Blagovest Stoyanov (, born March 21, 1968, in

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) is a

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who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two

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, he won a bronze in the C-2 500 m event at

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. Stoyanov's best

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results also came in the C-2 with Marinov. At the 1994 championships in

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, they won the C-2 500 m bronze medal. The following year, in

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, they were again bronze medalists, this time in the C-2 200 m event.

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