Snatch of the Bengal Tigress. The winning double of Mamun and Kudryavtseva
The first victory of Margarita Mamun in personal all-around came at the Olympics in Brazil. Yana Kudryavtseva dropped her mace and was left with silver.
Someone had to lose...
All four years of the Olympic cycle, Russian gymnasts Yana Kudryavtseva and Margarita Mamun trained and performed side by side. Together, they won almost three dozen world championship awards and were preparing to win gold and silver medals at the Olympic Games. The goal was achieved, but the result of the competition still turned out to be somewhat unexpected for fans of artistic gymnasts.
For four years, Kudryavtseva performed better in personal all-around. Margarita has never won serious international competitions in this discipline, and Yana had four victories in a row. But already following the results of the qualification in Rio de Janeiro, it became clear: Mamun was not going to give up without a fight - at the Olympics she was going to compete with her friend for the gold medal of the competition.
According to the results of the first day of the competition, Margarita became the first, and everyone froze in anticipation of the sharp struggle of the Russians.
When the final began, there was no free space in the stands: thousands of fans came to enjoy the beauty and grace of artistic gymnasts. And Russian spectators came to celebrate the victory. The first two objects - a hoop and a ball - showed that Margarita and Yana will not be equal in this final: four marks for 19 points out of four made them inaccessible to competitors. There was a battle of girlfriends for gold. Yana, a three-time world champion in the all-around, allowed a moment of relaxation and dropped her mace. Many finalists can only dream of a score of 17.883, but Kudryavtseva almost cried, because she realized that she had missed the chance for gold.
In order to win, Margarita, who performed under the first number, had to not flinch in the exercise with the ribbon. She understood: the victory at the Olympic Games was close, she was worried, she tuned in for a long time and intensely, and in the end she did everything brilliantly. The judges rated Margarita's performance with 19.233 points, and the Russian woman became the Olympic champion, without waiting for the performances of her rivals. Even theoretically, no one could catch up with Mamun. She won the all-around for the first time, and she did it at the Olympics!
Yulia Barsukova, Alina Kabaeva, Evgenia Kanaeva, and now Margarita Mamun - these are a number of our glorious Olympic champions who do not give anyone Olympic victory for 16 years in a row ... And five minutes later Yana Kudryavtseva gathered her strength, performed brilliantly with the ribbon, securing silver for herself, and then gave vent to her emotions. Both of our girls were worthy of gold, but today one of them had to lose.
Bengal Tigress on the hunt
Not all fans who were worried about Margarita today know where she got her colorful appearance, with an oriental bias. And the casket is easy to open. The gymnast's father is from Bangladesh. Arriving to study in Russia, he met his love here, and the future champion was born. As a child, Margarita visited relatives in the Asian republic more than once, learned Bengali, and once at a tournament she even played for the Bangladesh national team, going down in history as the only artistic gymnast in the country. In 2010, Margarita was offered to compete at the Youth Olympics in Singapore, but she chose a more difficult path and remained in the Russian team. And, as it turned out today, she was 100% right.
Spectators often note the special expression of Margarita during performances. This largely explains the nickname Bengal Tigress, which Irina Viner called the ward. However, few people know that outside the carpet the gymnast is very calm and modest. Moreover, the vivid emotions that became the hallmark of the athlete were brought up in Margarita with difficulty by the coaches. Amina Zaripova and Irina Viner had to work pretty hard, because the girl started doing rhythmic gymnastics at the age of seven, while usually people come to this sport at the age of three or four. However, the talent for that and the talent to break through obstacles.
Margarita publicly announced herself in the current Olympic cycle, when Evgenia Kanaeva announced her retirement. But, frankly, Mamun has never been "number one". Yes, she won the world championships in exercises with individual objects four times, and in 2014 and 2015 she took gold medals in the team, but her friend Yana Kudryavtseva performed stronger and more consistently in the all-around. When Margarita, a year before the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, was asked if she would agree to a guaranteed silver award if Yana took gold, she answered modestly and evasively: "It's worth getting to the Olympics. Any medal from there is a success." But for sure the athlete thought of gold.
When number one becomes number two
Outside of the competition, Margarita and Yana are not rivals. On the contrary, big friends, communicate closely, live in the same room at competitions, and even a dog at the base in Novogorsk brought one for two. “We have been together for four years, shoulder to shoulder. If we also competed in life, it would be very difficult,” says Yana. However, there was no equal fight on the carpet between the friends. Since 2013, Kudryavtseva, albeit behind the scenes, has taken the place of the first number in the eyes of fans and specialists. national team and was considered as a contender for victory in any start.
This attitude is easy to explain: since 2013, Kudryavtseva has been churning out victory after victory. First she became a three-time European champion, then she won five medals at the World Championships in Kyiv, three of which were gold, two were silver. However, recently even silver awards have become a rarity - almost all starts in which Kudryavtseva took part ended in her victories. And for the Olympic Games in London, Yana was the main favorite, having behind her 13 victories at the world championships, nine at the adult European championships, as well as four gold medals at the European Games in Baku. The lion's share of these victories was won in the all-around.
And few people know that one of the most titled gymnasts on the planet in a sports school was at first among the lagging behind. “I came to the gym at the age of five. At first, I didn’t succeed, for a long time I was among the completely lagging behind. And then - once - I won the Russian children’s championship. It was 2009, I was 11 years old,” sports biography. At the age of 15, Kudryavtseva became the youngest ever absolute world champion in rhythmic gymnastics. Then, of course, she already dreamed of an Olympic medal, but she preferred not to talk about it publicly, limiting herself to the fact that she needed to qualify for the Games and get there without injury.
Yana has always been distinguished by iron nerves and the absence of errors. However, today she still trembled. And the mistake robbed her of her chances for first place. In sports, this is not the case. I would very much like to give Kudryavtseva a second gold award, but, alas, this is impossible. Someone has to be first and someone has to be second.
Bronze medalist of the Games, gymnast Rizatdinova: "I fought with the Russians to the last, but gymnastics is a very subjective sport"
The Ukrainian athlete commented on her performance at the Rio Games.
Ukrainian athlete Anna Rizatdinova summed up the rhythmic gymnastics tournament at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and commented on her own performance, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
“Of course, I am happy with this medal. If four years ago, after the Games in London, I felt that I didn’t work somewhere, didn’t finish something, now I can’t blame myself for anything. I gave it my all and, as you can see, my work was rewarded. I won an Olympic medal,” said the Ukrainian.
When asked why it is not possible to fight on equal terms with the Russian athletes Mamun and Kudryavtseva, who were about three points behind, Rizatdinova replied: “I fought them, fought to the end. But, unfortunately, gymnastics is a very subjective sport "Nevertheless, I have a medal. It doesn't matter if it's gold, silver or bronze. I have a medal, that's the most important thing."
And when asked by UNIAN about whether the Korean woman Song, with whom Rizatdinova fought for bronze, was very nervous, she answered: “I was rattled. The tension was very strong. I would even say that more than one Korean woman. Five people really claimed the bronze award today. One loss of the apparatus could cross out all the efforts. Fortunately, everything turned out very well for me. The Russian Kudryavtseva lost the apparatus? I didn’t see this, I don’t follow my rivals at all. I always concentrate exclusively on my performance."
Kudryavtseva: after the fall of the maces I wanted to finish the performance
Yana Kudryavtseva - about fallen maces, tears and shame, the invisible presence of Wiener, a pseudo-talisman and getting used to the platform.
Yana Kudryavtseva throughout four years was the undisputed leader of rhythmic gymnastics, and therefore went to Rio de Janeiro as a favorite. An unfortunate mistake in an exercise with maces nullified all her efforts, although in the remaining three exercises Kudryavtseva received the highest marks. In a conversation with journalists, among whom was the correspondent of the "Championship", Yana tried to smile, but it was noticeable that she was emotionally devastated
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- Are you more happy with silver or upset that you didn't make it to gold?
- “I’m glad for the“ silver ”, and the fact that everything is over. Of course, there is a disorder, but we will be content with what we have, because this could not have happened. Considering how the year went, what kind of injuries I had this Olympics might not have happened. Therefore, I am glad and a silver medal.
- What happened to your maces?
- By the end of the speech, the forces were already running out. I threw them badly, and didn’t have time to realize that they didn’t fly well. That is, I could have done something, but I did not have time.
- Is this mistake related to the fact that this is your debut Olympics?
- I do not think. All the mistakes that were due to the fact that we are performing for the first time happened yesterday. I was even a little ashamed of my performance, but the coaches reassured me, saying that this was only the first day and only the beginning, and today it would be better. We tested the hall and today it was much calmer. I think that this is my personal mistake, and not because of the debut.
- How do you like the platform, atypical for rhythmic gymnastics, here?
- Thanks to Irina Alexandrovna Viner, we began to prepare for the platform in advance. For two months it stood with us in Novogorsk, and now there was also a platform at the final training camp, so we got used to it quite well. Thank you so much for this, because without it it would be hard to perform.
- Before the last exercise, did you manage to throw out negative emotions?
- I managed to cry a little after the clubs, to say that I won’t go anywhere else, to show my character. But, after talking with the coach, she gathered herself, went out and was able to calmly speak. The coach told me to calm down, explained that we are no longer fighting for the gold medal, but we must hold on and let go of all emotions. I acted calmly and relaxed.
- Compared to the qualification, did you complicate the program?
- Not. We cannot change the program during the competition.
- Did you have a mindset that it doesn't matter who wins, who comes second, the main thing is that Russia has gold?
- I say from the bottom of my heart that I am extremely happy with this medal, this “silver” is golden for me. After all, I could not get here at all. Insanely happy for Margarita Mamun. It's unfortunate that it didn't work out as expected, but still glad.
Are you already thinking about the next Olympics?
- I'm not going to make any plans yet, I'll have a rest. God forbid, I will make it to the next Games and perform at them. I'm 19, so I have time to think.
- Why did you have problems with the hoop in qualifying?
It's hard for me to do it usually. Firstly, it is always difficult to start with a hoop, but in the finals she coped well with it.
- They say you have a talisman dog that stayed at home. Maybe you didn't have enough support?
- He never went to competitions with us, so he always waits for us at home. At first he lived in Novogorsk, where we train, and now with my mother.
- The absence of Irina Viner at the Olympics does not create problems for you?
- No, because Irina Alexandrovna was always in touch after each type of program. We trained, we were recorded on video, then she analyzed all the mistakes and made adjustments. You could say she was in complete control of the whole process.
Margarita Mamun: I love, I am loved, I am a happy person
Almost at the same time, the Russian team won four gold medals. Margarita Mamun won the individual all-around in rhythmic gymnastics.
Mamun beat her friend, 13-time world champion Yana Kudryavtseva, who made an unfortunate mistake in the clubs exercise. This story is about how forever the second at the right time became the first.
I didn’t look at the grades, I didn’t know who was going to what. The day passed in a very fast schedule: we changed clothes, went to warm up, then to perform. I tried to be absolutely concentrated, to do my maximum.
- What did the coach Amina Zaripova tell you?
- She told me to be extremely concentrated.
- This is the debut Olympics for you. What are the feelings?
- I haven't realized what happened yet. I didn’t realize that everything was over, how it ended ... In general, I was very calm. As Irina Aleksandrovna (Wiener. - Approx. ed.) says, we should have Olympic calmness.
- Have you seen Yanina's mistake?
- Of course not. She didn't follow anyone but herself. I already learned from Yana after she did the last exercise with the tape. We were waiting for the performances of the other girls, she sat down to me and told me.
- You had the same mistake in qualifying.
- Yes, I was distracted literally for a split second.
- You are friends with Yana. How do you manage to maintain friendly relations with such intense competition?
- We have such a sport that there is no direct competition. There is no need to compete, to be ahead of someone by a split second. I went out on the carpet, if I made a mistake, then it's your fault and no one else. On the carpet, we fight with ourselves, with our excitement.
- Do you cry on each other's shoulders in case of failures?
- We always support each other. We are together at the base in Novogorsk, we go to competitions together. We are just family. We are often asked about competition, about the situation in the women's team. I don’t know, maybe we have such characters: we are complete opposites and that’s why we communicate so well.
- What did you say to her after the end of the tournament?
- I asked: “Everything ?! Is it over?! And she asked me the same thing.
Did the fact that you constantly lost absolute superiority to Yana leave some kind of imprint? Did you realize that you have the worst starting position?
- I knew that Yana, like no one else, knows how to gather for responsible tournaments. I tried not to think about all these past years.
You once said that you have such a quality as the fear of making mistakes. When you went to the finals for the exercise with clubs, were you not afraid to make a mistake again?
- Not. She performed completely from scratch. As Irina Alexandrovna told us, in qualifying it was the last test, the last call. I tried to forget yesterday, not to transfer yesterday's problems to today.
- Did a good performance in qualifying, with the exception of the clubs exercise, give you confidence?
- Certainly. Even before the start of the tournament, the coaches told me that I was well prepared. It seemed to me that everything was wrong, everything was not right.
- Do you want to continue your career for another Olympic cycle?
- I don't want to guess, but I just adore Tokyo. We go there every year for competitions, for the World Club Championship. I think they will hold the Olympics at the highest level. I would like to go there, of course.
- Where do you draw inspiration, emotions from?
- It comes from itself. Of course, my relatives help me. I love, I am loved, I am a happy person.
Anna RIZATDINOVA: “After the hoop, Irisha was just a beast”
Ukrainian gymnast told how she taught samba before Rio 2016 and about men in the “artist”
Rhythmic gymnastics is such a subjective sport and so pro-Russian that it was difficult to expect more bronze for Anna Rizatdinova. Something incredible must have happened for the judges to rate our gymnast higher than Kudryavtseva and Mamun. Did not happen. Well, okay. But her samba was appreciated by the Brazilian public, who awarded Rizatdinova with a loud ovation.
