Liljana Wassewa

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Liljana Wassewa ( Bulgarian Лиляна Васева ; born August 12, 1955 ) is a former Bulgarian rower who won an Olympic silver medal.

The 1.74 m wide Liljana Wassewa occupied at the European Championships in 1973 with the Bulgarian sculls sixth. At the 1975 World Championships , the four-man with helmswoman in the line-up Marijka Modewa , Reni Jordanowa , Liljana Wassewa, Ginka Gjurowa and helmsman Kapka Georgiewa won the silver medal, more than three seconds behind the boat from the GDR. In the following year, the Bulgarian four-man with the same line-up also won the silver medal at the premiere of the Olympic women's rowing in Montreal in 1976 and, as in the previous year, the four-man from the GDR was over three seconds ahead.

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