| Valentina Georgieva | |
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 Georgieva at the 2024 Olympic Games | |
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Country represented |
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Born |
July 28 2006 |
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Years on National Team |
2020-present |
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Club |
Levski Spartak |
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Coach(es) |
Filip Yanev |
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Current status |
Active |
Valentina Georgieva (Bulgarian: Валентина Георгиева; born July 28 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian elite gymnast and 2024 Olympian. She trains at Levski Spartak under Filip Yanev, and has been a member of the Bulgarian National Team since 2020. She won a silver medal on vault at the Junior European Championships in 2020, and qualified to the vault final as a senior at the 2022 European Championships. In 2024, she qualified as an individual to the 2024 Olympics.
Junior Career[]
2020[]
Georgieva competed at the 2020 Junior European Championships in Mersin, where she won the silver medal on vault behind Romania's Ana Bărbosu. She also finished 14th in the all-around, and the Bulgarian team placed eighth. She was also the Bulgarian junior national all-around champion between 2018 and 2021.
Senior Career[]
2022[]
Georgieva became age-eligible for senior competition in 2022 and made her senior international debut at the Baku World Cup. She was the top qualifier for the vault final, but she finished seventh in the final. She went on to compete at the Varna World Challenge Cup, where she qualified to both the vault and floor exercise finals, finishing seventh and sixth, respectively. She won her first senior international medal at the Osijek World Challenge Cup in Croatia, taking the gold medal in the vault final ahead of Teja Belak and Tjaša Kysselef. This marked the first time a Bulgarian female artistic gymnast won a medal at a FIG World Challenge Cup since 2017. Additionally, she finished seventh in the floor final.
Georgieva competed at the European Championships in Munich, where she qualified to the vault final in sixth place. However, she sustained an injury on the landing of her first of two vaults in the final, and could not finish the competition. It was later reported that she had suffered a femoral fracture and a torn ACL.[1] On 9 September, she had surgery to repair her ACL as well as her meniscus.[2]
2024[]
Georgieva announced that she would return to competition at the FIG World Cup series with the goal of qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games. Her first competition was the Cairo World Cup, and she placed second on the vault behind North Korea's An Chang-ok. She also finished second to An at the Cottbus World Cup. Then at the Baku World Cup, she won the gold medal and secured her qualification for the 2024 Olympic Games. She finished the World Cup series in Doha, winning bronze on vault.[3] She later competed at the Varna World Cup in Bulgaria, winning gold on vault.
Paris Olympics[]
In qualifications, Georgieva competed in the first subdivision. She only competed on three events, and qualified to the vault final in ninth place. She placed fifth on vault.
Results[]
| Year | Event | TF | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2020 | Mersin European Championships | 8 | 14 | 2nd | |||
| 2022 | Baku World Cup | 7 | |||||
| 2022 Varna Challenge Cup | 7 | 6 | |||||
| 2022 Osijek Challenge Cup | 1st | 7 | |||||
| 2024 | 2024 Cairo World Cup | 2nd | |||||
| Cottbus World Cup | 2nd | ||||||
| Baku World Cup | 1st | ||||||
| Doha World Cup | 3rd | ||||||
| Varna World Cup | 1st | ||||||
| Paris Olympic Games | 5 |