The Women's European Boxing Championships in Sofia is over. This is the second time the capital of Bulgaria has hosted it since 2016, with 143 competitors from 33 countries taking part.
Bulgaria was represented by 7 contestants who won a total of 6 medals. Stoyka Petrova became champion in the 54 kg. weight category, Stanimira Petrova – in the 57 kg. weight category, and Melis Yonuzova in the 64 kg. weight category. Sevda Asenova won the silver in the 48 kg. weight category. Denitsa Eliseeva (60 kg) and Gabriela Dimitrova (51 kg.) won bronze medals.
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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