Delyana Dacheva

Delyana Dacheva
Medal record
Women's canoe sprint
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2003 Gainesville K-2 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Seville K-2 200 m
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Poznan K-2 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place U23 2005 Plovdiv K-1 500 m

Delyana Dacheva (Bulgarian: Деляна Дачева) (born February 25, 1982) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-2000s. She won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-2 500 m: 2003) and a bronze (K-2 200 m: 2002).

Dacheva also finished sixth in the K-2 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

In the period 2008 - 2009 Dacheva was invited to become a coach of the USA women's kayak national team. She took the team to 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships competition.

Currently Delyana lives with her family in USA.She has hyphenated her name: Dacheva-Andonov after her husband.

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