Career
Her personal best for the event is 12.75 seconds. She was the bronze medallist at the 2002 European Athletics Championships. She made her international debut at age sixteen at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics, competing in the heats only.
She returned two years later at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics and was a semi-finalist.
This time ranked her tenth in the world for that year, and third among Europeans. She again dipped under thirteen seconds and was beaten only by Spanish-Nigerian Glory Alozie and Ukraine"s Olena Krasovska.
The following year she ran 12.95 seconds at the start of June (ultimately ranking in the global top forty that season). However, this proved to be the last time she ran that fast, as she suffered a severe injury to her left foot during training, breaking the bone and having surgery as a result.
She attempted a return, but additional complications forced her to retire from athletics.
She finished her career ranking fourth on the all-time Bulgarian rankings for the 100 m hurdles, behind world record breakers Yordanka Donkova, Ginka Zagorcheva and world medallist Svetla Dimitrova.