Boris Nikolov (boxer)
Boris Georgiev Nikolov (Bulgarian: Борис Георгиев Николов; 10 March 1929 – 29 January 2017) was a Bulgarian boxer from Dobrich.[1]
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| Full name | Boris Georgiev Nikolov | |||||||||||||
| Born | 10 March 1929 Bazargic, Romania (today Dobrich, Bulgaria) | |||||||||||||
| Died | 29 January 2017 (aged 87) Sofia, Bulgaria | |||||||||||||
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Nikolov was the first Bulgarian ever to win a medal at the Olympics. He competed for Bulgaria in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the middleweight event where he finished in third place and took a Bronze medal. In 2010 he was awarded the Stara Planina Order 1st class.
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