Vanya Voynova

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Vanya Voynova

Personal information
Born	(1934-10-22)22 October 1934 Sofia, Bulgaria
Died	9 March 1993(1993-03-09) (aged 58) Sofia, Bulgaria
Listed height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Career information
Playing career	1950–1968
Position	Center
Number	8
Career history
1950–1968	WBC Slavia Sofia
Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
FIBA Hall of Fame
Medals Representing  Bulgaria EuroBasket Women 1954 Yugoslavia 1958 Romania 1960 Bulgaria 1964 Hungary FIBA World Championship for Women 1959 Soviet Union 1964 Peru

Vanya Voynova (Bulgarian: Ваня Войнова; December 27, 1934 – March 9, 1993) was a Bulgarian basketball player. She has played for Slavia Sofia from 1950 to 1968, winning the European Champions' Cup in 1959 and 1963 and Bulgarian league 12 times from 1953 to 1965. With the Bulgaria women's national basketball team, she has won silver in the 1959 World Championship, bronze in the 1964 World Championship, gold in the 1958 European Championship, silver in the 1960 European Championship and 1964 European Championship and bronze in the 1954 European Championship and 1962 European Championship. She has been inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001 and FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.^[1]