Vanja Gesheva-Tsvetkova
Appearance
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Women's canoe sprint | ||
Olympic Games | ||
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1988 Seoul | K-1 500 m |
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1980 Moscow | K-1 500 m |
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1988 Seoul | K-2 500 m |
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1988 Seoul | K-4 500 m |
World Championships | ||
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1986 Montreal | K-1 500 m |
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1978 Belgrade | K-4 500 m |
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1983 Tampere | K-1 500 m |
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1977 Sofia | K-2 500 m |
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1986 Montreal | K-2 500 m |
Vanja Gesheva-Tsvetkova (Bulgarian: Ваня Гешева-Цветкова; born April 6, 1960) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1988: K-1 500 m), two silvers (1980: K-1 500 m, 1988: K-2 500 m), and one bronze (1988: K-4 500 m).
Gesheva also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 500 m: 1986), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1978), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1986).
References
[edit]- DatabaseOlympics.com profile
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Sports-reference.com profile
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Bulgarian female canoeists
- Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists for Bulgaria
- Olympic gold medalists for Bulgaria
- Olympic silver medalists for Bulgaria
- Olympic bronze medalists for Bulgaria
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- Sportspeople from Plovdiv Province
- Bulgarian Olympic medalist stubs
- Bulgarian canoeist stubs
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics