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Stefka Kostadinova (second from L) at the awarding of Yaroslava Mahuchikh (C) at the European championship in Rome

Stefka Kostadinova believes the world women’s high jump record could once again be Bulgarian

“These 2010 cms. prove that there is no limit to human capabilities, and disprove pessimists that some athletic records will be eternal,” Bulgarian Olympic Committee chair Stefka Kostadinova said in a comment on the breaking of the women’s high jump..

08.07.24 08:41 |
Stefka Kostadinova, Rome, 30 August, 1987

35 years since Stefka Kostadinova set world high jump record, unbroken to this day

On this day 35 years ago (30 August, 1987), Stefka Kostadinova set a world high jump record at the Olympic Stadium in Rome, clearing 209 cms., thus also breaking her own record by 1 cm.  The record set by Kostadinova, then 22, remains unbroken to..

30.08.22 07:45 |

Competitors in seven sports represent Bulgaria at the Winter Olympics

Bulgaria is going to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics with its smallest delegation since the Sarajevo Games in 1984. Sixteen athletes in seven sports will compete and try to show their best performance, and why not win a medal...

01.02.22 18:49 |

Most foreigners know where Stefka Kostadinova set her still-standing world record

On the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the first broadcasts of the Bulgarian National Radio abroad, "Radio Bulgaria" launched a quiz with questions from the spheres of Bulgarian culture, history, tourism, sports and music. Last time we asked..

21.09.21 12:54 |

25 years since Olympic title of Bulgarian queen of high jump

It has been a quarter of a century since today’s President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee, Stefka Kostadinova, added the Olympic gold to her collection of medals. The events on August 3, 1996, which took place on a hot evening in front..

03.08.21 15:42 |

42 athletes compete for Bulgaria’s glory at the Olympic Games

Today, elite athletes from all over the world will fly the national flags of their homeland to show the indomitability of the Olympic spirit. Although postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will finally take..

23.07.21 13:05 |
Stefka Kostadinova

Stefka Kostadinova to sue a Swedish journalist over doping allegations

Stefka Kostadinova who holds the women’s high jump world record  threatened to sue a Swedish journalist. In a TV show, Patrick Ekwall claims that Kostadinova used doping to set the world record in 1987. "His fury is caused by the world high..

17.05.21 13:06 |
Stefka Kostadinova's section in the museum

Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova featured in Museum of World Athletics

Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova has been given a special section in the first 3D Museum of World Athletics launched by the World Athletics Association .  Kostadinova, who is a world champion in the high jump discipline and currently the president of..

16.03.21 13:41 |

Stefka Kostadinova: Decision to postpone the Olympics is right

Chair of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee and world record holder in high jump, Stefka Kostadinova, has given courage to all Bulgarians and urged them to be patient and to obey the instructions for protection against COVID-19. In an interview with..

31.03.20 16:24 |
Photo: courtesy of the Embassy of Switzerland to Sofia

New hopes for Bulgarian sports in Olympic year 2020

The New Year always comes with hopes and wishes for health, happiness and success, but in the sphere of sports 2020 is of particular importance because it is an Olympic year. Preparations for the Summer Olympics, which start in Japan at the..

31.12.19 13:14 |
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