Ivan Abadjiev
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| Full name | Ivan Nikolov Abadjiev | |||||||||
| Born |
12 February 1932 Novi Pazar, Bulgaria | |||||||||
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||
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| Country |
 Bulgaria | |||||||||
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Ivan Nikolov Abadjiev (Bulgarian: Иван Николов Абаджиев, born 12 February 1932) is a Bulgarian Olympic Weightlifting coach and former weightlifter, winning Bulgaria's first weightlifting medal in 1957.[1] He was from 1968 to 1989 and from 1997 to 2000 head coach of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation. He also spent a stint as the head Coach of the Turkish Weightlifting Federation during the late 1990s. During his career, Abadjiev produced 12 Olympic champions, 57 world champions and 64 European champions.