Bulgaria's young football star Martin Petrov was ranked seventh among Germany's top ten footballers. The Bulgarian national who at present plays for the German team of Wolfsburg took part in the ranking of the German Kicker magazine that appointed the foo
Stilian Petrov, captain of the national team and Scotland's Celtic-player, was named Bulgaria's 2003 Best Footballer. Petrov gained 245 in an enquiry carried out among 139 Bulgarian sports journalists.
Top Bulgarian gymnast Jordan Jovtchev, who has reached twice the world championship height, swept the award of Best Sportsman of 2003. This is his second triumph in the annual media voting for best performance in Bulgarian sports.
Bulgaria's Mariya Grozdeva swept the gold medal at 10m pistol in the second day of the international shooting tournament taking place in Serbia's capital Belgrade. Grozdeva, Olympic champion from Sydney 2002, garnered a total of 481,9 points.
"This is certainly a great opportunity for Hristo. He knows what it takes to be successful at Barcelona and can be a valuable resource for their players and coaches, the Washington Post cited D.
Bulgaria's football club Levski will face the major UK football giant Liverpool in a match for the 3rd round of the UEFA Cup.
Six-times Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher together with the Italian referee Pierluigi Collina drew the European qualifying groups and sent Bulgaria in 8th group for the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006. Over 3,500 special guests witnessed the Pr
Bulgaria's best gymnast Jordan Jovtchev was declared World's Best Gymnast for 2003 by the International Gymnastics Federation.
Uncertainty surrounds the immigration of Bulgarian weightlifter Galabin Boevski to Australia following the drugs scandal at the World Weightlifting Championship in Vancouver, Canada, Sydney Morning Herald wrote in its Tuesday edition. Boevski was expecti
Bulgaria's basketball champion Lukoil Academic won Tuesday a thrilling 93-91 victory over Spanish heavyweight Real Madrid, in a game played at the Universiada Hall in Sofia. The Bulgarians, whose efforts to outplay Real Madrid seemed rather inefficient i
Footballers at Bulgaria's national team will face those of Italy, Denmark and Sweden in the European Championship 2004 finals. Many of the Bulgarian football experts were rather discouraged by the news, as the other three countries in the group are seen
Bulgaria's top figure skating couple, Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski, landed gold medal at the NHK Trophy International Figure Skating Competition in Asahikawa, Northern Japan, on Saturday.
Bulgaria's football club Levski qualified for the 3rd round of UEFA cup after it came to a 0-0 draw with Slavia (Prague) in Sofia on Thursday. The previous game between the two teams ended 2-2.
The Bulgarian weightlifters team that returned Tuesday from Vancouver, Canada were welcomed by Bulgarian journalists and officials at a special press conference in Sofia on Wednesday. At the World Weightlifting Championship in Canada, the Bulgarians won
Bulgarian weightlifter Milen Dobrev landed a gold medal at the World Championship in Vancouver, Canada, in men's 94 kg category. Meanwhile, Slaveyka Ruzhkina came out third in the 75 kg women's category.
Bulgaria's national football team came to a 1-0 victory over Korea's in a friendly match on Tuesday. The only goal in the game was scored by Vladimir Manchev some 20 minutes after it started.
The Executive Committee of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) turned down Bulgaria's appeal for an extraordinary meeting of the Arbitration Commission in connection to the doping scandal that left the three top Bulgarian weightlifters out of
A total of 50,000 spectators will visit the control football game between South Korea and Bulgaria on Tuesday, Atanas Karaivanov, representative of the Bulgarian Football Union said. South Korea expects a high interest in the game in Seoul, which will st
Bulgaria's top weightlifter and Olympic gold medal winner Galabin Boevski was deprived of sport rights for life while the other Bulgarians Zlatan Vanev and Georgi Markov are banned from competitions for a 2 years because of tampering with their doping tes
Bulgaria's three top weightlifters Galabin Boevski, Zlatan Vanev and Georgi Markov have been disqualified from the World Weightlifting Championship in Vancouver due to doubts that they might have used doping. Medical tests made about a month ago seem to
The player of the Bulgarian national basketball team Georgi Mladenov was stabbed Saturday night following a match from the country's basketball championship.
UN Happiness Report: Bulgaria's Astonishing Leap in Rankings
Bulgaria: 3 Regions With Lowest Life Expectancy - EU Report 2022
