She started training Rhythmic Gymnastics at the age of 7. She competed for “Velbujd” -Kyustendil and “Academic” - Sofia.

For 12 years she has been a member of the Bulgarian National Team. In 1970 she is conferred the title “Master of Sport”.

She has participated in various international tournaments and has won prizes. In 1973 she ranked 5-th at the World Championship– Rotterdam.

Student’s Champion - 1974.

She graduated from Secondary Vocational School of Economics and in 1973 she was admitted to the Higher Institute of Physical Culture.

In 1979 she graduated as “Rhythmic Gymnastics Coach” with second specialty "Teacher in Physical Education”.

1979-1984 she worked as teacher in physical education and Rhythmic Gymnastics coach in the town of Kyustendil.

In 1984 she won a competition and was appointed Rhythmic Gymnastics Assistant at Gymnastics Department.

1987 – Senior Assistant

1990 – Chief Assistant

Since 1993 she has been an International Judge for Rhythmic Gymnastics.

2000-2004 - Expert-Judge at the International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG).

1995-2004 - member of the Judge Council at the Bulgarian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics. Judge at World and European Championships.

2008. Defended a dissertation in the subject of:  „Study and Optimization of Training Methods of Jumps in Rhythmic Gymnastics” with training supervisor Assoc. Prof. Maria Mineva, PhD.

Lector at the University of Murcia, Spain, University Rennes-2, France under the Erasmus Program.

Lector at courses for trainers at the Royal Federation in Belgium and Regional Federation in Cartagena, Spain.

Since 1993 she has been a permanent consultant for sports clubs in Belgium.

Scientific Adviser of a great number of term and graduation papers of Bulgarian and foreign students from Greece, Cyprus, Columbia, Vietnam, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Syria.

Has participated in joint projects with the University of Brazil, the town of Manau, the University in Rennes-2, France, and the Methodical Union of the University Teachers in Rhythmic Gymnastics from European Universities located in France.

She has a good command of written and spoken Russian, French – Diploma from the Institute of Foreign Students, Spanish – Diploma DELE from the University of Salamanca, Spain.

She has participated in scientific forums in Bulgaria and abroad. She has published 60 articles in scientific magazines.

· Trends, Tendencies, News, Trainer’s Thought Magazine, No. 12 / 1987.

· Variety of Jumps in Gymnasts’ Routines, Trainer’s Thought Magazine, No. 10 / 1987.

· Analysis of Ensemble Routines, Trainer’s Thought Magazine, No. 4 / 1988.

· Analysis of Ensemble Routines, Scientific Works of G. Dimitrov Higher Institute of Physical Culture, Volume 28 - 1988, Book V.

· Cinematic Analysis of the “front splits” Exercise in Rhythmic Gymnastics in the collection of the Bulgarian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation - Tendances et perspectives de la Gymnastique rytmique sportive moderne - 14 September 1987 Varna - Bulgarie.

· Evaluation System of Bulgarian Rhythmic Gymnastics Judges, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 1 / 1997.

· Evaluation System of Bulgarian Rhythmic Gymnastics Judges, Scientific Conference of the National Sports Academy, May 1996, Volume, Section ІV.3, NSA PRESS, 1998, co-authorship.

· Jumps in the Gymnasts’ Routines - Ten Years Later, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 2 / 1999.

· Competitive rules and development of the rhythmic gymnastics, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 2 / 2000.

· Study of the Quality of Selection of Children for Rhythmic Gymnastics Lessons in Some Towns of the Country, AFRAGA Congress, University-Rennes-2, France

· Researching difficulty in the compositions of rhythmic gymnasts, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 4 / 2000.

· Cinematic Analysis of Right pivot at 720 with a Lifted Bent Leg and Circular Movements of the Rope, Scientific Conference of the National Sports Academy - 22-23 May 1998, Volume 4/2001, in co-authorship with Athena Dimitriadou.

· Competitive rules and development of team exercises in rhythmic gymnastics, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 5, 6 / 2000.

· Is It Easy to Be a Rhythmic Gymnastics Judge?, Bulgarian Gymnastics Magazine, March 2001.

· Application for Revival of Glorious Traditions, Bulgarian Gymnastics Magazine, June 2001.

