Atanas Komchev
Medal record | ||
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Men's Greco-Roman wrestling | ||
Representing Bulgaria | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1988 Seoul | Light heavyweight | |
World Wrestling Championships | ||
1982 Katowice | 90 kg | |
1983 Kiev | 90 kg | |
1986 Budapest | 90 kg | |
1985 Kolbotn | 90 kg | |
1987 Clermont-Ferrand | 90 kg |
Atanas Komchev (Bulgarian: Атанас Комшев, 23 October 1959 – 12 November 1994) was a Bulgarian wrestler and Olympic champion.
He became Olympic champion in 1988 in the Greco-Roman light heavyweight class.[1] He received three silver medals and two bronze medals in the FILA Wrestling World Championships. Komchev was in an automobile accident on 2 November 1994 and died 10 days later, on 12 November.
References[]
- ^ "1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, South Korea –Wrestling" Archived 2008-05-31 at the Wayback Machine– databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on March 8, 2008)
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- 1959 births
- People from Karnobat
- Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Bulgarian male sport wrestlers
- Olympic gold medalists for Bulgaria
- 1994 deaths
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Road incident deaths in Bulgaria
- Bulgarian sport wrestler stubs
- Bulgarian Olympic medalist stubs