site.btaHigh Jumper Tihomir Ivanov Ends Olympic Medalless Day for Bulgaria

Bulgaria's Tihomir Ivanov cleared the bar at 2.27 m to place eighth in the Olympic men's high jump final here on Saturday.

That was the 30 year old's personal best for the season and his third best Olympic result.

Ivanov was the last representative of Bulgaria to compete in the Paris 2024 Olympics. This country did not win any medals on the penultimate day of the Games. The rhythmic gymnastics team of Magdalina Minevska, Sofia Ivanova, Kamelia Petrova, Rachel Stoyanov and Margarita Vasileva were ranked fourth in the group all-around final, narrowly missing a place on the podium. Yoana Georgieva failed to qualify for the final C in the women's kayak single 500m event, placing 28th. In women's freestyle wrestling, Bilyana Dudova was outpointed by world champion Orkhon Purevdorj in the 62 kg class losers final, while Yuliana Yaneva did not reach the quarterfinals of the 76 kg event.

The 46 Bulgarian athletes who competed in 15 types of sports in Paris will thus take home a total of seven Olympic medals: three gold, one silver, and three bronze.

The Olympic champions are wrestlers Semen Novikov in the men's 87 kg Greco-Roman and Magomed Ramazanov in the men's 86 kg freestyle, plus weightlifter Karlos Nasar in the men's 89 kg.

In rhythmic gymnastics, Boryana Kaleyn placed second in the individual all-around.

Three third places were also achieved, by Kimia Alizadeh in the women's 57 kg taekwondo, weightlifter Bozhdar Andreev in the men's 73 kg, and boxer Javier Ibanez in the men's 57 kg.