Ivan Stoitsov (Иван Стоицов, born in

Plovdiv Plovdiv ( bg, Пловдив, ), is the second-largest city in Bulgaria, standing on the banks of the Maritsa river in the historical region of Thrace. It has a population of 346,893 and 675,000 in the greater metropolitan area. Plovdiv is the c ...

) is a Bulgarian male

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, competing in the 77 kg category and representing Bulgaria at international competitions. He participated at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

in the 77 kg event. He competed at world championships, most recently at the

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. Stoitsov tested positive for a

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in 2008, and therefore Bulgaria's weightlifting federation withdrew its team from the

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. Eight members of the men's team and three women tested positive during out-of-competition tests conducted on June 8 and June 9. Apart from Tsagaev the athletes who tested positive were Ivailo Filev,

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, Mehmed Fikretov,

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, Ivan Markov,

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Velichko Cholakov Velichko Cholakov ( bg, Величко Чолаков, 12 January 1982 20 August 2017) was a Bulgarian weightlifter. Career He competed in the over 105 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, his first Olympics, winning an Olympi ...

Milka Maneva Milka Maneva (Bulgarian: Милка Манева; born 7 June 1985 in Smolyan, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the Women's 63 kg category at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She originally finished fifth, but ...

, Donka Mincheva and Gergana Kirilova.

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* 1985 births Living people Bulgarian male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for Bulgaria Sportspeople from Plovdiv Doping cases in weightlifting World Weightlifting Championships medalists 20th-century Bulgarian people 21st-century Bulgarian people {{Bulgaria-weightlifting-bio-stub