Ruzhdi Ruzhdi earned a silver medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Bulgaria’s athlete placed second at the shot put event. Ruzhdi, who won the Olympic gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro in the F55 category, won the silver medal in his fifth attempt (12.23 meters).
The thirty-year-old Ruzhdi is a world record holder, a world champion and European champion in this sports discipline. Bulgaria is represented at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics by 4 athletes.
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..
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