In 1996, Georgieva studied for a Bachelor of Sport degree at the National Sport Academy in Sofia. On 9 May 1998 she competed in the 400 metres in Osaka, with a time of 55.38 seconds. She ran 52.72 in Ankara on 22 May 1999 and in February 2000 she was disqualified from the 2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Ghent in a run in with Claudia Marx. Georgieva then narrowly missed winning a bronze medal and beating her personal best with a time of 51.27 in Nürnberg on 25 June 2000. She represented Bulgaria at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the 400 metres, but she finished 6th in Heat 7 of the first round with a time of 54.46 and did not proceed further. Georgieva ran 52.73 in the 400 metres in Madrid on 7 July 2001, but following that event, her performances declined as her career reached a close, running 53.65 in the 400 metres at Olathe on 25 May 2002 and 23.90 in Houston, Texas on 25 May 2002.