Atanas Chochev ( bg, Атанас Чочев) (born January 17, 1957) is a retired

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

er and

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

er. His personal best jump was 8.19 metres, achieved in July 1981 in

Sofia Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

. This ranks him seventh among Bulgarian long jumpers, behind Ivaylo Mladenov, Atanas Atanasov,

Nikolay Atanasov Nikolay Atanasov ( bg, Николай Атанасов; born 11 December 1974 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian long jumper. His personal best jump is 8.31 metres, achieved in July 2003 in Pirgos. He competed at the World Championships in 1999, 2003 and ...

, Petar Dachev,

Nikolay Antonov Nikolay Antonov ( bg, Николай Антонов, born 17 August 1968 in Razgrad) is a retired Bulgarian athlete. He started as a 200 metres sprinter, and won the 1991 World Indoor Championships and 1992 European Athletics Indoor Championshi ...

and Galin Georgiev. In the triple jump he had 16.86 metres from Sofia 1980.World men's all-time best triple jump (last updated 2001)
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1957 births Living people Bulgarian male long jumpers Bulgarian male triple jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Bulgaria 21st-century Bulgarian people 20th-century Bulgarian people {{Bulgaria-athletics-bio-stub