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Bulgaria`s Ivet Lalova (C) is on her way to win the women`s 100m final in front of second placed Olesya Povh (R) from Ukraine and fifth placed Olga Belkina (L) from Russia during the Athletics European Championships in Helsinki, 28 June 2012. Photo by EPA
Bulgaria's top female sprinter Ivet Lalova has failed to make a breakthrough in the 200 m sprint in the London Olympics.
Even though she did break her own record, Ivet Lalova did not manage to qualify for the 200 m sprint final late Tuesday night.
She ran the 200 m meters in 22.98 seconds, her personal best, but finished sixth in the first series. She was well behind the first, Veronica Campbell-Brown with 22.32 seconds, and Carmelita Jeter with 22.39 seconds.
Lalova, who won the 2012 European Championship in the 100 m sprint and is known as the fastest white woman, also failed to reach the final in her favorite discipline, the 100 sprint, at the London Olympics.
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