Vanja Gesheva-Tsvetkova
Bulgarian canoeist (born 1960)
Medal record | ||
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Women's canoe sprint | ||
Olympic Games | ||
![]() | 1988 Seoul | K-1 500 m |
![]() | 1980 Moscow | K-1 500 m |
![]() | 1988 Seoul | K-2 500 m |
![]() | 1988 Seoul | K-4 500 m |
World Championships | ||
![]() | 1986 Montreal | K-1 500 m |
![]() | 1978 Belgrade | K-4 500 m |
![]() | 1983 Tampere | K-1 500 m |
![]() | 1977 Sofia | K-2 500 m |
![]() | 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
- 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
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Olympic Kayaking Champions in Women's K-1 500 m
- 1948:
Karen Hoff (DEN)
- 1952:
Sylvi Saimo (FIN)
- 1956:
Yelizaveta Dementyeva (URS)
- 1960:
Antonina Seredina (URS)
- 1964:
Lyudmila Khvedosyuk (URS)
- 1968:
Lyudmila Pinayeva (URS)
- 1972:
Yulia Ryabchinskaya (URS)
- 1976:
Carola Zirzow (GDR)
- 1980:
Birgit Fischer (GDR)
- 1984:
Agneta Andersson (SWE)
- 1988:
Vanja Gesheva (BUL)
- 1992:
Birgit Fischer (GER)
- 1996:
Rita Kőbán (HUN)
- 2000:
Josefa Idem (ITA)
- 2004:
Nataša Janić (HUN)
- 2008:
Inna Osypensko (UKR)
- 2012:
Danuta Kozák (HUN)
- 2016:
Danuta Kozák (HUN)
- 2020:
Lisa Carrington (NZL)
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