title: Evgenia Radanova
text: Evgenia Radanova (; born 4 November 1977) is a Bulgarian female short track speed skater and racing cyclist who has participated in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. She was the world record holder in the 500 m short track distance with 43.671s, which she set in Calgary, Canada on 19 October 2001. In the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic games she won a silver medal at the same distance and a bronze at 1500m. In Athens 2004 Summer games she took part in cycling, but did not get a medal. In the 2010 Vancouver Olympics in the women's 500 m she ended up 7th.
  
  Radanova currently trains in Italy, although most of her career she spent with Slavia Sofia Sports Club and the National Sports Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria. In the Academy she studied coaching. She weighs 65 kg and is 170 cm tall. Radanova has been severely injured at least twice, but has overcome the injuries to come back. In August 2014, Radanova was appointed as Bulgarian Minister of Youth and Sports on a temporary basis as part of the caretaker government of Georgi Bliznashki.
  
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  1977 births
  Living people
  Bulgarian female short track speed skaters
  Bulgarian female cyclists
  Olympic cyclists for Bulgaria
  Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Olympic short track speed skaters for Bulgaria
  Short track speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
  Short track speed skaters at the 1998 Winter Olympics
  Short track speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
  Short track speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
  Short track speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics
  Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
  Olympic silver medalists for Bulgaria
  Olympic bronze medalists for Bulgaria
  Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
  Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
  Sportspeople from Sofia
  Bulgarian female speed skaters
  Universiade medalists in short track speed skating
  World Short Track Speed Skating Championships medalists
  FISU World University Games gold medalists for Bulgaria
  Competitors at the 1997 Winter Universiade
  Competitors at the 1999 Winter Universiade
  Competitors at the 2001 Winter Universiade