Daniel Asenov has been voted the best young athlete of Bulgaria for 2015 in the poll of Viasport.bg. The European boxing champion in the men's 52 kg category gathered 358 points in the poll conducted among sports journalists as it brought a second prize in the poll for the Bulgarian boxers. In 2014, the top athlete title went to Blagoy Naydenov.
Second in the poll for 2015 with 228 points iss Adrian Andreev (tennis) and third is Albert Popov (alpine skiing) with 226 points.
The only Bulgarian in the Candidates Tournament - Nurgyul Salimova, lost in the third round of the competition in Toronto against Rameshbabu Vaishali from India. The game lasted almost four hours, as the Bulgarian showed very good..
Karlos Nassar won a gold medal at this year's Weightlifting World Cup tournament in Phuket, Thailand. The Bulgarian became the champion with a total of 396 kg from the snatch and the clean and jerk events in the category of up to 89 kilograms for men...
Nurgyul Salimova has recorded a second draw at the Candidates Tournament for the world chess title in the Canadian city of Toronto. The 20-year-old Bulgarian, who played with the white pieces, finished in a tie with the Chinese grandmaster Lei Tingjie..
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first Bulgarian expedition to climb Everest, the world's highest peak. On 20 April 1984, 41-year-old..
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