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The Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) has issued a commemorative silver collector's coin to celebrate 100 years of athletics in Bulgaria.
Organised athletics in Bulgaria will celebrate its centenary in 2024, as an Athletics Committee was established within the Bulgarian National Sports Federation just a century ago. At the “Olympic Games in Athletics”, the first official competition, held at the Sofia Hippodrome in May 1924, the first national records were set and the Bulgarian athletes who participated in the Paris Olympic Games were selected: Kiril Petrunov (400 m sprint, long jump and triple jump), Lyubomir Karastoyanov (400 m), Vasil Venkov (10,000 m) and Alexander Tsvetanov (10,000 m).
The first official national championship took place in Sofia in 1926, and over the following decades the queen of sports attracted more and more followers in Bulgaria and contenders at international championships were crowned with titles and medals. The first medals for Bulgaria at the Olympic Games (Munich 1972) were won by athletes Yordanka Blagoeva (silver, high jump), Diana Yorgova (silver, long jump), Vasilka Stoeva (bronze, discus throw) and Ivanka Hristova (bronze, shot put), the latter also winning the first Olympic title for Bulgaria at the 1976 Montreal Games.
By the beginning of 2024, Bulgarian athletes have won 19 medals at the Olympic Games, 16 at the World Outdoor Championships and 22 at the World Indoor Championships, 40 at the European Championships and 95 at the European Indoor Championships for men and women, setting dozens of world records. Among these awards, there are four other Olympic titles: those of Khristo Markov (triple jump, Seoul 1988), Yordanka Donkova (100 m hurdles, Seoul 1988), Stefka Kostadinova (high jump, Atlanta 1996), in addition to her still unbeaten world record from Rome 1987, and Teresa Marinova (triple jump, Sydney 2000). In the 100-year history of Bulgarian athletics, Bulgaria hosted the Junior World Championships in Plovdiv in 1990 and the World Half Marathon Championships in Kavarna in 2012.
The reverse of the coin depicts three athletes against the background of the number "100" depicted in the centre, next to the inscriptions "100 ГОДИНИ" (100 years) at the top and "ЛЕКА АТЛЕТИКА В БЪЛГАРИЯ" (Athletics in Bulgaria) at the bottom.
On the other hand, the obverse of the coin features the BNB logo with the year “1879”, the face value “10 ЛЕВА” (10 leva) in two lines and the year of issue “2024” below. There is also the upper semicircular text “БЪЛГАРСКА НАРОДНА БАНКА” (Bulgarian National Bank).
Technical characteristics
Country: Bulgaria
Year: 2024
Face value: 10 leva
Metal: Silver
Purity: 999
Weight: 23.33 g
Diameter: 38.61 mm
Quality: Proof
Roll: 5.000
Design: Silvia Borisova
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