The Most Famous
GYMNASTS from Bulgaria
This page contains a list of the greatest Bulgarian Gymnasts. The pantheon dataset contains 370 Gymnasts, 2 of which were born in Bulgaria. This makes Bulgaria the birth place of the 36th most number of Gymnasts behind Tajikistan, and Denmark.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bulgarian Gymnasts of all time. This list of famous Bulgarian Gymnasts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Charles Champaud (b. 1865)
With an HPI of 54.74, Charles Champaud is the most famous Bulgarian Gymnast. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Charles Champaud (Bulgarian: Шарл Шампо), also spelled Sharl Shampov (Шарл Шампов), was a Swiss gymnast. He represented Bulgaria at the First 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. Champaud competed in the parallel bars, vault, and pommel horse events. Although the rest of his placings in each competition are unknown, he occupies the prestigious fifth place on vault and earned the first two points for Bulgaria. Champaud was a Swiss national working as a gymnastics teacher at a Sofia high school when he represented Bulgaria at the first modern Olympics. Bulgaria is thus often included in the figure of participating nations. In Bulgaria, Charles Champaud also played an important role in introducing football to the country and was the person to bring the sport to the capital city of Sofia in 1895 (the first football game in Bulgaria being in Varna in 1894, organized by another Swiss teacher, Georges de Regibus).
2. Stoyan Deltchev (b. 1959)
With an HPI of 47.77, Stoyan Deltchev is the 2nd most famous Bulgarian Gymnast. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Stoyan Deltchev (Bulgarian: Стоян Делчев, born in Plovdiv, July 3, 1959) is a Bulgarian gymnast and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow where he received a gold medal in horizontal bar and a bronze medal in all-around individual. He now owns a gymnastics school in Reno, Nevada.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Bulgarian gymnasts born between 1865 and 1959. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bulgarian gymnasts include Stoyan Deltchev. The most famous deceased Bulgarian gymnasts include Charles Champaud. As of April 2024, 1 new Bulgarian gymnasts have been added to Pantheon including Stoyan Deltchev.
