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Delyana Dacheva

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Delyana Dacheva
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2003 Gainesville K-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Seville K-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Poznan K-2 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place U23 2005 Plovdiv K-1 500 m

Delyana Dacheva (Bulgarian: Деляна Дачева) (born February 25, 1982) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-2000s. She won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-2 500 m: 2003) and a bronze (K-2 200 m: 2002).

Dacheva also finished sixth in the K-2 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

In the period 2008 - 2009 Dacheva was invited to become a coach of the USA women's kayak national team. She took the team to 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships competition.

Personal life

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Currently Delyana lives with her family in the United States. She has hyphenated her name: Dacheva-Andonov after her husband.

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