He graduated from the National Sports Academy "Vasil Levski" in 2000 with a specialization in tennis, and in 2001–2002 he defended his master's degree. As an active tennis competitor, he has participated in many national and international tournaments. His best ranking is ATP doubles - 1145th place. From 2002 to 2006, he worked as head coach at UTK "Akademik", responsible for the representative teams of boys and girls, men and women. He completed the USPTR professional tennis coaches school. Since 2007, he has been a sports lecturer at the Center for Language Training, Physical Education and Sports at the Medical University of Sofia in the disciplines of tennis, table tennis, fitness, skiing, windsurfing and kayaking. In 2014, he defended his doctoral dissertation at NSA on the topic "Optimizing the methodology of teaching students tennis in the conditions of the specialized educational process in physical education and sports at universities". In 2015, he was the coach and leader of the ski and snowboard team of the Medical University of Sofia, which became student champion in women's skiing and bronze medalist in men's at the Universiade in Borovets, and in 2016, 2017 and 2018 – bronze medalist in the disciplines of men's and women's skiing and snowboarding. He is the author of four textbooks for students and works on innovative projects in sports.
Contact email for Chief Assist. Prof. Vladimir Ivanov, Dr.: v.ivanov@deos.mu-sofia.bg
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