Dimitar Slatanov

Dimitar Slatanov
portrait
Date of birth	November 9, 1948
place of birth	Ichtiman, Bulgaria
size	1.95 m
position	Universal
societies
1967-1980 1980-1982	CSKA Sofia Klippan Turin
National team
1967-1980	A national team
successes
1968 1969 1970 1972 1976 1980 1981 1982 8 times	Sixth Olympic champion European championship vice-world champion Fourth Olympic champion European cup winners' cup Olympic silver Italian champions Second European championship Bulgarian champions
As of June 30, 2020

Dimitar Slatanow ( Bulgarian Димитър Златанов , English transcription: Dimitar Zlatanov ; born November 9, 1948 in Ichtiman ) is a former Bulgarian volleyball player and coach.

Career

Slatanov took part in the Olympic Games three times with the Bulgarian national team. He finished sixth in Mexico in 1968 , fourth in Munich in 1972 and won the silver medal in Moscow in 1980 . In addition, Slatanow played four times at world and European championships and was runner- up in 1970 . With his club CSKA Sofia he was Bulgarian champion eight times and won the European Cup in 1969 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1976 . With Klippan Turin he was Italian champion in 1981 and reached the final in the European Cup a year later .

After his playing days, Slatanow was a coach at CSKA Sofia and various Italian clubs. In 2007 he was the first Bulgarian to be inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame .

Web links

• Dimitar Slatanow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Volleyball world championships with line-up
• Profile at volleybox.net (English)
• Profile at the Italian Volleyball League (Italian)
• 70th birthday at balkanvolleyball.org (English)
• CEV EuroVolley 2019 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hall of Fame. Accessed June 30, 2020. (English)