Friday, August 15, 2014

Three wet bronze – BBC

On the fourth day of the European Championship Russians won three bronze medals. Walker Ivan Sox became the third at a distance of 50 km, Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov lost two Ukrainians in the high jump, and Denis Kudryavtsev ascended the podium at the end of the final barrier run the 400 meters.

Fourth day of the European Championship in Athletics began with the male approach 50 kilometers. Russia was represented in three athletes – silver medalist last year’s World Cup Mikhail Ryzhov, Ivan and Alexander Noskov Yargunkin. Our walkers fans accustomed to the fact that do not go with the major competitions without gold, and therefore slightly disappointed fans.

The fight against the Russians first kilometers imposed world champion Robert Heffernan of Ireland, the Frenchman Yoann Diniz, twice won the European Championship, and not enough stars in the sky Slovak Matej One. Their high rate supported only by Ryzhov and socks.

At the 38th kilometer Diniz left a gap – the motivation to become the first three-time European champion in walking 50 miles elated him. Russians released from the opponent, and Heffernan chose to go the distance and do not torture yourself. Ryzhov and Noskov had to fight for second place with Slovak Thoth, and they lost him. Sox won the bronze medal and finished fourth Ryzhov.

Diniz is not only won, but also broke the world record Denis Nizhegorodova, which was established in 2008. Frenchman clocked 3: 23.33, dropping almost two minutes with the result of the Russian walker.

The evening program opened the finals in the women’s circle, in which none of the Russians was not involved. The winners were Briton Martin Rooney and replaced the Cuban citizenship Italian Libanius Grenot.

The first final competition with the prospects for a medal was running at 1500 meters. However, the only thing that there could count Shchagina Anna and Svetlana Karamasheva was only bronze. Two Ethiopian Ababa Aregavi and Seth Hassan, representing Sweden and the Netherlands, all season competed only with each other in a separate league from everyone. In Zurich, they again did not let anyone come close to him. In their personal dispute won by the Dutch. Shchagin only managed to finish seventh, and Karamashevoy – the penultimate 11th.

Ability to win a medal in the race was only a young hurdler Timothy Chaly and Denis Kudryavtseva – they both looked good in qualifying and the final composition was weak.

the victory to the delight of seats won, Karim Hussain, has Egyptian roots. Kudryavtsev made it to the bronze medal, not running out of the 49 seconds, and Chaly because of the weak middle part of the race was the fourth. For Russia, this is the first European medal in the 400m in 1998, when the distinguished silver Ruslan Mashchenko.

Due to the fact that the career completed Yuri Borzakovsky, ten years ago became the Olympic champion, the Russians could not have been presented in the final races of 800 meters. Brilliantly there were Poles – Adam and Arthur Kschot Kutsapski took the first two places, and the third was an Irishman with an unusual name for his country, Mark Inglish.

In the women’s 200 meters was not equal Daphne Shippers from the Netherlands. More recently, at the World Championships, she performed in the heptathlon, and in Switzerland, decided to switch to sprint and won her second gold medal of the European Championship. In men, the same distance excelled Briton Adam jams.

While the Dutch Shippers amused at short distances, the strongest place in Europe took mnogoborki Antoinette Nana Jim. More precisely, she had no one and did not give – French confidently defended his title.

The whole evening rain prevented athletes. If the runners were still able to cope with this scourge, that some members of the technical types, he spoiled the whole championship. Reigning world champion Alexander Men’kov could not overcome qualified in the long jump, being the 13th. And he showed one result with the Dutch jumper, but lost it due to the worst the next attempt.

hammer throwers also had hard times – from the flooded sector projectile flew many crooked. As Anna Bulgakova, in which all three attempts were nezachetnymi. Although there have been examples of the reverse – Polish girl Anita Wlodarczyk was able to show the third result in the history of athletics and to celebrate the victory.

With the rain for a while to cope high jumper Ivan Ukhov. While his rivals suffered from low heights, he effortlessly conquer any straps shorter than 2.33 m.

But the turn of the Olympic champion stopped.

Above it jumped only Ukrainian athletes – world champion Bogdan Bondarenko and the opening of the season Andrew Protcenko. Ukhov got bronze medal

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