Bulgaria at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Bulgaria at the Olympic Games
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At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano
Competitors	19 (8 men, 11 women) in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Lyubomir Popov (alpine skiing)
Medals Rank: 15	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
Gold	Dafovska, EkaterinaEkaterina Dafovska	Biathlon	Women's 15 km

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Lyubomir Popov	Giant Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Stefan Georgiev		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
	Time 1	Time 2	Time	Total time	Rank
Petar Dichev	51.16	DSQ	–	DSQ	–

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		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
	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
	Ekaterina Dafovska	53:52.0	1	54:52.0

Women's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	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
		Time	Rank
10 km C	Slavcho Batinkov	33:23.2	84
15 km pursuit^1 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
		Time	Rank
5 km C	Irina Nikulchina	20:52.6	70
10 km pursuit^2 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
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Evgeniya Radanova	500 m	45.977	1 Q	DSQ	–	Did not advance
Daniela Vlaeva		46.681	3	Did not advance
Daniela Vlaeva	1000 m	1:37.124	3	Did not advance
Evgeniya Radanova		1:39.279	2 Q	1:38.510	3	Did not advance

Snowboarding

Women's giant slalom

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

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1998, full results by sports-reference.com