Anka Bakowa

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Anka Bakowa , actually Ani Stojanowa Bakewa , ( Bulgarian Анка Бакова ; born February 22, 1957 in Peruschtiza ) is a former Bulgarian rower . She won an Olympic bronze medal. At world championships she won one gold, one silver and two bronze medals.

Athletic career

The 1.75 m tall Anka Bakowa belonged to the new Bulgarian double foursome with a helmswoman in 1977 . From the boat that had finished fourth at the 1976 Olympic Games , only helmsman Stanka Georgiewa was there. Rossitsa Spassowa , Anka Bakowa, Rumeljana Bontschewa and Penka Gotschewa took third place behind the rowers from the GDR and Romania at the World Championships in Amstelveen . The following year the World Championships took place in New Zealand on Lake Karapiro . There were two newcomers in the Bulgarian quadruple scull with Dolores Nakowa and helmsman Anka Eftimowa . In the line-up Bakowa, Nakowa, Spassowa, Bontschewa and Eftimowa, the Bulgarians won in front of the boat from the Federal Republic of Germany and the boat from the Soviet Union. 1979 moved Mariana Serbesowa for Spassowa and Ani Filipowa for Eftimowa in the boat. At the 1979 World Championships in Bled, the Bulgarians won the silver medal behind the boat from the GDR and ahead of the Romanians. In 1980 Anka Eftimowa returned under the name Anka Georgiewa as taxwoman . Mariana Serbesowa, Rumeljana Bontschewa, Dolores Nakowa and Anka Bakowa won the preliminary run at the Olympic Games in Moscow in front of the boats from the Soviet Union and the GDR with Georgiewa at the wheel . In the final, the boat from the GDR won ahead of the Soviet four and the Bulgarians. At the end of her career, Bakowa competed at the 1981 World Championships in Munich with Iskra Welinowa in a double scull . The two won the bronze medal behind the boats from the Soviet Union and from the GDR.

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SURNAME Bakowa, Anka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bakowa, Ani Stojanowa (full name); Бакова, Анка (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian rower
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Perushtitsa