Bulgaria’s best tennis player Grigor Dimitrov was voted Balkan Athlete of 2017 in the traditional survey of the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency. Dimitrov is the first Bulgarian tennis player who won that award. Grigor Dimitrov earned 62 points in the survey after climbing to the 3rd position in the ATP tennis rankings and winning four titles, including the Cincinnati Masters and the ATP World Tour Finals in London. The twenty six-year-old Bulgarian placed ahead of world No 1 female tennis player Simona Halep (Romania) who earned 60 points. Athlete Ramil Guliyev (Turkey) who won the 200 m world championship title placed 3rd in the ranking with 49 points. Grigor Dimitrov is the first Bulgarian athlete winning the prize after Stanka Zlateva (wrestling) in 2010.
Snowboarder Malena Zamfirova, who recently won the award for best young athlete in Europe, has received yet another international recognition, BGNES reports. With the votes of alpine snowboard fans from all over the world, the..
The Bulgarian crew of the yacht "Ivana & Alex" won the title in the IRC2 division at the Bonifacio IRC European Championship 2025 in Corsica, held between October 7 and 12. This is Bulgaria’s first European title and a historic achievement for..
Bulgaria lost 0–4 to European football champion Spain in a World Cup qualifier of Group “E”. Mikel Merino scored twice for Spain. Atanas Chernev scored an own goal 11 minutes before the end of the match. In stoppage time, Mikel Oyarzabal sealed the..
The Bulgarian national football team won 2–1 against Georgia in the final match of the World Cup qualifiers in Group E. Georgi Rusev opened the score..
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