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First-ever Bulgarian with athletics world record celebrates her 70th birthday

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Today Yordanka Blagoeva, the first Bulgarian to have set a world record in athletics, 194 cm in the high jump (1972), celebrates her 70th birthday. Yordanka Blagoeva is holder of two Olympic medals – a silver one from Munich 1972 , and a bronze one from Montreal 1976.




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