“The athletes that we send to Rio won’t have many fans apart from us. We are the fans they will rely on. Let us be more positive. Let us give them all the support, love and energy that we are capable of”, Minister of Youth and Sports Krasen Kralev said in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio.For the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro Bulgaria has won 45 quotas in 14 sports and the country’s delegation is lined up with 54 members.
Bulgaria won a silver and a bronze medal on the first day of the European Shooting Championship 10 m in Osijek, Croatia. In the team competition, Antoaneta Kostadinova, Miroslava Mincheva and Adiel Ilieva finished second in the 10 metre air..
Yoana Ilieva won silver at the Heraklion Women's Individual Sabre World Cup. At the end of last year, she won bronze at the Women’s Sabre Grand Prix in France. In January she earned bronze at the 2025 Tunis Women’s Sabre Grand Prix. She also made..
Bulgaria’s top ranked tennis player Grigor Dimitrov defeated Nuno Borges (Portugal) in the second-round of the ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells. Dimitrov won in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 after 1 hour and 33 minutes of play. The Bulgarian..
Viktoria Radeva and Antoaneta Stefanova secured victories in the seventh round of the European Women's Individual Classical Chess Championship on the..
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