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Full name
  
Galina Tancheva

Assistant coach(es)
  
Ina Ananieva

Height
  
1.75 m

Years on national team
  
2001–2009

Choreographer
  
Tsvetanka Petkova

Weight
  
51 kg


Club
  
Silva Varna

Name
  
Galina Tancheva

Disciplines
  
Rhythmic gymnastics

Head coach(es)
  
Iliana Raeva

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Country represented
  
Born
  
18 May 1987 (age 37) Varna, Bulgaria (
1987-05-18
)

Olympic medals
  
Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's rhythmic group all-around

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Galina Tancheva (Bulgarian: Галина Танчева; born May 18, 1987 in Varna) is a retired Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast. She contributed to a silver medal effort for the Bulgarian squad in the group all-around at the 2003 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and later added a bronze to her career hardware in the same program at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Tancheva is also the twin sister of fellow rhythmic gymnast Vladislava Tancheva.

Career

Tancheva made her official debut, along with her twin sister Vladislava, at the 2003 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, where she captured the silver medal for the Bulgarian squad in the group all-around tournament with a composite score of 50.175.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Tancheva competed for the Bulgarian women's rhythmic gymnastics team in the group all-around tournament, after receiving a qualifying berth from the World Championships. Teaming with Zhaneta Ilieva, Eleonora Kezhova, Zornitsa Marinova, Kristina Rangelova, and her twin sister Vladislava in the competition, Tancheva performed a double routine using five ribbons (23.400) and a combination of three hoops and two balls (25.200) to deliver the Bulgarian squad a bronze-medal score in 48.600.

References

Galina Tancheva Wikipedia


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