Bulgaria at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Bulgaria at the Olympic Games
Flag of Bulgaria IOC code  BUL NOC Bulgarian Olympic Committee Website www.bgolympic.org (Bulgarian) (English)
At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki
Competitors	63 (54 men, 9 women) in 8 sports
Medals Rank: 40	Gold 0	Silver 0	Bronze 1	Total 1
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Bulgaria competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after having missed the 1948 Summer Olympics. 63 competitors, 54 men and 9 women, took part in 34 events in 8 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
03 ! Bronze	Boris Nikolov	Boxing	Men's Middleweight	August 1

Athletics

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

• Qualification Round (Group A)
  • Defeated Switzerland (69-58)
  • Defeated Cuba (62-56)
• Main Round (Group B)
  • Lost to Soviet Union (46-74)
  • Defeated Mexico (52-44)
  • Defeated Finland (65-64)
• Final Round (Group B)
  • Lost to Argentina (56-100)
  • Lost to Uruguay (54-62)
  • Defeated France (67-58)
• Classification Matches
  • 5th/8th place: Lost to Chile (53-60)
  • 7th/8th place: Defeated France (58-44) → Seventh place

Boxing

Cycling

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

• Petar Georgiev — 5:24:34.0 (→ 46th place)
• Boyan Kotsev — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Ilya Velchev — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Milcho Rosev — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Equestrianism

Football

Gymnastics

Shooting

Six shooters represented Bulgaria in 1952.

25 m pistol

• Georgi Keranov
• Todor Stanchev

50 m pistol

• Stoyan Popov
• Nikolay Khristozov

Trap

• Ivan Ivanov
• Khristo Shopov

References

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database