Ognyana Petrova

Ogniana Dusheva (Огняна Душева)

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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

Ognyana Georgiyeva 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. She won a bronze medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.'

Petrova started her sports career in Plovdiv with “Trakia” Sports Club of canoe-kayak in 1976. She has been a Republican Champion many times over a long period.

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.

A multiple winner by the President of Bulgaria, 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(Dusheva) also acts as a Judge for the International Canoe Federation and serves as the PR of the Bulgarian Canoe Federation.

as a Head Coach - Always going from zero to the Top Level

2007-2011 Turkish national team -GOLD MEDAL in European K1-200m for juniors in Zagreb ,

World Championship Szeged 2011:– K1-500m 1st in BF , K2-200m CF

2012 Iranian Women national team sprint and Paracanoe M&W :

Paracanoe 2012 World Championship in Poznan-8th place by men

3 World Cups in Moscow 2012: Silver medal at C1-200m-W ; A finals K1-200,500m W

International Regatta in Bochum: 5 gold medals and five Cups+ the Big Cup for the best female team!

2012 - 2014 Thai National Team:

27Sea Games 2013 in Myanmar- the best canoe-kayak team 1st place -12 medals :5 gold -best team by kayak men K4-1000M, K1-200m,K1-500m, best canoe men Gold in C1-200m ;C2-200+ best C1-200m Women! 2014-World Championship Szeged U23 K1-200m W,K2-500m W-B Finals K1-200m M -C F 2014 World Championship Moscow K2-200m M CF

2015 Coach of Canoe in Shanghai- China

VII place in Youth National games C1-200

References

• Australian Broadcasting Corporation profile
• DatabaseOlympics.com profile
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007.
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007.
• Sports-reference.com profile
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