“17 May is the day of Bulgarian sports. I congratulate all Bulgarian competitors, coaches, sports officials and friends on the occasion of Bulgarian sports day,” writes Krasen Kralev, Minister of Youth and Sports in a congratulatory address.
Sports personalities have always been a treasure for society. This has been so since the very start on 17 May, 1894, when the first 10 physical education teachers came from Switzerland and laid the beginning of organized sport in the country, the address reads.
Ivan Cheparinov scored a victory in the eighth round of the European Individual Chess Championship in Petrovac, Montenegro. The Bulgarian grandmaster played with the black pieces and secured a brilliant win over Ukrainian Ihor Samunenkov. The..
The Bulgarian national team won a 1-0 victory versus Luxembourg in the penultimate match from the C3 group of the Nations League. The Bulgarian footballers performed up to par in the first half, but the second half was a challenge for them,..
Bulgarian open-water swimmer Tsanko Tsankov swam one of the most difficult swimming marathons in the Ocean's Seven, his manager Nikolai Iliev reported. Tsankov swam the longest of the seven marathons, from the Molokai Island to Oahu in the..
Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov has been nominated for the World Tennis Association’s Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award. He will be vying against Carlos..
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