Full name Kaloyan Dinchev Nationality Bulgaria | Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Name Kaloyan Dinchev Weight 96 kg (212 lb) | |
Born 3 February 1980 (age 44) ( 1980-02-03 ) Stara Zagora, Bulgaria | ||
Kaloyan Dinchev (Bulgarian: Калоян Динчев; born February 3, 1980 in Stara Zagora) is an amateur Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's heavyweight category. He won a bronze medal for his division at the 2006 World Wrestling Championships in Guangzhou, China. He is also a two-time Olympian, and a member of Slavia Litex Wrestling Club in Sofia, under his personal coach Bratan Tzenov.
Dinchev made his official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he placed second in the preliminary pool of the men's 96 kg class, against Kyrgyzstan's Gennady Chkhaidze and Palau's John Tarkong.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Dinchev competed for the second time in the men's 96 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out to three-time Olympian and Czech wrestler Marek Švec, with a three-set technical score (4–1, 1–3, 1–1), and a classification point score of 1–3.