Ivan Ivanov ( bg, Иван Иванов; born August 24, 1986 in
Sofia
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) is an amateur Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's super heavyweight category. Ivanov qualified for the
men's 120 kg class at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in
Beijing
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, after placing third from the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in
Novi Sad, Serbia
Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...
. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out to France's
Yannick Szczepaniak, with a classification point score of 1–3.
References
External links
Profile – International Wrestling Database
Bulgarian male sport wrestlers
1986 births
Living people
Olympic wrestlers of Bulgaria
Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Sofia
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