Gabriel Bitan
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| Nationality | Romanian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 23 July 1998 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Long Jump | ||||||||||||||
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Gabriel Bitan (born 23 July 1998) is a Romanian track and field athlete. He was a bronze medalist at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the long jump. He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
Early life
[edit]From Bucharest, his parents competed in athletics, his father in the long jump, and his mother in the triple jump. He attended Middle School 120 Mărţişor and started athletics in 2008.[1]
Career
[edit]Bitan won gold medals in the long jump and as part of the Romanian sprint relay team at the Balkan Athletics Championships for Juniors, which took place in Turkey in 2013.[2] In 2014, he won the gold medal at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Utrecht.[1]
He has won multiple senior Romanian national long jump titles, indoors and outdoors, since his first wins in both in 2019.[3] He also won the long jump titles at the 2019 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships and the 2021 and 2022 Balkan Athletics Championships.[4][5][6]
He won the Romanian Indoor Athletics Championships in Bucharest in 2021 with a personal best distance of 8.14 metres.[7] Competing at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships in March 2021, Bitan finished in eighth place in Toruń, Poland with a distance of 7.72 metres.[8]
Bitan won bronze at the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, with a jump of 8.00 metres exactly.[9] After the event he implied credit to his coach Anișoara Cușmir for giving him the advice to improve his jumps and win the medal.[10] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary in August 2023, but did not qualify for the final.[11]
He won the long jump at the Romanian Athletics Championships in Cluj-Napoca in June 2024, with a distance of 7.71 metres.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gabriel Bitan a length of hope". Golazo.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "Romania team return from Balkan Athletics Championships for Juniors with 24 medals". Romania-Insider. 4 August 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ^ "Gabriel Bitan". World Athletics. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ "British 800m runners in winning form – overseas round-up". Athletics Weekly. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ "74rd BALKAN SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS" (PDF). Balkan Athletics. 30 June 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 May 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ "Balkan Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 16 February 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ^ "Romanian Indoor Championships". World Athletics. 5 February 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ^ "Gabriel Bitan, bronze medal in the long jump, at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul". sport.ro. 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ "Gabriel Bitan won a bronze medal in the long jump at the European Indoor Championships". transtelex.ro. 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ "Gabriel Bitan, the first words after bringing Romania a new medal at the European Indoor Athletics Championships! Bronze in the long jump for the 24-year-old athlete! "It means a lot to me"". prosport.ro. 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ "Men's Long Jump Results: World Athletics Championships 2023". 24 August 2023. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
- ^ "Romanian Championships". World Athletics. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 7 April 2025.
