Petar Stoychev achieved one more outstanding success in his sporting career, winning the first ever swimming marathon in Antarctica on Sunday.
Fifteen swimmers from nine countries took part in this incredibly tough 1,000-metre race in the icy waters of the Antarctic, with air temperature at around 2 degrees C below zero, and temperature of the water – 0.8 degrees C below zero.
Stoychev reached the finish one minute ahead of the other swimmers, covering the distance in 11:08:38 minutes. Second came the fastest woman swimmer in icy waters Victoria Mori of Argentina, who clocked 12:09:31 minutes, and third, 30 seconds behind Mori – Diego Lopez of Spain.
Tervel Zamfirov won the world title in parallel slalom at the FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships in Poland. Yesterday, the 20-year-old Bulgarian became world champion in the parallel giant slalom. As in yesterday’s final, Zamfirov managed to defeat..
Tervel Zamfirov became junior world champion in the parallel giant slalom at the FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships in Poland. This is the second medal for Bulgaria today after the silver won by his sister Malena. In the final of the..
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 15-year old is taking part in a world cup contest after clocking 13 th in the qualifications...
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