Bulgaria at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Bulgaria at the
2000 Summer Olympics
Bulgaria at the; 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	BUL
NOC	Bulgarian Olympic Committee
Website	www.bgolympic.org (in Bulgarian and English)
in Sydney
Competitors	91 in 16 sports
Flag bearer	Ivo Yanakiev
Medals; Ranked 16th	Gold 5 Silver 6 Bronze 2 Total 13
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Bulgaria competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Tanyu Kiryakov	Shooting	Men's 50 metre pistol	19 September
Gold	Galabin Boevski	Weightlifting	Men's 69 kg	20 September
Gold	Mariya Grozdeva	Shooting	Women's 25 metre pistol	22 September
Gold	Tereza Marinova	Athletics	Women's triple jump	24 September
Gold	Armen Nazaryan	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 58 kg	27 September
Silver	Georgi Markov	Weightlifting	Men's 69 kg	20 September
Silver	Rumyana Neykova	Rowing	Women's single sculls	23 September
Silver	Alan Tsagaev	Weightlifting	Men's 105 kg	25 September
Silver	Petar Merkov	Canoeing	Men's K-1 1000 metres	30 September
Silver	Serafim Barzakov	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 63 kg	30 September
Silver	Petar Merkov	Canoeing	Men's K-1 500 metres	1 October
Bronze	Yordan Yovchev	Gymnastics	Men's rings	24 September
Bronze	Yordan Yovchev	Gymnastics	Men's floor	24 September

Athletics

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Iliya Dzhivondov	400 m	48.64	8	—		did not advance
Iliya Dzhivondov	400 m hurdles	54.36	8	—		did not advance
Petko Stefanov	Marathon	—						2:26:24	60
Zhivko Videnov	110 m hurdles	DNF		did not advance
Petko Yankov	100 m	10.63	7	did not advance
Petko Yankov	200 m	20.91	4 q	20.75	6	did not advance

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Nikolay Atanasov	Long jump	7.62	30	did not advance
Petar Dachev	Long jump	8.03	8 q	7.80	11
Rostislav Dimitrov	Triple jump	17.00	8 Q	16.95	9
Ilian Efremov	Pole vault	5.55	22	did not advance
Ivaylo Rusenov	Triple jump	16.40	22	did not advance

Women
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Svetla Dimitrova	100 m hurdles	13.00	4 Q	13.04	6 q	12.95	6	did not advance
Monika Gachevska	200 m	24.16	8	did not advance
Daniela Georgieva	400 m	54.46	6	—		did not advance
Petya Pendareva	100 m	11.30	2 Q	11.36	5	did not advance
Daniela Yordanova	5000 m	15:10.08	5 q NR	—				14:56.95	10

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Mariya Dimitrova	Triple jump	13.87	16	did not advance
Khristina Georgieva	Javelin throw	54.60	28	did not advance
Hristina Kalcheva	High jump	NM		did not advance
Tanya Koleva	Pole vault	NM		did not advance
Tereza Marinova	Triple jump	14.73	3 Q	15.20
Eleonora Miloucheva	High jump	1.94	1 Q	1.90	13
Venelina Veneva	High jump	1.94	9 Q	1.93	9
Aneliya Yordanova	Hammer throw	54.92	26	did not advance

Badminton

Men's Singles

Svetoslav Stoyanov
- Round of 64 — Bye
- Round of 32 — Defeated Rio Suryana of Australia
- Round of 16 — Lost to Xia Xuanze of China
Mihail Popov
- Round of 64 — Bye
- Round of 32 — Lost to Fung Permadi of Chinese Taipei

Men's Doubles

Mihail Popov and Svetoslav Stoyanov
- Round of 32 — Lost to Martin Lundgaard Hansen, Lars Paaske of Denmark

Women's Singles

Nely Boteva
- Round of 64 — Defeated Kellie Lucas of Australia
- Round of 32 — Lost to Chia-Chi Huang of Chinese Taipei

Women's Doubles

Nely Boteva and Diana Koleva
- Round of 32 — Lost to Gao Ling, Qin Yiyuan of China

Boxing

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Yuri Mladenov	Featherweight	Suleimanov (UKR) W 7–4	Aguilera (CUB) L 8–15	did not advance
Dmitry Usagin	Light middleweight	Taylor (USA) L RSC	did not advance
Emil Krastev	Light heavyweight	Ismayilov (AZE) L 9–14	did not advance