I fought to the last. But we have a very subjective sport, everyone knows that. Believe me, in rhythmic gymnastics an Olympic medal - even if it is "silver" or "bronze" - it is rated as gold. We believe that the top three winners are given three gold awards.
- Your "bronze" is doubly valuable, because in London-2012 Ukraine was without awards. You then had only tenth place.
- After the 2012 Olympics, to be honest, my conscience was not very clear. In terms of work. But when the new Olympic four years began, I realized what was waiting for me. If I consciously prepare for the Olympic Games, as the first number, then Ukraine needs to bring a medal. And today I did my best for this. Honestly. I gave everything I could, all my strength and emotions. When I went out to the last view - the tape - I understood that I could be the third. But we have such an insidious sport that if I put the tape on the floor once, my “bronze” would not exist. I trusted God and did my job. I did everything honestly and God rewarded me.
- You have prepared a new program for the 2016 Games.
- I am very happy that this Olympics was held in Brazil. Because our sport is connected with music and dancing. This is what they love in Brazil. Here people, like no one else, feel the rhythm. I tried to specially make a bright, memorable program for Rio. Happened. And they have been amazingly supportive today.
- Your tape turned out to be especially rhythmic.
- A year ago, we specially came to the tournament in the Brazilian city of Vitoria to feel the climate, to see how objects behave in this humidity. And there we took samba lessons from a local coach. For about three hours they danced, learned the movements, and upon arrival home they put on a tape with elements of samba.
- In the fight for the third place, the Korean gymnast ruffled your nerves a little.
- Yes, all the nearest five could be on the podium. I didn't watch her last performance. It is distracting and morally oppressive. You need to be self-centered.
- You went out into the hall with Blokhin. Is she Irisha or Irina Olegovna for you?
- Iris. But strict Irisha. From the 2013 World Championship, which was held in Kyiv, Irisha fully entered coaching. Since then, she has been working closely with me. For me, before leaving, it is very important that there is a person nearby who will be my support, support, who can understand, calm, feel your condition without words. And Irisha understands and feels me very much. And I myself asked her to go out with me, because Irisha and I are comfortable.
You say Irisha will calm you down, but her joy simply overwhelmed after each performance. What could throw you off the mood.
- Yes, she is very emotional, positive. But behind the court, after the hoop, when I was in fourth place, Irisha was just a beast. I understood that if I don’t correct the situation now, I will feel bad.
- There is talk that it's time to let men into rhythmic gymnastics at the Games.
- Oh no. Rhythmic gymnastics is not for men. It's very elegant, it's feminine, it's music, dancing. No, I don't see men in rhythmic gymnastics.
Gold for Rita Mamun behind the black curtains of Rio
Our columnist Irina Stepantseva reports from Brazil
Yana, still saddened, will say that she is very happy for Rita. And it will be true. Rita - stunned, when asked about the first words that she had already said to Yana, she will exhale: “What, is it all over?”. Margarita Mamun - champion, Yana Kudryavtseva - silver medalist of the Olympic Games in individual all-around in rhythmic gymnastics. Both should have been on a pedestal. Nobody doubted it. But no one would have said in advance whose medal would be gold.
Irina Viner-Usmanova was able to inspire them: someone will be the first, and someone will not. Notice, not the second, but just like this: "someone - no." Here in Rio, one had to either make a mistake or build up the advantage a little bit. Yana and increased. Yana made a mistake - dropping the mace.
I threw the mace badly and did not have time to realize that it was flying badly, although I could have done something, but I did not have time. I managed to get upset, sit down, cry, say that I won’t go anywhere else - as always, show my character. But we talked with the coach (Elena Lvovna Karpushenko - I.S.), she said: let go of all emotions, give a smile and go ahead.
Clubs were the third type. After two, Kudryavtseva was in the lead, the third - not only gobbled up the advantage, but also threw it back by almost a point. The last view, the tape, could no longer correct the situation. But it was necessary to do everything - unmistakably. With this, Kudryavtseva again entered the Olympic carpet. On which, as he will repeat several times after the award, he might not have appeared at all. Therefore, silver is happy. And saddened. And - "we will be content with what we have." “Releasing emotions”, Yana in this form received the highest mark of the competition.
Insanely happy with silver - it is gold for me. The most difficult thing before the start? Emotionally, I am always attuned, as it should be, I go and go myself from view to view. It was very difficult to warm up here, usually I never worry, but here there was still jitters, and it was difficult to go out into the first view. Of course, I wanted to approach the Games in the highest form. But - as they approached, so they approached.
She will suddenly say: she cried, finishing the Olympic performance, not because of the loss, but rejoicing that it was all over. And he will pick up that characteristic - “good enough” ended. It is not by chance that she will pick up - on September 30, on her birthday, Yana underwent an operation. After that World Championship, in which she performed with a shattered leg and won.
After all, in training, while we were preparing for the start here, I did not do all the jumps that I should jump. Only when she arrived for testing, she jumped for the first time - they were afraid for her legs. Because of the stress, they sometimes hurt. I broke off a piece of the navicular bone on the rise. I was told that I have such an abnormal foot, there is an additional bone in it. And she, in turn, pressed on the bone, which eventually crumbled. This was not visible on the pictures, and only in Germany after the World Cup, when I had a rest, and the inflammation had passed, did the doctors see the fragmentation. They immediately said: go to the operation. The bone was removed, small tears were sanded. I had necrosis, everything crumbled ... At first I was offered to bolt something. But then it would be under threat sports career. Dad's acquaintances athletes advised another clinic in Germany. The doctors had doubts about the further stability of the foot. But we didn’t have much choice, so we decided to do so. Done, began to recover from crutches. At the same time, I could not jump at all until March. In the middle of the exercise, she stopped and fell - her leg could not stand it.
What are her years, and silver received today, so that the incentive remains for the new Olympic cycle - such thoughts haunted many that day. Many were also happy and - saddened. And many will remember how at one time Alina Kabaeva, who was going to win, made a serious mistake at the Games in Sydney, then Yulia Barsukova won. But if I hadn’t done it, I wouldn’t have competed at the Athens Olympics. When the undisputed leader loses, and the second number wins, for one - annoying, for the second - joyfully: endured, waited! And Yana, Yana, who won all the world championships in a row, is only 18 years old!
And after the operation, after I already looked like in a cast, I weighed three kg less than at the World Championships. First, on a nervous basis, of course. And secondly, my dad is very strict - he won’t allow cakes or sweets. He Olympic champion in swimming and, first of all, worried about the legs - so that they excess weight did not exert pressure, because the extra 100-200 grams is very difficult for the operated leg. I am grateful to him for this. Although, of course, as a child, he felt sorry for me.
... And Amina Zaripova, the coach of Margarita Mamun, clearly did not want to take off her gold medal. So she walked around the mixed zone in it, waiting for the Olympic champion, for her in many ways - just Rita.
We walked in a fast schedule, after the next kind we warmed up, changed clothes, there were large warm-up mats, we had to move from one to another, - said Margarita. I didn't know who was following who. I had to be extremely concentrated. I still do not understand that it all ended and how it ended. But in general, everything was calm. No, I didn't see Yana's mistake. And I found out about it only after her last exercise, when Yana came and sat down next to me, where everyone was sitting, who had already finished performing. Yes, this is common with me - the fear of making mistakes. In qualifying, not everything was smooth, I tried to forget about it.
Oh, no - Mamun did not just try to forget about the mistake, also, by the way, in the exercise with clubs, but made every effort to do so. Here, no matter how hard you try, the gymnasts will not open their souls wide open even at the moment of triumph. I had to recall personal trainer Amina Zaripova aside.
It's good that she made a mistake on the tryout. I did a complex element and - relaxed, Irina Aleksandrovna and I calmed her down: calm down, this is a test. Yes, mistakes stick in memory - did you notice that she wore a different swimsuit today? I also asked to rewind the tape on the maces so that everything was from scratch for real. For the "bad" to go away. This is important not for female psychology, it is important for Mamun. Yana Kudryavtseva, a true athlete, fighter, athlete with a capital letter, probably does not pay attention to such things. And Rita is so soft, sincere.
The coach again clutched the medal in her hands, which she never took off. And suddenly she herself said something that is somehow embarrassing to ask the winners.
Honestly, I did not believe in the gold medal, because we always lost to Yana. Rita and I did not win a single European Championship, not a single World Championship - we were both second and fifth. Yesterday I told her that 20 years ago I went out to open the individual all-around at the Atlanta Games, which she will do too. She said: you must go out and understand: you did everything so that it would not hurt that day. I still remember that day, and it's not very pleasant and not very good for me - because of the fourth place. And you should wake up and remember him as the happiest.
It turns out that it was she, Zaripova, who asked the masseurs, choreographers, all those who were from our people around to be silent and not talk about how the girls go from type to type, who is the first and who is the second.
We did not know anything, I asked not to say anything. Why do I need it? I can't change anything. I won’t suddenly put an element more complicated, we have a proven program that rolls over more than one day. And I am an emotional person, from the information my hamstrings would begin to shake, something would happen to me. Thank God I didn't know. And that we were absolutely closed in those black curtains. True, I heard two types, that the first is Yana, then Rita. And then - everything is in a fog. I am learning from Elena Lvovna Karpushenko all the time - patience. I'm crazy myself, what I think is what I say. Rita is having a hard time with me. On the other hand, she's used to it. And for such an emotional assessment that Irina Alexandrovna can give out, she is already prepared through me. Yes, Rita?
And Rita Mamun at that moment could, it seems to me, also give out anything. However, no. School of Russian rhythmic gymnastics - these are manners for which you are not ashamed.
For some reason, no one believes that Yana and I are friends. But we have such a sport - you went out, if you did everything, then you did it, if you made a mistake, you made it yourself. Yana and I are family people. Yana always knows how to pull herself together and perform very well. All these years I tried not to think that I was second, just to work on myself and complete the program to the maximum. The coaches told me even before the training camp that I was well prepared. It seemed to me that everything was wrong and everything was not right. More visible from the side. In general - I love, I'm loved, I'm a happy person.
...Two medals in rhythmic gymnastics in individual all-around, as in London 2012. Of course, we were waiting for them. We were accustomed to this, the athletes were prepared. Irina Viner-Usmanova did not come to Rio, but she was in touch all the time - she gave an assessment of all training sessions, talked with the athletes. And they probably remember these words of the coach: “I always tell gymnasts: if you were immediately hanged a medal - Olympic, world, European, and you would not do anything for this, would you be pleased? No. It's called the bread of shame. And so - when they worked, went through everything, this is a glorious victory.
Olympic Games in Rio. Chronicle of events
Irina Stepantseva
About the final of the competition in rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics, which brought gold and silver to athletes from Russia
Ribbon exercise begins Margarita Mamun.
On Saturday, in strict accordance with the forecast, two awards at once - gold and silver - were won by Russians following the results of the Olympic tournament in rhythmic gymnastics in individual all-around. The victory went to Margarita Mamun, and the 13-time world champion Yana Kudryavtseva, who was considered the favorite, remained with silver due to an error in the clubs exercise. And on Sunday, the Russian team won gold in group exercises. Thus, for the fifth time in a row, our team takes both gold medals at stake in rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics. VALERIA MIRONOVA - with details from Rio de Janeiro.
In a similar situation to the one in which the super champion of those years Alina Kabaeva found herself at the 2000 Games in Sydney, Yana Kudryavtseva got into Rio, who by the age of 18 had won the all-around at the world championships three times, and in total had already earned 13 top world titles. A hoop “ran away” from Alina Kabaeva in Australia, and with it the Olympic title. He then went to her teammate Yulia Barsukova. Kabaeva achieved her goal only four years later in Athens. In Rio, Yana Kudryavtseva, despite undergoing a complex operation on her foot at the end of last year (she had a completely crushed navicular bone in the instep area) and a three-month absence of competitive practice, arrived as a favorite. With all due respect to Margarita Mamun, who has also repeatedly won in her career certain types at the world championships, this brilliant 19-year-old gymnast was still considered the second number of the team. But it was she, and not Yana Kudryavtseva, who was destined to win here first the qualifying competitions, in which both of our athletes did not avoid mistakes, and then the final ones.
The main competitions in the all-around, in which ten finalists consistently performed exercises with a hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon, were opened by Margarita Mamun. However, after her two absolutely unmistakable exits, there was a feeling that the judges, despite all their impartiality (this fact was noted here by all the participants), still slightly, but kept their marks. Probably because then it was the turn of Yana Kudryavtseva. And how charmingly she knows how to do her exercises, the referees, of course, knew firsthand. And when, for her exits, first with a hoop, and then with a ball, Kudryavtseva received one and a half to two tenths more points than Margarita Mamun, the feeling that it was she who was being brought to the highest pedestal became stronger completely.
But everything changed in one second. With the final chord of the "cosmic" composition, under which Kudryavtseva launched, there were maces to the sky, but she could not catch back. Although she tried to hide her embarrassment, already lying in the final position and covering her maces with her hand. This mistake sealed the fate of the Olympic gold, which smoothly rolled from her hands to the hands of her reliable understudy. Ironically, Yana Kudryavtsev was let down by subjects for which she was less worried than others. “The most difficult exercises for me are with a hoop and ribbon,” she told Kommersant. “There you have to run, jump, jump and fly, which, given my injury, is not safe for me. Clubs are more calm. You work more with your hands there.”
It is noteworthy that the victory in the final form - in the exercise with a ribbon - was again for Yana Kudryavtseva. But she went out to him, knowing for sure that she would never become a champion under any circumstances.
Recalling the moment that became fatal for her, Yana Kudryavtseva said: “At the end of the performance, the forces were already running out, I threw the maces badly and did not have time to realize that they were flying badly. That is, I could have done something, but I did not have time. Of course, there is a disorder, but after all, silver could not have been.
