Nikola Dinev Nikolov ( bg, Никола Динев Николов; 18 October 1953 – 1 June 2019)
was a Bulgarian super-heavyweight

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and

freestyle wrestler Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestling i ...

, and Sambist who won two world and five European GR titles between 1977 and 1986. He placed fifth at the super-heavyweight freestyle event of the

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Nikola Dinev
profile at the United World Wrestling database 1953 births 2019 deaths Olympic wrestlers for Bulgaria Wrestlers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Bulgarian male sport wrestlers Bulgarian sambo practitioners World Wrestling Championships medalists People from Nova Zagora European Wrestling Championships medalists Friendship Games medalists in wrestling {{Bulgaria-wrestling-bio-stub