The Bulgarian Yavor Ganchev won a gold medal from the archery competition “Ancestors’ day” held in Hungary. Ganchev is a member of the Proto-Bulgarian survival school “Baga-Tur” which excelled also with another member in this competition – Nina Yakova who won the bronze medal.

15 nations and 90 competitors were present at the traditional Hungarian archery competition. Yavor stated that he believes the secret of his success to be the Bulgarian hornbeam bow. The bow has been handcrafted by the Bulgarian Marian Maniovski following the traditional technology excluding the usage of contemporary materials, added Yavor.  He could made seven successive direct hits, running zigzag between hurdles for a record period of time. 

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