Margarita Mamun (right) in the individual all-around ahead of her titled partner in the Russian national team, tournament favorite Yana Kudryavtseva
And Margarita Mamun, who purely performed all her compositions, set by the head coach of the team Irina Zenovka and honed in collaboration with her personal trainer Amina Zaripova under the supervision of the President of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation and the head coach of the national team Irina Viner-Usmanova, was in seventh heaven. “In general, I was calm,” the Olympic champion recalls her feelings during the tournament. “I didn’t see Yana’s mistake and didn’t know who was in which of us. I found out about the mistake when Yana made the tape and came to me. After all, I also made a mistake in qualifying - I was distracted for a split second. But after yesterday's clubs, I was no longer afraid to make a mistake again. Our sport is like this: I went out and did it. I made a mistake - only your fault. Yana and I always support each other and have become family to each other.
Irina Viner-Usmanova believes that Margarita Mamun did all the exercises very cleanly. But a particularly prominent specialist noted her exercise with a ribbon. “The tape is the last kind on which everything could be decided. This is a very difficult subject, especially in Brazil where the humidity is very high. We were scared that the ribbons would be tied, but I told the girls right away - someone will be the first, someone not, and we worked calmly and correctly, ”Ms. Viner-Usmanova emphasized.
And she called the performance of Yana Kudryavtseva a feat and a huge victory, referring to everything she experienced after the 2015 World Championships, in which the gymnast won with a broken leg. “Yana underwent a major operation, was in a cast for a month, then recovered for a long time. And today we saw the highest score in three out of four events. In just one form, Yana did not finish the job, ”Ms. Viner-Usmanova expressed regret and wished Yana Kudryavtseva, drawing an analogy with Alina Kabaeva, to correct the situation at the 2020 Games in Tokyo.
Complete - for the fifth time in a row - the Olympic triumph of Russian rhythmic gymnastics was the next day, when group exercises took place. And this ending had a completely different plot than the personal ending. He even made me remember that there were times when someone else could challenge the Russian "artists", could get ahead of them.
In Rio, the challenge was thrown by the Spaniards, who prepared well for this Olympics. Just as cool as the 1996 Olympics, when the group got gold. They excelled in qualifying, and in the first final exercise - with five ribbons - a little, two tenths of a point ahead of the Russian group. Moreover, Bulgarians also wedged between the two favorites. Whispered in the stands about the sensation until the performance of the Russian five - Vera Biryukova, Anastasia Bliznyuk, Anastasia Maximova, Anastasia Tatareva and Maria Tolkacheva - took place in exercises with three maces and two hoops.
It was an amazing program - in terms of dynamics, saturation with complex elements. And for her, the Russian group received an amazing score - 18.633. Against the background of her performances, even very, very decent performances by Spanish and Bulgarian women did not look good. They were very different universes. And the points received for maces with hoops, of course, were quite enough for Russian girls to take gold in total.
The US team won the medal standings of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Russian team came fourth.
Americans in Rio won 46 gold, 37 silver and 38 bronze medals. The US men's basketball team won the last gold medal at the Rio Olympics. Team Great Britain took second place in the medal standings with 27 gold, 23 silver and 17 bronze medals. The Chinese came third with 26 gold, 18 silver and 26 bronze medals. The Russian team won 56 medals in Rio - 19 gold, 18 silver and 19 bronze medals. The German team took the fifth place with 17 gold, 10 silver and 15 bronze medals.
Rio 2016 medal standings
Final medal table of the Rio 2016 Olympics
Following a report by an independent panel of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) led by Richard McLaren, which alleged that Russia had a state-run doping system, WADA recommended that the IOC remove the entire Russian team from the Olympics. On July 24, the IOC Executive Board decided not to remove the entire Russian team from the 2016 Games, leaving the international sports federations the right to determine who will be able to compete in Rio.
As a result, the entire Russian national team athletics, with the exception of long jumper Darya Klishina, and the entire Russian weightlifting team missed the Games in Rio. Also, a number of Russian athletes were not allowed to participate in the Olympics in various types sports.
The Russian rhythmic gymnastics team won the highest award of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in group exercises. The second place was taken by the Spaniards, the bronze went to the team from Bulgaria.
Wrestler Soslan Ramonov won the gold medal of the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, becoming the champion in the competition in the weight category up to 65 kg.
Russian boxer Misha Aloyan won the silver medal of the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil in the weight category up to 52 kg.
Russian Alexander Lesun won gold in the modern pentathlon Olympic tournament.
Russian wrestler Abdulrashid Sadulaev won the gold medal of the Olympic tournament in freestyle wrestling in the weight category up to 86 kg at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, defeating Selim Yasar from Turkey.
In the individual all-around in rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics in Rio, Margarita Mamun won the gold medal, Yana Kudryavtseva won the silver.
The Russian women's handball team won the gold of the Olympic tournament, beating the French team with a score of 22:19.
Russian wrestler Aniuar Geduev won Olympic silver in the weight category up to 74 kg in the final fight with Iranian Hassan Yazdanicharati.
The Russian team in synchronized swimming won gold at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, having won after the pair competition in the team tournament.
The Russian women's water polo team in a bitter struggle broke the resistance of the Hungarian team and won the bronze of the Olympics.
Russian Ilya Shtokalov won the bronze medal of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in a single canoe at a distance of 1000 m. In the final, he took fourth place, but the result of Sergei Tarnovsky from Moldova, who became third, was canceled due to a positive doping test.
Russian taekwondo player Alexei Denisenko won silver in the weight category up to 68 kg, losing to the representative of Jordan Ahmad Abughaush with a score of 6:10.
Russian Ekaterina Bukina managed to win bronze in the weight category up to 75 kg, defeating Cameroonian Annabelle Ali in the fight for third place.
Russian boxer Vladimir Nikitin withdrew from the Olympic tournament in the weight category up to 56 kg due to an injury, but by reaching the semi-finals he had already guaranteed himself a bronze medal of the competition.
Russian Natalya Vorobyova won silver in the final of the Olympic tournament in freestyle wrestling in the weight category up to 69 kg in a duel with Japanese athlete Sarah Dosho.
Russian Valeria Koblova won the silver medal of the Olympic tournament in freestyle wrestling in the weight category up to 58 kg, losing in the final match to Japanese Kaori Ita with a score of 2:3. This is the first medal of the Russian team in women's wrestling on games.
Boxer Anastasia Belyakova won bronze in the weight category up to 60 kg, losing in the semifinals by technical knockout to the representative of France Estelle Mosley.
Russian Roman Anoshkin won a bronze medal in the 1000m single kayak competition.
Russian gymnast David Belyavsky won a bronze medal in uneven bars.
Russians Svetlana Romashina and Natalya Ishchenko became the first in the synchronized swimming duet competition.
Gymnast Denis Ablyazin won a silver medal in the vault and a bronze medal in the rings exercise.
Davit Chakvetadze won the Greco-Roman wrestling competition in the category up to 85 kg. In the final, he defeated the Ukrainian athlete Jean Balenyuk.
Sergei Semyonov won a bronze medal at the Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling competitions in the 130 kg category.
Russian boxer Evgeny Tishchenko won a gold medal in the weight category up to 91 kg.
Sofya Velikaya, Yana Egoryan, Ekaterina Dyachenko and Yulia Gavrilova became the first in the team saber competition at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In the final, the Russian team beat the Ukrainian team with a score of 45:30.
Tennis players Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won Olympic gold in doubles, defeating the Swiss players Timea Bachinski and Martina Hingis with a score of 6:4, 6:4.
Sergey Kamensky became the second in shooting from a small-caliber rifle from 50 meters from three positions and brought silver to the Russian team.
Gymnast Maria Paseka won a silver medal in the vault.
Stefania Elfutina brought Russia the first Olympic medal in the last 20 years sailing, winning the bronze medal in the RS:X class.
Gymnast Aliya Mustafina won first place in the exercise on uneven bars. This is the second time the athlete has won the Olympic Games. Previously, she won a gold medal in the same discipline at the London Olympics.
Cyclist Denis Dmitriev won a bronze medal in the individual sprint. In the race for third place, he was ahead of Australian Matthew Gletzer.
Russian Greco-Roman wrestler Roman Vlasov won gold in the category up to 75 kg. In the final, he defeated the Dane Mark Madsen with a score of 5:1.
Russian athletes Timur Safin, Alexei Cheremisinov and Artur Akhmatkhuzin became champions of the Olympic Games in Rio in team foil fencing.
Russian cyclists Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva won silver in the team sprint.
Russian shooter Kirill Grigoryan won the bronze medal in the prone 50m small-bore rifle with 187.3 points.
Russian swimmer Evgeny Rylov took third place in the 200m backstroke, setting a European record.
Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova won the silver medal in the 200m breaststroke.
Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina won bronze in the individual all-around at the Olympics. The first and second places went to the Americans Simone Biles and Alexandra Raisman.
The Russian women's epee fencing team won bronze medals at the Olympics, defeating the Estonian team in the third place match with a score of 37:31
Russian fencer Inna Deriglazova won the gold medal in foil fencing, defeating Italian two-time Olympic champion Elisa di Francisca in the final.
Cyclist Olga Zabelinskaya won the 13th medal for the Russian team at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, winning silver in the race with separate start.
Russian women's national team gymnastics as part of Angelina Melnikova, Daria Spiridonova, Aliya Mustafina, Maria Pasek and Seda Tutkhalyan, she became the silver medalist in the team all-around.
Judoka Khasan Khalmurzaev won the gold medal of the Olympics in the category up to 81 kg.
Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova won silver in the 100m breaststroke at the Olympic Games in Brazil.
Yana Yegoryan won the gold medal in the saber fencing competition, defeating her compatriot Sophia Velikaya in the final, who won silver.
Gymnasts Denis Albyazin, David Belyavsky, Ivan Stretovich, Nikolai Kuksenkov and Nikita Nagorny won silver in the team final at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.
Vladimir Maslennikov won bronze in shooting from air rifle from 10 meters.
Russian foil fencer Timur Safin won the bronze medal by defeating Briton Richard Kruse.
Russian judoka Natalya Kuzyutina won a bronze medal in the 52 kg category.
Russian Vitalina Batsarashkina won the second medal of the Russian team at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. She placed second in the 10m air pistol event.
And the Russian women's archery team won silver in team competition.
The Russians, who played as part of Tuyana Dashidorzhieva, Ksenia Perova, Inna Stepanova, lost in the final to the team South Korea with a score of 1:5.
Beslan Mudranov won gold at the 2016 Olympics. He managed to win in a duel against the representative of Kazakhstan Yeldos Smetov. This medal was the first for the Russian team at the Olympics in Rio.
The fifteenth medal day of the XXXI Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was the most successful for the Russian team, whose piggy bank was replenished with four gold medals at once.
In total, 30 sets of awards were played on Saturday in athletics, boxing, badminton, football, basketball, volleyball, handball, water polo, triathlon, golf, rhythmic gymnastics, diving, rowing and canoeing, mountain biking, pentathlon, taekwondo and fight. After the 15th medal day, the US team secured victory in the unofficial medal count, with 116 medals to its credit, of which 43 were gold. The Russian team climbed to fourth place in this standings with 53 medals, including 17 gold, 17 silver and 19 bronze.
No chance for rivals
Russian Margarita Mamun won gold in the individual all-around, ahead of her teammate Yana Kudryavtseva, who became the absolute world champion for three years in a row. Kudryavtseva made a mistake in the clubs exercise, receiving a deduction for this element, and the score prevented her from qualifying for gold after Mamun completed her fourth form - the ribbon. However, silver medalist Kudryavtseva stressed that she was happy to have a medal, because in her life the Olympic Games might not have happened at all.
“I won’t think about it yet (about participating in the 2020 Olympics). I love Tokyo, it's one of my favorite cities, we go there every year to compete. I am sure that they will hold the Olympics at the highest level. I don’t think, but I would like to,” said 20-year-old Mamun after the victory.
Kudryavtseva also noted that she hopes to perform at the Tokyo Games in four years.
“I'm glad for the silver, I'm glad that it's over. We will be content with what we have, because all this could not have happened. There might not be the Games. I managed to cry after the clubs, but the coach and I talked. She said, "Let go of all emotions." And I already went out and performed calmly. Now from the bottom of my heart I am extremely happy with my silver. I cried, maybe because it was all over. While I’m resting, God forbid, I’ll reach Tokyo, and I’ll perform there, I’m only 19 years old, ”said Kudryavtseva.
In the morning, the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team in group exercises qualified with the second result for the finals of the Olympic tournament, which will be held on Sunday. Anastasia Maksimova, Anastasia Bliznyuk, Anastasia Tatareva, Maria Tolkacheva and Vera Biryukova scored 35.516 points in the sum of two exercises - with five ribbons and with two hoops and six maces. The first place was taken by the Spaniards, the third in the qualification were the Belarusians. The teams of Italy, Japan, Israel, Bulgaria and Ukraine also made it to the final.
Historic success of handball players
Russian handball players on Saturday for the first time won the gold medals of the Olympics. In the final, the team of Evgeny Trefilov defeated the French women - 22:19. The game as a whole was held with the advantage of the Russians, only in the second half the rivals managed to equalize the score once, but the Russian team again went into the lead and brought the matter to victory.
For two Russian handball players - Ekaterina Marennikova and Irina Bliznova - these medals were the second in their careers. In 2008, they already became the silver medalists of the Beijing Games. After the victory in Rio, the captain of the Russian national team Bliznova announced her retirement. “I put a golden point in my career,” the athlete said.
Trefilov said he has no plans to leave the Russian national team yet. “I have all the titles except the European Championship. So this tournament will work with the national team for sure. Let's try to work out another Olympic cycle, why not? Another thing is that everything is possible in life, ”said the coach of the champions.
Lesun tore everyone
The modern pentathlon Olympic tournament ended with the triumph of the Russian Alexander Lesun, who, after an excellent result in fencing, held out at a satisfactory level in swimming and show jumping, although there were problems with the horse (3 falls), but managed to start first and not give up any position at the finish line.
