Kiril Nikolov ( Bulgarian: Кирил Николов, born 1982), also known as the Disl, is a

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n orienteer. He was born in Ruse. When he was young he tried all kinds of sport, but in 1998 he finally found his love: orienteering. The next year he was in the national team, and one more year later he tried

Junior World Orienteering Championships The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) are an annual orienteering competition. They were first held in 1990. Entry is open to national teams aged 20 and below as of 31 December in the year of competition. Representative countries mu ...

. At his first

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(at the age of 21) he made very good results - 12th on the sprint / 15th on the long distance. During the World Championships in 2004 he showed the orienteering fans his class in the

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events, coming 5th on the first leg, just seconds after the first teams. The world started talking about him after his incredible run on the first leg of

Tiomila Tiomila or 10-mila is an orienteering race held annually in Sweden since 1945, usually in late April or early May. It is a 10-man relay which includes both night and daytime legs. The women's race consists of five daylight legs. Tiomila attracts c ...

2005 - it was two seconds from the leading team, and the 3rd place was success for the whole Bulgaria. At the moment he is training in Bulgaria and

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. He placed 6th in the sprint at the 2009 World Orienteering Championships in

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, and also participated on the Bulgarian relay team (which placed 18th). In August 2015 he successfully finished the tourist route

Kom–Emine Kom–Emine () is a high-mountain long-distance trail in Bulgaria. The route follows the main ridge of the Balkan Mountains, which bisect the country and give the Balkan Peninsula its name. Beginning at Kom Peak () in the west near the border with ...

for 4 days and 13 hours and 5 minutes, thus setting a record for the route.

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Kiril Nikolov
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