· Judges Regulations in Rhythmic Gymnastics, Scientific Conference of the National Sports Academy - 21-22 May 2001, Sports, Society, Education Magazine, Volume 7, NSA PRESS, 2001.

· Rhythmic gymnastics rules in action, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 3 / 2001.

· Research of the selection quality of children to start playing rhythmic gymnastics, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 6 / 2001.

· Comparative Analysis of Scores of Rhythmic Gymnastics Contestants, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 2/2002.

· Study of the Difficulty of Gymnasts’ Routines at the 2001 World Championship in Madrid, Sports, Society, Education Collection, Volume 8, 2002.

· Possibilities for increasing the difficultness of jumps in rhythmic gymnastics, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 5 / 2003 (in co-authorship with Georgi Sergiev)

· Analysis of the start and final mark in rhythmic gymnastics, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 6 / 2003.

· Study of the Relationship between the Body Sizes of Children and their Parents, Collection of Reports from the Annual Scientific Conference of the National Sports Academy, 22-23 May 2000, Sports, Society, Education, Volume 6/2004.

· Choreography in women gymnastics exercises, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 2 / 2004.

· A study of the development of basic structural groups of exercises and the choreography in rhythmic gymnastics depending on the changes of the code of points, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 4 / 2004.

· Study of the Relationship between the Body Sizes of Children and their Parents, Sports, Society, Education, Volume 6 / 2004.

· Aesthetic gymnastics, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 6 / 2004.

· Study of some Specific Features of the Contemporary Rythmic Gymnastics, ІІІ international scientific congress “Sport, stress, adaptation”, 19-21 November 2004, Sofia.

· Research on the types and level of difficulty of rhythmic gymnastics exercises, Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No. 2 / 2005.

· Retrospective analysis of the group gymnastics disciplines development, Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No. 2 / 2005. (in co-authorship with Maria Mineva and Vladimir Simeonov).

· Difficultness of the exercises in rhythmic gymnastics, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 4 / 2005.

· Classification des difficultés techniques en gymnastique rythmique /GR/ et optimisation de l’entraînement de haut niveau. Gantcheva, G., Mineva, M., Loquet, Lesiard, Y. 4-eme Biennale de ARIS /Association pour la Recherche sur l’intervention en Sport/, Besançon, 9-12 mai 2006

· La production des savoirs dans l’entraînement de haute performance : Etude comparée en France et en Bulgarie de l’action effective des entraîneurs en gymnastique rythmique /GR/. Loquet, M., Gantcheva, G. 4-eme Biennale de ARIS /Association pour la Recherche sur l’intervention en Sport/, Besançon, 9-12 mai 2006

· Issues of training in rhythmic gymnastics for high achievements, conference - 2006 - Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No.1 / 2006.

· Innovation in rhythmic gymnastics, conference - 2006 - Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No.1 / 2006.

· Identifying the high-performance technical knowledge in rhythmic gymnastics study of the joint action of the coach/gymnast. (in co-authorship with Monique Loquet - University Rennes-2, France), conference - 2006 - Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No. 1 / 2006.

· Evaluating the quality of jumps executions in rhythmic gymnastics, Sports and Science Magazine, No. 2 / 2006.

· Optimizing the teaching of exercises from the spinning group in rhythmic gymnastics, (in co-authorship with Maria Mineva and Kiriakula Zaku). Sports and Science Magazine, No. 5-6 / 2006.

· Comparative analysis between composing and dynamics of sport aerobics and rhythmic gymnastics difficult exercises, (in co-authorship with Maria Mineva). Sports and Science Magazine, No. 1 / 2007.

· Comparative analysis of structure and means in of sport aerobics and rhythmic gymnastics, (in co-authorship with Maria Mineva). Sports and Science Magazine, No. 2 / 2007.

· Interview study of issues related to rhythmic gymnastics teaching, (in co-authorship with Maria Mineva). Sports and Science Magazine, No. 3 / 2007.

· Using Bulgarian’s tests in the selection of gymnasts in the state of Amazonas, Brazil, (in co-authorship with Artemis de Araujo Soares - Dra. UFAM-Manaos-Amazonas-Brazil and Giurga Nedialkova - Fed. Bulgara de Ginastica Estetica). ІV-th international scientific congress “Sport, stress, adaptation - Olympic sport and sport for all”, 17-18 November 2006, National Sport Academy “Vassil Levski”, Sofia.

