At the Olympics, the day for Bulgarian athletes started with a victory and losses. In the table tennis qualifiers, Polina Trifonova eliminated Cameroon's Sarah Hanffou with 4: 1 and in the first round of the main draw she will face Sarah de Nutte from Luxembourg.
Judoka Yanislav Gerchev was eliminated in the round of 16 in the category up to 60 kg. The Bulgarian lost with an "ipon" in the overtime of a match against the Taiwanese judoka Yang Yung-wei .
Two-time European badminton champions Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva lost 1: 2 their first match in the Olympics against the representatives of South Korea Kim So-yeong and Kong Hee-yong.
In his debut at the Olympics, gymnast David Huddlestone played with an ankle injury on all six apparatuses, but failed to overcome the qualifications.
“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..
15-year-old Viktor Nikolov finished second in the overall standings at the Sodi W Finals World Karting Championship in Genk, Belgium, becoming the first Bulgarian to achieve such a result. After five rounds, the Bulgarian racer had 186 points,..
Grigor Dimitrov scored a three-set victory (6:3, 6:4, 6:3) against Gaël Monfils from France on his way to the fourth round of Wimbledon. Thus, for the second year in a row, he reaches this phase of the tournament. The Bulgarian..
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..
Bulgaria has been regularly winning medals at the Summer Olympic Games since 1952. The first native athlete to return with bronze from..
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