Bulgaria Radanova Ranks 7 in Vancouver 1 500-m Short Track

Yang Zhou of China celebrates after she won the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games ladies short track speed skating 1500 meter semifinal competition at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria’s three-time Olympics medalist, Evegeniya Radanova, ranked 7th in the ladies 1 500-meter short track at the Vancouver Winter Olympics Games.

This is the best Bulgarian ranking so far.

Out of the 8 finalists, 3 were Korean. China's debutant, Yang Zhou, won the gold with an Olympic-record of 2 minutes, 16.993 seconds, while the silver and the bronze went to Korea's Eun-Byul Lee and Seung-Hi Park.

At some point during the race, Radanova was 4th, but ended 7th at the finish line. She is to receive a BGN 30 000 bonus from Bulgaria’s Sports Ministry.

The other Bulgarian, Maria Georgieva-Nikolova, was not able to make through the semi-finals and ended 17th in the final ranking.

Radanova will take part in the 1000-meter finals on February 25th.

She has a silver and a bronze medal from the 2002 Winter Olympics, and a silver medals from the 2006 Winter Olympics.

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