Rumyana Neykova

Rumjana Nejkowa Dimitrova, born Dschadscharowa (, also written english bulgarian Румяна Димитрова Нейкова ( Джаджарова ), translit. Rumjana Dimitrova Nejkova ( Džadžarova ) Rumyana Neykova, born April 6, 1973 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian rower and Olympic champion in 2008 in the One. She is married to her coach Swilen Nejkow, with whom she has two sons.

Life

In 1990, she occupied at the Junior World Championships in one second place, 1991, she won the title. In the 1992 Olympics she finished with the Bulgarian sculls ninth place. In the following years, she returned to the One. After her marriage with her coach Swilen Nejkow she joined the 1996 Olympics as Rumjana Nejkowa and finished in one eighth. In 1997, she reached for the first time in adult class the finals at World Championships and placed himself in fourth place. After another fourth place in 1998 she rowed in the 1999 medals and received the bronze medal at the World Championships. The following year she fought at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney to the finish line with the White Russian Ekaterina Karsten to the Olympic victory, after photo finish decision, the jury fixed the inlet with Karsten before Nejkowa. 2001 Nejkowa paused and gave birth to a son.

In 2002, she returned and won her first world title, which she successfully defended in 2003. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 she was awarded the bronze medal behind Katrin Rutschow - Stomporowski and Ekaterina Karsten. In 2005, she met with Miglena Markova at the double sculls and won silver at the World Championships in Gifu. After a break in 2006 Nejkowa came back in 2007 One in the World Rowing Championships 2007, she finished second behind Karsten, at the European Championships, she won the title. The biggest success of her career succeeded Nejkowa at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, she won the final ahead of USA's Michelle Guerette and her longtime rival Ekaterina Karsten.