Born on 23.03.1959 in Plovdiv Petar Zapryanov is a bronze medalist from the 1980 Moscow Olympics in Russia in the discipline 50 meter rifle prone. He was also a winner of the same discipline at the Druzhba tournament in Moscow, Russia, in 1984. Zapryanov participated in two world and several European championships. From international tournaments he has won over 10 gold and silver medals. In 1981 he set an absolute record in his discipline – 600 out of 600 possible points. For a period of 12 years he was the best Bulgarian competitor with a small caliber rifle. Zapryanov was part of the national team for more than 15 years. He started practicing sport shooting in 1975 under the trainer Atanas Chitanov and later under Evgeni Binev in Maritsa (Plovdiv). He competed with a pneumatic and a small caliber rifle. |
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.