Bulgarian open water swimming star Petar Stoychev showed an outstanding performance and broke the record for the Triple Crown. It includes crossing the English Channel, swimming around Manhattan Island and crossing the Catalina Channel in Southern California. The Bulgarian swam the final distance of 32.3 km. for 8h42m on Monday. He finished in the Triple Crown with a total time of 22h8m 46s, beating the previous best time by 2h29m. It belonged of Marcia Cleveland from the US.
In addition to the English Channel and Catalina, Stoychev has already crossed the Strait of Gibraltar, Cook Strait and Molokai Channel. To complete the prestigious Oceans Seven marathon, the Bulgarian has to swim across the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland and the Tsugaru Strait in Japan.
Ocean rower Stefan Ivanov is setting out on a voyage with a rowing boat across the Arctic Ocean, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reports. In 2023, he took part in another expedition, setting 8 Guinness records in the Southern Ocean, after..
Bulgaria’s top female tennis player Viktoriya Tomova has reached the top rankings of her career – 63 rd place in the WTA rankings with 1,035 points. Tomova’s best achievement so far was the 64 th position from 5 February this year. In recent..
Bulgaria's women's national volleyball team scored a dramatic victory in its last match in the Women's Volleyball Nations League . The Bulgarian team beat the Dominican Republic 3:2 games (24:26, 25:23, 25:22, 24:26, 15:13) in a Group 5 match at the..
The current European champion Stiliana Nikolova has qualified for all four apparatus finals at the Pharaohs Cup 2024 international rhythmic..
The date is November 17, 1993. It is the last minute of the match between Bulgaria and France at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, which should..
The 53rd anniversary of the tragic death of the legendary Levski and national team players Georgi Asparuhov "Gundi" and Nikola Kotkov will be honored..
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