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Vanja Gesheva-Tsvetkova

Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	K-1 500 m
	1980 Moscow	K-1 500 m
	1988 Seoul	K-2 500 m
	1988 Seoul	K-4 500 m
World Championships
	1986 Montreal	K-1 500 m
	1978 Belgrade	K-4 500 m
	1983 Tampere	K-1 500 m
	1977 Sofia	K-2 500 m
	1986 Montreal	K-2 500 m

Vanja Gesheva-Tsvetkova (Bulgarian: Ваня Гешева-Цветкова; born April 6, 1960) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1988: K-1 500 m), two silvers (1980: K-1 500 m, 1988: K-2 500 m), and one bronze (1988: K-4 500 m).

Gesheva also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 500 m: 1986), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1978), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1986).

References

• DatabaseOlympics.com profile
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
• Sports-reference.com profile