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Borislav Gidikov
Personal information
Born
November 3, 1965 (1965-11-03) (age 58)
Medal record
Men's Olympic weightlifting
Olympic Games
1988 Seoul
-75 kg
World Championships Total
1987 Ostrava
-75 kg
1986 Sofia
-75 kg
European Championships Total
1986 Karl-Marx-Stadt
-75 kg
1987 Reims
-75 kg
IWF World Cup Final Total
1987 Seoul
-75 kg
IWF World Cup Total
1985 Varna
-75 kg
1986 Dobrich
-82,5 kg
1986 Meissen
-75 kg
1987 Pazardzhik
-75 kg
1988 Plovdiv
-82,5 kg
1988 Budapest
-82,5 kg
EWF European Team Cup Total
1986 Reims
-75 kg
Junior World Championships Total
1984 Lignano Sabbiadoro
-67,5 kg
1985 Edinburgh
-75 kg
European Junior Championships Total
1984 Lignano Sabbiadoro
-67,5 kg
1985 Edinburgh
-75 kg
Bulgarian Championships Total
1986 Kardzhali
-75 kg
Bulgarian Junior&Youth Championships Total
1985 Pleven
-75 kg
1982 Pazardzhik
-56 kg
Borislav Krastev Gidikov (Bulgarian: Борислав Кръстев Гидиков; born November 3, 1965, in Pazardzhik, Pazardzhik Province) is a former Bulgarian weightlifter. He became Olympic Champion in 1988 in the middleweight class.[1][2] His career continues 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 of 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.
^Profile: "Borislav Gidikov" - databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on December 31, 2007).
^"Olympic Games Medallists - Weightlifting" - (Retrieved on December 31, 2007).
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