Ivomira Mihaylova ( bg, Ивомира Михайлова) (born 12 March 1990) is a

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ka who competes in the +70 kg and +78 kg weight classes internationally, winning multiple medals at the IBSA European Judo Championships.

Career

Ivomira Mihaylova was born on 12 March 1990. At the 2009

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European Judo Championships, she won the bronze medal in the +78 kg weight class. Mihaylova finished fifth in the women's +70 kg class at the IBSF Judo World Championships in 2010, held in

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. She took part in the 2011 IBSA European Judo Championships, in Crawley, England. Mihaylova competed in two different weight classes, both the +70 kg and the +78 kg, winning the silver medal in the former and the gold medal in the latter. She was nominated for Bulgarian Disabled Athlete of the Year later in 2011, alongside Alexander Kenanov, Dechko Ovcharov, Ruzhdi Ruzhdi and Stela Eneva. Mihaylova was selected for the

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team at the

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in London, England, in the women's +70 kg tournament. She reached the quarter-finals, where she lost to eventual silver medallist Turkey's Nazan Akin through an

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. In 2015, Mihaylova was ranked ninth in the world in her weight class.

References

Living people Bulgarian female judoka Judoka at the 2012 Summer Paralympics 1990 births 21st-century Bulgarian women 21st-century Bulgarian people Paralympic judoka for Bulgaria {{Bulgaria-judo-bio-stub