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 history in Bulgarian women’s fencing by winning the Plovdiv Women's Individual Sabre World Cup in January.
At the competition in Greece, the Bulgarian fencer proved her class again, just falling short of winning the gold. In the final, she was defeated 12-15 by two-time world champion Misaki Emura from Japan.
Thanks to her silver medal, Yoana Ilieva, who is ranked fifth in the world, will move up to a higher position in the rankings.
Isabella Shinikova, Bulgaria, won the singles title at the Sharm el Sheikh hard court tennis tournament with USD 15,000 in prize money. In the final, the No.4 seeded player defeated Chenting Zhu, China by 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. This is the 10 th..
Vesela Lecheva is running for chair of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee (BOC), her press service informed. The general election meeting of the headquarters is scheduled for March 19 in Sofia. Lecheva, a two-time Olympic silver medalist and..
Olympic, world and European weightlifting champion Кarlos Nassar has been named Bulgaria's Athlete of the Year for 2024. Olympic champion Karlos Nasar: My limit is still very far 137 sports journalists participated in the 67th Athlete of the..
Bulgaria’s top ranked tennis player Grigor Dimitrov defeated Nuno Borges (Portugal) in the second-round of the ATP Masters 1000 Indian Wells...
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,..
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