Bulgarian Karlos Nasar won gold medal in the 73 kilogram category with a total of 291 kilograms at the 2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships in Las Vegas (USA). The solver went to Asadbek Narimanov (a total of 287 kg). Amagiak Misakian (Greece) finished third with a total of 272 kilograms. Last year Karlos Nasar became a European Champion in the 69 kilogram category at the U15 event. The Bulgarian athlete placed 7th at the European Weightlifting Championships in 2017. Two more Bulgarian weightlifters are to take part at the 2019 Youth World Weightlifting Championships in Las Vegas. Georgi Yochev will compete in the 89 kilogram category and Stefcho Hristov will take part at the 102 kilo category.
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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