Two bronzes put Bulgaria back among Winter Olympics medal winners
Bulgarian athletes won two bronzes at the 2026 Winter Olympics held in Milano and Cortina d’Ampezzo, the first medals for Bulgaria at winter Olympics since the 2006 Games in Turin.
It was only the second time Bulgaria won multiple medals at the same Winter Games, after the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, where Bulgarian athletes finished with three medals.
Tervel Zamfirov won the third-place final in a photo-finish in the men’s parallel giant slalom on February 8, the first medal won by a Bulgarian athlete in a snowboarding event.
Three days later, Lora Hristova won bronze in the women’s biathlon 15km individual race after flawless shooting. Milena Zamfirova narrowly missed on a bronze in the women’s biathlon 7.5km sprint race after finishing fourth.
This takes the total count of medals won by Bulgarian athletes at Winter Games to eight – five bronzes, two silver (both by Evgenia Radanova in short-track speed skating) and one gold (Ekaterina Dafovska in women’s biathlon 15km individual race in Nagano in 1998).
(Photo: olympics.com)
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