The Legendary Swimming Marathon World Cup winner for 11 consecutive years (2001-2011), World Champion in swimming in ice water in a pool near the Russian city of Murmansk in 2019, and winner in swimming in freezing conditions near the Norwegian..
The 18-year-old Romanian swimmer David Popovici is the winner of the 49th edition of BTA's "Best Athletes of the Balkans" survey for 2022. The only Bulgarian in the top 10 - the basketball player Alexander Vezenkov - was ranked 8th. Popovici won..
Bulgaria's Tsanko Tsankov has won the Strait of Gibraltar swimming marathon. The Bulgarian marathon swimmer covered the distance of 16 km and 750 m from Tarifa (Spain) to Punta Cires (Morocco) in 3 hours, 56 minutes and 3 seconds. A strong final..
T he Strait of Gibraltar S wim ming Crossing has been suspended due to bad weather. Bulgarian swimmer Tsanko Tsankov has also taken part in the channel swim between Spain and Morocco , the website Sortal.bg reported. The competition..
On September 6, Tsanko Tsankov will embark on his next challenge - he will become the first Bulgarian to participate in the crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Africa, part of the Ocean's Seven marathon chain . The start is in..
Alexander Bozhilov won the runner-up title of the World Aquathlon Championship in Šamorín, Slovakia, in the category of juniors under 19 years of age which is a historic achievement for Bulgaria. The competition took place in the format of..
62-year-old Albena Peneva, who has motor impairment due to a brain stroke, swam for two hours without interruption in a pool in Bulgaria's coastal city Burgas . By two minutes, she exceeded the previously announced two hours of continuous swimming of a..
Legendary marathon swimmer Petar Stoychev has added another gold medal to his rich collection. The Bulgarian won the competition from the calendar of the International Ice Swimming Association in the waters of the Arctic Ocean near..
Bulgaria's swimmer Antani Ivanov beat the national swimming record at 100m butterfly and qualified for the semifinals of the European Short Course Championships in Kazan, Russia. Antani stopped the clock at 50.73 seconds and placed among the 16..
Silistra Municipality and Danube Club have organized the traditional swim across the Danube River. Only 24 people took part at this year’s event- the lowest number in the 80-year history of the swimming competition. Nine-year-old Vito Mladenov was..
