Valentin Yordanov

Valentin Dimitrov Yordanov (; born January 26, 1960), also transliterated Jordanov, is a retired Bulgarian freestyle wrestler who competed in the up to 52 kg weight class. He is an Olympic gold medalist, seven-time World Champion, seven-time European Champion, and the only wrestler to hold 10 medals (seven gold, two silver and one bronze) from the World Wrestling Championships.

He won his first European championship in 1980 in Bursa, Turkey, and his first world championship in 1983 in Kyiv. He continued to work at the CSKA sports club until 1990. He won a bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in the Freestyle Flyweight 52 kg event and a gold medal in the same event at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Following his death in 2010, John du Pont's will bequeathed 80 percent of his estate to Yordanov and his relatives.

Post-retirement He retired from wrestling after the 1996 Olympics. In 1997 he became a member of the Athletes' Commission of FILA, and has been the President of the Bulgarian Wrestling Federation since 1998. He has been a member of the board of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee since 2000. He is married and has two children. Du Pont had been a Forbes 400 member worth an estimated US$200 million in 1986, equivalent to $ in . The Superior Court of Pennsylvania upheld a Delaware County Orphans Court order dismissing a challenge to the will from du Pont's family.

In 2013, Yordanov returned his 1996 Olympic gold medal in protest of the International Olympic Committee's decision to eliminate wrestling from the Olympics.