Lilia Ignatova

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Lilia Ignatova is a Bulgarian modern rhythmic gymnast.

She was born in Sofia on May 17, 1965 and was part of the "golden girl" generation which dominated the sport in the early eighties. She won the all around silver at the 1980 European Championships, with an additional silver for the hoop, and gold with clubs and ribbon. She repeated this feat at the 1981 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, winning additional golds for rope and hoop and silver for clubs.

She won gold with the ribbon at the 1982 European Championships and Silver in the all around competition at the 1983 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships where she also won gold for clubs and balls and bronze for the hoop.

She won gold with hoop and silver with ball at the European Championships in Vienna in 1984 and came second at the 1985 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships to teammate Diliana Gueorguieva where she also won gold with ball and clubs and bronze with rope. In 1986 she won her second World Cup title and completed six consecutive victories in the Julieta Shishmanova Cup. Her final European Championships were crowned with the Gold for the all around competition, based on her golds for rope and clubs and the silver with ribbon.

Her routines combined a high degree of difficulty, such as a backward shoulder roll with a circling ribbon, with choreography set to a wide variety of modern and classical music.

After retiring she appeared in a film musical Akatamus, directed by Gueorgui Duylguerov and performed onstage for the Theater 13 company. She later coached at the Levski club where she began her career. In 1999 she was one of four rhythmic gymnasts inducted into the FIG Hall of Fame.