Bulgaria at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Bulgaria at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	BUL
NOC	Bulgarian Olympic Committee
Website	http://www.bgolympic.org/
in Buenos Aires, Argentina 6 – 18 October 2018
Competitors	24 in 14 sports
Medals Ranked 34th	Gold 2 Silver 2 Bronze 2 Total 6
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
2010 2014 2018

Bulgaria participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 6 October to 18 October 2018.

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Bulgaria qualified one player based on the Badminton Junior World Rankings. ^[1]

Singles

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Maria Delcheva	Girls' Singles	Akoumba Ze  (CMR) W2–0	Prozorova  (UKR) W2–0	Vũ  (VIE) L0–2	2	did not advance			9

Team

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score
Team Alpha   Maria Delcheva  (BUL)   Lakshya Sen  (IND)   Giovanni Toti  (ITA)   Vannthoun Vath  (CAM)   Brian Yang  (CAN)   Hasini Nusaka Ambalangodage  (SRI)   Jennie Gai  (USA)   Ashwathi Pillai  (SWE)	Mixed Teams	Epsilon (MIX) W 110–98	Delta (MIX) L 99–110	Zeta (MIX) W 110–103	2 Q	Gamma (MIX) W 110–94	Theta (MIX) W 110–90	Omega (MIX) W 110–106

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Semifinals	Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Goryanana Stoeva	Girls' -51 kg	Kholmatova  (UZB) W5–0	Gbadamosi  (NGR) L1–4	Garcia  (USA) L0–5	4

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Bulgaria qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2018 Cadet World Championship. ^[2]

• Girls' Sabre – Yoana Ilieva

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Acrobatic

Bulgaria qualified a mixed pair based on its performance at the 2018 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championship. ^[3]

• Mixed pair – 1 team of 2 athletes

Rhythmic

Bulgaria qualified one rhythmic gymnast based on its performance at the European qualification event. ^[4]

• Girls' rhythmic individual all-around – 1 quota

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Rep 1	Rep 2	Rep 3	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Aleksa Georgieva	Girls' 44 kg	Vusala Karimova  (AZE) L 00-10	did not advance		Soniya Bhatta  (NEP) W 10-00	Erza Muminoviq  (KOS) L 00-10s1	did not advance

Team

Athletes	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Team Atlanta   Tiguidanke Camara  (GUI)   Aleksa Georgieva  (BUL)   Vusala Karimova  (AZE)   Adrián Medero  (PUR)   Rok Pogorevc  (SLO)   Fatine Rzal  (MAR)   Adrian Sulca  (ROU)   Antonio Tornal  (DOM)	Mixed team	Team Barcelona (MIX) W 4–3	Team Barcelona (MIX) L 3–4	did not advance

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Bulgaria qualified one sport shooter based on its performance at the 2017 European Championships. They also qualified a rifle sport shooter based on its performance at the 2018 European Championships. ^[5]

• Boys' 10m Air Rifle – 1 quota
• Boys' 10m Air Pistol – 1 quota

Individual

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Plamen Emilov	Boys' 10 metre air rifle	612.4	16	did not advance
Kiril Kirov	Boys' 10 metre air pistol	562-14x	11	did not advance

Team

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
		Points	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Wang Zeru  (CHN)   Plamen Emilov  (BUL)	Mixed 10 metre air rifle	819.8	13Q	Kemppi  (FIN)   Firmapaz  (ARG) L 9–10	did not advance			14
Vanessa Seeger  (GER)   Kiril Kirov  (BUL)	Mixed 10 metre air pistol	754	3 Q	Nicolas  (FRA)   Miller  (GBR) W 10–5	Juana Rueda Vargas  (COL)   Jan Luca Karstedt  (GER) W 10–5	Al-Kaabi  (IRQ)   Son  (BEL) W 10–6	Bhaker  (IND)   Fayzullaev  (TJK) W 10–3

Sport climbing

Main article: Sport climbing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Bulgaria qualified one sport climber based on its performance at the 2017 World Youth Sport Climbing Championships. ^[6]

• Boys' combined – 1 quota (Petar Ivanov)

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Key

• r = Retired

Singles

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Adrian Andreev	Boys' singles	López Montagud  (ESP) W (77-64, 3–6, 6–2)	Erel  (TUR) W (6–3, 5–7, 6–3)	Jianu  (ROU) W (6–2, 6–4)	Díaz Acosta  (ARG) L (4–6, 1–6)	Soares Klier Júnior  (BRA) L (4–6, 1r-3)	4

Doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Adrian Andreev   Rinky Hijikata  (AUS)	Boys' doubles	—	Henning  (RSA) /   N'tcha  (BEN) W (6–2, 7–64)	Mejía  (COL) /   Soares Klier Júnior  (BRA) W (7–66, 4–6, [10–7])	Gaston  (FRA) /   Tabur  (FRA) W (6–1, 6–4)	Báez  (ARG) /   Díaz Acosta  (ARG) L (4–6, 4–6)
Viktoriia Dema  (UKR) Adrian Andreev	Mixed doubles	Sun (SUI) /   Wenger  (SUI) L (3-6, 63-7)	did not advance				17

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Bulgaria qualified one athlete based on its performance at the 2017 World Youth Championships. ^[7]

Boy

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Hristo Hristov	+85 kg	173	1	206	2	379

Girl

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Galya Shatova	−63 kg	90	2	111	3	201

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Key:

• VSU – Without any point scored by the opponent
• VSU1 – With point(s) scored by the opponent
• VPO1 – With point(s) scored by the opponent

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Final / RM	Rank
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score
Edmond Nazaryan	Boys' Greco-Roman −45kg	Dehbozorgi  (IRI) L1 – 3 VPO1	Shaaban  (EGY) W14 – 5 VSU1	2 Q	Zakirbayev  (TKM) W8 – 0 VSU

References

1. "BWF Junior World Ranking – Girls Invited to 2018 Youth Olympics" (PDF). BWF Corporate. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
2. "2018 Youth Olympic Games – Buenos Aires FIE Qualifications" (PDF). FIE . 10 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
3. "2018 Youth Olympic Games Gymnastics Qualifiers". FIG . 25 June 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-06-27. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
4. "18 nations secure Youth Olympic participation in Rhythmic Gymnastics". European Gymnastics Federation. 16 February 2018. Archived from the original on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
5. "Quota Places by Name and Nation". ISSF . 18 February 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
6. "World Youth Championship". IFSC . 10 September 2017. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
7. "Boys Team Classification from World Youth Championships" (PDF). International Weightlifting Federation . 29 March 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.