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Police Constable KOUTSIOUMPAS Xenofon<br />
He participated with the Hellenic Olympic Team<br />
in Greek roman Wrestling and he won the<br />
7th place at the category of 120kg.<br />
At the European Police Championship, organized<br />
by our National Union in May 2004 in Athens, he<br />
won the 1st place at the same category.<br />
Police Constable KOUTSIOUMPAS Georgios<br />
He participated with the Hellenic Olympic<br />
Team in Greek roman Wrestling and he won the<br />
7th place at the category of 96kg.<br />
At the European Police Championship, organized<br />
by our National Union in May 2004 in<br />
Athens, he won the 1st place at the same category.<br />
Student of Police Academy CHATZINIKOU<br />
Eleftheria<br />
She participated with the Hellenic Olympic<br />
Team in Women Volleyball as a setter.<br />
Goulas Christos, Griechenland<br />
22<br />
Bulgarian Police Officers<br />
Participants In The Olympic<br />
Games<br />
10 500 sportsmen representatives of 201<br />
countries took part in the Olympic Games<br />
– Athens, Greece 13. – 29.08.2004.<br />
There were 75 countries, which won<br />
Olympic medals.<br />
The Bulgarian sportsmen, who took part<br />
in the Olympic Games, won 12 Olympic<br />
medals total – 2 golden, 1 silver and 9<br />
bronze.<br />
In the ranking by nations, according the<br />
total number of medals won, Republic of<br />
Bulgaria takes 20th place and according to<br />
golden medals won – 33rd place.<br />
The fact that Bulgaria takes 4th place<br />
within the Balkan region, after Romania,<br />
Greece and Turkey, is very sad.<br />
During the year before the Olympic<br />
Games, while taking part in World and<br />
European Championships, as well as preliminary<br />
rounds, total number of 31<br />
sportsmen received the right to participate<br />
in the Games. 12 out of these 31 sportsmen<br />
were police officers, employed in the<br />
Bulgarian Ministry of Interior.<br />
Because of different reasons, several of<br />
our competitors – police officers couldn’t<br />
take part and so in that enormous event a<br />
total number of 30 sportsmen, including<br />
10 police officers took part.<br />
After the start of the Games, the Bulgarian<br />
sportsmen took part in 32 different events<br />
and they successfully classified to 10<br />
Olympic finals.<br />
The final position of the Bulgarian police<br />
officers is the following:<br />
captain Maria Grozdeva – shooting<br />
Olympic champion – 25m. pistol<br />
Bronze medal – 10m. pneumatic pistol<br />
chief sergeant Ivet Lalova – track and<br />
field<br />
4th place – 100m. race<br />
5th place – 200m. race<br />
chief sergeant Milko Kazanov and chief<br />
sergeant Petar Merkov<br />
4th place K-4 1000m. – canoe kayak<br />
Because of a bad draw several of our colleagues<br />
could not develop their potential<br />
for participating in the Olympic finals and<br />
took the following positions:<br />
lieutenant Bojidar Boyadjiev – 9th place<br />
- Wrestling Graeco-Roman Style – category<br />
120 kg.<br />
chief sergeant Salim Salimov – 24th<br />
place – Boxing – category 48 kg.<br />
With better personal achievement but no<br />
participation in the final,<br />
second lieutenant Petar Stoychev took<br />
17th place – Swimming 1500m.<br />
As a conclusion we may say that the<br />
sportsmen, employed in the Bulgarian<br />
Ministry of Interior, represented Bulgaria<br />
in a very good way by winning 2 medals –<br />
one golden and one bronze, one 4th place,<br />
one 5th, 6th and 9th place in the final<br />
ranking of the Games.<br />
Liusien Velchev, Bulgaria<br />
Good performance by<br />
German police athletes<br />
Thanks to their good prior performance<br />
and their compliance with the set qualifying<br />
standards, a total of eight German<br />
police sportsmen and –women had the<br />
opportunity of starting in the Athens<br />
Games. Compared with the previous<br />
Olympic Games this was a distinct<br />
improvement: Only 5 police officers had<br />
qualified for Barcelona in 1992 and<br />
Atlanta in 1996, respectively, while there<br />
were only three that went to Sydney in<br />
2000. This time, police athletes represented<br />
their country in the following disciplines:<br />
rowing, track and field, cycling<br />
and wrestling.<br />
Although the track record of the usually<br />
very successful German Rowing<br />
Federation was rather modest on the<br />
Schinias course with two gold and two silver<br />
medals, there was one German boat to<br />
fully meet the expectations. The women’s<br />
quadruple scull took Olympic Gold for the<br />
fourth time in a row, with a secure lead<br />
over the teams from Great-Britain and<br />
Australia. Aboard the German boat we<br />
saw a reappearance of WDI1 Meike Evers<br />
from the Ratzeburg Rowing Club (RC)<br />
that is so rich in tradition. Her renewed<br />
success made Meike Evers repeat her<br />
Olympic success from Sydney in 2000.<br />
Back then she was the first ever female<br />
Olympic champion of the German police<br />
at Olympic Summer Games. This further
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