Tsvetanka Christova

Tsvetanka Christova
nation	Bulgaria
birthday	March 14, 1962
place of birth	Kazanlak
date of death	November 14, 2008
Place of death	Kazanlak
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 1 × World championships 1 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 1988 Seoul Discus throw silver 1992 Barcelona Discus throw World championships bronze 1987 Rome Discus throw gold 1991 Tokyo Discus throw European championships gold 1982 Athens Discus throw silver 1986 Stuttgart Discus throw

Tsvetanka Christowa ( Bulgarian Цветанка Христова , English transcription Tsvetanka Khristova ; born March 14, 1962 in Kazanlak ; † November 14, 2008 ibid) was a Bulgarian discus thrower and former world champion.

She had her first major international success when she won gold at the European Athletics Championships in Athens in 1982 . Four years later, the silver medal followed at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart. The following year she set the current Bulgarian record on April 14, 1987 in her hometown of Kazanlak with 73.22 m.

She won a bronze medal each at the 1987 World Championships in Rome and at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

In 1991 she won gold at the World Championships in Tokyo and the following year she won silver at the Olympic Games in Barcelona . In 1993 she was banned from the IAAF for a doping offense . At the 1997 World Championships , she did not get beyond the preliminary round.

At the age of 42 she started at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, but did not get past the preliminary round.

In the last years of her life she worked as a trainer.

Zwetanka Christowa died on 14 November 2008 at the age of 46 years to cancer .

Web links

• Tsvetanka Khristova in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Tsvetanka Khristova in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the dead end spiegel.de August 8, 1994
2. ↑ Zwetanka Christowa munzinger.de June 9, 2009