RADUKANOVA Madlen

World Championships

Year	Location	Group AA	Gr-5H	Gr-5B	Gr-3B/2Ro	Gr-3H/2C
2019	Baku, AZE	3	-	2	-	5
2018	Sofia, BUL	3	1	-	6	-
2017	Pesaro, ITA	2	4	-	3	-

European Games

Year	Location	Group AA	Gr-5B	Gr-3H/4C
2019	Minsk, BLR	2	2	3

European Championships

Year	Location	Group AA	Gr-5B	Gr-5H	Gr-3B/2Ro	Gr-3H/2C	Team AA
2021	Varna, BUL	5	1	-	-	2	4
2018	Guadalajara, ESP	3	-	4	1	-	-

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	Group AA	Gr-5B	Gr-5H	Gr-3B/2Ro	Gr-3H/2C	Gr-3H/4C
2021	2 x 1st	2 x 1st	-	-	1 x 1st	1 x 1st
2019	1 x 1st	1 x 4th	-	-	2 x 1st	1 x 2nd
2018	1 x 1st	-	2 x 1st	1 x 1st	-	-
2017	3 x 1st	-	3 x 2nd	1 x 1st	-	-

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2021	Group All-Around	Baku, AZE	88.150
1	2021	Group All-Around	Sofia, BUL	84.350
1	2021	Group - 5x Ball	Baku, AZE	45.600
1	2021	Group - 5x Ball	Sofia, BUL	39.800
1	2021	Group - 3x Hoop + 2x Clubs	Baku, AZE	43.150
1	2021	Group - 3x Hoop + 4x Clubs	Sofia, BUL	39.750
1	2019	Group All-Around	Sofia, BUL	49.350
1	2019	Group - 3x Hoop + 2x Clubs	Baku, AZE	25.550
1	2019	Group - 3x Hoop + 2x Clubs	Pesaro, ITA	25.750
1	2018	Group All-Around	Sofia, BUL	41.250
1	2018	Group - 5x Hoop	Baku, AZE	19.800
1	2018	Group - 5x Hoop	Sofia, BUL	20.850
1	2018	Group - 3x Ball + 2x Rope	Baku, AZE	19.050
1	2017	Group All-Around	Sofia, BUL	36.550
1	2017	Group All-Around	Baku, AZE	36.550
1	2017	Group All-Around	Pesaro, ITA	37.350
1	2017	Group - 3x Ball + 2x Rope	Tashkent, UZB	17.600

Legend
Indv. - Individual, Gr - Group, AA - All-Around, B - Ball, H - Hoop, C - Clubs, Ri - Ribbon, Ro - Rope, 5B - 5x Ball, 3H/2C - 3x Hoop + 2x Clubs, 3H/4C - 3x Hoop + 4x Clubs

Spending time outdoors, watching films. (blitz.bg, 27 Sep 2018)

Athlete

Bulgarian, English

Levski-Triaditza [Sofia, BUL]

Vesela Dimitrova [national], BUL

Her father Milen Radukanov was a Bulgarian professional football player and has coached Bulgarian football sides CSKA Sofia, Botev Plovdiv, Slavia Sofia and OFK Pirin. (blitz.bg, 27 Sep 2018; transfermarkt.com, 21 May 2018)

2011 (gimnastika.pro, 2017)

She took up the sport at age five at the Levski-Triaditza club in Sofia, Bulgaria. (Bulgarian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation Facebook page, 22 Jan 2017; fbgr.org, 01 Jan 2017)

Her parents took her to the gym where her older sister was training. (eva.bg, 17 Sep 2018)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (blitz.bg, 27 Sep 2018)

She trains six days a week. (blitz.bg, 27 Sep 2018)

Winning gold in the group hoop competition at the 2018 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. (blitz.bg, 27 Sep 2018)

Her first coach Maria Kancheva. (blitz.bg, 27 Sep 2018)

In 2019 she and her Bulgarian teammates Laura Traets, Simona Dyankova, Stephanie Kiryakova and Erika Zafirova were named Team of the Year at the Bulgarian Sportsperson of the Year awards after they won a silver and a bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. (bnr.bg, 20 Dec 2019)

She was part of the Bulgarian rhythmic gymnastics team that was named Team of the Year at the 2017 Bulgarian Sportsperson of the Year awards. (beautyinsport.com, 20 Dec 2017)

She was named Rising Star of the 2013 International Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria, by Bulgarian national newspaper Monitor. (Bulgarian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation Facebook page, 22 Jan 2017; blitz.bg, 16 Sep 2013)