Kubrat Pulev is the winner in a match for the WBA Intercontinental Heavyweight title after his rival Samuel Peter, the Nigerian nightmare, gave up in the third round. This way the Bulgarian professional boxer won with a technical knockout. The Bulgarian boxer entered Sofia’s Armeets Arena under the sound of 100 low pitched Rhodope bagpipes and was hailed by the 15,000-strong audience. With this success Kubrat Pulev has become mandatory challenger of the world title of the International Boxing Federation (IBF), where Anthony Joshua is currently No. 1.
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..
The Bulgarian female chess players finished in 10th place in the final ranking of the 4th Chess Olympiad, which was held in Budapest, Hungary. On the last day of the competition, Bulgaria beat Italy 3.5 to 0.5. Antoineta Stefanova, Nurgyul Salimova..
This is the tenth year that Bulgaria is taking part in the European Week of Sport #BeActive . From 23 to 30 September, the Ministry of Youth and Sports is organising a series of events to promote active lifestyles, increase physical activity and..
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