Thirty years ago on August 30, 1987, Bulgaria’s athlete Stefka Kostadinova set a new high jump world record at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. The Bulgarian athlete jumped 209 centimeters, thus beating her own personal best by 1 centimeter. Many athletes, including Kostadinova herself, have been trying to beat that record in the past 30 years, but the record still stands. Kostadinova is the only Bulgarian awarded with the Sports Oscar. Thus, Stefka Kostadinova placed alongside world sports legends such as Pele, Ayrton Senna, Diego Maradona, Boris Becker, Sergey Bubka, Mike Tyson and Carl Lewis. Kostadinova was among the first athletes inducted into the IAAF Hall of Fame. Her bar decorates the entrance of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.
Bulgarian gymnasts Dimitar Dimitrov and Eddie Penev qualified for the floor final on the first day of the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Baku (Azerbaijan). This is the first competition of the year for Dimitrov, who received a score of 13.366..
Tervel Zamfirov won the world title in parallel slalom at the FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships in Poland. Yesterday, the 20-year-old Bulgarian became world champion in the parallel giant slalom. As in yesterday’s final, Zamfirov managed to defeat..
Tervel Zamfirov became junior world champion in the parallel giant slalom at the FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships in Poland. This is the second medal for Bulgaria today after the silver won by his sister Malena. In the final of the..
Yoana Ilieva won silver at the Heraklion Women's Individual Sabre World Cup. At the end of last year, she won bronze at the Women’s Sabre Grand Prix in..
Bulgaria won a silver and a bronze medal on the first day of the European Shooting Championship 10 m in Osijek, Croatia. In the team competition,..
Bulgaria’s top ranked tennis player Grigor Dimitrov defeated Nuno Borges (Portugal) in the second-round of the ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells...
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