Yordan Bikov ( bg, Йордан Биков, born 17 November 1950) 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 ...

n middleweight

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

. He won the

clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ...

event at the 1971 World Championships. In 1972 he won the European title and Olympic gold medal, setting a new world record in the total. He retired next year after placing second at the European championships, and became a weightlifting coach.Yordan Bikov
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* * * * 1950 births Living people Bulgarian male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Bulgaria Olympic medalists in weightlifting Sportspeople from Pazardzhik Olympic weightlifters for Bulgaria World record setters in weightlifting European champions in weightlifting Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics European Weightlifting Championships medalists World Weightlifting Championships medalists 20th-century Bulgarian people 21st-century Bulgarian people {{Bulgaria-weightlifting-bio-stub