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.

Boris Christoff  (1914 – 1993)
Boris Christoff (1914 – 1993)
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Boris Christoff (May 18, 1914, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - June 28, 1993, Rome, Italy) was a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century.Christoff demonstrated early his s...
Ivan Bogorov, Dr (1818 - 1892)
Ivan Bogorov, Dr (1818 - 1892)
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One of the most eminent encyclopedians of the Bulgarian Revival period - a doctor of medicine by education, he was also very much concerned by business matters, economics, geography, industry, tran...
Kamen Vichev, Father (1893 - 1952)
Kamen Vichev, Father (1893 - 1952)
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Kamen Vichev was born in the village of Srem, Bourgas region, on May 23rd, 1893. He started his theological education in 1912 in Belgium, where he studied until 1918. After recieving his PhD in The...
George Danchov - Zografina
George Danchov - Zografina
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Stoyo Shishkov (1865 - 1937)
Stoyo Shishkov (1865 - 1937)
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Stoyo Shishkov was born in 1865 in the village of Ustovo near the town of Smolyan. He was a pedagogue, man of letters, ethnographer. Lived in Plovdiv since 1904 as a teacher. He was the <...
Mario Hossen - the Bulgarian &quot;Paganini&quot;  was born in Plovdiv
The following info on this talented young violinist is courtesy of Festival Music Alp webs...
Boris Dimovski  (1925-2007)
Boris Dimovski (1925-2007)
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Boris Dimovski is one of the greatest contemporary Bulgarian artists. Beside being a world-famous caricature artist, he is also a much respected master of water-color paitings, oil paintings, impre...
Radoslav Nikolov - Gianni (born 1954)
The First Bulgarian in The Guinness Book of Records. 53-year-old Radoslav Nikolov (known as Gianni) is the best BG football juggler. He managed to juggle his football on the 20-cm-wide balus...
George Ganchev (born 1939)
George Ganchev (born 1939)
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George Ganchev (whose real name was Georgi Petroushev) was born on August 29, 1939, in Plovdiv. In the early 1960s he emigrated from Bulgaria. He graduated from the British Fencing Academy (he was ...
ASEN HRISTOFOROV (1910 - 1970)
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ASEN HRISTOFOROV – an economist and writer, born on December 16, 1910 in Plovdiv. He studied Economics in London, where he graduated in 1934. He was among the founders of the Statistics Insti...