# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mincho-pashov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:45:13.397Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mincho-pashov"
name: "Mincho Pashov"
slug: "mincho-pashov"
description: "Mincho Pashov was a Bulgarian weightlifter. He won the bronze medal in the 67.5 kg in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In 1980 and 1981 he was a world junior champion. He is three-time World Senior vice-champion - 1981, 1982, 1985, and two-time European Senior vice-champion - 1981, 1982, in 67,5 and 75 kg category. At the World Championship in 1982 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, he and Yanko Rusev improved six world records in six minutes in the category up to 75 kg. Pashov started training weightlifting in 1972 under Gancho Karushkov. He studied at the Vasil Levski Sports School and continued his education at the National Sports Academy. Mincho Pashov competed for the teams of Maritsa Plovdiv, CSKA and Levski-Spartak. Pashov has won a total of 25 medals - 7 gold, 12 silver and 6 bronze, in total, snatch and clean and jerk from Olympic Games, World and European Championships. Despite being a very strong contender, Pashov never won a top gold medal on the international arena. He had a superb opponents’ list including his teammates Yanko Rusev and Joachim Kunz when he pursued the win in the lightweight. And then in the middleweight he was facing, first, Yanko Rusev and then another fascinating athlete Alexander Varbanov. Pashov set three world records in his career – all three in the clean-and-jerk in the 75 kg class."
tagline: "Bulgarian weightlifter (1961-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Memorial_plaque_to_Mincho_Pashov.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1961-11-07"
deathDate: "2019-11-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.548387096774194
  historical:           8.269690666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Минчо Пашов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Минчо Пашов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincho_Pashov"
    title: "Mincho Pashov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincho_Pashov"
    title: "Mincho Pashov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%86%D9%88_%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "مینچو پاشوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincho_Pashov"
    title: "Mincho Pashov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min%C4%8Do_Pa%C5%A1ov"
    title: "Minčo Pašov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minczo_Paszow"
    title: "Minczo Paszow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%BE"
    title: "Пашов, Минчо"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump