Atanaska Angelova
Atanaska Stefanova Angelova-Dimitrova is a retired female discus thrower from Bulgaria. She set her personal best in the women's discus throw event on 10 August 1995 at the World Championships in Athletics|World Championships] in Gothenburg, Sweden, where she did not reach the final round. Angelova also competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Career
Angelova was born in Ruse, Bulgaria and began running in the first grade. After transitioning from sprinting to the discus, she finished third at the Bulgarian championships in her first year of training.At the 1996 Olympics, Angelova fouled her first two of three attempts in discus qualification. She threw a fair third attempt, but it wasn't far enough to qualify for the finals. She later joked that if someone had told her to move slightly to the left of the sector on her earlier attempts, the Olympic result would have been different.
Following what she described as disappointment from the 1996 Games, Angelova retired from the sport at age 24. She would not return to throwing until 2011, winning the 2011 and 2013 Bulgarian open national championships at age 40 and 42. She also began competing in the athletics pentathlon, winning several medals at the 2013 World [Masters Games] in Turin.