Bulgarian modern pentathlon athletes Yavor Peshleevski and Todor Mihalev returned with a relay bronze medal. The third position of the two has resulted in the first medal for the country for 17 years. In the meantime Bulgarian pentathlon scored another major success: two of our talented and promising young athletes Zornitsa Stoilova and Hristo Panayotov won quotas and will present Bulgaria at the Olympic Youth Games in Buenos Aires, Argentine over the next month. Modern pentathlon consists of 5 disciplines: swimming /200 m freestyle/; fencing /small-sword/; horse riding /jumping/ and a mixed discipline /running & shooting/.
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..
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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