According to the results of four events, the Russian scored 1479 points, setting a new Olympic record. Silver went to the Ukrainian Pavel Timoshchenko (1472). Bronze at the Mexican Marcelo Hernandez (1468). “I went out, and there was a feeling that I would tear everyone here. I felt like a master here, ”the Olympic champion shared his mood.
“Alexander is the best athlete in the world, he has proven this throughout his career. Not without reason, in an interview, when asked about the real main competitor, he said: “My competitor is Alexander Lesun.” This victory is first of all for President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, because the attention and support that he gives to our sport, there is no such support anywhere in the world,” said Vyacheslav Aminov, head of the Federation of Modern Pentathlon of Russia.
Sadulaev could not lose
Freestyle wrestler Abdulrashid Sadulayev won a gold medal in the weight category up to 86 kg on Saturday. The two-time world champion confidently passed all tournament bracket, in the semifinals, defeating the Olympic champion from Azerbaijan Sharif Sharifov, and in the finals against Zelimkhan Kartoev, a native of Ingushetia, who now plays for Turkey under the name Selim Yasar.
“The Olympics has been my dream since childhood, today the dream has come true,” said the champion. - I am very glad that I justified the hopes of coaches and fans. This is our common victory. I do not set myself the goal of 10-0 to do. I go out on the carpet, and there how it goes. Each time it becomes harder and harder to fight with rivals, so you need to fight twice as much in training. We didn't have a gold medal yesterday, so I had to win anyway, there's no other way."
The bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympics, three-time world champion Bilyal Makhov (125) performed extremely unsuccessfully - the heavyweight lost the first meeting and dropped out of the fight for the tournament medals.
Obstacle racing with a broken finger
Russian cyclist Irina Kalentyeva was left without a medal in the women's cross-country. The leader of the Russian national mountain bike team came to the finish line 17th, but as always, unbending and with a positive attitude. Before this Olympics, Kalentyeva missed several races, as at the start of the season she underwent surgery for appendicitis, and in training before the competition, already in Rio, she broke her thumb.
“The operation for appendicitis also affected, and I broke my big finger shortly before the race, but I passed. Maybe this is my last Olympics, we'll see. In the meantime, I'm getting ready for the World Cup stage in Andorra and for the next season, - Kalentyeva told reporters. - The starting position was not the best, and five months of training to reach a high level after an appendicitis operation is not enough. But I got there, albeit in the middle. I think that even participating in the Olympic Games is great. I’m not at the peak of my form yet, I intend to get it by the World Cup final.”
Gold in this type of program was won by the Swede Jenny Rissveds (1:30.15), the second was the representative of Poland Maya Wloszczowska (1:30.52), the third - Katharin Pendrel from Canada (1:31.41).
Minibaev completed the medalless tread of the jumpers
Now we can definitely say that Russian divers for the first time in 28 years leave the Olympic Games without medals. The last chance for them to win a medal in Rio was the final in the individual platform diving, where Viktor Minibaev went, but he also remained outside the prize-winners (8th result).
“There is disappointment, but life does not stand still. I will prepare for the World Championships in Budapest and the Olympics in Tokyo. But I am not satisfied with our head coach (Oleg Zaitsev) in terms of his work: he is on his own, he does not say anything to anyone, everything is always at the very last moment. It seems to me that, as a head coach, he should support us, and for two weeks in Rio he never approached me, did not ask how things were going, ”Minibaev said after his performance at the Games.
The debutant of the Games, Nikita Shleikher, who stopped at the previous stage of the tournament, remained outside the final. Following the results of the semi-finals, Schleicher stopped the fight and did it in good company - the medalist of the Games and one of the main stars of diving Thomas Daly (Great Britain) also could not get into the final. “Now I have even more motivation before Tokyo, I want to be an Olympic champion in individual platform diving,” Daly admitted.
Well, the Chinese Chen Aisen won that day, the Mexican Herman Sanchez won the silver, the American David Budaya won the bronze.
Shtokalov without a second medal
The Russian national rowing and canoeing team was left without medals on the last day of competition at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Russians Ilya Shtokalov and Ilya Pervukhin took fifth place in the canoe-deuce competition at a distance of 1000 meters. German rowers Sebastian Brendel and Jan Wandrei won the gold medal. At the same time, during the swim, the Russians, for whom the Games became the first tournament in one crew, were in second position.
Also on that day, the crew of the kayak-four consisting of Roman Anoshkin, Vasily Pogreban, Kirill Lyapunov and Oleg Zhestkov, who unexpectedly did not make it to the A final, showed the first result in the repechage race. The German men's team celebrated the victory in the main final of these competitions.
Evgeny Lukantsov came sixth in the final B in the 200m kayakers' competition, in which Briton Liam Heath won the gold medal. The crew of the Hungarian women's team became the first in the 500-meter kayak fours competition, making Donata Kozak a five-time Olympic champion.
Verchenova showed the best result, but too late
The second set of awards was played in a golf tournament, the Korean Pak Inbi became the Olympic champion. Russia's Maria Verchenova had the best result on the fourth day, setting a field record, and soared to 16th place in the final classification. It is noteworthy that she went through one of the holes in just one hit.
The women's triathlon race proved to be pretty predictable across the board. The winner was the American Gwen Jorgensen, who has dominated the sport in recent years, and the silver medalist was the champion of London 2012, Swiss Nicola Spirig. The Russians also, as expected, took places below the second ten: 20th place is Alexandra Razarenov (lag +4.53), 25th - Maria Shorets (+5.17), 32nd - Anastasia Abrosimova (+6.29).
Neymar led the Brazilians to victory
The Brazil national football team defeated the German team in the final of the home Olympic Games, taking revenge for a humiliating defeat at the home World Cup. The main time of the match at the Maracana stadium ended with a score of 1: 1 - the Germans answered the goal of Neymar (27th minute) with the ball of Max Mayer (59). In the penalty shootout, the home side won 5-4, with Neymar converting the decisive blow. Bronze was won by the Nigerians, who beat Honduras in the match for third place - 3:2.
Meanwhile, the US basketball players expectedly won gold medals, defeating the Spaniards with a score of 101:72 in the final. Bronze medals were previously won by the basketball players of the Serbian national team, who defeated France. Gold came to the Serbs in men's water polo, in the final of which they defeated the Croats, and the Italians became the third.
Other Olympic champions on Saturday were boxers Arlen Lopez and Robeisi Ramirez (both Cubans), Briton Nicola Adams, Chinese badminton player Chen Long, German javelin thrower Thomas Rehler and Spanish high jumper Ruth Beitia.
Five sets of awards were played at once in the run: the British Mo Farah won the 5000 meters, the American Matthew Tsentrowitz - the 1500 meters, the South African Caster Semenya - the 800 meters, and the US women's and men's teams in the relay 4 x 400 meters.
Finally, the game day ended with a volleyball match between the women's teams of China and Serbia. The offenders of the Russian national team at the quarterfinal stage, the Serbians confidently won the first set 25:19, but later they could not impose a serious struggle on the Chinese women and eventually lost in the next three - 17:25, 22:25, 23:25. The bronze medal match took place earlier, the American athletes were stronger than the Netherlands in four sets - 25:23, 25:27, 25:22, 25:19.
Day 16, August 21, 2016, Broadcasts watch online:
The Russian team retained fifth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the 14th day of competition. On account Russian athletes 48 medals: 13 gold, 16 silver and 19 bronze.
On the fourteenth day of competition, the Russian team won four awards. Gold was won by synchronized swimmers in the group, silver went to freestyle wrestler Aniuar Geduev in the weight category up to 74 kg, boxer Vitaly Dunaytsev in the weight category up to 64 kg and the women's water polo team received bronze medals.
The US team retained the leadership in the table of the unofficial team standings (38 gold, 35 silver and 32 bronze medals). The UK team is in second place (24-22-14). The Chinese close the top three (22-18-25).
15:15. Men. Canoe deuce. 1000 m
The bronze medalist of the Rio Olympics Ilya Shtokalov, paired with Ilya Pervukhin, will try to compete for awards in the canoe-twos final at a distance of 1000 m.
16:00. Men. Up to 86 kg
Wrestlers are traditionally one of the pillars of all Russian team success at the Olympics. In the weight category up to 86 kg, Russian Abdulrashid Sadulaev is the main hope for gold on the wrestling mat. The two-time world champion will also claim victory in Rio. The final in this weight category will take place at 23:30 Moscow time.
16:00. Men. Up to 125 kg
Also on this day, in the weight category up to 125 kg, the Russian unique Bilyal Makhov will enter the carpet. At the 2015 World Championships in Las Vegas, he won two bronze medals in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. At the Olympics in Rio, Bilal, as in London four years earlier, opted for freestyle wrestling. In London, Makhov became the third, and in Rio he will try to climb the podium again. The final will take place at 00:30 Moscow time.
21:20. Individual all-around
Russian artists Margarita Mamun and Yana Kudryavtseva took first place in the qualification. Now they have to prove their superiority in the final of the individual all-around. The fact that both Russians are able to win a medal on their own high standard, there is no doubt.
21:30. Women. France - Russia
For the first time since 2000, the Russian national team made it to the finals of the women's handball tournament, giving their fans a nervous tic and graying whiskey in the match with Norway. Yevgeny Trefilov and his wards literally snatched a ticket to the final from the hands of the Scandinavians and are ready to fight no less dangerous French women.
00:00. Men. Running + shooting
The battle for bounties is coming to an end modern pentathlon, where Russian Alexander Lesun, a two-time world champion in the individual competition, has good chances for a medal. Now the Russian has a lead of 30 points from the opponent following him, setting an Olympic record in fencing along the way.
22:30. Men. Tower 10 m
The Russian diving team did not excel this time. Since the time of the magnificent Dmitry Sautin, Dmitry Dobroskok and Gleb Galperin, Russian jumpers are less and less likely to give an equal fight to the representatives of China and Great Britain. It remains to be hoped that the successful performance of Viktor Minibaev and Nikita Shleikher will become a step towards the revival of traditions in this form.
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The Russian team dropped to fifth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the 13th day of competition. On account of Russian athletes 44 medals - 12 gold, 15 silver and 17 bronze.
On the thirteenth day of competition, the Russian team won three awards. Taekwondo fighter Alexei Denisenko won silver in the weight category up to 68 kg. In women's wrestling, Ekaterina Bukina (up to 75 kg) received bronze, another bronze went to boxer Vladimir Nikitin (up to 56 kg), who, due to an injury, could not enter the semifinal fight.
The US team retained the leadership in the table of the unofficial team standings (35 gold, 33 silver and 32 bronze medals). The UK team is in second place (22-21-13). The Chinese close the top three (20-16-22).
Day 14, August 19, 2016, Broadcasts watch online:
The Russian team retained fourth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympics after the 12th day of competition. Russian athletes have 41 medals - 12 gold, 14 silver and 15 bronze.
On the twelfth day of the competition, the Russian team won three awards. In women's wrestling, the Russians received two silver medals. They went to Valeria Koblova ( weight category up to 58 kg) and Natalya Vorobieva (up to 69 kg). Bronze medal went to Anastasia Belyakova, who lost in the semifinals of the Olympic boxing tournament in the weight category up to 60 kg.
The US team retained the leadership in the table of the unofficial team standings (30 gold, 32 silver and 31 bronze awards). The UK team is in second place (19-19-12). The Chinese close the top three (19-15-20).
Twenty-three sets of medals will be played on Thursday on the 13th day of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Finals are scheduled for boxing, wrestling, badminton, rowing and canoeing, athletics, diving, sailing, field hockey, triathlon and taekwondo. The semi-final match will be played by the Russian women's handball team against the Olympic and world champions from Norway.
On the second and final day of the competition in women's wrestling, medals will be awarded in three weight categories - up to 53, 63 and 75 kg. In the weight category up to 63 kg, Russian Inna Trazhukova will have her first fight with Hungarian Marianna Shashtin, while in the heavy category, Ekaterina Bukina will meet with Samar Khamza from Iran. On Thursday, the final match of boxers in the category up to 81 kg will take place - the Cuban Julio Cesar la Cruz and Adilbek Niyazymbetov from Kazakhstan meet. In the semi-finals of the category up to 56 kg, Vladimir Nikitin was supposed to meet with the American Shakur Stevenson, but this fight will not take place due to an injury to the Russian, who will receive a bronze medal.
In kayaking and canoeing, starting from 15:08 Moscow time, four finals will be held. Men will compete for awards in kayak-twos at distances of 200 and 1000 m, as well as among single canoes (200 m), while women will determine the strongest in single kayak at a distance of 500 m. At a distance of 200 m, Russian canoeist Andrey Kraytor will perform in the final , while kayaker Elena Anyushina managed to get through only to the final B and will not be able to compete for medals.
In taekwondo, two sets of medals will be played. Bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympics in London Alexei Denisenko in the category up to 68 kg starts the duel with Edgar Contreras from Venezuela, in female category up to 57 kg Russian women are not represented. The Olympic triathlon competitions begin - in the men's individual championship, three representatives of Russia - Alexander Bryukhankov, Dmitry Polyansky and Igor Polyansky - will start at 17:00 Moscow time. In sailing, the final medal races will take place - in the 49th class among men and women. Russian athletes did not start in these events.
Six track and field finals
In athletics, six sets of awards will be played. The daily program includes the finals of the 400-meter hurdles for men (18:00 Moscow time), in the evening there will be finals in the discus throw among men (02:30 Moscow time), javelins for women and decisive disciplines in the men's decathlon, as well as the final race at a distance 400m hurdles for women and 200m for men. In addition, on Thursday there will be a semi-final in the 1500m and preliminary heats in the men's 4x100m relay, a semi-final in the 800m run, qualification in the high jump and preliminary heats in the 4x100m relay for women.
At 16:00 Moscow time, the semi-final starts, and at 22:00 - the final in women's 10-meter diving, where Yekaterina Petukhova and Yulia Timoshinina entered the qualification the day before.
