Bulgaria at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Bulgaria at the
2002 Winter Olympics
Bulgaria at the; 2002 Winter Olympics
IOC code	BUL
NOC	Bulgarian Olympic Committee
Website	www.bgolympic.org (in Bulgarian and English)
in Salt Lake City
Competitors	23 (13 men and 10 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Stefan Georgiev
Medals ; Ranked 20th	Gold0Silver1Bronze2Total3
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Last updated June 29, 2023

Bulgaria competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Evgenia Radanova	Short track speed skating	Women's 500m
Bronze	Irina Nikulchina	Biathlon	Women's 10 km Pursuit
Bronze	Evgenia Radanova	Short track speed skating	Women's 1,500 m

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Stefan Georgiev	Giant Slalom	1:18.01	1:15.00	2:33.01	38
Stefan Georgiev	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Angel Pumpalov	Slalom	53.72	58.21	1:51.93	23

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
Athlete	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Angel Pumpalov	DSQ	–	–	DSQ	–
Stefan Georgiev	1:44.25	49.63	55.51	3:29.39	16

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Nadejda Vassileva	Giant Slalom	1:22.89	1:21.54	2:44.43	42
Nadejda Vassileva	Slalom	59.59	59.45	1:59.04	28

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km sprint	Georgi Kasabov	1	27:55.8	60
12.5 km pursuit ²	Georgi Kasabov	7	40:38.5	56

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ³	Rank
20 km	Georgi Kasabov	55:16.1	4	59:16.1	65

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
7.5 km sprint	Iva Karagiozova-Shkodreva	1	23:18.0	41
	Pavlina Filipova	1	22:20.6	17
	Ekaterina Dafovska	2	22:17.7	15
	Irina Nikulchina	2	21:57.0	11
10 km pursuit ⁴	Pavlina Filipova	2	32:35.1	12
	Ekaterina Dafovska	2	32:22.6	10
	Irina Nikulchina	2	31:15.8

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ³	Rank
15 km	Irina Nikulchina	47:16.7	6	53:16.7	43
	Iva Karagiozova-Shkodreva	49:59.3	2	51:59.3	32
	Pavlina Filipova	47:47.5	3	50:47.5	20
	Ekaterina Dafovska	47:15.5	1	48:15.5	5

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Pavlina Filipova Irina Nikulchina Iva Karagiozova-Shkodreva Ekaterina Dafovska	0	1'29:25.8	4

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² Starting delay based on 10 km sprint results.

³ One minute added per missed target.

⁴ Starting delay based on 7.5 km sprint results.

Bobsleigh

Men

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
BUL-1	Miroslav Danov Stefan Vasilev	Two-man	49.77	36	49.35	32	49.48	31	49.42	33	3:18.02	32

Cross-country skiing

Men

Sprint

Athlete	Qualifying round		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Ivan Bayrakov	3:18.97	62	did not advance
Slavcho Batinkov	3:14.21	59	did not advance

Pursuit

Athlete	10 km C		10 km F pursuit¹
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Slavcho Batinkov	32:12.6	72	did not advance
Ivan Bayrakov	31:17.1	70	did not advance

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km C	Slavcho Batinkov	DNF	–
15 km C	Ivan Bayrakov	45:41.2	60

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Ivan Dinev	20.0	12	14	13

Ice Dancing

Athletes	Points	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	Rank
Albena Denkova Maxim Staviyski	14.0	7	7	7	7	7

Short track speed skating

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Asen Pandov	500 m	1:17.124	4	did not advance
Miroslav Boyadzhiev	500 m	43.462	4	did not advance
Miroslav Boyadzhiev	1000 m	1:32.421	4	did not advance
Kiril Pandov	1000 m	1:31.842	4	did not advance
Kiril Pandov	1500 m	2:27.730	5	did not advance
Miroslav Boyadzhiev	1500 m	2:22.082	3 Q			2:23.468	4 QB	2:29.307	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	500 m	45.916	2 Q	46.422	4	did not advance
Evgeniya Radanova	500 m	45.195	2 Q	44.780	1 Q	44.686	1 QF	44.252
Evgeniya Radanova	1000 m	1:49.496	1 Q	1:36.727	2 Q	1:35.607	4 QB	1:34.702	5
Anna Krasteva	1000 m	1:39.195	3	did not advance
Evgeniya Radanova	1500 m	2:32.821	1 Q			2:31.194	2 QF	2:31.723
Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	1500 m	2:33.362	4	did not advance
Evgeniya Radanova Marina Georgieva-Nikolova Anna Krasteva Daniela Vlaeva	3000 m relay					4:25.877	3 QB	4:20.703	6

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Qualifying jump			Final jump 1			Final jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Georgi Zharkov	Normal hill	73.5	76.5	45	did not advance
Georgi Zharkov	Large hill	101.0	75.3	39	did not advance

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