Radoslav Yankov

Radoslav Yankov
Personal information
Full name Radoslav Yankov
Born January 26, 1990 (1990-01-26) (age 27)[1]
Smolyan, Bulgaria[2]
Height 190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 85 kg (187 lb)

Radoslav Yankov (Bulgarian: Радослав Янков; born January 26, 1990) is a snowboarder from Bulgaria. He competed for Bulgaria at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the alpine snowboarding events (parallel and giant slalom).[3][4]

Yankov's first World Cup win came at the Men's Parallel Giant Slalom (PGS) event in Carezza on December 12, 2015.[5]

In the 2016–17 season he made great results in PGS, winning the overall title for that season.

World Cup

Podiums

Season Date Location Event Place
2015–16 12 Dec 2015 Italy Carezza, Italy PGS 1st
8 Jan 2016 Austria Bad Gastein, Austria PSL 1st
23 Jan 2016 Slovenia Rogla, Slovenia PGS 2nd
2016–17 15 Dec 2016 Italy Carezza, Italy PGS 3rd
28 Jan 2017 Slovenia Rogla, Slovenia PGS 2nd
3 Feb 2017 Bulgaria Bansko, Bulgaria PGS 1st
5 Feb 2017 Bulgaria Bansko, Bulgaria PGS 2nd

Season titles

Season Discipline
2015–16 Overall
2016–17 PGS

Season standings

Season Age Overall Parallel giant slalom Parallel slalom
2015–16 26 1 2 3
2016–17 27 1 1 18

Standings through 16 Feb 2017.

References

  1. ↑ FIS Biography
  2. ↑ Sochi2014.com https://web.archive.org/web/20140706040518/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/athlete-radoslav-yankov. Archived from the original on 2014-07-06. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ "Bulgarian Team for Sochi with 6 biathletes!". BiathlonNews. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Bulgaria’s Olympic team off to Sochi with no expectations". The Sofia Globe. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "Men's Parallel Giant Slalom – Results Finals" (PDF). FIS – Official Website. 12 December 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015.


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