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Bulgaria Strikes Gold at European Water Lifesaving Championship [Sep 19, 2011] Bulgaria's national water life saving team at the Bulgarian Red Cross showed an excellent performance at the 2011 European Surf Life Saving Championships in Alicante, Spain. On Sunday, Maria Zlatkova won gold at the 400M Surf Race, an open water event. The team race, which started on September 15, will continue until September 23. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Top Swimmer Petar Stoychev Wins 25 km Race at World Championship [Jul 23, 2011] Bulgaria's top swimmer Petar Stoychev has triumphed with the gold at the 25 km open water race in the World Swimming Championship. Stoychev, who is turning 35 in October, managed to defeat his competitors at the world water sports competition in Shanghai, China, on Saturday, while the race itself attracted criticism because the water temperature exceeded the safety standards at 30.4 degrees ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Boyanka Kostova Grabs Weightlifting Olympic Gold [Aug 16, 2010] Bulgaria's Boyanka Kostova won a historic victory for Bulgaria after clinching the weightlifting gold in the girls' under-53kg category in the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore on Monday. [via YahooNews] More >>

YOG: Bulgaria's Boyanka Kostova clinches weightlifting gold [Aug 16, 2010] SINGAPORE: Bulgaria's Boyanka Kostova clinched the weightlifting gold in the Girls' Under-53kg category in the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore on Monday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Dundee Precious Plans for Bulgaria Suffer New Setback in Court [Apr 16, 2010] Toronto-based Dundee Precious Metals Inc. announced that a Bulgarian supreme court has confirmed the revocation of a 2008 environmental impact assessment resolution, which gave the green light to its gold and copper mine in Chelopech, Bulgaria. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria PM Presents Istanbul with Copy of Thracian Treasure (Novinite.com) [Jan 30, 2010] Bulgaria?s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, gave to the Mayor of Istanbul, Kadir Topba?, as gift a copy of the Gold Thracian Treasure. The official ceremony took place Saturday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Canada's Dundee freezes smelter project in Bulgaria (Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News) [Jan 25, 2010] Canada's Dundee Precious Metals Inc has frozen its plans to build a gold and copper smelter in Bulgaria over delayed construction permits, a senior company official said on Monday. [via YahooNews] More >>