Borislav Gidikov
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Borislav Krastev Gidikov (Template:Langx; born November 3, 1965, in Pazardzhik, Pazardzhik Province) is a former Bulgarian weightlifter.
Professional career
He became Olympic Champion in 1988 in the middleweight class.[1][2] His career continued from 1979 to 1990. Until 1983, he was a competitor of Hebar Pazardzhik, and then until 1990, he was a competitor of Slavia Sofia.
His personal trainers were Hristo Popov and Lyudmil Kochev. In the national team, Bulgaria was trained by the great Ivan Abadjiev. The story of how Borislav chose weightlifting before football is interesting. His father was a bus driver at Hebar football club. When Gidikov wondered which sport to choose in the beginning, his father told him that in football he would depend on another 10 people, and in weightlifting he would depend only on himself. So Borislav chose weightlifting to become one of the greatest Bulgarian weightlifters in the 1980s.
His most notable success was in 1988, when he made six successful attempts at the Seoul Olympics to win the gold medal in cat. 75 kg. He is former Secretary General of the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation.
References
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- ↑ Profile: "Borislav Gidikov" - databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on December 31, 2007).
- ↑ "Olympic Games Medallists - Weightlifting" - (Retrieved on December 31, 2007).
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- Living people
- Bulgarian male weightlifters
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- Sportspeople from Pazardzhik Province
- Weightlifters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Bulgaria
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- Olympic weightlifters for Bulgaria
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- World record setters in weightlifting
- European Weightlifting Championships medalists
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