Basketball player Aleksandar Vezenkov has won the Sportsperson of the Year Award for 2023. This is the second consecutive award for the best Bulgarian basketball player, who now plays for the team of Sacramento Kings in NBA. Vezenkov collected 1009 points to top the 66th edition of the traditional poll conducted by the Bulgarian Association of Sports Journalists. He topped the fan vote as well.
The Bulgarian national women's chess team won the first place among the teams with 940 points. In the category for Sportsperson with Disabilities of Bulgaria for 2023, winner became athlete Hristiyan Stoyanov with 430 points. The winner of the 40th edition of the poll for "Coach of the Year" in Bulgaria, organized by Trud Daily, is Nikolay Vakareev, personal trainer of swimmer Petar Mitsin.
Bulgarian gymnasts Dimitar Dimitrov and Eddie Penev qualified for the floor final on the first day of the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Baku (Azerbaijan). This is the first competition of the year for Dimitrov, who received a score of 13.366..
Tervel Zamfirov won the world title in parallel slalom at the FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships in Poland. Yesterday, the 20-year-old Bulgarian became world champion in the parallel giant slalom. As in yesterday’s final, Zamfirov managed to defeat..
Tervel Zamfirov became junior world champion in the parallel giant slalom at the FIS Snowboard Junior World Championships in Poland. This is the second medal for Bulgaria today after the silver won by his sister Malena. In the final of the..
The second round of the European Women's Chess Championship on the island of Rhodes proved to be extremely successful for the..
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