Lyubomir Petrov

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Lyubomir Petrov ( Bulgarian Любомир Петров ; born October 4, 1954 ) is a former Bulgarian rower . He won an Olympic bronze medal in 1980.

Athletic career

At the Junior World Championships in 1972, Petrov won in one . Five years later, the 1.85 m tall rower won the bronze medal in the double sculls at the 1977 World Championships in Amstelveen together with Christo Jelew , Bogdan Dobrew and Eftim Stoyanow . The following year at the World Championships in New Zealand , the Bulgarian quadruple with Mintscho Nikolow , Stoiko Hadilew , Lyubomir Petrov and Bogdan Dobrew took up fifth place.

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Mintscho Nikolow, Lyubomir Petrov, Iwo Russew and Bogdan Dobrew rowed in quadruples . In the second run, the boat from the GDR won ahead of the Bulgarians and French, while the boat from the host Soviet Union took fourth place. Only the preliminary winners from Yugoslavia and the GDR were directly qualified for the final. The French won the first hope race ahead of the Spaniards, in the second hope race the double foursome from the Soviet Union won ahead of the Bulgarians. In the final, the four boats that had met in the second run took the first four places. The boat from the GDR won with a one-and-a-half second lead over the Soviet boat, with the Bulgarians ahead of the French with about one second behind them.

Petrow and Nikolow took eleventh place in the double scull at the 1981 World Championships in Munich.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 775
personal data
SURNAME Petrov, Lyubomir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Петров, Любомир (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian rower
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1954