Stoyanka Kurbatova

{{Short description|Bulgarian rower (born 1955)}}

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{{MedalSport | Women's rowing }}

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{{MedalGold | 1976 Montreal | Coxless pair }}

{{MedalBronze | 1980 Moscow | Coxless pair }}

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Stoyanka Kurbatova (née Gruycheva, {{langx|bg|Стоянка Курбатова, née Груйчева}}, born 18 March 1955) is a Bulgarian rower and Olympic champion.

She was born in Plovdiv.{{cite web |url=http://www.novinar.net/news/sadbi_OTAwOzY0.html |title=Две пловдивчанки още живеят в плен на лодката |last=Бикова |first=Диана |date=26 April 2003 |publisher=Новинар |language=Bulgarian |accessdate=9 February 2011}}

Kurbatova, competing under her maiden name Gruycheva, became Olympic champion in 1976 in the coxless pairs event, with Siyka Kelbecheva.{{cite web |url=http://curious.actualno.com/news_171686.html |title=На днешната дата преди 32 години са открити XXI Олимпийски игри |last=Кючуков |first=Ивайло |date=17 July 2008 |publisher=kyuchukov |language=Bulgarian |access-date=9 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707081909/http://curious.actualno.com/news_171686.html |archive-date=7 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }} In 1980, she received a bronze medal in the same competition.