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8 Bulgarian athletes will participate in Day 4 of competition at the Olympics

Boxer Stanimira Petrova
Photo: BGNES

The Summer Olympic Games and the Bulgarian participation in them continue in Paris. On 30 July, Tuesday, in the women's boxing tournament in the 54 kg category, Stanimira Petrova will compete against Huang Hsiao-wen from Taipei in the 8th round.

Kristian Vasilev will participate in the quarterfinals of the skiff in the Olympic rowing tournament. In the same discipline and again in the quarterfinals Bulgaria's Desislava Angelova will also compete in the women's event.
In the singles badminton tournament, Kaloyana Nalbantova will play versus Xuefei Qiof France. 

In the women's badminton doubles, sisters Gabriela and Stefanie Stoeva will play against Americans Annie Xu and Kerry Xu in their third group stage match. 
Lyubomir Epitropov - 200m breaststroke and Petar Mitsin - 200m butterfly will also take part in the heats for the finals.



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