Mintscho Nikolov

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Mintscho Nikolow ( Bulgarian Минчо Николов ; born September 14, 1952 ) is a former Bulgarian rower . He won an Olympic bronze medal in 1980.

Athletic career

At the 1976 Olympic Games , the Bulgarian double scull competed with Jordan Waltschew , Mintscho Nikolow, Christo Jelew and Eftim Gjerzilow . With a third place in the preliminary run behind the boats from the Soviet Union and from the GDR and a second place in the hope race behind the boat from the Federal Republic of Germany, the Bulgarians qualified for the finals, where they finished fifth.

At the 1977 World Championships in Amstelveen , 1.82 m tall Nikolov competed in a single and finished ninth. The following year at the World Championships in New Zealand , the Bulgarian quadruple with Mintscho Nikolow, Stoiko Hadilew , Lyubomir Petrow and Bogdan Dobrew competed and reached 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 . He also finished eleventh at the 1983 World Championships in quadruples.

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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. 558
  2. 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