A five-time Bulgarian Champion, she placed fourth-sixth in some individual events at the 1991 and 1992 world championships.

She competed in at the 1992 Summer Olympics with the best result of eighth place in the floor exercise.

One month after the 1992 Olympics Mitova received a serious neck injury while training on a trampoline.

Despite political difficulties of the Cold War era she was allowed to stay for three months in South Africa, where she underwent further neurosurgery free of charge – the costs were covered by local sponsors.

She then returned to Bulgaria and immigrated to the United States, where she married Artie Hutchinson and changed her last name.