Eleonora Kezhova
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Full name | Eleоnora Valerieva Kezhova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Bulgaria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sofia, Bulgaria | 28 December 1985|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Rhythmic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | 1992–2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Club Iliana Levski | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Iliana Raeva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assistant coach(es) | Ina Ananieva | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Choreographer | Tsvetanka Petkova | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Eleоnora Valerieva Kezhova (
World Championships, and contributed to a silver medal in the group all-around in 2003. The following year, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
, Kezhova helped her squad claim a bronze medal in the same program.
Career
2000–2003
Kezhova made her official worldwide debut, as a 15-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed seventh for the Bulgarian squad in the group all-around tournament with a composite score of 38.432 (19.166 for five clubs and 19.266 for two hoops and three ribbons).[2]
At the
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
, Kezhova and her Bulgarian team finished fourth in the same program with a score in 47.050, missing out the medal podium by 350-thousandths of a point.
The following year, at the
Budapest, Hungary, Kezhova pulled off the second highest score both in ribbons and in hoops and clubs to hand the Bulgarians a silver medal in the group all-around tournament (a score of 50.175), and a qualifying ticket to her second Olympics.[3]
2004 Summer Olympics
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Kezhova Zhaneta Ilieva, Zornitsa Marinova, Kristina Rangelova, and twin sisters Galina and Vladislava Tancheva in the competition, Kezhova performed a double routine using five ribbons (23.400) and a combination of three hoops and two balls (25.200) to deliver the Bulgarian squad a bronze-medal score in 48.600.[4][5][6]
See also
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Eleonora Kezhova". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 26. Archived from the original(PDF) on 8 July 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- ^ "Bulgarians Win Silver and Qualify for the Athens Olympics". Standart. 28 September 2003. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 28 August 2004. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- Xinhua. People's Daily. 29 August 2004. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- ^ "Twins Celebrate Rhythmic Bronze with Oriental Dances". Novinite. 29 August 2004. Retrieved 26 August 2013.