Valentina Dimitrova (athlete)

Valentina Dimitrova (Bulgarian: Валентина Димитрова) (May 4, 1956 – November 2, 2014) was a heptathlete who competed for Bulgaria during her career. She won the gold medal at the 1977 Summer Universiade. Dimitrova set her personal best (6440 points) in the heptathlon on 29 May 1983 at a meet in Götzis.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
1977	World Student Games	Sofia, Bulgaria	1st	Pentathlon
1980	Olympic Games	Moscow, Soviet Union	7th	Heptathlon
1982	European Championships	Athens, Greece	6th	Heptathlon
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	6th	Heptathlon

References

Summer Universiade champions in women's pentathlon and heptathlon

1965-1979 Pentathlon	1965: Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) 1967: Liese Prokop (AUT) 1970: Tatyana Kondrashova (URS) 1973: Nadezhda Tkachenko (URS) 1975: Jane Frederick (USA) 1977: Valentina Dimitrova (BUL) 1979: Yekaterina Smirnova (URS)

1981-present Heptathlon	1981: Małgorzata Guzowska (POL) 1983: Yekaterina Smirnova (URS) 1985: Małgorzata Guzowska (POL) 1987: Liliana Năstase (ROM) 1989: Larisa Nikitina (URS) 1991: Birgit Clarius (GER) 1993: Urszula Włodarczyk (POL) 1995: Jane Jamieson (AUS) 1997: Mona Steigauf (GER) 1999: Tiffany Lott (USA) 2001: Jane Jamieson (AUS) 2003: Kylie Wheeler (AUS) 2005: Lyudmyla Blonska (UKR) 2007: Viktorija Žemaitytė (LTU) 2009: Jessica Samuelsson (SWE) 2011: Olga Kurban (RUS) 2013: Tatyana Chernova (RUS) 2015: Anna Maiwald (GER)

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