The Minister for Youth and Sport, Vesela Lecheva, presented awards to canoe and kayak competitors for their successes at world and European championships.
Yoana Georgieva was honoured for her European title in the under-23 200-metre kayak event and her bronze medal in the same discipline at the Under-23 World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.
Awards were also presented to the other medallists from the European Under-23 Canoe-Kayak Championships in Belgrade, Serbia – Radoslav Stefanov and Veselin Valchov (silver medal, K2 1000 m)
Preslav Georgiev (bronze medal, C1 200 m).