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SWIMMERS from Bulgaria

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This page contains a list of the greatest Bulgarian Swimmers. The pantheon dataset contains 392 Swimmers, 1 of which were born in Bulgaria. This makes Bulgaria the birth place of the 52nd most number of Swimmers behind French Guiana and Faroe Islands.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bulgarian Swimmers of all time. This list of famous Bulgarian Swimmers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Kristian Golomeev (1993 - )

With an HPI of 20.99, Kristian Golomeev is the most famous Bulgarian Swimmer.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Kristian Tsvetanov Gkolomeev (Bulgarian: Кристиан Цветанов Голомеев, Greek: Κριστιάν Τσβετάνοφ Γκολομέεφ, born 4 July 1993) is a Greek swimmer. He specializes in sprint freestyle and butterfly events. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's 100 metre freestyle, finishing in 31st place (50.08) overall in the heats, failing to qualify for the semifinals. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's 50 metre freestyle, finishing 10th in the heats with a time of 21.93 seconds. He qualified for the semifinals where he finished 13th with a time of 21.98 seconds and did not qualify for the final. He also competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle, finishing in 20th place with a time of 48.68 seconds which was a new national record. He did not qualify for the semifinals. Gkolomeev was also part of the men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay team which finished 10th in the heats and did not advance to the final and the men's 4 × 100 m medley relay team which finished 15th in the heats and did not advance to the final. Gkolomeev earned Greece's second ever World Championship medal in swimming, as he finished second at the 50 meters freestyle final at the 2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships in South Korea. The Greek champion was joint second with Brazil's Bruno Fratus, clocking 21.45 seconds, behind American Caeleb Dressel.

Pantheon has 1 people classified as swimmers born between 1993 and 1993. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living swimmers include Kristian Golomeev.

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