Bulgaria at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Bulgaria at the Olympic Games
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At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck
Competitors	29 (men) in 4 sports
Medals	Gold 0	Silver 0	Bronze 0	Total 0
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Bulgaria competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Georgi Kochov	Downhill					1:55.82	50
Ivan Penev						1:55.86	48
Vladimir Drazhev	Giant Slalom	1:55.73	50	DNF	–	DNF	–
Georgi Kochov		1:54.86	47	DNF	–	DNF	–
Ivan Penev		1:51.59	35	1:52.51	30	3:44.10	31
Petar Popangelov		1:50.68	32	1:48.36	23	3:39.04	26
Georgi Kochov	Slalom	DNF	–	–	–	DNF	–
Sashko Dikov		n/a	?	DNF	–	DNF	–
Ivan Penev		1:07.94	35	1:10.25	24	2:18.19	28

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time 1	Rank
20 km	Iliya Todorov	1'20:57.60	7	1'27:57.60	43
	Khristo Madzharov	1'18:02.62	7	1'25:02.62	32

¹ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Khristo Barzanov	50:08.09	60
	Petar Pankov	48:08.46	41
	Lyubomir Toskov	47:04.87	26
	Ivan Lebanov	47:02.41	24
30 km	Khristo Barzanov	1'41:05.91	53
	Petar Pankov	1'39:27.77	49
	Lyubomir Toskov	1'39:10.94	48
50 km	Petar Pankov	2'57:07.93	40
	Lyubomir Toskov	2'55:11.11	39

Men's 4 x 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Lyubomir Toskov Ivan Lebanov Khristo Barzanov Petar Pankov	2'19:45.66	14

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1976 Winter Olympics

First Round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Czechoslovakia	14–1	Bulgaria

Consolation Round

Rank		Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
7	Romania	5	4	1	0	23	15	8
8	Austria	5	3	2	0	18	14	6
9	Japan	5	3	2	0	20	18	6
10	Yugoslavia	5	3	2	0	22	19	6
11	Switzerland	5	2	3	0	24	22	4
12	Bulgaria	5	0	5	0	19	38	0

• Austria 6-2 Bulgaria
• Switzerland 8-3 Bulgaria
• Yugoslavia 8-5 Bulgaria
• Romania 9-4 Bulgaria
• Japan 7-5 Bulgaria

Contestants Petar Radev Atanas Iliev Ivan Markovski Nikolay Petrov Dimo Krastinov Dimitri Lazarov Ivan Penelov Georgi Iliev Ivaylo Kalev Lyubomir Lyubomirov Iliya Bachvarov Bozhidar Minchev Milcho Nenov Ivan Atanasov Kiril Gerasimov Marin Bachvarov Malin Atanasov Nikolay Mikhaylov

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• Olympic Winter Games 1976, full results by sports-reference.com