Background
Doctor Spiriev was born in Nevrokop (today Gotse Delchev), a town in southwestern Bulgaria.
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Career
However, it was not until 1992 that he was granted Hungarian citizenship. He is the father of former athlete and athletics manager Attila and chess player Peter. Doctor Spiriev created the "Hungarian" Scoring Tables of Athletics in 1979, which later turned into the official IAAF Scoring Tables.
Together with Attila they created the World Rankings system in athletics.
They also founded All-Athletics.com, the most comprehensive worldwide athletics database website. Doctor Spiriev died on 10 January 2010 at the age of 77.
