Bulgaria at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Bulgaria at the 1964 Summer Olympics
IOC code	BUL
NOC	Bulgarian Olympic Committee
Website	www.bgolympic.org (in Bulgarian and English)
in Tokyo
Competitors	63 in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Enyu Valchev
Medals Ranked 11th	Gold 3 Silver 5 Bronze 2 Total 10
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Bulgaria competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 63 competitors, 56 men and 7 women, took part in 56 events in 9 sports.^[1]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Enyu Valchev	Wrestling	Men's freestyle lightweight	14 October
Gold	Prodan Gardzhev	Wrestling	Men's freestyle middleweight	14 October
Gold	Boyan Radev	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight	19 October
Silver	Stancho Kolev	Wrestling	Men's freestyle featherweight	14 October
Silver	Angel Kerezov	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman flyweight	19 October
Silver	Kiril Petkov	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman welterweight	19 October
Silver	Velichko Velichkov	Shooting	Men's 50 metre rifle three positions	20 October
Silver	Lyutvi Ahmedov	Wrestling	Men's freestyle heavyweight	14 October
Bronze	Said Mustafov	Wrestling	Men's freestyle light heavyweight	13 October
Bronze	Aleksandar Nikolov	Boxing	Men's light heavyweight	21 October

Men

Women

One cyclist represented Bulgaria in 1964. Stefan Kirev from Kazanlak.

1000m time trial

Four shooters represented Bulgaria in 1964. Velichko Velichkov won the silver medal in the 50 m rifle, three positions event.

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
		Score	Rank
Dencho Denev	50 m pistol	543	15
	25 m rapid fire pistol	582	18
Martsel Koen	50 m rifle three positions	1130	23
	50 m rifle prone	589	25
Todor Kozlovski	50 m pistol	540	23
Velichko Velichkov	50 m rifle three positions	1152
	50 m rifle prone	592	10

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Soviet Union	9	8	1	17	25	5	5.000	415	279	1.487
2	Czechoslovakia	9	8	1	17	26	10	2.600	486	399	1.218
3	Japan	9	7	2	16	22	12	1.833	475	372	1.277
4	Romania	9	6	3	15	19	15	1.267	432	394	1.096
5	Bulgaria	9	5	4	14	20	16	1.250	464	429	1.082
6	Hungary	9	4	5	13	18	18	1.000	449	466	0.964
7	Brazil	9	3	6	12	13	23	0.565	410	474	0.865
8	Netherlands	9	2	7	11	11	24	0.458	378	482	0.784
9	United States	9	2	7	11	10	23	0.435	360	450	0.800
10	South Korea	9	0	9	9	9	27	0.333	376	500	0.752

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
13 Oct	Bulgaria	3–0	Brazil	16–14	15–10	15–6			46–30
14 Oct	Czechoslovakia	3–2	Bulgaria	15–13	13–15	15–11	7–15	15–11	65–65
15 Oct	Romania	3–2	Bulgaria	15–6	11–15	5–15	15–13	15–8	61–57
17 Oct	Japan	3–1	Bulgaria	15–10	12–15	15–6	15–10		57–41
18 Oct	Bulgaria	3–2	Netherlands	15–11	8–15	15–8	14–16	15–8	67–58
19 Oct	Bulgaria	3–0	United States	15–9	15–13	15–7			45–29
21 Oct	Bulgaria	3–1	South Korea	15–4	12–15	15–11	15–9		57–39
22 Oct	Soviet Union	3–0	Bulgaria	15–2	16–14	15–13			46–29
23 Oct	Bulgaria	3–1	Hungary	15–9	15–12	12–15	15–8		57–44

• Dimitar Karov
• Ivan Gochev
• Gergi Konstandinov
• Petko Panteleev
• Peter Kruchmarov
• Simeon Srandev
• Lachezar Stoyanov
• Boris Gyuderov
• Kiril Ivanov
• Slavko Slavov
• Georgi Spasov
• Angel Koritarov

Men

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database