Figures of Plovdiv

Figures of Plovdiv

Stefka Kostadinova (born 25.03.1965)

Stefka Kostadinova (born 25.03.1965)

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Stefka Kostadinova is a famous BG athlete. She was born on March 25th, 1965 in Plovdiv. She has gradiated from the Plovdiv School of Sports, initially starting a career of gymnastics and swimming. Her victorious career of the worlds best high jumper athlete was prepared by the young coach Nikolay Petrov, whom she later married in 1989.

Stefka Kostadinova was a high jump Olympic Champion from Atlanta, 1996, and a silver medal winner from Seoul, 1988.

A double world outdoor champion - Rome, 1987 and Gotteborg, 1995. She has participated in five world inddor championships - Paris 1985, Indianapolis 1987 (setting a World Indoor Record of 205 cm), Budapest 1989, Toronto 1993 and Paris 1997, and won champions titles in all five of them - an achievement never reached by an athlete before! She has set 3 outdoor and 4 indoor records altogether. Her high jump world record (August 30, 1987) from the 1987 World Athletics Championship in Rome, Italy - 2.09 m. (6 ft. 10.25 in) has remained unbeaten yet!

Stefka is a European outdoor champion from Stutgard, 1986, and four-time indoor champion - Athens 1985, Lievenne 1987, Budapest 1988 and Paris 1994.

She has been appointed the Sportsman of the Year of Bulgaria for four times (which also is a record!) - 1985, 1987, 1995 and 1996, and the Sportsman of the Balkans for five times! She is also included in the Top 10 of the Twentiewth Century Female Athletes, according to the International Athletics Federation.

She gave birth to her son Nikolay in 1995, and in 1999 she divorsed her husband and coach Nikolay Petrov. The same year she officially retired from her active sports career, and got appointed the vice-president of Bulgarian Athletics Federation.

Jordan Jovchev (also: Yordan Yovchev) (born 1973)
Born February 24th 1973 in Plovdiv. Gymnastics champion. \r\nEuropean champion in the all-events competition from Pathra 2002. Gold medalist in rings and silver medalist in the fl...
Hristo Kidikov (born 1946)
Hristo Kidikov (born 1946)
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Hristo Kidikov was born on November 16th, 1946 in Plovdiv. He is an eminent pop singer. Graduated from the Plovdiv School of Music, and later from the Sofia State Music Conservatoire. Winner of num...
Dimiter Zograph (1796-1860)
Dimiter Zograph (1796-1860)
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Dimiter Zograph was brother of the famous icon-painter Zahari Zograph of the Samokov School. Born in the town of Samokov in 1796. Icon and mural painter. \r\nHe worked a lot in Plovdiv....
Alexander Hristov (born 1964)
Alexander Hristov (born 1964)
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Alexander Hristov was born on July 28, 1964, in Plovdiv. He spent his childhood in the town of Troyan, where he played football for the local team of Chavdar. He moved back to Plovdiv as an 8th gra...
Stoyan Deltchev (born 03.08.1959)
Stoyan Deltchev (born 03.08.1959)
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Artistic Gymnastics Olympic and European champion, born in Plovdiv in 1959. He became the 1977 European champion in horizon...
Ivan Andonov (28.06.1854 - 18.12.1937)
Active participant in the national liberation movement; a popular public figure. Deputy Attorney of Plovdiv after the Liberation of 1878. One of the founders and leaders of the secret comm...
Petko Karavelov (1843 - 1903)
Petko Karavelov (1843 - 1903)
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Born on March 24,1843 in Koprivshtiza. He was brother of the eminent Bulgarian writer and revolutionary - Lyuben Karavelov. In the period 1860 - 1893 he completed secondary school in Moscow, studie...
Milcho Leviev (born 1937)
Milcho Leviev (born 1937)
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Milcho Leviev (Milcho Isaac Levi), born Dec. 19, 1937 in Plovdiv. An eminent jazz musician - composer, pianist, interpreter, pedagogue – he is one of the great names in contemporary w...
Mikhail Gerdzhikov (26.01.1877-18.03.1947)
Mikhail Gerdzhikov was born on January 26th, 1877, in Plovdiv. He studied at the French College, where he received the nick-name Michelle. As a student there he started his revolutiona...
Radka Karagitlieva (born 1931)
Radka Karagitlieva (born 1931)
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Radka Nikolova Karagitlieva was born on December 15th, 1931 in the village of Touria, Kazanluk region. In 1971 she became a member of the “Rossitsa Tchoukanova Embroidery Group” in Plovdiv, that wa...