Golden Girls of Bulgaria
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The "Golden Girls" of Bulgaria refers to the Bulgaria
n rhythmic gymnasts
who won gold medals:
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
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Rhythmic gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which individuals or teams of competitors manipulate one or two pieces of apparatus: rope, clubs, hoop, ball, ribbon and Free . An individual athlete only manipulates 1 apparatus at a time...
who won gold medals:
- Iliana RaevaIliana RaevaIliana Raeva Sirakova is a Bulgarian gymnast who competed in modern rhythmic gymnastics for her country from 1978 to 1982.She was born on March 15, 1963 in Sofia, Bulgaria...
- Anelia RalenkovaAnelia RalenkovaAnelia Ralenkova became one of Bulgaria's most distinctive rhythmic gymnasts. She is one of the so-called "Golden Girls" of Bulgaria. She won gold medals at both world and European championships, but missed competing at the Summer Olympics in 1984 due to the Soviet-led boycott...
- Lilia IgnatovaLilia IgnatovaLilia Ignatova is a Bulgarian modern rhythmic gymnast.She was born in Sofia on May 17, 1965 and was part of the "golden girl" generation which dominated the sport in the early eighties. She won the all around silver at the 1980 European Championships, with an additional silver for the hoop, and...
- Bianka PanovaBianka PanovaBianka Panova is a Bulgarian individual rhythmic gymnast. She was the first rhythmic gymnast to get a clean sweep of all 5 gold medals at the 1987 world championships in Varna with the perfect score of 40.00 points.She retired from the sport in 1989 and became a coach in Italy where she coached...
- Adriana Dunavska