Bulgaria at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Bulgaria at the Olympic Games
Flag of Bulgaria – Flag bearers IOC code  BUL NOC Bulgarian Olympic Committee Website www.bgolympic.org (Bulgarian)
At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki
Competitors	63 in 8 sports
Medals Rank: 40	Gold 0	Silver 0	Bronze 1	Total 1
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Bulgaria competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. The nation returned to the Olympic Games after having missed the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Medalists

Bronze

• Boris Nikolov — Boxing, Men's Middleweight

Results by event

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

• Qualification Round (Group A)

• Defeated Switzerland (69-58)
• Defeated Cuba (62-56)

• Main Round (Group B)

• Lost to Soviet Union (46-74)
• Defeated Mexico (52-44)
• Defeated Finland (65-64)

• Final Round (Group B)

• Lost to Argentina (56-100)
• Lost to Uruguay (54-62)
• Defeated France (67-58)

• Classification Matches

• 5th/8th place: Lost to Chile (53-60)
• 7th/8th place: Defeated France (58-44) → Seventh place

Cycling

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

• Petar Georgiev — 5:24:34.0 (→ 46th place)
• Boyan Kotsev — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Ilya Velchev — did not finish (→ no ranking)
• Milcho Rosev — did not finish (→ no ranking)

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database