Canoeing

Sprint

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Nikolav Bouhalov	C-1 500 m	01:51.996	4 Q	01:52.371	2 Q	02:44.289	9
Nikolav Bouhalov	C-1 1000 m	03:59.092	5 Q	04:05.236	8	did not advance
Peter Merkov	K-1 500 m	01:40.227	1 Q	01:40.008	1 Q	01:58.393
Peter Merkov	K-1 1000 m	03:38.234	3 Q	03:38.217	1 Q	03:34.649
Petar Sibinkitch Milko Kazanov	K-2 500 m	01:33.682	6 Q	01:31.919	2 Q	01:52.725	8
Mariyan Dimitrov Dimitar Ivanov	K-2 1000 m	03:23.646	8	did not advance
Milko Kazanov Iordan Iordanov Petar Merkov Petar Sibinkitch	K-4 1000 m	03:00.634	4 Q	03:01.051	1 Q	02:58.112	5

Equestrianism

Show jumping

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification								Final					Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round 3			Round A		Round B			Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Samantha McIntosh	Royal Discover	Individual	14.25	45	0.00	14.25	21 Q	4.00	18.25	17 Q	17.00	39	did not advance
Guenter Orschel	Excellent		22.25	60	16.00	38.50	65 Q	12.50	50.75	58	did not advance
Rossen Raitchev	Premier Cru		12.50	37	16.00	28.50	52 Q	8.00	36.50	46 Q	12.00	20 Q	8.00	20.00	20	20.00	20
Samantha McIntosh Guenter Orschel Rossen Raitchev	See above	Team	—		32.00	—	13	did not advance								32.00	13

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern Pentathlon

Athlete	Event	Shooting (10 m air pistol)			Fencing (épée one touch)			Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Running (3000 m)			Total points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	MP Points	Time	Rank	MP points	Wins	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP Points	Total points	Final rank
Tzanko Hantov	Men's	169	23	964	9	19	720	2:07.66	8	1224	DNF	23	0	9:54.15	19	1024	3932	23

Rowing

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ivo Yanakiev	Single sculls	7:03.24	2 R	7:09.22	2 SA/B/C	7:03.89	3 FA	6:57.32	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rumyana Neykova	Single sculls	7:36.10	1 SA/B/C	—		7:28.34	1 FA	7:28.15
Viktoriya Dimitrova Margarita Petrova	Lightweight double sculls	7:22.51	5 R	7:18.90	3 SA/B/C	7:22.47	6 FB	7:17.64	12

Sailing

Only one woman competed for Bulgaria in the Sailing competition at the 2000 Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Net points	Final rank
Irina Konstantinova	Mistral	20	25	22	15	25	22	22	23	26	22	22	193	24

Shooting

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Tanyu Kiryakov	Men's 10 m air pistol	581	8 Q	676.8	8
Tanyu Kiryakov	Men's 50 m pistol	570	1 Q	660.0
Emil Milev	Men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol	586	4 Q	684.5	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Mariya Grozdeva	Women's 10 m air pistol	367	38	did not advance
Mariya Grozdeva	Women's 25 m pistol	589	2 Q	690.3
Vesela Lecheva	10 m air rifle	391	20	did not advance
Vesela Lecheva	50 m rifle 3 positions	578	11	did not advance
Nonka Matova	10 m air rifle	388	36	did not advance
Nonka Matova	50 m rifle 3 positions	577	14	did not advance
Diana Yorgova	Women's 10 m air pistol	365	42	did not advance
Diana Yorgova	Women's 25 m pistol	572	28	did not advance

Swimming

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ivan Angelov	100 metre backstroke	58.03	39	did not advance
Ivan Angelov	200 metre backstroke	02:07.30	40	did not advance
Simeon Makedonski	100 metre butterfly	55.49	38	did not advance
Georgi Palazov	200 metre butterfly	02:04.40	40	did not advance
Georgi Palazov	400 metre individual medley	04:35.92	40	did not advance
Petar Stoychev	400 metre freestyle	03:59.94	34	did not advance
Petar Stoychev	1500 metre freestyle	15:42.76	30	did not advance
Krasimir Zahov	100 metre breaststroke	01:07.09	58	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ivanka Moralieva	200 metre freestyle	02:07.61	34	did not advance
	400 metre freestyle	04:19.10	30	did not advance
	800 metre freestyle	08:52.61	20	did not advance

