Bulgaria ranks second in the European Union (EU) to export cross-country and Alpine ski to the EU member countries. This shows the data from Eurostat statistics, reported Monitor.

Our country has exported nearly 133,000 pairs of cross-country ski to the EU. Austria, however, is a leader with almost double result. Britain is in third place with 97,000 pairs.

And Alpine, or so-called downhill pairs of ski is a convincing leader in Austria with just over 1 million pairs.  471,000 were exported from Bulgaria, and  the Czech Republic ranks third with 452,000 pairs.

According to Eurostat, Bulgaria has exported cross-country ski for EUR 4.5 million. For downhill ski, the sum is just over EUR 29 million.