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Born on 29.07.1957 in Plovdiv
Bogdan Dobrev is part of the only Bulgarian team to ever win an Olympic medal. Dobrev, Lyubomir Petrov, Ivo Rusev and Mincho Nikolov ranked third at quad scull in 1980 in Moscow, Russia. At the 1977 World Championship in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, he ranked third at quad scull, and in 1978 in New Zealand he was fifth with the same boat.
Dobrev started training rowing in 1972 under the coach Andon Andonov, with whom he achieved his best results. He competed for the team of Trakiya Plovdiv. In the period from 1976 until 1978 Dobrev was in the military and competed for the team of CSKA. After ending his competitive sports career he became a coach at the Vasil Levski Sports School in Plovdiv. Dobrev is an Honored Master of Sports and winner of state awards.
Project № BG06-103 "Establishing a Youth Centre in the City of Plovdiv" under the programme "Children and Youth at Risk", component 1 "Care for Youth at Risk" with the financial support of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2009-2014.
Project № BGLD-1.003-0002 "Youth Centre Plovdiv - a powerful factor for local development" under the programme “Local development, poverty reduction and enhanced inclusion of vulnerable groups” funded by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2014-2021.
Rowing Channel, 18 Jasna Poljana Str., Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria