Bulgaria’s second-best female tennis player Elitsa Kostova dropped out of the Brisbane International tennis tournament with a prize fund of USD 1 million. Kostova lost 1:6; 5:7 to Kateryna Bondarenko (Ukraine) in the second qualifying round. The twenty six year old Bulgarian earned USD 1862 and 13 points for the WTA ranking. Currently, Kostova occupies the 136th position in the world ranking. On Friday Kostova started the tournament with a victory against another Bulgarian-Viktoria Tomova. Kostova defeated Tomova 6:1; 3:6; 6:4 in the first qualifying round.
Sisters Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva began their participation in the Olympic badminton tournament with a dramatic 2-1 win over Hong Kong sisters Yeung Nga Ting and Yeung Pui Lam. The Bulgarians' next match will be against China's Liu Shengshu..
Bulgaria's first competitor at the Olympic Games in Paris, Kristian Vassilev, qualified for the 1/4 final in skiff after finishing second in his series with a time of 6:56.63 minutes. The winner was Sverri Nielsen from Denmark in 6:53.50 minutes. The..
Bulgaria has been regularly winning medals at the Summer Olympic Games since 1952. The first native athlete to return with bronze from the Helsinki Games was boxer Boris Georgiev. Olympic champion in rowing from Montreal in 1976,..
Bulgaria has been regularly winning medals at the Summer Olympic Games since 1952. The first native athlete to return with bronze from..
Bulgaria's first competitor at the Olympic Games in Paris, Kristian Vassilev, qualified for the 1/4 final in skiff after finishing second in his series..
Sisters Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva began their participation in the Olympic badminton tournament with a dramatic 2-1 win over Hong Kong sisters..
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