Bulgarian Track Speed Skater Wins European Bronze Medal

Sports | January 23, 2010, Saturday // 13:59
Bulgaria: Bulgarian Track Speed Skater Wins European Bronze Medal Bulgarian Evgenia Radanova won bronze at the short track speed skating European Championships. Photo by BGNES

Bulgarian athlete Evgenia Radanova has won the bronze medal in the 1 500 meters competition at the 2010 ISU European Championship in short track speed skating, held in Dresden, Germany.

Radanova crossed the line in the final with a time score of 2:24,120 minutes. She had proved the fastest in the second semi-final round, and had led the first preliminary series.

The winner was 2009 champion Arianna Fortuna of Italy, in a time of 2:23,946 mins. The silver medal was taken by Elise Christie of Britain, in 2:24,042 mins.

Bulgarian Kristina Vuteva came 25th out of 35 competitors, while her colleague Marina Georgieva-Nikolova was disqualified from the series.

For the full results of the competition click HERE

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Tags: Evgenia Radanova, Kristina Vuteva, Marina Georgieva-Nikolova, speed skating, ISU European Championships, Dresden, Germany

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