In badminton, there will be a match for third place and a final in women's doubles and a match for third place in men's singles. Bronze medals will be played by Chinese women Tang Yuanting and Yu Yang, as well as Zhong Gyun Eun and Shin Seung Chan from South Korea, while in the final of the women's doubles competition, Danes Kristinna Pedersen and Camilla Rutter Yull will play against Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaki Takahashi from Japan. China's Chai Biao and Hong Wei, as well as Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge from Great Britain will play in the match for third place among men's doubles. In addition, the semi-finals of the women's singles are scheduled, where the Japanese Nozomi Okuhara will meet Sindhu Pusarla from India, and the Spaniard Carolina Marin will face the Chinese Li Xuerui.
At 04:00 Moscow time, the Russian couple Vyacheslav Krasilnikov / Konstantin Semenov will start the match for third place in the beach volleyball with Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meuevsen from the Netherlands, and in the final (05:59) the Brazilians Alison and Bruno Schmidt, as well as the Italians Daniele Lupu and Paolo Nicolai will meet. The first awards in team events at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be played in field hockey. In the match for the third place of the men's tournament (beginning - 18:00 Moscow time), the teams of the Netherlands and Germany will play, the teams of Belgium and Argentina will compete for gold medals (23:00).
The Russian women's handball team at 02:30 Moscow time will start the semi-final against rivals from Norway, who are Olympic champions in 2008 and 2012, as well as world champions in 2015. In another match, which starts at 21:30 Moscow time, the teams of the Netherlands and France will measure their strength. In the women's semi-final volleyball tournament On Thursday, the national teams of Serbia and the United States will meet (19:00 Moscow time), as well as China and the Netherlands (04:15). In the competition of women's basketball teams, the teams of Spain and Serbia (21:00 Moscow time), as well as France and the USA (01:00) will play in the semifinals.
IN synchronized swimming start competitions in groups where the technical program will take place. On Thursday, the quarterfinal races in BMX cycling among men will take place, where Evgeny Komarov performs, and the golf tournament with the participation of Maria Verchenova will continue. On the first day of the pentathletes competition, fencing matches will take place, Alexander Lesun, Donata Rimshaite and Gulnaz Gubaidullina compete in this form as part of the Russian national team.
Day 13, August 18, 2016, Broadcasts watch online:
The Russian team retained fourth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the 11th day of competition. On account of Russian athletes 38 medals - 12 gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze.
On the eleventh day of the competition, the Russian team's piggy bank was replenished with three awards. Synchronized swimmers Svetlana Romashina and Natalya Ishchenko won gold medals in a duet, becoming four-time Olympic champions. Bronze medals were won by gymnast David Belyavsky in exercises on parallel bars and kayaker Roman Anoshkin at a distance of 1000 m.
The leadership in the table of the unofficial team standings was retained by the US team (28 gold, 28 silver and 28 bronze medals). The UK team is in second place (19-19-12). The Chinese close the top three (17-15-19).
Sixteen sets of medals will be played on the 12th day of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There will be finals in boxing, badminton, athletics, equestrianism, sailing, table tennis, taekwondo and wrestling. The semi-final match will be played by the women's water polo team, while the volleyball players will meet in the 1/4 finals.
On Wednesday, competitions in women's wrestling will start in the categories up to 48, 58 and 69 kg. Milana Dadasheva (48 kg) will face Kim Hyun-ken from North Korea in the first bout, Valeria Koblova (58 kg) will face German Louise Nimesh, and Elmira Syzdykova from Kazakhstan will compete with Olympic champion Natalia Vorobyova (69 kg). The first awards will be played in taekwondo - in male category up to 58 kg and women's - up to 49 kg. The Russian team in the lightest weights is not represented.
Boxers will hold the final fight in the category up to 69 kg, where Shakhram Giyasov from Uzbekistan and Daniyar Yeleussinov from Kazakhstan will meet. The semi-final fight in the category up to 60 kg will be held by Anastasia Belyakova - with the Frenchwoman Estelle Mosseli, Misha Aloyan in the category up to 52 kg will meet with the Colombian Seiber Avila.
In athletics, four sets of awards will be played, including in the long jump for women, where Daria Klishina performs - the final in this form is scheduled for 03:15 Moscow time. At 17:15, the final race for the 3000 m hurdles for men will start, 04:30 for the women's 200-meter race, 04:55 for the 100 m hurdles for women. In addition, on Wednesday there will be 5000m preliminary heats and qualifications in the javelin and discus throw for men, as well as 800m preliminary heats for women.
In sailing, there will be medal races in the 470 class - for men and women (19:05 Moscow time), where neither the crew of Pavel Sozykin and Denis Gribanov, nor Alisa Kirilyuk and Lyudmila Dmitrieva managed to break through. In equestrian sports, the final of the team championship in show jumping is planned.
Quarter-finals of the volleyball team
At 16:00 Moscow time, the first playoff match will be held by the Russian volleyball team - Vladimir Alekno's team will meet with the Canadians in the quarterfinals. Other pairs were teams of the USA and Poland, Italy and Iran, Brazil and Argentina. The water polo team of Russia in the semifinals will meet with rivals from Italy (22:30), at 18:20 the meeting between the national teams of Hungary and the USA will take place.
On Wednesday, the women's beach volleyball tournament ends. In the final at 05:59 Moscow time, the German couple Laura Ludwig / Kira Walkenhorst and the Brazilian Agatha Bednarchuk / Barbara Seixas will perform, the bronze medals will be played by the Brazilian Larissa Franz / Talita Antunes and the American Kerry Walsh Jennings / April Ross.
The Olympic table tennis competitions will end with fights in the men's team tournament, where the teams of South Korea and Germany will meet in the match for third place at 17:00 Moscow time, while tennis players from China and Japan will measure their strength in the final at 01:30. At 17:50 Moscow time, the final match in mixed doubles in badminton will take place, where Tontovi Ahmad and Liliana Natsir from Indonesia will play against Chan Peng Sun and Guo Liu Ying from Malaysia. In addition, the women's singles quarter-finals will take place on Wednesday.
In the 1/4 finals of the men's basketball tournament there are national teams of Australia and Lithuania, Spain and France, USA and Argentina, Croatia and Serbia. The semi-finals will be held in the men's football tournament - at 19:00 Moscow time the teams of Brazil and Honduras will play at the famous "Maracana", and at 22:00 in Sao Paulo there will be a meeting between the national teams of Nigeria and Germany. In the semi-finals of the women's field hockey tournament, the teams of the Netherlands and Germany, as well as New Zealand and Great Britain meet. The teams of Brazil and France, Germany and Qatar, Denmark and Slovenia, Croatia and Poland will play in the 1/4 finals of the handball tournament among men's teams.
On Wednesday there will also be preliminary competitions in kayaking and canoeing, as well as BMX cycling. The women's golf tournament starts with the participation of Russian Maria Verchenova. There will be a qualification in women's 10-meter diving, where Ekaterina Petukhova and Yulia Timoshinina will perform.
Day 12, August 17, 2016, Broadcasts watch online:
17:05 Horseback Riding. Team championship. Jumping. The final
19:05 Sailing. 470. Women. The final
20:00 Sailing. 470. Men. The final
23:40 Athletics. Finals
The Russian team retained fourth place in the unofficial 2016 Olympic medal standings after the tenth day of competition. On account of Russian athletes 35 medals - 11 gold, 12 silver and 12 bronze.
On the tenth day of the competition, the piggy bank of the Russian team was replenished with five awards. Boxer Yevgeny Tishchenko in the weight category up to 91 kg and Greco-Roman wrestler David Chakvetadze in the weight category up to 85 kg won gold. Gymnast Denis Ablyazin brought silver in vault and bronze in rings. Greco-Roman wrestler Sergei Semenov also won a bronze medal in the weight category up to 130 kg.
The leadership in the table of the unofficial team standings was retained by the US team (26 gold, 23 silver and 26 bronze medals). The UK team is in second place (16-17-8). The Chinese close the top three (15-14-17).
Twenty-five sets of awards will be played on the 11th competitive day of the Summer Olympic Games, held in Brazilian Rio de Janeiro. Final competitions in boxing, cycling, kayaking and canoeing, athletics, open water swimming, diving, artistic gymnastics, sailing, synchronized swimming, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling will be held; volleyball and handball.
In artistic gymnastics, starting from 20:00 Moscow time, the final finals will be held on individual apparatus - on the bars and the crossbar for men, in floor exercises for women. This evening from Russian gymnasts only David Belyavsky will perform, who showed the second result in qualification on uneven bars, losing only to Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev. On Tuesday there will be competitions in the final two categories. Greco-Roman wrestling - up to 66 and 98 kg. Islam-Beka Albiev (66 kg) will play the first fight with Romanian Ion Panait, while Islam Magomedov (98 kg) will face Ardo Arusaar from Estonia in the 1/8 finals.
Scheduled in synchronized swimming free program duets, after which the results will be summed up. After two competitive days, the favorites of the Games, Russians Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, are in the lead.
The first sets of awards will be played in kayaking and canoeing. Men will determine the strongest in canoe singles and kayak at a distance of 1000 m, women will have finals among double kayaks and single kayaks (200 m). Canoeist Ilya Shtokalov and kayaker Roman Anoshkin, as well as Elena Anyushina and Kira Stepanova managed to make it to the final in a double kayak.
The open water swimming tournament will end with a 10-kilometer swim among men, where Evgeny Dratsev will start. There will be a semi-final (16:00) and a final (00:00) in men's 3-meter springboard diving, where Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov started.
The first start of Daria Klishina
Five regular sets of awards will be played in athletics. At 14:50 Moscow time, the final in the men's triple jump starts, at 17:20 Moscow time - in the women's discus throw. The men's high jump starts at 02:30, the women's 1500m final at 04:30 and the evening ends with the men's 110m hurdles final (04:45). On Tuesday, the women's long jump qualification will be held, where the only representative of Russia in the athletics tournament, Daria Klishina, will perform.
In sailing, there will be medal races in the Finn class (men) and the mixed class Nakra-17. Russian athletes did not compete in these disciplines. In weightlifting, the competition will end with a medal draw in the men's category over 105 kg.
In track cycling, the last champions of the 2016 Games will also be determined. Men in keirin will start from the preliminary races, decisive competitions will take place in the women's sprint - starting with the 1/4 finals, where the vice-champion of the current Games in the team sprint Anastasia Voinova managed to break through. There will also be prizes in the women's omnium.
Brazilian boxer Robson Conceicao and Frenchman Sofiane Umia from France will hold the final fight in the category up to 60 kg. Vladimir Nikitin in the 56 kg category will face Irish world champion Michael Conlan, while Vitaly Dunaytsev (64 kg) will face Hu Qianxun from China.
In table tennis, the women's team final will be played between China and Germany, while the bronze medals will be played between Singapore and Japan. In badminton, a match for third place in the mixed doubles is scheduled, as well as semi-finals of the men's and women's doubles tournaments.
Volleyball and handball players start the playoffs
Russian women's volleyball and handball teams start the playoffs on Tuesday. Russian handball players at 02:30 Moscow time will play against the Angola team, the rest of the pairs were the teams of Brazil and the Netherlands, Spain and France, Norway and Sweden. Volleyball players at 00:00 will play a match against rivals from Serbia, three more tickets to the semi-finals will be played by the teams of South Korea and the Netherlands, Japan and the USA, Brazil and China.
Russians Konstantin Semenov and Vyacheslav Krasilnikov reached the semi-finals of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament, where they will meet with Italians Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo, who earlier beat another Russian couple Nikita Lyamin / Dmitry Barsuk in the 1/4 finals. In the other semi-final, the teams of Brazil and the Netherlands will play.
The semi-final matches will be held in the men's beach volleyball tournament, while in the women's tournament the Brazilians Larissa and Talita will compete with Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst from Germany for reaching the final.
The semi-finals will take place in the women's football tournament - the teams of Brazil and Sweden will play at the Maracana Stadium (19:00 Moscow time), and Canada and Germany (22:00) will play in Belo Horizonte. The teams of France and Canada, Australia and Serbia, Spain and Turkey, the USA and Japan will play in the 1/4 finals of the women's basketball tournament of the Olympics on Tuesday.
In field hockey, semi-finals are scheduled in the men's tournament - teams from Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as Argentina and Germany meet. In the men's water polo tournament, the teams of Hungary and Montenegro, Greece and Italy, Brazil and Croatia, Serbia and Spain will play in the 1/4 finals.
Day 11, August 16, 2016, Broadcasts watch online:
Wrestler Roman Vlasov, gymnast Aliya Mustafina and tennis players Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova secured a record-breaking result for Russia in terms of gold medals won at the current Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro - three awards at the end of the competitive day.
Sunday, which smoothly flowed into Monday, was also remembered as another round in the proceedings with the Russian athlete Daria Klishina, who was not allowed by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to participate in the Olympics because of her appearance in the report of the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
Unbending Aliya
Mustafina's gold in the uneven bars exercise, which is considered her crowning form, became extremely important. The Russian woman became a two-time Olympic champion, winning the second gold in this discipline in a row after London 2012. It was not easy for her to do this due to the fact that at these Games she performed with back pain, but despite this, she also won silver in the team competition and bronze in the individual all-around.
On uneven bars, Mustafina won with a score of 15.900, ahead of American Madison Cochan (15.833) and Germany's Sophie Scheder (15.566).
Many expected that Mustafina might announce her retirement, but the head coach of the Russian national team Valentina Rodionenko told TASS that the 21-year-old athlete intends to rest for two years, and then start preparing for the Olympic cycle before the 2020 Games in Tokyo. The athlete herself later confirmed this.
In addition, Maria Paseka placed second in the vault, in which she is the reigning world champion. American Simone Biles won gold in Rio de Janeiro already in the all-around and in team competitions, the third place was taken by Switzerland's Julia Steingruber.
