| Personal information | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) | |||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||
| Country |  Bulgaria | |||||||||||
| Sport | Track and Field | |||||||||||
Event(s) | 400 meters,200 meters | |||||||||||
Medal record
| ||||||||||||
Daniela Georgieva (Bulgarian:Даниела Георгиева, néeSpasova -Спасова; born 1969) is a retiredBulgariansprinter. She won a bronze medal at the1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and holds the Bulgarian record over400 metres indoor (51.74 s) and the former national record outdoor (50.25 seconds). She also represented Bulgaria by running in the 400 metres at the2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and is a three-time European Cup Champion. She is currently on the coaching staff of theMissouri Tigers athletics team, at theUniversity of Missouri, inColumbia, Missouri.
Georgieva ran the 400 metres atAlexandroupolis on 9 July 1988 in a time of 52.46 seconds.[1] On 1 June 1994 she ran 23.84 in the 200 metres inBratislava and that year also competed at the European Athletics Championships inHelsinki where she finished seventh. On 20 May 1995 she ran a personal best of 50.25 in the 400 metres in Sofia and won bronze at the1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships inBarcelona, Spain, behindIrina Privalova of Russia who took Gold andSandy Richards of Jamaica who took silver.[2] On 1 June 1995, Georgieva set her personal best in the 200 metres inSaint-Denis with a time of 23.26.[1]
In 1996, Georgieva studied for a Bachelor of Sport degree at the National Sport Academy in Sofia.[2] On 9 May 1998 she competed in the 400 metres inOsaka, with a time of 55.38 seconds. She ran 52.72 in Ankara on 22 May 1999 and in February 2000 she was disqualified from the2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships inGhent in a run in withClaudia Marx.[3] Georgieva then narrowly missed winning a bronze medal and beating her personal best with a time of 51.27 inNürnberg on 25 June 2000.[4] She represented Bulgaria at the2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the 400 metres, but she finished 6th in Heat 7 of the first round with a time of 54.46 and did not proceed further.[5] Georgieva ran 52.73 in the 400 metres in Madrid on 7 July 2001, but following that event, her performances declined as her career reached a close, running 53.65 in the 400 metres atOlathe on 25 May 2002 and 23.90 inHouston, Texas on 25 May 2002.[1]
Georgieva moved to the United States in 2001, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree fromCentral Methodist University in 2005.[2] She later joined the coaching staff of theMissouri Tigers athletics team. She is married to sprinterStanislav Georgiev.
