site.btaBulgarian Athletes Win Two Bronze Medals on Last Day of European Acrobatics Championships in Luxembourg

Bulgarian competitors won two bronze  medals on the last day of the Acrobatic Gymnastics European Championships for men, women, boys  and girls in Luxembourg.

In the men's and women's tempo combination, the men's pair Panayot Dimitrov and Georgi Stoyanov ranked third with a score of 27.510 points. The first place went to Miguel Lopez and Gonzalo Pareira (Portugal) with 27.890, followed by Daniel Abbasov/Murad Rafiev (Azerbaijan) with 27.730.

In the 13-19-year-old mixed pair on balance beam, Viliana Kostadinova and Kristian Manolov also won the bronze, after being rated with 27.880 points. Ahead of them were duets from Israel with 28.020 points and from Great Britain 2 with 28.010 points.

In the other two finals, the Bulgarian national team remained outside the top three. In the 13-19 time trial, the pair of Deya Hadjiatanasova and Raya Lozeva finished fifth with 26.680 points, and in the men's and women's mixed pair, Ralitsa Kirova and Plamen Yanev remained in seventh position with 25.970.

Thus, Bulgaria ended the championship with a total of four awards, after the pair of Raya Lozeva and Deya Hadjiatanasova won a silver medal in the balance final for girls in the  13-19 age category, and the mixed pair of Viliana Kostadinova and Kristian Manolov won bronze in the all-around.