The legendary 41-year-old Oksana Chusovitina, who played for the national teams of the USSR, the United Team, Germany and now represents Uzbekistan, became the seventh, but at the same time she said that she did not intend to end her career, but wanted to play at the World Championships next year in Canada.
Briton Max Whitlock successfully performed in men, winning gold in floor exercises and on pommel horse. The Russians did not compete in the freestyle, and in the exercise on horseback David Belyavsky and Nikolai Kuksenkov took fifth and sixth places, respectively.
Historic tennis gold
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina for the first time in the history of the Russian team won the Olympic gold in women's doubles. girls in Olympic final left no chance for the Swiss pair Martina Hingis/Timea Baczynski, beating them with a score of 6:4, 6:4. It is noteworthy that the Russians risked missing the 2016 Olympics altogether, because due to a plane breakdown and bad weather they did not have time for a flight from Canada and barely managed to arrive on the eve of the start of the Olympic tournament.
After the final, Hingis recognized the strength of the Russians, and Vesnina and Makarova themselves said that the Olympics were a priority tournament for them this year, for which they suffered trials related to delayed flights and poor living conditions at the Games.
The tennis tournament of the Olympics ended with the men's final, in which Briton Andy Murray defeated Argentinean Juan Martin del Potro with a score of 7:5, 4:6, 6:2, 7:5. Japan's Kei Nishikori won the bronze medal after beating 2008 Olympic champion Spaniard Rafael Nadal.
Murray became the first tennis player in Olympic history to win two gold medals in an individual tournament. Four years ago, he won the 2012 Olympics in London, and also won silver in the mixed doubles.
Repeat the path of Karelin
In the evening program, Russia rightly expected a victory from the Greco-Roman wrestler in the weight category up to 75 kg Roman Vlasov. The 25-year-old Russian justified his hopes.
Vlasov did not leave a chance to any of his rivals, and in the final he defeated the Dane Mark Madsen with a score of 5:1. The Russian did not stop the episode that was unpleasant for him in the semi-finals, where the judge allowed the Croatian Bozho Starcevic to strangle the Russian, because of which he lost consciousness, but soon came to his senses and won the fight.
Thus, Vlasov became a two-time Olympic champion, having won four years ago in London. Four years later in Tokyo, he has a chance to repeat the record of Alexander Karelin, who won three gold in a row (1988, 1992, 1996). Myself two-time winner Igry said that it was impossible to beat Karelin's record. “This man (Karelin. - TASS note) did everything in sports. He is a colossus, ”said Vlasov.
Silver Kamensky and bronze Elfutina in windsurfing
The final day turned out to be extremely disappointing. Olympic competitions in shooting, where two Russians reached the final of the discipline in rifle shooting from 50 meters from three positions - Sergey Kamensky and Fedor Vlasov, who became the first in the qualification.
Before his final shots for the first place, Kamensky was ahead of the Italian Nicola Campriani, who had already become the Olympic champion in air rifle shooting from 10 meters. The Italian missed the last shot, but Kamensky shot even worse, becoming the vice-champion.
Bronze was won by Frenchman Alexis Reynaud. Vlasov, who was in the lead during the final, became the seventh.
The results of the shooting tournament turned out to be successful for domestic representatives of bullet shooting and unsuccessful for representatives of clay shooting. IN bullet shooting Russians won four medals: two silver and two bronze. At the same time, in Olympic London they had none. In trap shooting, none of the Russians even managed to overcome the qualification.
Stefania Elfutina won the first Olympic medal in domestic sailing among women, who became the third in the RS:X class (windsurfing). The Frenchwoman Charlene Picon (64) won, the second was the Chinese Chen Payna (66). IN last time Russians won medals in sailing 20 years ago in Atlanta: Georgy Shayduko, Igor Skalin and Dmitry Shabanov won silver in the Soling class.
Bronze in the personal sprint in the cycle track was won by Denis Dmitriev. In the fight for third place, the Russian in both heats was stronger than the Australian Matthew Gletzer. Briton Jason Kenny won the gold medal, beating his compatriot Callum Skinner in the final. In the track cycling at the 2016 Games, the UK team has already won 6 medals in 6 disciplines (4 gold and 2 silver). For the Russian team, the Dmitriev medal in this discipline at the Olympic Games was a debut: the previous time a domestic cyclist won the Games medal in the individual sprint in the cycling track in 1988 in Seoul, when the Soviet athlete Nikolai Kovsh became the silver medalist.
Anastasia Voinova, the silver medalist of the Games in the team sprint, continues to fight in the cycling track, who reached the 1/8 finals in the sprint.
WADA accused Klishina of hiding samples
Confirmation came out from the words of Klishina's lawyer Paul Green that the athlete could open doping tests made during the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. According to the representative of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Mark Adams during the briefing of the organization, the athlete will not speak at the Games if her name is mentioned in the McLaren report.
“The Klishina situation is an IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federation) matter,” Adams said. - We have already said that each federation makes decisions on such cases. As for the McLaren report, this is one of the three key components that allow Russian athletes to prove their innocence. WADA has made sure that all federations are aware of this information and we should ask the IAAF about Klishina."
“If you are somehow affected by the McLaren report, you are out of the game. This was one of the key conditions for the participation or non-participation of Russian athletes in the Games in Rio de Janeiro,” Adams emphasized.
As if in response to this, the President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Alexander Zhukov, said that the Russian team had passed about 360 doping tests in Tbilisi.
CAS allowed Klishina to the 2016 Games
On Monday morning it became known that CAS granted the appeal of the Russian athlete Daria Klishina against the decision of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to prevent her from participating in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
"CAS granted Klishina's appeal regarding the IAAF's decision to bar her from the Olympics," Reuters said in a statement.
Russian athletes were suspended from participating in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro due to the disqualification of the national federation, only Klishina, who lives and trains abroad, was supposed to perform at the Games. CAS on July 21 unanimously decided to reject the claim of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and domestic athletes to the IAAF for non-admission to the Games.
Bolt's seventh victory and synchronized start
The main event of the athletics tournament of the Olympics, of course, was the 100-meter race, in the finals of which, as expected, the representatives of Jamaica Usain Bolt and Johan Blake, as well as the American Justin Gatlin, made their way. His presence did not go unnoticed by the fans - the stands booed him before the final, given that Gatlin was caught twice for using illegal drugs. Neither he nor Blake were able to stop Bolt, who became the first ever three-time Olympic champion in the 100 meters. Silver was taken by Gatlin, bronze by Canadian Andre de Grasse.
Synchronized swimming competitions have begun. Svetlana Romashina and Natalya Ishchenko confidently won the free competition with 98.0067 points. In second place are Chinese women Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan (96.0067), in third place are Japanese women Yukiko Inui and Risako Mitsui (94.4000).
The Olympic fencing tournament has ended. French epee fencers became Olympic champions, beating the Italian team in the final with a score of 45:31. The bronze medal was won by the Hungarian team, which defeated the Ukrainians (39:37). In the fencing standings, the Russian team took first place with four gold, one silver and two bronze medals.
For two women's Russian teams in team sports, the group stage. Handball players beat the Netherlands team 38:34 and for the first time since 1980 won all five matches of the preliminary stage of the Games. Volleyball players lost to the hosts of the tournament in three games and advanced to the playoffs from second place. Their opponent in the 1/4 finals will be the Serbian team.
The last domestic women's couple in beach volleyball completed the fight - Ekaterina Birlova and Evgenia Ukolova lost to the reigning world champions Agata Bednarchuk and Barbara Seixas from Brazil.
The first Olympic golf champion since 1904 was determined in Rio. Briton Justin Rose became the winner. Silver went to Swede Henrik Stenson, bronze went to US representative Matt Kuchar. Russian players this tournament, which a number of strong golfers withdrew due to the Zika virus, did not compete.
Following the results of the day of the competitive program of the Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Russian team rose to fourth place in the unofficial standings of the Olympics. On account of Russian athletes 30 medals - nine gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze. The US team retained the leadership in the table of the unofficial team standings (26 gold, 21 silver and 22 bronze medals). Great Britain moved up to second place (15-16-7), pushing China to third place (15-13-17).
Seventeen sets of awards will be played on the tenth competitive day of the Summer Olympic Games, held in Brazilian Rio de Janeiro. There will be finals in boxing, cycling, athletics, open water swimming, equestrianism, artistic gymnastics, sailing, weightlifting and wrestling, the next matches will be played by the Russian men's volleyball team and water polo players.
In artistic gymnastics, the finals on individual apparatus will continue - in the vault and on the rings for men, as well as on the balance beam for women (beginning - 20:00 Moscow time). Denis Ablyazin and Nikita Nagorny qualified in the vault, only Ablyazin will perform on the rings in the final. Russian women do not compete in balance beam exercises. Greco-Roman wrestlers will compete for medals in the categories up to 85 and 130 kg, in the weight up to 85 kg Davit Chakvetadze will meet with the Azerbaijani Saman Tahmasebi, while the first opponent of Sergei Semenov will be Murat Ramonov from Kyrgyzstan.
Five regular sets are waiting for the owners in athletics. At 16:40 Moscow time, the final in the women's hammer throw starts, 17:15 - the women's 3000 m race (steeple chase), 02:35 the pole vault tournament (men), 04:35 - the final in the 800 run m for men, and at 04:45 - 400 meters for women. In addition, the 110m and 400m hurdles and 3000m hurdles preliminary heats, as well as the men's triple jump qualification, the 200m and 400m hurdles preliminary heats and the women's discus throw qualification will take place on Monday.
In sailing, there will be medal races in the Laser class for men and women. Sergei Komissarov started in this discipline, but he will not take part in the decisive race, taking only 15th place. In cycling on the track, competitions in the omnium for men will be held, where there are no representatives of Russia. In addition, the tournament in the women's sprint starts from the 1/8 finals, where the vice-champions of the Games in Rio de Janeiro in the team sprint Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva will perform.
At 01:15 Moscow time, the final of the boxing tournament in the category up to 91 kg starts, where Evgeny Tishchenko will meet with Vasily Levit from Kazakhstan. The first fight in the tournament will be held by Misha Aloyan, in the 1/8 finals in the category up to 52 kg, the two-time world champion will meet with the Frenchman Ellie Konki. Whereas Anastasia Belyakova (up to 60 kg) will hold a quarterfinal duel with American Mikaela Mayer.
At 15:00, the first competitions of the Games in open water swimming - among women (10 km) will start. The Russians failed to break into the 2016 Olympics in this form. In equestrian sports, the final will take place in a personal dressage, where Marina Aframeeva and Inessa Merkulova failed to break through. In weightlifting, medals will be played in the category up to 105 kg for men.
Volleyball players complete the group stage
The Russian men's volleyball team will play the final match group tournament- against the Iranian team (21:00 Moscow time). Wards of Vladimir Alekno have already guaranteed themselves access to the 1/4 finals, according to the results of the matches on Monday, the opponent of the Russians in the first meeting of the playoffs will be determined. The Russian women's water polo team will play in the 1/4 finals on Monday against the Spanish team (01:40).
At 21:15 Moscow time, the qualification in diving from the three-meter springboard for men will start, where Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov will perform. In synchronized swimming, duets will have to qualify in technical program. The Russian national team in this form is represented by three-time Olympic champions and multiple world champions Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, who showed the best result in the free program the day before.
The Russian badminton duo Vladimir Ivanov/Ivan Sozonov will play the quarterfinal match, which was postponed from Sunday due to schedule changes. The opponents will be Chai Biao and Hong Wei from China. In the 1/4 finals of the beach volleyball tournament, Dmitry Barsuk and Nikita Lyamin will meet with Italians Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai (05:00 Moscow time).
Day 10, August 15, 2016, Broadcasts watch online:
The Russian team climbed from seventh to sixth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the eighth day of competition. On account of Russian athletes 23 medals - six gold, nine silver and eight bronze.
On the eighth day of competition, the Russians won one medal. Russian saber fencers Sofya Velikaya, Yana Egoryan, Yulia Gavrilova and Ekaterina Dyachenko won Olympic gold in team competition. In the final, the Russians defeated the Ukrainian team with a score of 45:30.
The US team retained the leadership in the table of the unofficial team standings (24 gold, 18 silver and 19 bronze medals). In second place is the Chinese team (13-11-17). The British close the top three (10-13-7).
Day 9, August 14, 2016, Broadcasts watch online:
18:00 Tennis. Finals.
18:55 Shooting. Men. Three position rifle. The final.
19:55 Gymnastics. Finals in separate types.
20:35 Handball. Women. Russia — Netherlands
22:10 Diving. Women. Springboard. 3m final.
On the seventh day of competition, the Russians won three medals. The Russian foil fencing team consisting of Timur Safin, Aleksey Cheremisinov and Artur Akhmatkhuzin won gold, beating the French team in the final with a score of 45:41. This victory was the first for Russian foil fencers in the team championship since the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Russian cyclists Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva won silver in the team sprint on the track, and Kirill Grigoryan brought bronze to the Russian national team in shooting from a small-caliber rifle from 50 meters from a prone position.
The US team retained the leadership in the table of the unofficial team standings (20 gold, 13 silver and 17 bronze medals). In second place is the Chinese team (13-10-14). The British close the top three (7-9-6).
Twenty-one sets of medals will be played on the eighth competitive day of the Summer Olympic Games, held in Brazilian Rio de Janeiro. Competitions will be held in rowing, cycling, athletics, shooting, fencing, trampolining, weightlifting, tennis and swimming, the next matches will be played by the Russian men's volleyball team and water polo players.
At 15:00 Moscow time, qualifications in men's 25m high-speed pistol shooting will begin, where 40-year-old Alexei Klimov, the owner of the world record, which he set in April at a tournament in Rio de Janeiro, competes. The final in this discipline is scheduled for 18:30 Moscow time. At 21:00 Moscow time, the semi-final in the men's skete starts, after the first qualification on Friday, Anton Astakhov takes only 20th place.
