Bulgaria earned 4 silver and 1 bronze medal at the Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships held in Istanbul. Milena Mitkova won silver at the long-jump event (6.42 meters). Mitko Tsenov placed second at the 1,500 meters event. He stopped the clock at 3:50:46 minutes. Tihomir Ivanov won silver at the high jump event and Stanislav Stankov earned silver at the Men’s 60 meters Hurdles (7.88 seconds). Yolo Nikolov won bronze medal at the Men’s 3,000 meters after stopping the clock at 8:14:55 minutes. Bulgaria is 14th in the overall rankings.
Gergana Topalova will be playing for the title at the Bastad tennis tournament in Sweden with prize money amounting to USD 25,000. At the semifinals Topalova defeated Irina Fetecau, Romania by 6-4, 6-3, and in the finals match will be playing..
Yuliana Yaneva won the 4 th Olympic quota for Bulgarian wrestling and the second for women’s wrestling. At the tournament in Istanbul she won against Davaanasan Enkh Amar, Mongolia in the 76 kg. qualification match. The other Bulgarian..
Bulgaria’s top tennis player Grigor Dimitrov started his participation in the ATP Masters 1000 tennis tournament in Rome with a victory versus Yoshihito Nishioka, Japan by 7-5, 6-4 in 1 hour 39 minutes of play. In the third round Grigor..
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