Bulgaria at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Bulgaria at the
1998 Winter Olympics
Bulgaria at the; 1998 Winter Olympics
IOC code	BUL
NOC	Bulgarian Olympic Committee
Website	www.bgolympic.org (in Bulgarian and English)
in Nagano
Competitors	19 in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Lyubomir Popov
Medals; Ranked 15th	Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 1
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Bulgaria competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. Bulgaria won its first ever gold medal when Ekaterina Dafovska won the Women's 15 km Biathlon.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Ekaterina Dafovska	Biathlon	Women's individual	9 February

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	4	1	5
Biathlon	1	4	5
Cross-country skiing	1	1	2
Figure skating	2	2	4
Short track speed skating	0	2	2
Snowboarding	0	1	1
Total	8	11	19

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Lyubomir Popov	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Stefan Georgiev	Giant Slalom	1:27.76	1:23.13	2:50.89	32
Angel Pumpalov	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Lyubomir Popov		DNF	–	DNF	–
Petar Dichev		59.62	DNF	DNF	–
Stefan Georgiev		57.95	58.17	1:56.12	22

Men's combined

Athlete	Slalom		Downhill	Total
Athlete	Time 1	Time 2	Time	Total time	Rank
Petar Dichev	51.16	DSQ	–	DSQ	–

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Nadejda Vassileva	Slalom	52.68	52.76	1:45.44	26

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Georgi Kasabov	0	31:09.5	57

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Georgi Kasabov	1'01:59.5	5	1'06:59.5	67

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
7.5 km Sprint	Pavlina Filipova	3	25:34.8	41
7.5 km Sprint	Ekaterina Dafovska	2	25:06.7	29

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time ²	Rank
15 km	Pavlina Filipova	54:18.1	1	55:18.1	4
15 km	Ekaterina Dafovska	53:52.0	1	54:52.0

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Radka Popova Ekaterina Dafovska Pavlina Filipova Valentina Peychinova	3	1'48:55.2	16

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

² One minute added per missed target.

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
10 km C	Slavcho Batinkov	33:23.2	84
15 km pursuit¹ F	Slavcho Batinkov	49:41.5	61
30 km C	Slavcho Batinkov	1'50:35.0	60

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km C	Irina Nikulchina	20:52.6	70
10 km pursuit² F	Irina Nikulchina	34:13.5	53
15 km C	Irina Nikulchina	57:07.2	63
30 km F	Irina Nikulchina	1'31:04.7	28

² Starting delay based on 5 km results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Ivan Dinev	7	14	17.5	11

Women

Athlete	SP	FS	TFP	Rank
Sofia Penkova	28	DNF	DNF	–

Ice Dancing

Athletes	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	TFP	Rank
Albena Denkova Maxim Staviyski	18	18	18	18	36.0	18

Short track speed skating

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Evgeniya Radanova	500 m	45.977	1 Q	DSQ	–	did not advance
Daniela Vlaeva	500 m	46.681	3	did not advance
Daniela Vlaeva	1000 m	1:37.124	3	did not advance
Evgeniya Radanova	1000 m	1:39.279	2 Q	1:38.510	3	did not advance

Snowboarding

Women's giant slalom

Athlete	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Mariya Dimova	1:23.31	1:19.53	2:42.84	20

References

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