Daniela Guergueltcheva (

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: Даниела Гергелчева) (born 20 May 1964) is a former female table tennis player from Bulgaria. In 1990 she won two medals in singles and mixed double events in the

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. She has also been involved in coaching.

Biography

Guergueltcheva began playing table tennis at the age of 7. She has been champion of Bulgaria on 11 occasions. Guergueltcheva participated in the

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(reaching the Round of 16) and

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(not advancing past the group stage in spite of winning 2 out of her 3 matches) Olympics. She has won three French championship titles with Montpellier TT and is also an honorary citizen of

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. She also won an English Open title. Guergueltcheva is married and has a daughter studying law, named Inna. She is a cousin of Zdravko Zhelyazkov from the "Riton" duo.

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Living people 1964 births Bulgarian female table tennis players Olympic table tennis players of Bulgaria Table tennis players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 1992 Summer Olympics People from Momchilgrad {{Bulgaria-tabletennis-bio-stub

Biography

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