| Native Name: | Bulgarian: Бетина Темелкова |
| Native Name Lang: | Hebrew |
| Birth Date: | df=y 26 February 1997 |
| Spouse: | Baruch Shmailov |
| Country: | (2017–19) |
| Weight Class: | 52 kg |
| Worlds Rank: | R64 |
| Worlds Year: | 2018 |
| Worlds Weight: | Women's 52 kg |
| Regionals Type: | EU |
| Regionals Rank: | R16 |
| Regionals Year: | 2018 |
| Updated: | 19 February 2022 |
Betina "Beti" Temelkova (Bulgarian: Бетина "Бети" Темелкова, Hebrew: בטינה "בטי" טמלקובה; born 26 February 1997) is a Bulgarian-Israeli[1] [2] female judoka. She won the gold medal in the 2018 European U23 Judo Championships.
Starting in 2017, Bulgarian-born Temelkova competed for Israel, where she resides with her Israeli husband and fellow judoka Israeli Olympian Baruch Shmailov, although she received her full Israeli citizenship only in 2019.[3]
That year, she won the gold medal at the 2017 Tashkent Grand Prix.[4] [5] She also won gold medals in the 2017 Leibnitz Junior European Cup and the 2017 La Coruna Junior European Cup.[6]
She won the gold medal in the 2018 European U23 Judo Championships.[6]