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Stoyka Krasteva wins second Olympic gold medal for Bulgaria

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Bulgaria's Stoyka Krasteva won the Olympic title at the Olympic boxing tournament, in the flyweight category up to 51 kg in Tokyo. The European champion from Sofia 2018 and two-time world runner-up Stoyka Krasteva defeated with full unanimous judgment (5:0) the Turkish Buse Naz Cakiroglu, placed number 1 in the scheme and the current European champion and world runner-up. 

In the debut final for a Bulgarian boxer at the Women's Boxing Olympics, the 35-year-old Krasteva showed a more effective game and definitely won the match.

She became Bulgaria's fifth Olympic boxing champion. In the first final for a Bulgarian representative in this sport, Daniel Petrov won the previous title for Bulgaria in Atlanta 1996.

With this medal, a day before the end of the Games in Tokyo, the Bulgarian athletes have already won five medals: the gold medal of Ivet Goranova in the discipline of kumite karate, the silver of the athlete Antoaneta Kostadinova in 10-metre air pistol and the bronze medals of Taybe Yusein and Evelina Nikolova in women's wrestling.



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