Stefka Kostadinova has been re-elected President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee ©EOC

High jump world record holder Stefka Kostadinova has been re-elected President of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee (BOC) after standing unopposed for a fresh four-year term. 

The 52-year-old obtained 49 votes out of the 51 delegates present at the General Assembly in Sofia.

It will mark her fourth term in office after she was first elected to the post in 2005.

Ensuring "greater activity in relations with National Federations", having "more useful and active committees and auxiliary units of the BOC" and "strengthening managerial skills in sport governance" were hailed as three priorities.

Better performances at both the Olympic and European Games were also hailed as a key objective. 

Challenging doping problems will be another priority after the country's weightlifting team were banned from Rio 2016 after 11 positive cases during the qualification period.

Stefka Kostadinova won the Olympic high jump gold medal at Atlanta 1996 and remains world record holder ©Getty Images
Stefka Kostadinova won the Olympic high jump gold medal at Atlanta 1996 and remains world record holder ©Getty Images

Belcho Goranov was also elected secretary general during the meeting attended by Bulgarian Minister of Youth and Sport, Daniela Dasheva. 

Kostadinova is still considered among Bulgaria's greatest ever athletes.

She claimed an Olympic gold medal at Atlanta 1996 to follow silver she had won at  Seoul eight years earlier.

Her best leap of 2.09 metres in 1987 remains the women's world record.

Kostadinova is one of just four female heads of 50 European NOCs. 

Ireland's Sarah Keane, Liechtenstein's Isabel Fehr and Lithuania's Daina Gudzinevičiūtė are the other three.