Milen Dobrew

Milen Dobrew
Personal information
Surname:	Milen Dobrew
Nationality:	Bulgaria
Date of birth:	February 22, 1980
Place of birth:	Plovdiv , Bulgaria
Date of death:	at March 21, 2015
Place of death:	Plovdiv , Bulgaria
Medal table

Milen Atanassow Dobrew ( Bulgarian Милен Добрев , born February 22, 1980 in Plovdiv ; † March 21, 2015 ibid) was a Bulgarian weightlifter .

Career

Dobrew celebrated his greatest success at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , where he won the gold medal with 407.5 kg in the weight class up to 94 kg.

For Bulgaria he also won the bronze medal at the 2001 World Cup with a total weight of 382.5 kg, the silver medal at the 2002 World Cup with 387.5 kg, the gold medal at the 2003 World Cup with 405 kg and the bronze medal at the 2005 World Cup with 398 kg. At the European Championships, Dobrew won a silver medal in 2002 and two gold medals in 2003 and 2004.

Dobrew died of a heart attack in 2015 at the age of 35 after several stays in rehabilitation clinics to which he had gone for years of alcohol dependence.

Web links

• Milen Dobrew at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Profile of Milen Dobrew at the lift-up project at chidlovski.net (English)
• Milen Dobrew in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Последният български олимпийски шампион в щангите бе открит мъртъв. Report on mediapool.bg of March 21, 2015 (Bulgarian, accessed March 23, 2015).
2. ↑ Herztod at 35 sueddeutsche.de August 21, 2017