Bulgarians in the Hall of Fame

Valentin Jordanov

• Olympic champion from "Atlanta 96"
• Bronze medalist from the Olympic Games (1992)
• 7 times World champion (1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995)
• 7 times European champion (1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989)
• Declared the №1 freestyle wrestler of the 20-th century by the International Wrestling Federation
• Member of the UWW Hall of Fame Commission
• Admitted to the Hall of Fame in 2003

Enyo Valchev

• Won a full set of Olympic medals
• Olympic champion Tokyo 1964 and №1 in World (1962) 
• Two-time European champion (1968, 1969)
• Admitted to the Hall of Fame in 2005

Prodan Garjev 

• Olympic champion from Tokyo 64 
• Olympic bronze medalist from Mexico 68 
• Two-time world champion 
• Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2018.

Boyn Radev

• Two-time Olympic champion (1964, 1968)
• World champion (1966)
• Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2009 
• Awarded the highest award of the International Federation -"Golden Necklace"

Armen Nazaryan 

• Two-time Olympic champion (1996, 2000) 
• Olympic bronze medalist (2004)
• 3-time world champion (2002, 2003, 2005)
• 6-time European champion (1994, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003) 
• Twice named №1 classical wrestler by the International Federation (1998, 2003) 
• Admitted to the Hall of Fame in 2005

Аlexander Tomov

• Three-time Olympic silver medalist (1972, 1976, 1980) 
• 5-time world champion (1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979)
• 5-time European champion (1972, 1973, 1976, 1979, 1984)
• Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2003

Stanka Zlateva

•  5 time world champion
•  6 time European champion
•  2 time Olympic silver medalist
• 4 times declared No. 1 in the world by the International Federation
• Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2018.

• Honorary Vice-President of the International Federation (died in 2011)
• One of the authors of the main works on world wrestling
• Has over 300 scientific publications, 62 of them are books
• His works have been translated into many languages
• For 15 years he was the head coach of our national freestyle wrestling team
• He prepared our first Olympic and world champions