Bulgaria at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Bulgaria at the Olympic Games
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At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City
Competitors	23 (13 men, 10 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Stefan Georgiev (alpine skiing)
Medals Rank: 20	Gold 0	Silver 1	Bronze 2	Total 3
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Bulgaria competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Evgenia Radanova	Short track speed skating	Women's 500m
Bronze	Irina Nikulchina	Biathlon	Women's 10 km Pursuit
Bronze	Evgenia Radanova	Short track speed skating	Women's 1,500 m

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Stefan Georgiev	Giant Slalom	1:18.01	1:15.00	2:33.01	38
Stefan Georgiev	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Angel Pumpalov		53.72	58.21	1:51.93	23

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Angel Pumpalov	DSQ	–	–	DSQ	–
Stefan Georgiev	1:44.25	49.63	55.51	3:29.39	16

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Nadejda Vassileva	Giant Slalom	1:22.89	1:21.54	2:44.43	42
Nadejda Vassileva	Slalom	59.59	59.45	1:59.04	28

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km sprint	Georgi Kasabov	1	27:55.8	60
12.5 km pursuit 2	Georgi Kasabov	7	40:38.5	56

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 3	Rank
20 km	Georgi Kasabov	55:16.1	4	59:16.1	65

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
7.5 km sprint	Iva Karagiozova-Shkodreva	1	23:18.0	41
	Pavlina Filipova	1	22:20.6	17
	Ekaterina Dafovska	2	22:17.7	15
	Irina Nikulchina	2	21:57.0	11
10 km pursuit 4	Pavlina Filipova	2	32:35.1	12
	Ekaterina Dafovska	2	32:22.6	10
	Irina Nikulchina	2	31:15.8

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 3	Rank
15 km	Irina Nikulchina	47:16.7	6	53:16.7	43
	Iva Karagiozova-Shkodreva	49:59.3	2	51:59.3	32
	Pavlina Filipova	47:47.5	3	50:47.5	20
	Ekaterina Dafovska	47:15.5	1	48:15.5	5

Women's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Pavlina Filipova Irina Nikulchina Iva Karagiozova-Shkodreva Ekaterina Dafovska	0	1'29:25.8	4

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² Starting delay based on 10 km sprint results.

³ One minute added per missed target.

⁴ Starting delay based on 7.5 km sprint results.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
BUL-1	Miroslav Danov Stefan Vasilev	Two-man	49.77	36	49.35	32	49.48	31	49.42	33	3:18.02	32

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Sprint

Athlete	Qualifying round		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Ivan Bayrakov	3:18.97	62	Did not advance
Slavcho Batinkov	3:14.21	59	Did not advance

Pursuit

Athlete	10 km C		10 km F pursuit1
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Slavcho Batinkov	32:12.6	72	Did not advance
Ivan Bayrakov	31:17.1	70	Did not advance

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km C	Slavcho Batinkov	DNF	–
	Ivan Bayrakov	45:41.2	60

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Ivan Dinev	20.0	12	14	13

Ice Dancing

Athletes	Points	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	Rank
Albena Denkova Maxim Staviyski	14.0	7	7	7	7	7

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Asen Pandov	500 m	1:17.124	4	Did not advance
Miroslav Boyadzhiev		43.462	4	Did not advance
Miroslav Boyadzhiev	1000 m	1:32.421	4	Did not advance
Kiril Pandov		1:31.842	4	Did not advance
Kiril Pandov	1500 m	2:27.730	5	Did not advance
Miroslav Boyadzhiev		2:22.082	3 Q			2:23.468	4 QB	2:29.307	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	500 m	45.916	2 Q	46.422	4	Did not advance
Evgeniya Radanova		45.195	2 Q	44.780	1 Q	44.686	1 QF	44.252
Evgeniya Radanova	1000 m	1:49.496	1 Q	1:36.727	2 Q	1:35.607	4 QB	1:34.702	5
Anna Krasteva		1:39.195	3	Did not advance
Evgeniya Radanova	1500 m	2:32.821	1 Q			2:31.194	2 QF	2:31.723
Marina Georgieva-Nikolova		2:33.362	4	Did not advance
Evgeniya Radanova Marina Georgieva-Nikolova Anna Krasteva Daniela Vlaeva	3000 m relay					4:25.877	3 QB	4:20.703	6

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Qualifying jump			Final jump 1			Final jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Georgi Zharkov	Normal hill	73.5	76.5	45	Did not advance
Georgi Zharkov	Large hill	101.0	75.3	39	Did not advance

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 2002, full results by sports-reference.com