Ginka Zagorcheva

Ginka Zagorcheva-Boycheva, Bulgarian: Гинка Загорчева-Бойчева (born 12 April 1958) is a former hurdling athlete from Bulgaria. She was born in Plovdiv, and is most notable for winning the 100 metres hurdles at the 1987 World Championships. She held the world record for a year with a time of 12.25 sec, until it was beaten by Yordanka Donkova in August 1988. She also competed in the women's 100 metres hurdles at the 1988 Summer Olympics.^[1]

• Five-time Bulgarian National Champion at 100 m hurdles, 1983, 85, 87, 89 & 90.

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Bulgaria
1982	European Championships	Athens, Greece	8th	100 m hurdles	13.14 sec
1983	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	3rd	100 m hurdles	12.62
1984	Friendship Games	Prague, Czechoslovakia	6th	100 m hurdles	12.86
1985	World Indoor Games	Paris, France	5th	60 m hurdles	8.13
	European Indoor Championships	Athens, Greece	2nd	60 m hurdles	8.02
	IAAF World Cup	Canberra, Australia	2nd	100 m hurdles	12.72
1986	European Championships	Stuttgart, West Germany	3rd	100 m hurdles	12.70
1987	European Indoor Championships	Lievin, France	3rd	60 m hurdles	7.92
	World Indoor Championships	Indianapolis, U.S.	3rd	60 m hurdles	7.99
	World Championships	Rome, Italy	1st	100 m hurdles	12.34
1988	European Indoor Championships	Budapest, Hungary	4th	100 m hurdles	7.95
	Olympic Games	Seoul, South Korea	heats	100 m hurdles	dnf
1990	European Championships	Split, Yugoslavia	6th	100 m hurdles	13.02

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ginka Zagorcheva". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-10-25.
• World Championships
• European Indoor Championships
• European Championships

Sporting positions
Preceded by Lucyna Kalek	Women's 100m Hurdles Best Year Performance 1985	Succeeded by Yordanka Donkova
Preceded by Yordanka Donkova	Women's 100m Hurdles Best Year Performance 1987	Succeeded by Yordanka Donkova

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