Bulgaria’s female wrestler Yuliana Yaneva earned a bronze medal at the 2021 European Wrestling Championships in Warsaw in the 72 kilogram category competition. Yaneva lost the final to Alla Belinska (Ukraine).
Evelina Nikolova claimed a bronze medal in the 57 kilogram category competition. Nikolova scored two victories versus Mathilde Riviere (France) and Svetlana Lipatova of Russia who earned gold medal at the 2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup in Belgrade.
So far, Bulgaria has earned five medals at this year’s European Wrestling Championships. Earlier, Bilyana Dudova claimed the gold medal in the 59 kg category. Miglena Selishka (50 kg category) and Miroslav Kirov (74 kg category) earned silver medals.
Bulgaria’s top basketball player Aleksandar Vezenkov earned his first trophy after his return to the Greek Olympiacos, with his performance contributing to the victory of the team versus its biggest rival Panathinaikos in a match for the supercup of..
Antonio Papazov, Tihomir Barotev and Borislava Ivanova won a bronze medal in the "Trios" category at the 2024 Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships in Pesaro (Italy). The only teams ahead of them were from China and France. With their..
The best Bulgarian tennis player Viktoriya Tomova won the first round of the powerful WTA 1000 tennis tournament in Beijing with a prize fund of nearly 9 million euros. She defeated Lesia Tsurenko from Ukraine 6:3, 6:3. The next opponent of the..
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