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Boris Nikolov

1929 - 2017

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Boris Georgiev Nikolov (Bulgarian: Борис Георгиев Николов; 10 March 1929 – 29 January 2017) was a Bulgarian boxer from Dobrich. Nikolov was the first Bulgarian ever to win a medal at the Olympics. He competed for Bulgaria in boxing in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the middleweight event where he finished in third place and took a Bronze medal. He also competed at the 1956 Olympics as a light middleweight but did not win a medal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Boris Nikolov is the 2,287th most popular athlete (down from 1,557th in 2019), the 275th most popular biography from Bulgaria (down from 243rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Bulgarian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Boris Nikolov ranks 2,287 out of 6,025. Before him are Andrei Mikhnevich, Ivan Udodov, Walter Mahlendorf, Foy Draper, William Tanui, and Igor Astapkovich. After him are Walter Chaffe, Raúl González, Christine Laser, Guillermo Douglas, Herb McKenley, and Tapio Kantanen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Boris Nikolov ranks 519. Before him are Lyubov Kozyreva, Keith Gardner, Jules Feiffer, Clyde Lovellette, Michel Knuysen, and Yelizaveta Bagryantseva. After him are Johnny Ace, Bhanu Athaiya, Nel Noddings, Shirley Ann Grau, Brian Friel, and Nirmala Deshpande. Among people deceased in 2017, Boris Nikolov ranks 578. Before him are Richard Wilbur, Ricardo Vidal, Steve Sumner, Simon Dickie, Howard Hodgkin, and John B. Anderson. After him are Norman Johnson, Robert Elsie, Zdeněk Šreiner, Jim Bunning, J. P. Donleavy, and Brent Briscoe.

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In Bulgaria

Among people born in Bulgaria, Boris Nikolov ranks 275 out of 415. Before him are Aleksandar Tomov (1949), Georgi Bliznashki (1956), Ekaterina Zakharieva (1975), Katerina Maleeva (1969), Kiril Petkov (1980), and Rumyancho Goranov (1950). After him are Mikhail Zhelev (1943), Elitsa Todorova (1977), Pavel Panov (1950), Sofi Marinova (1975), Kiril Georgiev (1965), and Zhan Videnov (1959).

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Among ATHLETES In Bulgaria

Among athletes born in Bulgaria, Boris Nikolov ranks 15. Before him are Yordanka Blagoeva (1947), Khristo Markov (1965), Halil Mutlu (1973), Svetla Otsetova (1950), Vladimir Ivanov (null), and Petar Petrov (1955). After him are Mikhail Zhelev (1943), Nikolina Shtereva (1955), Ginka Zagorcheva (1958), Yordan Mitkov (1956), Serafim Todorov (1969), and Ivan Ivanov (1971).

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