Nineteen-year-old Hristo Hristov won two silver medals at the 2021 European Weightlifting Championships in Moscow. The Bulgarian athletes scored a brilliant performance at this year's European Weightlifting Championships and earned 19 medals. This country earned 7 total result medals (three gold, three silver and one bronze). Nadezhda Nguyen, Angel Rusev and Stilyan Grozdev won gold medals, Ivana Petrova, Karlos Nasar and Hristo Hristov earned silver medals and Valentin Genchev won a bronze medal.
This has been Bulgaria’s best performance at European weightlifting championships since the European Weightlifting Championships in Kiev in 2004. Bulgaria has almost certainly earned two male quotas for the Tokyo Olympics this summer.
Competing against 180 athletes from 36 countries, Rahim Rashaida achieved a historic victory for Bulgarian fencing. Rashaida, who trains at the National Sports Academy Fencing Club under coach Dimitar Nikolov, secured first place at the World Junior..
Veteran Slovenian snowboarder Žan Košir won the men's parallel giant slalom in Val St. Come, Canada , after defeating Austrian Benjamin Karl in the final. Third place went to Bulgaria's Radoslav Yankov, who edged out Italy's Daniele Bagozza in the..
Tsanko Tsankov is back on home soil in Burgas after his recent participation in the Gdynia Winter Swimming Cup in Poland. The Bulgarian swimmer won three gold medals in the 1,000m, 200m and 450m freestyle events in the Baltic Sea. In an..
Malena Zamfirova won second place in the parallel giant slalom event of the Snowboard World Cup round in Krynica, Poland. This is the first time the..
Isabella Shinikova, Bulgaria, won the singles title at the Sharm el Sheikh hard court tennis tournament with USD 15,000 in prize money. In the final,..
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