Sport shooter Antoaneta Kostadinova won the first medal for Bulgaria at the Tokyo Olympics grabbing the silver in the women’s 10 meter air pistol event. This is the first medal for Kostadinova during her third participation in Olympic Games.
The other Bulgarian competitor in the event – two-times Olympic champion Maria Grozdeva – failed to qualify for the finals. After the event Grozdeva officially confirmed that the Games in Tokyo will be the last competition in her career.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first Bulgarian expedition to climb Everest, the world's highest peak. On 20 April 1984, 41-year-old Hristo Prodanov climbed the most difficult western slope without an oxygen mask . He reached the..
Petar Stoychev has become the first Bulgarian to swim the Strait of Gibraltar under the Oceans Seven rules without a wetsuit. Stoychev covered the distance from the European coast in the Spanish town of Tarifa to the African coast in Morocco in..
Bulgaria's Viktorio Iliev has become European boxing champion at the EUBC Youth Men and Women European Boxing Championships in Poreč, Croatia, in the under-60 kg category. In the final, he defeated Bohdan Cheldyk from Ukraine. Bulgaria..
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