From the second half of the 1980s onwards, Manolowa belonged to the extended world elite in biathlon for about ten years. At the 1987 Biathlon World Championships in Lake Placid , Manolowa was sixth in the sprint, and eighth in Feistritz an der Drau in 1989 . In addition, she won the silver medal behind the Russians with the Bulgarian relay alongside Tsvetana Krastewa and Nadezhda Alexieva . The 1990 World Cup , which was held at several locations, again brought good results with ranks ten in the sprint, four in the relay and third in the team race with Alexiewa, Iwa Schkodrewa and Krastewa. In Lahti , too , the team competitions were the best races in 1991 . With the season she reached sixth place, in the team competition she had to admit defeat only to the United team on the side of Silwana Blagoewa , Alexiewa and Karagiosowa. For the first time in 1992 Winter Olympics discharged women's competitions in biathlon in Albertville from Bulgaria started in singles and was 16th there was less successful ran the Biathlon World Championships 1993 in the domestic Borovets with eighth place in the relay race and seventh place in the team competition. In 1994 Manolowa started again in Lillehammer at the Olympic Games and reached places 52 in the sprint, 22 in the individual and 13 in the relay. The last major event was the 1997 Biathlon World Championships in Osrblie , where she was eighth in the team competition alongside Karagiosowa and the new Bulgarian generation of biathlons , embodied by Pavlina Filipowa and Ekaterina Dafovska .
Biathlon World Cup placements
The table shows all placements (depending on the year, including the Olympic Games and World Championships).
1st - 3rd Place: Number of podium placements
Top 10: Number of placements in the top ten (including podium)
Points ranks: Number of placements within the point ranks (including podium and top 10)
Starts: Number of races run in the respective discipline