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Goran Nava
Serbian-Italian middle-distance runner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Goran Nava (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Нава, born 15 April 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.
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