Delko Lesev (; born 6 January 1967) is a retired

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pole vault Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a #bar, bar. Pole jumping was already practiced by the ...

er. His personal best jump was 5.70 metres, achieved in June 1991 in

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. This ranks him fourth among Bulgarian pole vaulters, behind

Spas Bukhalov Spas Bukhalov (Cyrillic: Спас Бухалов; born 14 November 1980) is a Bulgarian pole vaulter. He won the 2001 Balkan Games and finished sixth at the 2007 European Indoor Championships. He also competed at the Olympic Games in 2004 as well ...

Atanas Tarev Atanas Kirilov Tarev (; born 31 January 1958 in Plovdiv Province) is a retired pole vaulter from Bulgaria. He won a bronze medal at the inaugural World Championships in 1983, and won the European Indoor Championships The European Indoor Champio ...

, Nikolay Nikolov, and joint with Stanimir Penchev and

Iliyan Efremov Iliyan Efremov (Cyrillic: Илиян Ефремов; born 2 August 1970) is a Bulgarian pole vaulter. He finished tenth at the 1988 World Junior Championships and thirteenth at the 2006 European Championships. He also won gold medals at the 1996 ...

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* 1967 births Living people Bulgarian male pole vaulters Bulgarian Athletics Championships winners 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen {{Bulgaria-athletics-bio-stub