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Boris Georgiev Nikolov (Bulgarian: Борис Георгиев Николов; 10 March 1929 – 29 January 2017) was a Bulgarian boxer from Dobrich.
Nikolov was the first Bulgarian ever to win a medal at the Olympics. He competed for Bulgaria in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the middleweight event where he finished in third place and took a Bronze medal. In 2010 he was awarded the Stara Planina Order 1st class.
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