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Bulgarian rowing legend Rumiana Neykova turns 50!

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Bulgarian sports legend - rower Rumyana Neykova, participant in 5 Olympics, celebrates her 50th anniversary. 

In 1989 she became the World Vice Champion for Girls and a year later she triumphed with the World title for Girls. She also has a silver medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics, when a controversial decision by the judging panel placed her second behind Ekaterina Karsten (Belarus) in the single sculls discipline, as they crossed the finish line at the same time. Rumyana Neykova won the world title twice in the sculls discipline - in Seville in 2002 with a world record of 7.07 minutes, and a year later in Milan. She also won silver in Munich in 2007. The same year she became European champion in Poznan.

Rumyana Neykova became the first winner of the "Women’s Crew of the Year Award" of the World Rowing Federation (FISA) in 2002, when the award was established. In 2004, she won bronze on a sculls at the Summer Olympics in Athens. The biggest highlight of her competitive career was winning the title in Beijing in 2008 in her fifth Olympic appearance.

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