Valentina Georgieva

Valentina Georgieva (; born 28 July 2006) is a Bulgarian artistic gymnast. She is a two-time European silver medalist on the vault (2024, 2025). She missed nearly two years of competition due to an injury at the 2022 European Championships, but she returned to competition during the 2024 FIG World Cup series. She represented Bulgaria at the 2024 Summer Olympics and finished fifth in the vault final.

Early life Georgieva was born on 28 July 2006 in Sofia. She began rhythmic gymnastics when she was four years old, but she switched to artistic gymnastics at age seven. She has an older brother named Nikolay.

Gymnastics career 2020 Georgieva competed at the 2020 Junior European Championships in Mersin, where she won the silver medal on vault behind Romania's Ana Bărbosu. She also finished 14th in the all-around, and the Bulgarian team placed eighth. She was also the Bulgarian junior national all-around champion between 2018 and 2021. She went on to compete at the Varna World Challenge Cup, where she qualified to both the vault and floor exercise finals, finishing seventh and sixth, respectively. She won her first senior international medal at the Osijek World Challenge Cup in Croatia, taking the gold medal in the vault final ahead of Teja Belak and Tjaša Kysselef. This marked the first time a Bulgarian female artistic gymnast won a medal at a FIG World Challenge Cup since 2017. Additionally, she finished seventh in the floor final.

Georgieva competed at the 2022 European Championships in Munich, where she qualified to the vault final in sixth place. However, she sustained an injury on the landing of her first of two vaults in the final, and could not finish the competition. It was later reported that she had suffered a femoral fracture and a torn ACL. On 9 September, she had surgery to repair her ACL as well as her meniscus.

2024 Georgieva announced that she would return to competition at the 2024 FIG World Cup series with the goal of qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games. She next finished second at the Cottbus World Cup, once again behind An. At the third World Cup in the series, in Baku, she won the gold medal and secured her qualification for the 2024 Olympic Games.

At the 2024 Olympic Games Georgieva qualified to the vault final where she ultimately finished fifth.

2025 Georgieva competed at the World Cups in Osijek and Cairo, winning gold on vault at the former and bronze on balance beam at the latter. She won silver on vault at the Varna World Challenge Cup. She next competed at the 2025 European Championships where she won silver on vault behind Karina Schönmaier.

Competitive history

+Competitive history of Valentina GeorgievaYearEvent 2020 Junior European Championships 8 14 2022 Baku World Cup 7 Varna World Challenge Cup 7 6 Osijek World Challenge Cup 7 European Championships 38 2024 Cairo World Cup Cottbus World Cup Baku World Cup Doha World Cup European Championships Varna World Challenge Cup Bulgarian Championships Olympic Games 5 2025 Osijek World Cup Cairo World Cup 4 Varna World Challenge Cup European Championships 20 Tashkent World Challenge Cup Bulgarian Championships Paris World Challenge Cup 4 Szombathely World Challenge Cup 5 World Championships 124