Stiliana Nikolova won a bronze medal at the individual all-around final at the 39th FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Sofia. The seventeen-year-old athlete claimed the first world individual all-around medal for Bulgaria since 2001, when Simona Peycheva won the silver in Madrid.
Earlier, Nikolova claimed three silver medals in the apparatus finals, at hoop, ribbon and clubs.
Boryana Kaleyn, who was among the favourites for a gold medal at the 39th FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Sofia had to pull out of the competition due to an illness.
Sofia Raffaeli won the gold medal for Italy. The all-around silver went to Darja Varfolomeev of Germany. Sofia Raffaeli, Darja Varfolomeev and Stiliana Nikolova earned quotas for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Bulgaria's first competitor at the Olympic Games in Paris, Kristian Vassilev, qualified for the 1/4 final in skiff after finishing second in his series with a time of 6:56.63 minutes. The winner was Sverri Nielsen from Denmark in 6:53.50 minutes. The..
Bulgaria has been regularly winning medals at the Summer Olympic Games since 1952. The first native athlete to return with bronze from the Helsinki Games was boxer Boris Georgiev. Olympic champion in rowing from Montreal in 1976,..
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 hosted the event, the most important sports forum will once again be held in Paris, the French..
Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva will face the leaders in the world rankings and current world champions Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan..
Bulgaria's Javier Ibanez qualified for the quarterfinals of the Olympic boxing tournament in Paris in the men’s 57 kg category. The Cuban-born No..
Desislava Angelova has qualified for Women’s Single Sculls A Final at the Olympic Games in Paris. She finished third in the first semifinal. Angelova..
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