Olympic Winter Games 1936 / Participant (Bulgaria)
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Bulgaria took part in the IV Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 with a delegation of 7 athletes. This was the first time Bulgarian athletes took part in the Winter Olympics. The athletes participated in two sports and could not win a medal.
The youngest Bulgarian starter was 19-year-old Boyan Dimitrov and the oldest was 31-year-old Ivan Angelakov . While Dimitrov started in alpine skiing , Angelakow started cross-country skiing.
Participants by sport
Alpine skiing
Bulgaria took part in the first ever alpine skiing competitions with three starters and all starters were disqualified in the course of the competition.
Athletes | competition | Departure | slalom | total | ||||||
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time | rank | Round 1 | Pass 2 | rank | Total points | rank | ||||
time | Penalty time | time | Penalty time | |||||||
Men | ||||||||||
Bojan Dimitrov | Alpine combination | DSQ | ||||||||
Borislav Jordanov | Alpine combination | 6: 06.4 min | 30th | 2: 06.1 min | 0:06 min | DSQ | DNF | |||
Assen Zankow | Alpine combination | 10: 53.2 min | 53 | 2: 13.5 min | 0:06 min | DSQ | DNF |
Cross-country skiing
Bulgaria took part in cross-country skiing with four starters, all of whom were used in the race over the 18 kilometers. There all participants could only take the back places and in the relay the Bulgaria took 15th place because Turkey did not finish the race, the last place.
Athletes | competition | time | rank |
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Men | |||
Ivan Angelakov | 18 km | 1:41:44 h | 66 |
Dimitar Kostov | 18 km | 1:42:22 h | 68 |
Christo Kochev | 18 km | 1:32:30 h | 53 |
Ratscho Shekov | 18 km | 1:43:11 h | 70 |
Iwan Angelakow Dimitar Kostow Christo Kotschow Ratscho Schekow |
Season | 3:29:39 h | 15th |
Web links
- Bulgaria at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )