The participation of Bulgarian tennis player Tsvetana Pironkova at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro has ended. In the first round of the Olympic tennis tournament Pironkova lost 6:1, 4:6, 2:6 against German Laura Siegemund. 28-year-old Prironkova won easily the first set and led 2:1 in the second, but Siegemund managed to win. In the decisive third part Pironkova began to catch up, but after 2:2 she lost four consecutive games and match.
The famous athlete Stefka Kostadinova was chosen by the Bulgarian Olympic Committee to represent Bulgaria at the photo exhibition opened at the European Parliament in Brussels under the motto "Women and Sport in the EU". Stefka Kostadinova..
Karlos Nassar has won another prestigious award at the World Weightlifting Championships in Bahrain. He was declared the No. 1 weightlifter among all 232 participants in the competition in Manama. Nassar's world record of 405 kg in..
Denislava Glushkova won the title at the clay court tennis tournament in Antalya, with a total prize fund of USD 15,000. The 6th-seeded Bulgarian defeated the top-seeded Natalija Senic (Serbia) 6-4, 6-0, claiming the title with five consecutive..
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