was a child at my first Olympics. At the second, I was a girl who had just made a comeback after breaking her leg. The change I have gone through is enormous, especially emotionally. I have accumulated valuable experience; I know what the game is and know how to play it."

At this Olympics she has already won one title – the female athlete with the second most beautiful body to compete in London, at least according to Mexican newspaper De10.

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