Jordan Jovtchev

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Medal record
Competitor for  Bulgaria
Artistic Gymnastics
Olympic Games
Silver	2004 Athens	Rings
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Floor exercise
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Rings
Bronze	2004 Athens	Floor exercise
World Championships
Gold	2001 Ghent	Floor
Gold	2001 Ghent	Rings
Gold	2003 Anaheim	Floor
Gold	2003 Anaheim	Rings
Silver	1996 San Juan	Rings
Silver	2002 Debrecen	Floor
Silver	2002 Debrecen	Rings
Silver	2006 Aarhus	Rings
Bronze	1995 Sabae	Rings
Bronze	1999 Tianjin	All Around
Bronze	2001 Ghent	All Around
Bronze	2007 Stuttgart	Rings
European Championships
Gold	2002 Patras	Rings
Silver	2002 Patras	All Around
Silver	2002 Patras	Floor
Silver	2004 Ljubljana	Floor
Silver	2006 Volos	Rings
Silver	2007 Amsterdam	Rings

Jordan Jovtchev (Bulgarian: Йордан Йовчев) (born February 24, 1973 in Plovdiv) is a Bulgarian gymnast. He lives and trains in Texas, United States.

He won silver in the men's rings at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens with a score of 9.850. In the same Olympic Games Jovtchev won bronze in the men's floor exercise with a score of 9.775. In 2000 Olympics in Sydney he won the bronze on both floor exercise and still rings with 9.787 and 9.762 respectively. He also won two World Championship Bronze medals in the all around (1999, 2001).

He has competed in many SASUKE tournaments, and once reached the final stage in the 8th competition, but he did not pass the spider climb in the first 15 seconds, so the walls spread apart and he fell. He is the only competitor to not pass the spider climb in this version of the final stage, other than Shingo Yamamoto who did not complete it due to injury, but his early failure could be attributed to the heavy rain during the entire competition. Since then he has not passed the third stage.