Volleyball

Women's Beach Competition

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	First Round	Second Round	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Lina Yanchulova Petia Yanchulova	Women's	Bade – Behar (BRA) L 0 – 1 (3–15)	Kadijk – Schoon-Kadijk (NED) W 1 – 0 (17–15)	Fernández – Larrea (CUB) L 0 – 1 (3-15)	did not advance			17

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Ivan Ivanov	−56 kg	~~130.0~~	2	~~162.5~~	=2	~~292.5~~	DSQ [N 1]
Sevdalin Minchev	−62 kg	~~140.0~~	5	~~177.5~~	1	~~317.5~~	DSQ [N 2]
Galabin Boevski	−69 kg	162.5	2	195.0 WR	1	357.5
Georgi Markov	−69 kg	165.0	1	187.5	=2	352.5
Alan Tsagaev	−105 kg	187.5	=7	235.0 OR	=1	422.5

Women

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Izabela Dragneva	−48 kg	~~85.0~~	1	~~105.0~~	1	~~190.0~~	DSQ [N 3]
Donka Mincheva	−48 kg	AC	DNF	—	—	—	DNF
Daniela Kerkelova	−69 kg	100.0	=5	132.5 OR	=1	232.5	5
Milena Trendafilova	−69 kg	100.0	=5	132.5 OR	=1	232.5	4

Wrestling

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final/BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Armen Nazaryan	-58 kg	Sasamoto (JPN) W 11–0 ^PP	Cash (AUS) W 13–2 ^SP	Gukulov (TKM) W 4-1 ^PP	1 Q	Bye	Yıldız (GER) W 10–0 ^ST	Kim (KOR) W 10–3 ^TO
Ali Mollov	-97 kg	Sudureac (ROU) L 1–6 ^PP	Ljungberg (SWE) L 0–10 ^ST	—	3	did not advance			19
Sergei Mureico	-130 kg	Karelin (RUS) L 0–3 ^PO	Deák-Bárdos (HUN) L 0–4 ^PA	—	3	did not advance			19

Men's Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final/BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ivan Tsonov	-54 kg	Chuchunov (RUS) L 0–4 ^TO	Zakharuk (UKR) L 0–10 ^ST	—	3	did not advance			19
Serafim Barzakov	-63 kg	Scheibe (GER) W 3–0 ^PO	Bodișteanu (MDA) W 4–1 ^PP	—	1 Q	Ortiz (CUB) W 4–1 ^PP	Talaei (IRI) W 4–0 ^ST	Umakhanov (RUS) L 2–3 ^PP
Petar Kasabov	-69 kg	Sánchez (CUB) L 0–4 ^PO	Dąbrowski (POL) W 3-2 ^PP	—	2	did not advance			15
Plamen Paskalev	-76 kg	Saitiev (RUS) L 2–8 ^PP	Slay (USA) L 1–4 ^PP	—	3	did not advance			16
Krasimir Kochev	-130 kg	Rodríguez (CUB) L 0–3 ^PO	Sumyaabazar (MGL) W 3–1 ^PP	—	2	did not advance			12

Notes

Ivan Ivanov originally won the silver medal but was disqualified after he tested positive for furosemide.[1]
Sevdalin Minchev originally won the bronze medal but was disqualified after he tested positive for furosemide.[2]
Izabela Dragneva originally won the gold medal but was disqualified after she tested positive for furosemide.[2]

References

Abrahamson, Alan (20 September 2000). "Two Athletes Sent Home After Testing Positive for Drugs". Los Angeles Times.
Anthony, Ted (5 August 2008). "Bulgarian Lifters Disqualified, U.S. Gets Gold". ABC News.

Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
International Olympic Committee Web Site
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[Ivanov_Doping-2] Ivan Ivanov originally won the silver medal but was disqualified after he tested positive for furosemide.[1]

[Sevdalin_Doping-4] Sevdalin Minchev originally won the bronze medal but was disqualified after he tested positive for furosemide.[2]

[Dragneva_Doping-5] Izabela Dragneva originally won the gold medal but was disqualified after she tested positive for furosemide.[2]

[1] Abrahamson, Alan (20 September 2000). "Two Athletes Sent Home After Testing Positive for Drugs". Los Angeles Times.

[Disqualified-3] Anthony, Ted (5 August 2008). "Bulgarian Lifters Disqualified, U.S. Gets Gold". ABC News.

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