Boris Georgiev Nikolov ( bg, Борис Георгиев Николов; 10 March 1929 – 29 January 2017) was a Bulgarian
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Nikolov was the first Bulgarian ever to win a medal at the Olympics. He competed for Bulgaria in boxing in the 1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...
held in Helsinki
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in the middleweight event where he finished in third place and took a Bronze medal. He also competed at the 1956 Olympics as a light middleweight but did not win a medal.
In 2010 he was awarded the Stara Planina Order 1st class.
1956 Olympic results
Below is the record of Boris Nikolov, a Bulgarian light middleweight boxer who competed at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics:
* Round of 16: defeated Muhammad Saftar (Pakistan) on points
* Quarterfinal: lost to Zbigniew Pietrzykowski (Poland) on points
References
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Sports-reference
1929 births
2017 deaths
Olympic boxers of Bulgaria
Olympic bronze medalists for Bulgaria
Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in boxing
Bulgarian male boxers
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
People from Dobrich
Middleweight boxers
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