By defeating Nick Kyrgios, Australia by 7:6(3), 7:6(4), 4:6, 7:6(4), Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov qualifies for the Australian Open quarter-finals and in this phase of the tournament will be facing 44th seed Kyle Edmund, Great Britain.
The match will be played in the early hours of Tuesday, Bulgarian time. In an interview for the 24 Chassa daily just after he qualified for the quarter-finals, Dimitrov stated that “next to my name is the Bulgarian flag, and that is what matters.”
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,..
The Bulgarian Olympic Committee came out with a strong position against the participation of two boxers in the women’s tournament,..
Bulgaria's Svetlana Kamenova started with a convincing victory in the 57 kg category of the Olympic boxing tournament in Paris, defeating Michaela Walsh..
Desislava Angelova came in sixth place in the skiff at the rowing competition at the Olympics in Paris. Angelova, who is a first-timer at the..
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