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Ognyana Georgieva Petrova – Ognyana Dusheva (née Petkova, Bulgarian: Огняна Георгиева Петрова, born December 20, 1964 in Svilengrad) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from 1976 to 1988. Petrova won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.'

Ognyana Dusheva (Ognyana Petrova)

Sport
Country	Bulgaria
Medal record Representing Bulgaria Women's canoe sprint Olympic Games 1988 Seoul K-4 500 m World Championships 1987 Duisburg K-2 500 m

Petrova started her sports career in Plovdiv with “Trakia” Sports Club of canoe-kayak in 1976. From 1981 to 1988, she was part of the Bulgarian national team, consistently being on the six-person team at the European and World Championships. She won the K-2 500 m bronze medal at the 1987 World Championships in Duisburg, West Germany.

Petrova was nominated as one of Bulgaria's ten-best women sprint canoers in the 20th century. She also won an Olympic service medal by the Bulgarian Olympic Committee and was awarded the emblem of Plovdiv by the city's mayor. Petrova also acts as a Judge for the International Canoe Federation and serves as the PR of the Bulgarian Canoe Federation.

References

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation profile
• DatabaseOlympics.com profile
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived January 5, 2010)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived November 9, 2009)

External links

• Sports-reference.com profile

На других языках

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- [en] Ognyana Petrova

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[it] Ognjana Petkova

Ognjana Georgieva Petkova-Duševa (in bulgaro: Огняна Георгиева Петрова-Душева?; Svilengrad, 20 dicembre 1964) è una canoista bulgara.

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[ru] Петрова, Огняна

Огня́на Гео́ргиева Пе́трова-Ду́шева (20 декабря 1964, Свиленград) — болгарская гребчиха-байдарочница, выступала за сборную Болгарии во второй половине 1980-х годов. Бронзовая призёрша летних Олимпийских игр в Сеуле, обладательница бронзовой медали чемпионата мира, многократная победительница регат республиканского значения. Также известна как тренер и судья международной категории.

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