IN fencing will take place team tournament of saber fencing, where the Russian team has the right to count on success, given that Yana Egoryan and Sofia Velikaya became the champion and silver medalist of the Games in the individual championship. The team also includes Ekaterina Dyachenko, the Russian team will play the first match in the 1/4 finals against rivals from Mexico. The Russian team is the 2015 world champion in the women's saber team tournament, and the main competitor will once again be the Ukrainian team led by the 2008 Olympic champion in the team Olga Kharlan.
In cycling on the track on Saturday, medals will be played in the women's team pursuit race (23:14 Moscow time), where the Russian team does not participate, and the women's keirin (23:33). Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva will start the first round in the keirin (16:00).
Five sets of awards will be played in athletics. Starts at 16:50 men's final in the discus throw, 02:53 - men's long jump competition, 03:27 - men's 10,000 m race, 04:37 - women's 100-meter final, decisive events in the women's heptathlon will also be held. In addition, on Saturday there will be preliminary competitions in the men's 100m and pole vault, the semi-finals of the men's 400m and 800m races, as well as qualifications in the 400m and 3000m (steeple chase) and in triple jumping - among women.
Final day of sailing
On the eighth competitive day of the Games, the Olympic swimming tournament in the pool ends, where four final sets of awards will be played. At a distance of 50 m freestyle, Rozalia Nasretdinova and Natalya Lovtsova entered the start of the preliminary heats, who did not even make it to the semi-finals. Men will swim 1500 m freestyle, where Ilya Druzhinin and Yaroslav Potapov started, but failed to reach the final.
The final events will be the men's and women's 4x100 m medley relay races. The Russian women's team (Anastasia Fesikova, Yulia Efimova, Svetlana Chimrova, Veronika Popova) reached the final with the fourth time, the men's (Grigory Tarasevich, Anton Chupkov, Evgeny Koptelov and Alexander Sukhorukov) - with the sixth.
At 20:03, the qualification of the men's trampoline tournament starts, where the bronze medalist of the 2015 World Championship Dmitry Ushakov and Andrey Yudin will perform (the final will start at 21:42). Rowing competitions will end with the final races of singles and eights for men and women. In weightlifting, men will compete for medals in the category up to 94 kg.
The Russian men's volleyball team at 21:00 Moscow time will play a group tournament match against world champions from Poland, who have not yet lost at this tournament and have guaranteed themselves a ticket to the 1/4 finals. The women's water polo team at 16:20 will play the final match of the preliminary stage against the Italians. In this form, all teams reach the quarterfinals, and in the group stage there is a struggle for the best seeding in the playoffs.
In the badminton tournament, the Russian duet Vladimir Ivanov / Ivan Sozonov will play the third match of the group stage - with Lee Yong-dae and Ye Yong-Song from South Korea. The first match at the Games will be held by Natalia Perminova, who is facing Elisabeth Baldauf from Austria. Russian couple in beach volleyball Nikita Lyamin and Dmitry Barsuk in the 1/8 finals will meet with the Brazilians Evandro and Pedro Solberg.
Semifinal Tishchenko
Boxers will hold semi-final fights in the category up to 91 kg, where Evgeny Tishchenko at 18:45 Moscow time will meet with Rustam Tulaganov from Uzbekistan. The second pair was Vasily Levit from Kazakhstan and Cuban Erislandy Savon. At 22:00, the semi-final in women's 3-meter diving starts, where Kristina Ilyinykh reached the semi-finals, while Nadezhda Bazhina failed to do so.
The time has come for the decisive tennis matches, where the semi-finals of the men's singles, women's singles, as well as matches for third place in the women's doubles and mixed doubles semi-finals will be held. In the men's singles semi-finals Briton Andy Murray will play with Japan's Kei Nishikori, in another - Argentinean Juan Martin del Potro will face off against Spaniard Rafael Nadal. The women's semi-finals are as follows: Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) - Madison Keys (USA); Monica Puig (Puerto Rico) - Angelique Kerber (Germany). Two Czech duets will compete for bronze in the women's doubles - Lucia Shafarova/Barbora Strycova and Andrea Hlavachkova/Lucia Hradecka.
The quarterfinal matches of the men's football tournament will also be held, where the teams of Portugal and Germany, Nigeria and Denmark, South Korea and Honduras, Brazil and Colombia will play.
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The Russian team dropped from 6th to 7th place in the unofficial team medal standings of the 2016 Olympics after the sixth day of competition. On account of Russian athletes 19 medals - four gold, eight silver and seven bronze.
On the sixth day of the competition, the Russians won four medals. Yulia Efimova became vice champion in the 200m breaststroke. The women's epee team won the bronze medal in the team competition. Swimmer Yevgeny Rylov added a bronze medal to the team in the 200 m backstroke, and gymnast Aliya Mustafina brought a medal of the same value in the individual all-around.
The US team retained the leadership in the table of the unofficial team standings (16 gold, 12 silver and 10 bronze medals). In second place is the Chinese team (11-8-11). The Japanese close the top three (7-2-13).
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On the fifth day of the competition, the Russian Olympic team won one gold, one silver and one bronze medals in three sports. The silver of 36-year-old cyclist Olga Zabelinskaya in the individual road race and the bronze of 19-year-old swimmer Anton Chupkov were a real surprise for Russian fans.
Silver
Olga Zabelinskaya, winner of two bronze medals at the 2012 Olympic Games, brought the first medal to the Russian team. The athlete, who received permission to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro a few days before the start, in the individual race, which took place to the accompaniment of rain, lost only to American Christine Armstrong, who was ahead of the Russian woman by less than six seconds.
“I have mixed feelings,” Zabelinskaya said immediately after the finish. - Yes, I became an Olympic silver medalist, and in the situation in which I found myself, this is an excellent result. On the other hand, I could become a champion. Armstrong beat me by only 5 seconds, it's a shame to lose so little in the last segment.
“Olga is quite capable of withstanding another Olympic cycle and preparing well for next Games 2020 in Tokyo. I take into account her attitude to sports, and her health still allows her to show good results, ”adviser to the President of the Federation told TASS cycling Rossi Alexander Gusyatnikov.
Zabelinskaya herself, after returning to reporters after the awards ceremony, announced that she intended to continue training until the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, where she hopes to win a gold medal.
Gold
Russia secured a place in the women's foil individual finals even before the semi-final bouts. Russian fencing has another opportunity to win Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro (the first medal of the highest value was won by Yana Yegoryan in saber).
By lot in the semifinals, two Russians met: Aida Shanaeva and Inna Deriglazova. In this confrontation, Deriglazova celebrated success, after which she received the right to speak in the final, where Inna completed her task in full, and Shanaeva, on the contrary, was defeated in the match for 3rd place and was left without a medal.
“I believed in myself to the end, believed in my victory,” Deriglazova admitted. “Thanks to my coach, who prompted me and gave me advice.”
In the final, the Russian woman was opposed by the Italian Elisa di Francisca. “In terms of titles, of course, the Italian is stronger, but Inna surpassed her in her youth and desire to win. Youth won over experience,” said Ilgar Mammadov, head coach of the Russian fencing team.
Bronze
The third place, which was taken in Rio de Janeiro by one of the youngest Russian swimmers Anton Chupkov, was also a pleasant surprise for all Russian fans.
Bronze of the 2016 Games is the biggest achievement in a swimmer's career. Russian swimmers have not won a medal in the 200m breaststroke since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Then Andrey Korneev completed the swim with the third result.
“This bronze is for me with a piece of gold, because these are my first Games,” the athlete emphasized. - I am pleased with myself: I completed the maximum task, won a medal. It was cool".
The Russian team dropped to sixth place
The Russian team dropped from 5th to 6th place in the unofficial team medal standings of the 2016 Olympics after the fifth day of competition. On account of Russian athletes 15 medals - four gold, seven silver and four bronze. The US team retained the leadership in the table of the unofficial team standings (11 gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze medals). In second place is the Chinese team (10-5-8). The Japanese close the top three (6-1-11).
Twenty-one sets of medals will be played on Thursday on the sixth day of the Summer Olympic Games, held in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro. There will be competitions in rowing, archery, cycling, rowing slalom, shooting, artistic gymnastics, judo, fencing, rugby-7, table tennis and swimming, the next matches will be held by the Russian men's volleyball team and water polo players.
Sixth day, August 11
At 15:00 Moscow time, preliminary competitions in air rifle shooting from 50 m from three positions for women will start, at 18:00 the final will begin here. Daria Vdovina, who has already competed in 10m rifle shooting, where she took fifth place, is declared in this event.
Judoists will compete for medals in the categories up to 100 kg (men) and 78 kg (women). Tagir Khaibulaev, the Olympic champion of London 2012, is a member of the Russian national team, who will face Azerbaijani Elmar Gasimov, a two-time winner of the European Championships, in the 1/16 finals. Russian women in the light heavyweight category are not represented.
In fencing, a team tournament of epee fencing will take place, where the Russian team (Lyubov Shutova, Violetta Kolobova and Tatyana Logunova) starts with a 1/4 final match against the French. The French team took fourth place at the 2015 World Cup in Moscow, where the Russians lost in the 1/4 finals. Shutova, Kolobova and Logunova competed in Rio de Janeiro in the individual epee tournament, losing unanimously in the 1/16 finals, and the Hungarian Emese Sas became the Olympic champion.
In artistic gymnastics, the finals in the individual all-around for women will be held, where Seda Tutkhalyan and Aliya Mustafina will perform, who took fourth and fifth places, respectively, according to the results of the qualification. The first two places went to Americans Simone Biles and Eli Reisman, the third was Rebecca Andrade from Brazil. At 14:00 Moscow time, the decisive stage of the women's archery tournament starts, where only Inna Stepanova managed to get into the 1/8 finals.
The second final of Efimova
In swimming, four regular sets of medals will be played. The second attempt to win the Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro will be Yulia Efimova, the women's 200m breaststroke final is scheduled for 04:17 Moscow time. At 04:26, the men's 200-meter backstroke final starts, where Evgeny Rylov came out with the best result. At 05:01, the final of the 200-meter medley for men is scheduled, where Semyon Makovich failed to even make it to the semi-finals. In this form, the American Michael Phelps, a 21-time Olympic champion, performs, and his main competitor is compatriot Ryan Lochte, who won the Olympics six times.
Finally, at 05:18, the women will compete for medals in the 100-meter freestyle, where Veronika Popova and Natalya Lovtsova failed to reach the semi-finals.
Ends on Thursday Olympic program in rowing slalom. In the semi-finals (18:30 Moscow time) Mikhail Kuznetsov and Dmitry Larionov, who became bronze medalists of the 2008 Games in Beijing, will perform among canoe-twos. The final here is scheduled for 20:15. At 19:15, the semi-finals in the women's single kayak start, where Marta Kharitonova will perform (decisive races are scheduled for 21:00). The winners will be determined in the men's rugby-7 tournament, where the play-off stage will be held, starting from the 1/4 finals.
Competitions on the cycle track open with a men's team sprint, where qualification starts at 22:00, and the decisive race will take place at 00:25. The Russian team in this form was not selected for the Games. In addition, preliminary races in the men's and women's team pursuit races will take place on Thursday.
Six sets of awards will be played in rowing - the finals will be held in the fours of doubles for men and women, men's twos, men's and women's twos of doubles and men's fours light weight. The sculls quad finals were rescheduled from Wednesday due to bad weather. Russian crews did not perform in these types of programs. The preliminary tournaments in badminton and golf will start, sailing and equestrian competitions will continue.
In table tennis, the decisive matches of the men's singles will take place. In the first semi-final, the 2012 Olympic champion and eight-time world champion Ma Lun from China and Jun Mizutani from Japan will play in the team. The second pair consisted of one of the strongest European tennis players 40-year-old Vladimir Samsonov from Belarus and two-time Olympic champion, seven-time world champion Zhang Jike from China.
Revenge of volleyball players
At 15:00 Moscow time, the Russian women's water polo team will play the second match of the group round - against rivals from Brazil. Volleyball players under the leadership of Vladimir Alekno at 17:35 will play against the Egyptians - the Russian team needs to rehabilitate for the defeat from the Argentines on Monday.
At 19:00, the third match of the preliminary stage will be held by the Russian beach volleyball duet Vyacheslav Krasilnikov / Konstantin Semenov. Having guaranteed themselves a place in the 1/8 finals, the Russians will play the best seed with Reinder Nummerdor and Christian Warenhorst from the Netherlands. Whereas Ekaterina Birlova and Evgenia Ukolova at 21:30 will play with the Americans Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Sweet for the opportunity to get into the playoffs from third place.
Tennis matches are due to be postponed from Wednesday due to rain. In the women's quarterfinals, Daria Kasatkina will face the American Madison Case, and Evgeny Donskoy will play with Steve Johnson from the USA in the 1/8 finals of the men's tournament. In the 1/4 finals of the women's doubles, Kasatkina and Svetlana Kuznetsova will meet with the Czechs Andrea Glachkova and Lucie Gradetskaya, and Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina will face Garbiñe Mugurusa and Carla Suarez Navarro from Spain.
Beach volleyball. Women. Russia - USA
The Russian team takes fifth place in the unofficial team medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the fourth day of competition. On account of Russian athletes 12 medals - three gold, six silver and three bronze.
Twenty sets of awards will be played on Wednesday, the fifth day of the Summer Olympic Games, held in Brazilian Rio de Janeiro. There will be competitions in rowing, cycling, rowing slalom, shooting, artistic gymnastics, judo, diving, fencing, weightlifting, table tennis and swimming, the next matches will be held by the Russian women's volleyball and handball teams.
At 14:00 Moscow time, the qualification in pistol shooting from 50 meters starts, where Vladimir Goncharov and Denis Kulakov compete, and the final is scheduled for 18:00. Goncharov in this form is the bronze medalist of the 2002 World Championship, and at the current Games he became the eighth in air pistol shooting from a distance of 10 m.
