Totka Petrova
| Medal record | ||
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| Women's athletics | ||
Representing  Bulgaria
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| European Championships | ||
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1978 Prague | 1500 m |
| IAAF World Cup | ||
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1977 Düsseldorf | 800 m |
| Summer Universiade | ||
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1977 Sofia | 800 m |
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1977 Sofia | 1500 m |
Totka Nikolaeva Petrova (Bulgarian: Тотка Петрова, born 17 December 1956) is a retired female middle distance runner who represented Bulgaria in the 1970s and the early 1980s. She specialized in the 800 and 1500 metres, and won numerous international medals. She is still the Bulgarian 1500 metres record holder.
She was born in Yambol, and represented the club Tundzha Yambol. She won silver medals at the 1977 and 1978 European Indoor Championships. In 1977 she was only 0.05 seconds behind the gold medallist Jane Colebrook. Also, she continued a strong tradition of Bulgarian 800 metres runners, who had taken medals at the previous European Indoor Championships in 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1976. Other than Petrova, these medals were taken by Svetla Zlateva, Stefka Yordanova, Rositsa Pekhlivanova, Nikolina Shtereva and Lilyana Tomova.
In 1977 she also won the gold medal at the 1977 World Cup, and at the 1977 Summer Universiade she won gold medals in both 800 and 1500 metres. In 1978 she participated at the European Championships, finishing fourth in the 800 metres and winning the bronze medal in the 1500 metres.
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