2nd World Deaf Volleyball Championships

       The 2nd World Deaf Volleyball Championships in 2012 (16 - 25 August) will be held in Bulgarian capital - Sofia. Competition venue will take place at the brand new sport hall which to be completed by late June 2011.

Preliminary Registration: Due by 11 February 2011

Final Registration: Due by 19 August 2011

Final Entry: Due by 01 August 2012

5th European Deaf Wrestling Championships

       Four medals in individual competition won the Bulgarian wrestlers at the European Deaf Wrestling Championships, which was held at Armenian capital Erevan from 3th to 8th October 2011. In Greco-Roman stile Christo Pavlov (96 kg) took the silver and Angel Kremov (55 kg) won the bronze. In team competition the Bulgarian wrestlers occupied the prestige 3 place.

       In free stile Plamen Donchev (66 kg) and Ilian Iliev (120 kg) also returned home with bronze medals. In team competition our free wrestlers, actuated by the coach Denislav Chemishki remained at 4th place.

       "The Championship was very strong. We are proud of our boy's success. We will begin the training sessions for the next competition in the next week" - told Chemishki and his helper Svetoslav Milenkov.

3th World Deaf Badminton Championships

       In women's double Baramova and Bozeva were defeated in the quarterfinals from Ishii/Ueda (JPN) with 2:1 (16, -16, 16). The first place took Iwatari/Inoue (JPN) after a win over Kim/Yu (KOR) in the final.

       In men's double Antov and Getov also reached to the quarterfinals, but were defeated from Teh/Yeo (MAS). The champion is the Korean double Woo/Choi, which defeated Bagga/Burris (GBR) 2:1.

№	counrty	total	gold	silver	bronze
1	Korea	5	2	1	2
2	Russia	7	1	2	4
3	Lithuania	4	1	2	1
4	Japan	2	1		1
5	Taipei	1	1
6	Great Britain	1		1
7	Bulgaria	1			1
7	Denmark	1			1
7	Malaysia	1			1

Bulgarian top female player Gergana Baramova won the bronze medal from the 3th World Deaf Badminton Championships in Bucheon (Kor). In the quarterfinals of the single tournament she defeated Ishii (JPN) with 2:0 (17, 8), but in the next match she lost from Fan (TPE) with 2:0 (8, 17). Fan took the gold after won the final.

       Bulgarian badminton team took 4th place in the competition of total 11 teams. At the semifinals our team was defeated from Korea with 3:0 and later the Asians grabbed the world title. In the match for 3th place the Bulgarians were defeated from Lithuania 3:0.