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Outstanding Bulgarian athletes will be awarded with the President's Badge of Honour 

Maria Grozdeva
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On Thursday, 17 November, at 10.30 a.m., at a ceremony at the Presidential Palace, Head of State Rumen Radev will award the Presidential Badge of Honour to prominent Bulgarian athletes for outstanding achievements in the development of Bulgarian sport. Olympic wrestling champions Boyan Radev and Petar Kirov, Olympic shooting champion Maria Grozdeva, Olympic vice-champion in gymnastics Krasimir Dunev, volleyball legend Tsvetana Bozhurina and Secretary General of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee Belcho Goranov will be honoured. 
This year each of the honorees celebrates their round anniversary



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