Rumeljana Boncheva

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Rumeljana Bontschewa Stefanowa ( Bulgarian Румеляна Бончева Стефанова ; born April 25, 1957 in Varna ) is a former Bulgarian rower . She won an Olympic bronze medal. At world championships she won gold, silver and bronze medals.

Athletic career

The 1.76 m tall Rumeljana Boncheva belonged to the new Bulgarian quadruple scull with helmswoman in 1977 . From the boat that had finished fourth in the 1976 Olympic Games , only helmsman Stanka Georgieva 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 Georgijewa as a 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 Georgiev at the wheel . In the final, the boat from the GDR won ahead of the Soviet four and the Bulgarians, with the Bulgarians only 0.78 seconds behind the gold medal.

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SURNAME Boncheva, Rumeljana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonschewa Stefanowa, Rumeljana (full name); Бончева Стефанова, Румеляна (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian rower
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Varna