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
		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	06: 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
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 )