Swilen Nejkow

Swilen Emilow Nejkow ( Bulgarian Свилен Емилов Нейков , Translit. Svilen Emilov Nejkov , English also written Svilen Emilov Neykov ; born December 14, 1964 in Varna , Bulgaria ) is a Bulgarian athlete, politician of the GERB party and from 2009 to 2013 the country's sports minister.

Life

Swilen Nejkow was a student at the Sofia National Sports Academy between 1987 and 1991. He has become multiple Bulgarian rowing champions over the years. He was also a finalist at the 1989 World Rowing Championships in Bled and Tasmania (1990). In 1989 he became world champion at the Student Summer Olympics in Duisburg .

Since 2006 he has been working as a fitness trainer at CSKA Sofia and as a lecturer at the National Sports Academy Sofia. From 2009 to 2013 he was the country's sports minister in the government of Boyko Borisov .

Nejkow is married to the Olympic rowing champion Rumjana Nejkowa , with whom he has two sons and whose coach he was also.

Web links

Who is who: Bulgaria's New Sports Minister Svilen Neykov , Novinite.com. July 21, 2009. Retrieved August 2, 2009.
Brief biography of Swilen Nejkow (English) on the website of the Bulgarian government
Swilen Nejkow at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

predecessor	Office	successor
Wessela Letschewa	Minister of Sport of Bulgaria July 27, 2009 - February 20, 2013	Petar Stoychev

personal data
SURNAME	Nejkow, Swilen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Nejkow, Emilow Swilen (full name); Neykov, Svilen Emilov (English spelling); Нейков, Свилен Емилов (Bulgarian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bulgarian athlete, politician and economist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 14, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH	Varna , Bulgaria