Anelia Nuneva
Anelija Nunewa (married Wetschernikowa, Bulgarian Анелия Нунева; born 30 June 1962, Russian) is a former Bulgarian athlete who was successful as a sprinter in the 1980s and the early 1990s.
Although the 1.67 m wide and 57 kg Nunewa won numerous medals in major events, it never managed to win a title at a major international championship. Often they took second place.
The European Athletics Championships 1982 in Athens Nunewa was fourth in the 100 -meter run and sixth in the 200 -meter run. Also, she took sixth place at the World Athletics Championships 1983 in Helsinki. In the Indoor Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 1984, she won the 60 - meter dash as well as the silver medal two years later, over 100 meters and in the 4 x 100 -meter relay at the European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart. Also at the Universiade 1985 in Kobe, she was in the 100 - meter race in second.
1987 followed for Nunewa two more second places in the 60 - meter race at the IAAF European Indoor Championships in Liévin and at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis. In the same year it was over 100 meters at the World Athletics Championships in Rome sixth. Through the subsequent disqualification of the Canadian Angella Taylor Issajenko for doping it advanced in the rankings to fifth place.
After Nunewa three weeks before s had improved the Bulgarian record in the 100 -meter run at 10.85, it was at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul behind the U.S. and world record holder Florence Griffith - Joyner favorite high as promising medal candidate. However, they withdrew during the final with a thigh injury and finished the race in eighth and last place.
In the Indoor Athletics Championships in 1992 in Genoa Nunewa won her third silver medal in the 60 - meter dash. In the same year it was over 100 meters at the Olympic Games in Barcelona Sixth, while they missed the finals in the 200 -meter run. Your last major international success came at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1994, where she won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 - meter relay. In the 100 - meter race she finished fourth.
After her playing career Nunewa moved with her husband Ivan Wetschernikow in the United States. The couple has a son.