Boris Nikolov (boxer)
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Full name | Boris Georgiev Nikolov | ||||||||||||
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10 March 1929 (age 87) Dobrich, Bulgaria | ||||||||||||
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Boris Georgiev Nikolov (Bulgarian: Борис Георгиев Николов (born 10 March 1929) is a boxer from Dobrich, Bulgaria.
He is the first Bulgarian ever to win a medal at the Olympics. He competed for Bulgaria in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the middleweight event where he finished in third place and took a Bronze medal. In 2010 he was awarded the Stara Planina Order 1st class.
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