The Ministry of Youth and Sports has approved funding amounting to EUR 21.5 million for the activities, during the current year, of federations administering Olympic sports, with each headquarters will receiving increased state financing as compared to 2023. The increase in funding for federations under the Olympic training programme is connected with the upcoming participation of Bulgarian athletes in the Olympic Games in Paris, and the possibility of earning more Olympic quotas.
According to the changes, the Olympic training programme will be provided 27% more in monthly financing for the training of athletes who have earned quotas. A 15% increase in pay for coaches and their teams has been set down in the amended accompanying staffing programme.
Nineteen-year-old Tervel Zamfirov achieved his highest ever World Cup finish in alpine snowboarding with a career-best fourth place in the parallel giant slalom in Bansko. Fellow Bulgarian Radoslav Yankov was stopped in the quarter-finals by none..
Radoslav Yankov and Tervel Zamfirov qualified for the first parallel giant slalom of the World Cup in Bansko. Yankov secured second place with a time of 1 minute 13.62 seconds, while Zamfirov finished seventh, achieving a personal best and improving..
A total of 135 competitors from 19 countries will compete in the VISA FIS Snowboard Alpine World Cup in Bansko this weekend, January 18-19. Bulgaria will be represented by its top snowboarders, led by Radoslav Yankov, t he country's only FIS..
Competing against 180 athletes from 36 countries, Rahim Rashaida achieved a historic victory for Bulgarian fencing. Rashaida, who trains at the National..
Veteran Slovenian snowboarder Žan Košir won the men's parallel giant slalom in Val St. Come, Canada , after defeating Austrian Benjamin Karl in the final...
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