There will also be competitions in the double trap, where the qualification starts at 15:00 Moscow time, the semi-finals at 21:00 Moscow time, and the final at 21:25. Vasily Mosin and Vitaly Fokeev will perform in the Russian national team. Mosin four years ago in London won the only shooting medal for the team - bronze in the double trap, and in 2013 he became the world vice-champion.
In artistic gymnastics, the final in the individual all-around will take place, where David Belyavsky and Nikolai Kuksenkov made their way to the number of 24 participants. The best result in qualifying was shown by the Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev, the main favorite, the Olympic champion of London in the individual all-around and the champion of the Games in Rio de Janeiro in the team championship, Kohei Utimura, became the second.
In cycling on the road, awards will be played in individual races with a separate start for men and women, where Sergei Chernetsky and bronze medalist of the Games in London Olga Zabelinskaya will start. In group road races at the current Games, Chernetsky became 31st, and Zabelinskaya showed 16th result.
Judoists will compete for medals in the category up to 90 kg for men and 70 kg for women. In the 1/16 finals, the repeated winner of the world championships and the champion of Europe in 2015, Russian Kirill Denisov will meet Mammadali Mehdiyev from Azerbaijan, while there are no representatives of Russia in the women's middleweight division.
High hopes for fencing
In fencing, Olympic champions in the men's saber and women's foil will be determined. Bronze medalist of the 2012 Games and four-time world champion Russian saber fencer Nikolai Kovalev will face Hungarian Tamas Deci in the first round, bronze medalist of the Games in Athens and eight-time world champion Alexei Yakimenko will face Bulgarian Pancho Paskov. Yakymenko is the current world champion in this discipline, and the Hungarian Aron Siladi will defend the Olympic title.
In the women's foil at the 2015 World Championships in Moscow, there was a Russian final - Irina Deriglazova defeated Aida Shanaeva, who can repeat this result, given that they were divided into different halves of the grid. Both Russian athletes will have their first fights in the 1/16 finals, their rivals will be determined after the preliminary fights.
Four next sets of awards will be played by swimmers. main view of the day - the 100-meter freestyle for men, where the final, which Russian swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Andrey Grechin could not get into, is scheduled for 05:03 Moscow time.
In the 200m breaststroke final, Russia will be represented by 19-year-old Anton Chupkov, a four-time winner of the European Games. According to the results of the semi-finals, he showed the 6th result.
At a distance of 200 m butterfly for women, the Russians did not start, but the Russian team will take part in the preliminary heat of the 4x200 m freestyle relay, where the final will take place at 05:55.
Kuznetsov with Zakharov against the Chinese champions
On Wednesday, medals will be played in synchronized diving from a 3-meter springboard (beginning at 22:00 Moscow time), where Evgeny Kuznetsov and Ilya Zakharov, who became world vice-champions a year ago in Kazan, will perform. The Russian duet lost to the representatives of China at the 2012 Games in London, where Zakharov, however, won in ski jumping. This time, the main rivals of the Russians will be the Olympic champion in synchronized diving Cao Yuan and two-time Olympic champion in synchronized diving Qin Kai from China.
In the rowing slalom competitions will be held in the men's single kayak, where Pavel Eigel, who starts at 19:57 Moscow time, reached the semi-finals. The first medals of the Games in Rio de Janeiro will be played in rowing, where the finals in the men's and women's quadruple sculls will be held (16:22 Moscow time). Russian boats did not start in these types.
Weightlifters will compete for medals in the categories up to 77 kg (men) and 69 kg (women). In table tennis there will be semi-finals, a match for third place and a women's singles final. Two-time Olympic champion Li Xiaoxia from China and Japanese Ai Fukuhara made up one semi-final pair, in the other match Kim Sun-I from the DPRK and five-time world champion, Olympic champion in the team tournament and vice-champion of the 2012 Games in singles, the first racket of the world will meet Chinese Ding Ning.
The Russian women's volleyball team will play the third match of the group stage - at 23:05 Moscow time, Yuri Marichev's wards will meet with rivals from Cameroon, who lost two matches here. Handball players of the Russian national team led by Evgeny Trefilov at 20:20 Moscow time will play with the Swedish team. The Swedish and Russian teams top Group B with two victories each.
Silver archers matches
1/16 final matches will be held on Wednesday personal tournament archers, where three silver medalists of the 2016 Games perform as a team. Inna Stepanova and Ksenia Perova will face each other, while Tuyana Dashidorzhiyeva will face China's Cao Hui. In the beach volleyball competitions, the third match of the preliminary stage will be held by the Russian duet Nikita Lyamin / Dmitry Barsku, who at 05:00 Moscow time will meet with the Germans Markus Bockermann and Lars Fluggen. The victory guarantees the Russians access to the 1/8 finals.
The first fight in the tournament will be held by Russian boxer Vladimir Nikitin (category up to 56 kg), who will face Lionel Varavara from Vanuatu in the 1/16 finals at 18:00 Moscow time. Evgeny Tishchenko (91 kg) has already reached the quarterfinals, where his opponent will be two-time Olympic silver medalist and two-time world champion, 34-year-old Italian Clemente Russo (beginning of the fight - 19:30 Moscow time).
Evgeny Donskoy in the men's singles tennis match will play the 1/8 finals against Steve Johnson from the USA. In women's singles, it's time for the quarterfinals, where Daria Kasatkina will meet with American Madison Case (7th racket of the tournament). In women's doubles, in the 1/4 finals, Kasatkina and Svetlana Kuznetsova will face the Czechs Andrea Glachkova and Lucy Gradetskaya, while Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina will play against the Spanish pair Carla Suarez Navarro / Garbiñe Muguruza.
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The Russian team takes the seventh place in the unofficial team medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the third day of competition. On account of Russian athletes 10 medals - two gold, five silver and three bronze.
After the third day: The Russian team won five medals. The first medal of the competition day was won by Vladimir Maslennikov - bronze in 10m air rifle shooting. Saber fencer Yana Yegoryan won gold by defeating her compatriot Sofia Velikaya in the final. Silver was also won by swimmer Yulia Efimova in the 100m breaststroke and gymnasts Ivan Stretovich, Nikolai Kuksenkov, David Belyavsky, Denis Ablyazin and Nikita Nagorny in the team all-around.
The US team retained the leadership in the table of the unofficial team standings (5 gold, 7 silver and 7 bronze awards). In second place is the Chinese team (5-3-5). The Australians close the top three (4-0-3).
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The Russian team takes 7th place in the unofficial team medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the second day of the competition. On account of Russian athletes five medals - one gold, two silver and bronze.
Vitalina Batsarashkina won a silver medal in 10m air pistol shooting, the women's team won a silver medal in archery. On the second day of the competition, the medal assets of the Russian team were also replenished with bronze medals for foil fencer Timur Safin and judoka Natalya Kuzyutina (weight category up to 52 kg). the only gold medal on account of judoka Beslan Mudranov (up to 60 kg), who became the champion of the 2016 Games on Saturday.
The second medal day of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. On this day, 14 sets of awards are played in pistol and archery, fencing, judo, cycling, weightlifting, swimming and diving.
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21:00 Shooting / Women. Ladder. The final
In Brazilian Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night started XXXI summer Olympic Games. 306 sets of medals will be played on them. Athletes from 203 countries of the world will compete for them. In addition, athletes from the refugee team will perform under the Olympic flag.
Note that the Brazilian resort needed a lot of money to host the 2016 Games. More than $9 billion was spent on the construction of Olympic facilities and the reconstruction of the transport system alone. The share of the state and private investors in this amount is divided approximately 50/50.
At the 2016 Olympics in Rio, prize medals will be awarded in the following sports:
- badminton;
- cycling;
- volleyball;
- basketball;
- boxing;
- judo;
- rowing slalom;
- Beach volleyball;
- Horseback Riding;
- handball;
- Athletics;
- rugby 7;
- rowing and canoeing;
- football and field hockey;
- Weightlifting;
- modern pentathlon;
- table tennis;
- water polo;
- rowing;
- golf;
- sailing;
- swimming;
- diving;
- triathlon;
- fencing;
- synchronized swimming;
- shooting;
- archery;
- sports and rhythmic gymnastics;
- trampolining;
- tennis;
- taekwondo.
It is noteworthy that two new sports were included in the Olympic Games: golf and rugby-7s.
Four main Olympic venues
The most important sporting events will take place in the Barra Tijuca Park near Lake Jacarepagua. This place has three "Carioca Arena". They will host competitions in such sports as:
- judo;
- wrestling;
- basketball;
- taekwondo;
- fencing.
There is also a water stadium, an Olympic tennis center, a aquatic species named after Maria Lenk, Future Arena handball, three Riocentro pavilions (table tennis, boxing and badminton), a golf course, a gymnastics arena, a velodrome and a water stadium.
As for the other three clusters: Maracana, Deodoro and Copacabana then competitions in other sports should be held on their territory.
It is important to emphasize that the opening ceremony was held in Marakana and the closing ceremony of the 2016 Games should take place.
Only those countries are eligible to participate in the Rio Olympics Olympic committees who are members of the IOC. These are 206 countries. For the first time ever, a “team of refugees” (South Sudan, Kosovo) will compete for Olympic medals.
By the way, the United States will have the largest representation. As many as 554 athletes. In second place are Brazilian athletes with 465 people. Russia will be represented at the Rio Games with 271 athletes. This number was approved by the IOC. Initially, there was an application for 389 athletes, but some of the athletes did not pass the tolerances according to certain criteria.
On the criteria for the selection of Russian athletes
After lengthy proceedings in a high-profile anti-doping scandal, at first it was decided not to allow the Russian national team in full force to the 2016 Olympics. This applied even to those athletes who had never taken doping. But, after some time, it was decided to select Russian athletes according to the main and only criterion - the absence of any anti-doping rule violations.
The final decision on the admission of the Russian Team rested with three people from the IOC:
- Heads of the Commission of Athletes Claudia Bokel (German).
- Supervisor medical commission Ugur Erdener (Turk).
- Member of the Executive Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch (Spanish).
These three men eliminated the Russian rowing team as well as the weightlifting team. According to them, the largest number of cases of violations of the anti-doping program was revealed there.
RFThe last days of the Olympic Games traditionally turn out to be rich in gold medals for our team. The point is that they are fighting lovely girls- synchronized swimmers and gymnasts. Today, the girls in the pool completed the competition program, winning the fifth Olympics in a row, and now it's time for the artistic gymnasts to start. They, like synchronized swimmers, have not given gold medals to anyone since 2000. Naturally, they were not going to miss the first place at the Olympics in Brazil.
On the first day in rhythmic gymnastics, qualification competitions were held before the individual all-around. Russia was represented by and. Yana is a three-time world champion in individual all-around, the owner of a huge number of gold medals in performances with individual apparatus, a four-time winner of the European Games in Baku.
Olympic Games. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rhythmic gymnastics. Individual all-around. Qualification
1. (Russia) - 74.383.
2. (Russia) - 73,998.
3. Anna Rizatdinova (Ukraine) - 73.935.
Margarita is an athlete so far not so brilliant and titled. She was second at the World Championships in the all-around twice and, as a rule, was inferior to her teammate. But together, our girls are a formidable force that can crush any rivals.
And the Russians' competitors were more than serious. Here is the most experienced Ukrainian Anna Rizatdinova dreaming of replenishing a solid collection of awards Olympic medal. AND Melitina Stanyuta, one and a half dozen times climbing the podium at the world championships. And Korean Song Young Jae, And Neta Rivkin from Israel - they all prepared brilliantly for the Olympics in Brazil and hoped that the Russian girls would give them a chance to compete for awards.
Mamun pleasantly surprises
For Russian girls, the Olympics in Brazil began with a hoop. Margarita with her favorite subject was inimitable. Not a single blot, not a single misfire and a high level of difficulty provided the athlete with the highest score among all the participants in the competition - 18.833. Kudryavtseva, although a little behind, was also great - 18.166. Only experienced Stanyuta and Rizatdinova, who scored 18,400 points, managed to wedge between the Russians. But be that as it may, a shock start was made. The excitement, if it arose, had to pass: our girls succeeded.
In the second change of subjects, Margarita continued to amaze those who considered Yana Kudryavtseva the absolute first number of the Russian team. Margarita showed real Olympic calmness in exercises with the ball, did not make a single mistake and received the highest score from the referees - 19,000. This time, Kudryavtseva did not allow anyone to move away from second place - 18.616. However, the Ukrainian Rizatdinova kept close by - 18.566. It's curious that high place after two changes of apparatus, the Korean gymnast Son also took part. Her ball exercises were a success: she received 18 points and was in the top five along with four contenders for the award from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
The name of the champion is impossible to predict
Athletes returned to the arena after an hour and a half pause. They all had yet to show their mastery of ribbon and maces. All the leaders, including the Russians, first took up maces. And here the turn of Yana Kudryavtseva has already come to recoup for small shortcomings at the start of the qualification. The all-around world champion's flawless performance earned her 19,000 points and immediately moved her to first place, as her competitors were not perfect. Margarita received only 17.5 points for clubs and was in third place. Rizatdinova still held on to the second with a minimal advantage over Mamun. Stanyuta and Son were in the top five, but the backlog was almost a point.
It seemed that Yana would remain the first according to the results of the qualification, but the ribbon exercise still changed the final alignment of forces. Yana, with the fourth apparatus, earned a score of 18,216 and secured second place. Everything depended on the results of Margarita, and she showed a truly magical performance. The judges were impressed with what Mamun showed and rated her program at 19.050 points - the highest score at the end of the competition day.
Thus, according to the results of the qualification, she took first place, breaking away from Yana Kudryavtseva, who finished in second position, by 0.3 points. However, it is not the gap that is important, but the very fact of confrontation. There is no prima in the team at this Olympics, and by the end of today, hardly anyone will dare to name the champion: Mamun and Kudryavtseva were equally magnificent! However, the fact that the gold in the individual all-around will again go to Russia, few people doubt.