• Golden Bulgarian girl – Rumyana Neykova

    Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

    Bulgaria’s most successful rowing competitor for the last 20 years, Rumyana Neykova, bagged her country’s first gold medal from the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing.
    She triumphed in the women’s single 2000 meters sculls competition with a time of seven minutes and 22 seconds, beating the American Michelle Guerette and long-time rival Ekaterina Karsten from Belarus. [...]