Kaloyan Dinchev

Olympic athlete

1980 –

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Who is Kaloyan Dinchev?

Kaloyan Dinchev is an amateur Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's heavyweight category. He won a bronze medal for his division at the 2006 World Wrestling Championships in Guangzhou, China. He is also a two-time Olympian, and a member of Slavia Litex Wrestling Club in Sofia, under his personal coach Bratan Tzenov.

Dinchev made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed second in the preliminary pool of the men's 96 kg class, against Kyrgyzstan's Gennadiy Chkhaidze and Palau's John Tarkong.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Dinchev competed for the second time in the men's 96 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out to three-time Olympian and Czech wrestler Marek Švec, with a three-set technical score, and a classification point score of 1–3.

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Born
Feb 3, 1980
Stara Zagora
Nationality
  • Bulgaria
Profession
Lived in
  • Stara Zagora

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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