Beijing 2008

At the XX²X Summer Olympic Games (8-24 of August) Bulgaria was represented by 70 Athletes, winning 5 Medals – Gold by Rumjana Neikova  (Rowing), Silver by Stanka Zlateva, (wrestling) and Bronze for Javor Janakiev, Radoslav Velikov and Kiril Terziev.

It wa the coutry’s poorest performance since 50 years, as in Melbourne’1956 Bulgaria won 5 medals with 1 Gold, 3 Silver and 1 Bronze, but with 47 Athletes, representing the country.
Bulgaria took the 47th place in the medals classification at the last Olympics