Kiril Nikolov

Kiril Nikolov, also known as the Disl, is a Bulgarian orienteer born in 1982 in Ruse. He tried many sports as a child before settling on orienteering in 1998, joined the national team the next year and ran the Junior World Orienteering Championships a year later. At his first World Orienteering Championships in Switzerland, at the age of 21, he placed 12th in the sprint and 15th in the long distance. His run on the first leg of Tiomila 2005 finished two seconds behind the leaders and was a success for Bulgaria. He placed sixth in the sprint at the 2009 World Orienteering Championships in Miskolc. In 2015 he completed the Kom to Emine tourist route in 4 days, 13 hours and 5 minutes, a record for the route.