Bulgaria ended its participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with one silver medal for Mirela Demireva in the high jump, one bronze for the group rhythmic gymnastics team and one bronze medal for Elitsa Yankova, wrestling.
In the medals standing by country, Bulgaria is 65th; this is its seventh worst performance in the history of the games. Since Moscow 1980, when Bulgaria won a record 41 medals, the country has been going from bad to worse, though in Rio, Bulgaria claimed one medal more than in the London Olympics in 2012. The country’s performance at five Olympic Games is worse than in Rio or London – from the Athens Olympics in 1896 to the games in Helsinki in 1952. In Rio, the medal standings by country are topped by USA with a total of 116, of which 43 gold, 37 silver and 38 bronze, followed by Great Britain with 66 medals – 27 gold, 22 silver and 17 bronze, and third is China with 69 medals but with one title less than Britain.
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..
Antonio Papazov, Tihomir Barotev and Borislava Ivanova won a bronze medal in the "Trios" category at the 2024 Aerobic Gymnastics World Championships in..
Bulgaria’s top basketball player Aleksandar Vezenkov earned his first trophy after his return to the Greek Olympiacos, with his performance contributing..
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