Blagovest Stoyanov
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Olympic medal record | |||
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Bronze | 1992 Barcelona | C-2 500 m |
Blagovest Stoyanov (Bulgarian: Благовест Стоянов, born March 21, 1968 in Asenovgrad) is a retired Bulgarian canoer who won an Olympic bronze medal in the C-2 500 m event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona with partner Martin Marinov.
Four years later at the Atlanta Olympics Marinov and Stoyanov reached both C-2 finals, finishing fourth (1000m) and fifth (500m).
Stoyanov's best world championship results also came in the C-2 with Marinov. In 1994 in Mexico City they won the C-2 500m bronze medal. The following year, in Duisburg, they were again bronze medallists, this time in the C-2 200m.