Two weeks after the marathon swim in the Danube, when Tsanko Tsankov swam a distance of 120 kms. nonstop, the achievement was officially ratified by the World Record Association. The swimmer received an authenticity certificate from the..
“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..
Bozhidar Andreev won the title in the 73 kg. Olympic category at the European Weightlifting Championships in Sofia. The 27-year old weightlifter achieved 348 kgs. in the bout and in the push-up, and, for the second time after 2019 in Batumi,..
Musician Iskren Petsov turns 60 today . He is mostly known as a singer, but he has written the music, lyrics and arrangements of more than 70 songs. The number of concerts and tours he has participated in is countless. Over 1500 are just his stage..
On this day 35 years ago (30 August, 1987), Stefka Kostadinova set a world high jump record at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, clearing 209 cms., thus also breaking her own record by 1 cm. The record set by Kostadinova, then 22, remains unbroken to..
Bulgarian-born Mirela Rahneva, who competes for Canada, set a record in skeleton racing at the Olympics in Beijing, clocking 1:02 . 03 in the first leg. In the second leg she made several errors and finished 18 th , which puts her in 9 th..
Bulgarian swimmer Lyubomir Epitropov qualified for the 200 metres breaststroke semifinals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, setting a new national record. He clocked 2:09.68 minutes, for the first time dropping below 2:10 minutes in the event, and..
437 new Covid-19 cases have been registered in Bulgaria over the past 24 hours, a new grim record since the start of the pandemic, and 1 more than the record number of new cases registered during the previous 24 hours. Out of the total of 4,541..
Last year Bulgaria’s athlete Tsanko Tsankov swam the 44.7 kilometer-long distance from Cape Emine to Cape Maslen Nos and became the only athlete who swam the water section of Burgas Bay. Now, he has another dream- to overcome a test beyond human..
