Bianka Panowa

Bianka Panowa
Bianka Panowa 2012
Personal information
Nationality:	Bulgaria
discipline	Rhythmic sports gymnastics
Trainer:	Neschka Robewa
Birthday:	27th May 1970 (age 50)
Place of birth:	Sofia , Bulgaria
Medal table
World championships 9 × 2 × 1 × European championships 5 × 1 × 0 × World Cup Final 2 × 0 × 2 ×
Medals
World championships gold 1985 Valladolid Single band gold 1987 Varna Individual all-around gold 1987 Varna Single band gold 1987 Varna Single clubs gold 1987 Varna Single tire gold 1987 Varna Single rope gold 1989 Sarajevo Single tire gold 1989 Sarajevo Single rope gold 1989 Sarajevo All-around team silver 1989 Sarajevo Individual all-around silver 1989 Sarajevo Single ball bronze 1985 Valladolid Individual all-around  European championships gold 1986 Florence Individual all-around gold 1986 Florence Single clubs gold 1986 Florence Single rope gold 1988 Helsinki Single band gold 1988 Helsinki Single tire silver 1986 Florence Single band  World Cup Final gold 1986 Tokyo Single ball gold 1986 Tokyo Single band bronze 1986 Tokyo Single clubs bronze 1986 Tokyo Single rope

Bianka Panova ( Bulgarian Бианка Панова ; English transcription Bianka Panova ; born May 27, 1970 in Sofia ) is a former Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast and multiple world and European champion.

Athletic career

Bianka Panowa was part of the “golden girls” generation that dominated the sport in the 1980s. She began her sporting career in 1977 in the ZSKA sports club with the trainer Despa Kateliewa. In 1982 she became part of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics team. At the age of 15, at the 1985 World Championships , Panowa won her first gold medal with the ribbon. Bianka Panowa is listed in the Guinness Book of Records because she got the most high scores (four) at the World Championships.

Coaching career

In 1990 Bianka Panowa started her career as a trainer in Italy . She coached the Italian national champion Katia Pietrosanti, who was the 1993 junior silver medalist with clubs. From 1993 to 2001 she worked as a trainer in Belgium , where she became a member of rhythmic gymnastics. Under her leadership Elke De Backer became Belgium's champion. In 2015 she founded the "Bianka Panova Sport and Art Academy" together with Daniela Michaely in Singapore to continue working as a trainer.

Private

Bianka Panowa married the physiotherapist and doctor, Chavdar Ninov, who later developed an alternative medical treatment method (MyoPuncture ™) and has several prominent patients worldwide, such as B. Silvio Berlusconi , Marco van Basten and Albert II. , Treated. The marriage resulted in two sons, Stefan and Richard. Panova and her husband left Bulgaria in 1990 and they traveled through several countries. Bianka Panowa studied at the private "Dance Academy Brugge" in Belgium with the choreographer and dancer Jorge Vazquez. In 1996 she graduated from Jazz Ballet there. Later she teaches about it too.

Others

Bianka Panowa played in the Bulgarian film "AkaTaMuS" in 1988 as a dancer . She took twice (2008 and 2009) on the Bulgarian dance - talent show "Dancing Stars" (an offshoot of Dancing with the Stars ) part, where she received the most audience votes the second time and won.

Publications

• Бианка Панова: В името на голямата цел - зад кадър [In the name of the great goal - behind the curtain], Ciela 2012, ISBN 9542812280 , ISBN 978-9542812289

Web links

• Bianka Panova in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bianka Panowa on Facebook
• Bianka Panowa on YouTube
• NSA Bulgarian gymnasts
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110718150059/http://www.gymn.ca/gymnasticgreats/rsg/panova.htm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cruelty behind Bulgaria's Rhythmic Gymnastics Past Glory - Champ
2. ↑ "Most Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championship gold medals won by an individual" (www.guinnessworldrecords.de)
3. ↑ Elke De Backer
4. ↑ bpacademy
5. ↑ MyoPuncture ™ Dry needling / orthopedic acupuncture
6. ↑ 24chasa.bg, July 6, 2013
7. ↑ 24chasa.bg, March 4, 2016
8. ↑ blitz.bg. October 6, 2011
9. ↑ Bianka Panova Biography (IMDb)
10. ↑ AkaTaMuS (IMDb)