Tanya Bogomilova Dangalakova ( bg, Таня Богомилова Дангалакова) (born 30 June 1964) is a former

breaststroke Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s ...

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from

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, who won the gold medal in the 100 m breaststroke at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

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. At the

1985 European Aquatics Championships The 1985 European Aquatics Championships were held in "Cherveno zname" swim complex in Sofia, Bulgaria from 4 August until 11 August 1985. Besides swimming there were titles contested in diving, synchronized swimming and water polo. The first ever ...

she prevented East Germany from sweeping all women's events for the third European Championships in a row, by winning the 200 meter breaststroke by 0.45 seconds.

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* 1964 births Living people Bulgarian female medley swimmers Bulgarian female breaststroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Bulgaria Olympic gold medalists for Bulgaria Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming {{Bulgaria-Olympic-medalist-stub Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists in swimming Sportspeople from Sofia Universiade medalists in swimming FISU World University Games gold medalists for Bulgaria Universiade bronze medalists for Bulgaria Medalists at the 1985 Summer Universiade