PETROVA Stanimira Nikolaeva

Bulgaria

Boxing

Date of Birth: 16 Dec 1990

Age: 30

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.68/5'6''

Place of birth: ASENOVGRAD

Birth Country:

Bulgaria

Place of residence : SOFIA

Residence Country:

Bulgaria

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Boxing	Women's Feather (54-57kg)	9

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Kokugikan Arena	Women's Feather (54-57kg) - Preliminaries - Round of 16 #68 BUL PETROVA SNPETROVA Stanimira Nikolaeva 2 COL ARIAS CASTANEDA YMARIAS CASTANEDA Yeni Marcela 3 WP	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
9	Fly	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women's Bantamweight	2014	Jeju, KOR
9	Feather	2018	New Delhi, IND
17	Feather	2019	Ulan-Ude, RUS
17	Fly	2016	Astana, KAZ

European Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Feather	2019	Minsk, BLR
1	Feather	2018	Sofia, BUL
1	Women's Bantamweight	2016	Sofia, BUL
3	Feather	2019	Madrid, ESP

Strandja Memorial

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Feather	2021	Sofia, BUL
1	Feather	2019	Sofia, BUL
1	Feather	2018	Sofia, BUL
1	Women's Bantamweight	2017	Sofia, BUL

Hobbies:

Drawing, listening to music, watching movies. (blitz.bg, 09 Dec 2017)

Occupation:

Athlete

Education:

National Academy of Sports, Sofia, BUL

Languages spoken:

Bulgarian, English

Club name:

Boxing Club Varna [Bulgaria]

Coach:

Petar Lesov [personal]

Other sports:

She competed in taekwondo for 15 years before taking up boxing. (espressonews.bg, 20 May 2018; bnr.bg, 12 Sep 2014)

Injuries:

In 2017 she had her tonsils removed as they had been affecting her performances for a number of years. (blitz.bg, 09 Dec 2017)

Start:

She began boxing in 2012. "[Then] during the Christmas and New Year holidays of 2013 I trained for two weeks with coach Alexander Hristov in Plovdiv, and he called the national coach Pavel Syarov. Hristov told him that he knew me well. In February 2014, Syarov took me and so began my real career in boxing." (eurocom.bg, 14 Jan 2018; aiba.org, 04 May 2016)

Reason:

She picked up boxing as an optional class during her studies at the National Academy of Sports in Sofia, Bulgaria. She had previously been involved in taekwondo for 15 years. "That was where I had learnt the constant movement of my legs and it also gave me the timing, feeling of distance and the right moment to punch." (blitz.bg, 09 Dec 2017; aiba.org, 13 May 2016, 04 May 2016; bnr.bg, 12 Sep 2014)

Ambition:

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (bgboxing.org, 12 Mar 2021)

Hero:

US boxer Muhammad Ali, British boxer Anthony Joshua, Ukrainian boxer Vasily Lomachenko, Bulgarian sprinter Ivet Lalova-Collio. (blitz.bg, 09 Dec 2017; aiba.org, 04 May 2016)

Influence:

Her family. (aiba.org, 04 May 2016)

Philosophy:

"Nothing is impossible." (aiba.org, 04 May 2016)

Award:

She was flag bearer for Bulgaria at the closing ceremony of the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus. (boec.bg, 09 Jul 2019)

General Interest

Olympic qualifying results
She secured a spot for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo through her performance at the 2021 European Qualifying Event in Paris, France. (boxing.athlete365.org, 06 Jun 2021)

Milestones

She became the first female Bulgarian boxer to win gold at the world championships when she triumphed in the bantamweight category at the 2014 edition of the tournament in Jeju, Republic of Korea. (SportsDeskOnline, 06 Jun 2016; aiba.org, 04 May 2016)

She was the first boxer representing Bulgaria to win gold at the European Games, claiming victory in the women's featherweight category at the 2019 Games in Minsk, Belarus. (SportsDeskOnline, 04 Jul 2021)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
WP:: Win on Points

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