· Studying the artistic character of rhythmic gymnast compositions, ІV-th international scientific congress “Sport, stress, adaptation - Olympic sport and sport for all”, 17-18 November 2006, National Sport Academy “Vassil Levski”, Sofia.

· Optimizing the classification of jumps in rhythmic gymnastics, (in co-authorship with Maria Mineva) - ІV-th international scientific congress “Sport, stress, adaptation - Olympic sport and sport for all”, 17-18 November 2006, National Sport Academy “Vassil Levski”, Sofia.

· Genesis of high-performance technical knowledge in rhythmic gymnastics. Contrasted study in France and in Bulgaria, (in co-authorship with Monique Loquet - University Rennes-2, France), ІV-th international scientific congress “Sport, stress, adaptation - Olympic sport and sport for all”, 17-18 November 2006, National Sport Academy “Vassil Levski”, Sofia.

· Optimization of Training in Rhythmic Gymnastics Exercises - /Theory and Methods of Physical Training Conference 15 December 2006/ - (in co-authorship with Maria Mineva). Special Edition No. 1 / 2007.

· Methodology of teaching rhythmic gymnastics stretched jumps, (in co-authorship with Maria Mineva) - Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No. 2 / 2007.

· Influence on technical movements with changed rules of rhythmic gymnastics, (in co-authorship with Liang Zhu - Assos. Prof. - Chengdu Sport University, Chengdu, CHINA) - Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No. 2 / 2007.

· Rhythmic gymnastics in French schools a new perspective, (in co-authorship with Monique Loquet - University Rennes-2, France), Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No. 2 / 2007.

· Optimize the teaching of stretched jumps in rhythmic gymnastics, (in co-authorship with Maria Mineva) - ІІ international scientific conference „KINESIOLOGY - 2007” - 18-19 October 2007, University „Sv. Sv. Kiril and Metodii” - Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.

· Classification des difficultés techniques en gymnastique rythmique et optimisation de l’entraînement de haut niveau, Gantcheva, G., Mineva, M., Loquet, Lesiard, Y. Actes du colloque ARIS /Association pour la Recherche sur l’intervention en Sport/, Co-construir des savoir : les métiers de l’intervention dans les APSA, Besançon, 9-12 mai 2006.

· La production des savoirs dans l’entraînement de haute performance : etude contrastée en France et en Bulgarie de l’action effective des entraîneurs en gymnastique rythmique, Loquet, M., Gantcheva, G. Actes du colloque ARIS /Association pour la Recherche sur l’intervention en Sport/, Co-construir des savoir : les métiers de l’intervention dans les APSA, Besançon, 9-12 mai 2006.

· Rhythmic gymnastics - short historical notes, Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No. 4 / 2008.

· Gymnastique rythmique: technique / artistique. Quelle est la relation?, (in co-authorship with Monique Loquet - University Rennes-2, France), Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No. 4 / 2008.

· Optimization of split leaps jumps training in rhythmic gymnastics, (in co-authorship with Maria Mineva) - Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No. 4 / 2008.

· Structure of algorithmic chains of swing jumps in rhythmic gymnastics, (in co-authorship with Maria Mineva). Sports and Science Magazine, No. 4 / 2008.

· Correlations the training of swing jumps by the method of algorithmic recommendations, Sports and Science Magazine, No. / 2008 - (In print).

Les règles dans les sports artistiques. Le cas de la gymnastique rythmique, les liens entre « technique » et « artistique », Giurka Gantcheva et Monique Loquet.

Optimiser l’entraînement en gymnastique rythmique, illustration a travers l’enseignement et l’apprentissage des sauts, Gantcheva, G., Mineva, M., Loquet, Leziart, Y. Actes du colloque ARIS /Association pour la Recherche sur l’intervention en Sport/, L’intervention en sport et ses contextes institutionneles : cultures et singularite de l’action. Rodez, 14-15-16 mai 2008.

2. Desarrollando habilidades motoras y la sociomotricidade a traves de la gimnastica ritmica Universidad federal do Amazonas - Brazil. Authors: BALBI, Alessandra; MARTINS, Miriam; CARVALHO, Ralcilândia; MARIANO, Keila; SOARES, Ártemis. UFAM - Manaus-AMAZONAS-BRAZIL. Sports and Science Magazine, Special Edition No. / 2008. (in print).