Tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova has been selected Sportsperson of the Year of Bulgaria for 2020 for her comeback to tennis in the autumn of this year after a 3-year absence.
In the very first tournament she took part in, the US Open, Pironkova gave a superb performance, qualifying for the quarterfinals. A little later she also reached round three of the French Open.
During the vote in the 63rd edition of the most prestigious awards in Bulgarian sports, 82 journalists from 40 different media outlets gave Pironkova 732 points. She is followed by wrestler Edmond Nazaryan with 525 points and Kubrat Pulev with 259 points, BTA reports.
The rowing canal in Plovdiv is hosting two world championships in canoe-kayak, the organizers have announced . From 12 to 14 July more than 300 veterans from 37 countries will be taking part in the first championship, and then from 17 to 21 July the..
In Razgrad, Ludogorets won 3:1 against Dinamo Batumi in its first match of the first qualifying round of the Champions League. Bernard Tekpetey, Rick Jhonatan and Aslak Fonn Witry scored the goals for the Bulgarian champion and..
“These 2010 cms. prove that there is no limit to human capabilities, and disprove pessimists that some athletic records will be eternal,” Bulgarian Olympic Committee chair Stefka Kostadinova said in a comment on the breaking of the women’s high jump..
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We are just a few days away from the start of the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games. For the third time in modern history, and exactly a century after it last..
Bulgarian football champions Ludogorets won 2-0 against Belarusian Dinamo Minsk in a match of the second preliminary round of the..
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