Winter Olympic Games

Slovenia's Tina Maze continued her quest to win five medals, clinching gold in the super combined Feb. 9 at the World Ski Championships to spoil Austria's bid for a podium sweep.
      
The 31-year-old World Cup points leader added to her medal haul at the worlds, which includes gold in the downhill and silver in Super-G.
     

Bulgarian snowborder Aleksandra Zhekova has won a gold medal in the 2015 Winter Universiade in Sierra Nevada, Spain.

This is the second gold in the student games, with Vladimir Zografski also grabbing a medal last week.

Surprisingly, Bulgaria did not compete in the men's relay race at the Biathlon European Championship in Otepaa, Estonia on Tuesday.

Only three Bulgarian biathletes were available to compete in the 4 x 7.5 kilometre relay race - Vladimir Iliev, Dimitar Partalov and Dimitar Gerdzhikov, daily Sega reports.

American ski queen Lindsey Vonn will be the headliner and gold medal favourite when the alpine world championships open with the women's Super-G on Feb. 3.
   

Bulgaria is to be represented by three skiers at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championship that takes place in Vail/Beaver Creek in Colorado between February 2 and 15.

The three Bulgarians, who are to compete in the giant slalom and the slalom in the second half of the championship, are Albert Popov, Stefan Prisadov and Maria Kirkova, daily Dnevnik reports.

Sweden's Mattias Hargin took advantage of a botched second leg by home favourite Marcel Hirscher to claim a maiden World Cup victory in Sunday's Kitzbuehel slalom.
      
Hirscher, the reigning world slalom champion and 2013 winner here, led after the first leg but a mistake halfway down the second run saw his time deficit overturned to hand Hargin a memorable triumph.

Winter equipment, sports fairs open in Belgrade

BELGRADE -- Former Slovenian skier Jure Košir opened on Thursday the 29th International Fair of Winter Sports Equipment, Tourism and Recreation EXPO-ZIM 2014,

BELGRADE - The new winter sports and tourism season in Serbia will kick off with EXPO-ZIM 2014, an international trade fair of winter sports equipment, tourism and recreation, which will be opened by Slovenia's famous alpine skier Jure Kosir on November 27.

Evgenia Radanova is born on November 4, 1977.

She has a degree from the National Sports Academy. 

A prosecution witness told the trial for crimes committed at Mt Igman that he twice had blood in his urine after being beaten by a soldier, whose name he heard was Nedzad Hodzic.