Georgi Ivanov has won an 8th Olympic quota for Bulgarian wrestling. At the qualification tournament in Ulan Bator (Mongolia) he reached the final in the 74 kg category in freestyle wrestling. This is tantamount to a visa for the Olympic Games in Rio in August. At the final Ivanov who lives and works in USA lost to incumbent European champion Soner Demirtas with 1:12. Before that he scored three wins: versus Moldovan Evgeny Nedyalko with 9:6, German Georg Hart with 6:0 and Hungarian Mihaly Nagy 10:7.
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 Hristo Prodanov climbed the most difficult western slope without an oxygen mask . He reached the..
Petar Stoychev has become the first Bulgarian to swim the Strait of Gibraltar under the Oceans Seven rules without a wetsuit. Stoychev covered the distance from the European coast in the Spanish town of Tarifa to the African coast in Morocco in..
Bulgaria's Viktorio Iliev has become European boxing champion at the EUBC Youth Men and Women European Boxing Championships in Poreč, Croatia, in the under-60 kg category. In the final, he defeated Bohdan Cheldyk from Ukraine. Bulgaria..
Bulgaria’s chess player Nadya Toncheva has qualified for the 2025 Chess World Cup. In 2023, she also participated in the single elimination Women’s..
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