Bulgaria at the 1976 Winter Olympics
# Bulgaria at the 1976 Winter Olympics

Bulgaria competed at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. It did not earn any medals.

## Alpine skiing

### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Georgi Kochov | Downhill | | | | | 1:55.82 | 50 |
| Ivan Penev | Downhill | | | | | 1:55.86 | 48 |
| Vladimir Drazhev | Giant Slalom | 1:55.73 | 50 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Georgi Kochov | Giant Slalom | 1:54.86 | 47 | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Ivan Penev | Giant Slalom | 1:51.59 | 35 | 1:52.51 | 30 | 3:44.10 | 31 |
| Petar Popangelov | Giant Slalom | 1:50.68 | 32 | 1:48.36 | 23 | 3:39.04 | 26 |
| Georgi Kochov | Slalom | DNF | – | – | – | DNF | – |
| Sashko Dikov | Slalom | n/a | ? | DNF | – | DNF | – |
| Ivan Penev | Slalom | 1:07.94 | 35 | 1:10.25 | 24 | 2:18.19 | 28 |

## Biathlon

### Men

| Event | Athlete | Time | Penalties | Adjusted time $^1$ | Rank |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 20 km | Iliya Todorov | 1'20:57.60 | 7 | 1'27:57.60 | 43 |
| 20 km | Khristo Madzharov | 1'18:02.62 | 7 | 1'25:02.62 | 32 |

    $^1$ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

## Cross-country skiing

### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| - | - | - | - |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Khristo Barzanov | 50:08.09 | 60 |
| 15 km | Petar Pankov | 48:08.46 | 41 |
| 15 km | Lyubomir Toskov | 47:04.87 | 26 |
| 15 km | Ivan Lebanov | 47:02.41 | 24 |
| 30 km | Khristo Barzanov | 1'41:05.91 | 53 |
| 30 km | Petar Pankov | 1'39:27.77 | 49 |
| 30 km | Lyubomir Toskov | 1'39:10.94 | 48 |
| 50 km | Petar Pankov | 2'57:07.93 | 40 |
| 50 km | Lyubomir Toskov | 2'55:11.11 | 39 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| - | - | - |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Lyubomir Toskov Ivan Lebanov Khristo Barzanov Petar Pankov | 2'19:45.66 | 14 |

## Ice hockey

### First round

Winners (in bold) entered the Medal Round. Other teams played a consolation round for 7th-12th places.

| Team 1 | Score | Team 2 |
| - | - | - |
| Czechoslovakia | 14–1 | Bulgaria |

### Consolation round

| Rank | | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 7 | Romania | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 15 | 8 |
| 8 | Austria | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 14 | 6 |
| 9 | Japan | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 18 | 6 |
| 10 | Yugoslavia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 19 | 6 |
| 11 | Switzerland | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 22 | 4 |
| 12 | Bulgaria | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 38 | 0 |

* Austria 6-2 Bulgaria
* Switzerland 8-3 Bulgaria
* Yugoslavia 8-5 Bulgaria
* Romania 9-4 Bulgaria
* Japan 7-5 Bulgaria
* Contestants Petar Radev Atanas Iliev Ivan Markovski Nikolay Petrov Dimo Krastinov Dimitri Lazarov Ivan Penelov Georgi Iliev Ivaylo Kalev Lyubomir Lyubomirov Iliya Bachvarov Bozhidar Minchev Milcho Nenov Ivan Atanasov Kiril Gerasimov Marin Bachvarov Malin Atanasov Nikolay Mikhaylov
