Listen to the news

Sad news for Bulgarian sport!

The famous weightlifting coach Ilian Iliev died suddenly.

The coach of the leading club "Start" - Cherven Bryag passed away at the age of 57, reports the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation.


A famous Bulgarian sports journalist has died

Iliev is the discoverer and personal trainer of our promising talent Carlos Nassar.

The latter is the current men's world champion, with our 18-year-old heavyweight currently in the final stages of his preparations for the championships in Bogota, Colombia (December 5-16).



Iliev trained and competed in Cherven Bryag for many years - between 1978 and 1984.

Then he defends the colors of Academic St.



After completing his education, he became a coach at SKVT "Start", where in his last years he trained a number of children and teenagers from this part of Bulgaria.



In addition to Nassar, Iliev is the personal mentor of our youth nationals Angel Georgiev, Martin Toshev, Zahari Venkov and many others.

For the year 2021, Iliev was selected as Bulgaria's No. 1 Weightlifting Coach.

He is the father of not two children.

Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation expresses its condolences to the family of Ilian Iliev.

deceased Bulgarian

coach