Aneliya Nuneva-Vechernikova (
Bulgarian: Анелия Нунева-Вечерниковa; born June 30, 1962) is a retired
sprinter from
Bulgaria who competed mainly in the
100 metres. In the final of the 100 m at the
1988 Summer Olympic Games she was drawn in lane four alongside the favorite,
Florence Griffith-Joyner. She got out of the blocks well and challenged Griffith-Joyner up to about seventy metres when she abruptly pulled a muscle, resulting in her crossing the line in last place and injured. She reached the Olympic final again in 1992, finishing sixth. Her greatest successes were winning silver medals at the
1986 European Championships and
1987 World Indoor Championships. She was trained by
Georgi Draganov.