Bulgaria at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Bulgaria at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  BUL
NOC Bulgarian Olympic Committee
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At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Competitors
Medals Gold
6		 Silver
10		 Bronze
5		 Total
21
Olympic history (summary)
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Winter Games
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Bulgaria competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Contents

[edit] Medals

Bulgaria finished in ninth position in the final medal rankings, with six gold medals and 21 medals overall.

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • Petar Kirov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-RomanFlyweight

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Yordanka Blagoeva-Dimitrova — Athletics, Women's High Jump
  • Diana Christova-Yorgova — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
  • Mladen Kutchev — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight
  • Atanas Shopov — Weightlifting, Men's Middle-Heavyweight
  • Aleksandar Kraitchev — Weightlifting, heavyweight
  • Osman Duraliev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Super Heavyweight
  • Ognian Nikolov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light-Flyweight
  • Stoyan Apostolov — Wrestling, Greco-Roman Lightweight
  • Aleksandr Tomov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Ivanka Mikailova Christova-Todorova — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
  • Fedia Damianov & Ivan Burtchin — Canoe / Kayak, Men's Flatwater C-2 1000m (canoe double)
  • Ivan Krastev — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Featherweight
  • Stefan Angelov — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light-Flyweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

Men's 5000 metres

  • Mikhail Jelev
  • Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's High Jump

  • Petar Bogdanov
  • Qualification Round — 2.12m (→ did not advance)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • Nayden Stanchev
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Defeated John Opio (UGA), 3:2
  • Third Round — Lost to Wiesław Rudkowski (POL), 0:5

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

  • Atanas Suvandzhiev

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

  • Dimo Angelov
  • Final — 1:07.55 (→ 6th place)

[edit] Modern pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Georgi Stoyanov — 4695 points (→ 26th place)
  • Velko Bratanov — 4339 points (→ 50th place)
  • Angel Pepeliankov — 3971 points (→ 57th place)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Stoyanov, Bratanov, and Pepeliankov — 12957 points (→ 16th place)

[edit] Rowing

Men's Single Sculls

  • Yordan Valtchev
  • Heat — 7:50.29
  • Semi Finals — 8:17.64
  • B-Final — 7:59.55 (→ 8th place)

Men's Coxed Pairs

  • Dimitar Valov, Dimitar Yanakiev and Nenko Dobrev
  • Heat — 8:01.12
  • Repechage — 8:10.94
  • Semi Finals — 8:20.21
  • B-Final — 8:01.86 (→ 10th place)

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Defeated South Korea (3-1)
  • Defeated Czechoslovakia (3-2)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (1-3)
  • Defeated Poland (3-2)
  • Defeated Tunisia (3-0)
  • Semifinals
  • Lost to Japan (2-3)
  • Bronze Medal Match
  • Lost to Soviet Union (0-3) → Fourth place
  • Team Roster

[edit] Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle

  • Yulian Roussev
  • Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

  • Yulian Roussev
  • Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)

[edit] Water Polo

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group C)
  • Lost to Italy (5-8)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (2-7)
  • Defeated Japan (7-4)
  • Lost to Spain (4-6)
  • Final Round (Group II)
  • Lost to the Netherlands (2-5)
  • Lost to Romania (3-4)
  • Drew with Australia (4-4)
  • Drew with Cuba (4-4) → 11th place
  • Team Roster
  • Bisser Naoumov
  • Ivan Kovatchev
  • Alexander Chpitzer
  • Toma Tomov
  • Plamen Brankov
  • Mladen Khristov
  • Nedeltcho Yordanov
  • Vassil Tomov
  • Andrei Konstantinov
  • Matei Popov
  • Lubomir Rountov