|
[Dec 27] Marian
Dragulescu, top Balkan athlete
WORLD sport gymnastics champion Marian
Dragulescu of Romania was named top Balkan athlete for
2005 in the 33rd annual poll by Bulgarian news agency BTA.
The poll covered six news agencies from Balkan countries:
the Anadolu Agency (Turkey), Romania’s Rompres, TANJUG (Serbia
and Montenegro), Greece’s ANA, ATA of Albania, and BTA. This
was the sixth time in the history of the poll that the winner
was a sports gymnast. A total of 27 athletes were nominated,
representing 15 sports (sports gymnastics, basketball, skiing,
weightlifting, rowing, swimming, judo, chess, Greco-Roman
wrestling, free-style wrestling, football, water polo, boxing,
tennis, sumo). Attending the ceremony at which BTA director-general
Maxim Minchev announced the result were Vessela Lecheva, chairperson
of the State Agency of Youth and Sports, representatives of
diplomatic missions of the Balkan countries to Bulgaria, including
Romanian ambassador Mihail Rosianu, Bulgarian and foreign
journalists. (Sofia
Echo)
Romanian Gymnastics News Archive.
|
