Borislav Novachkov

Borislav Novachkov

File:2016 Summer Olympics, Men's Freestyle Wrestling 65 kg 17.jpg Novachkov (right) at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Nationality	Bulgarian
Born	November 29, 1989 (1989-11-29) (age 36) Radnevo, People's Republic of Bulgaria
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport	Freestyle wrestling
Club	CSKA, Sofia Illinois wrestling club
Coached by	Valentin Raichev Mark Perry Rakhmat Sofiadi
Medal record Men's freestyle wrestling Representing Bulgaria European Wrestling Championships Silver medal – second place 2017 Novi sad 65 kg Bronze medal – third place 2014 Vantaa 65 kg Yasar Dogu Tournament Silver medal – second place 2015 Istanbul 65 kg Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament Gold medal – first place 2015 Sofia 65 kg Gold medal – first place 2017 Russe 65 kg Silver medal – second place 2014 Sofia 65 kg Silver medal – second place 2016 Sofia 65 kg Collegiate Wrestling Representing the Cal Poly Mustangs NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Silver medal – second place 2011 Philadelphia 141 lb Bronze medal – third place 2012 St. Louis 141 lb

Borislav Novachkov (Bulgarian: Борислав Новачков; born 29 November 1989) is a Bulgarian American freestyle wrestler. Competing for Bulgaria in the 65 kg division he won a bronze medal at the 2014 European Championships and silver medal at the 2017 European Championships. He also represented Bulgaria at the 2016 Olympics, where he was eliminated in the second bout.

Novachkov qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in the 65 kg freestyle class by winning a last-chance qualifier in Turkey. He wrestled collegiately at Cal Poly, where he won Pac-12 titles in 2010 and 2011 and was a three-time NCAA All-American (seventh in 2010, runner-up in 2011, third in 2012). He wrestled for Fremont High School in Sunnyvale, California where he was a two-time CIF California state champion. He also won two Central Coast Section Championships after finishing 2nd as a sophomore. Novachkov moved from Bulgaria to Sunnyvale, California, as an 8th grader, but was enrolled in high school a year early in order to keep him at the same school as his elder brother Filip Novachkov. Filip is also a California State Wrestling Champion and NCAA Qualifier for Cal Poly. Boris holds dual citizenship in the United States and Bulgaria, but chose to compete for his birth country. He beat the reining Olympic champion Toghrul Asgarov of Azerbaijan with a score 13-5 at the 2014 European Championships and won the reining World champion Soslan Ramonov of Russia by fall at the 2015 Yasar Dogu Tournament.

Novachkov studied biokinetics at the Cal Poly, where he was named Male Athlete of the Year in 2011. Together with his brother, he runs the company Bulgarian Muscle, which provides wrestling training and medical services. In 2012 he also started working as an assistant wrestling coach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He currently trains at Stanford University at the California Regional Training Center

He now trains and helps run the wrestling program at Odyssey Fitness in the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri and fights professionally in mma and is currently 2-1 in his mma career.