Petar Stoychev

Petar Stoychev
Petar Stoychev in Copenhagen 2009
Personal information
Surname:	Petar Stoychev
Nation:	Bulgaria
Society:	Levski Sofia
Birthday:	October 24, 1976
Place of birth:	Momchilgrad , Bulgaria
Medal table

Petar Stojtschew (also spelled Petar Stoychev internationally , Bulgarian Петър Стойчев ; born October 24, 1976 in Momchilgrad ) is a Bulgarian swimming athlete and winner of the gold medal over 25 km open water swimming at the 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai and at the 2012 European Open Water Championships in Piombino . Since March 13, 2013, he has been Minister of Sport and Sport Education in the government of Marin Rajkow .

On August 24, 2007, Stojtschew was able to undercut the world record set by German swimmer Christof Wandratsch in 2005 for crossing the English Channel and set a new record time of 6 h 57 m 50 s. He became the first to swim across the English Channel in under 7 hours.

On January 10, 2016, he improved Christof Wandratsch's world record over 1000 m ice swimming at the Ice Swimming German Open in Burghausen to 12 m 28.10 s.

Web links

• Personal webpage (eng.)
• Petar Stoychev became world champion in swimming (Bulgarian) , Dnevnik Online , accessed July 23, 2011
• Petar Stojtschew became world champion in swimming (Bulgarian) , www.sportal.bg, accessed on July 23, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dover Life Channel Swimming - Successful Crossings [1]