However, since Charles Champaud was a Swiss national living in Sofia, some sources credit his appearance to Switzerland instead.

Bulgarian athletes have won a total of 237 medals, with wrestling and weightlifting as the top medal-producing sports.

After the fall of the communist regime in 1989–90, in Bulgaria's turbulent transition to free-market democracy, top-notch state support for Bulgarian Olympians disintegrated.

In the 1988 Summer Olympics, Bulgaria ranked 7th but won the nation's largest total of gold medals.

Bulgaria's most successful Winter Olympics occurred in 1998 when the country ranked 15th in the medal table.