XXXI summer Olympic Games is gradually approaching its completion. The closing ceremony will be held just five days. USA lead in the medal standings, winning 84 awards for 28 of each advantage. In second place was the UK with 49 medals, including 19 gold. It competes with China, which at the moment, 17 awards of the higher test (total 50). In the fourth place while stuck Russia with 12 gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze medals. But on the heels of our athletes come the Germans, who 11 times has occupied the top step of the podium at the Games in Rio de Janeiro. The rest of the country is not yet threatening the top five.
The 11th day of the Olympics brought Russia only three medals: one gold and two bronze medals. The victory was won by synchronised swimmers Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina. They are confidently in the lead throughout the competition, competitors from China, who took second place, our athletes exceeded by more than 2.6 points. As a result, Ishchenko and Romashina became a four-time Olympic Champions.
The bronze award was won in the uneven bars David Belyavsky. He lacked quite a bit to beat the American Danell Leiva, first place at the Ukrainian Oleg Vernaeve.
One more medal in a moneybox of national team brought the kayaker Roman Anoshkin. In the race for 1000 m struggle ensued from the very beginning, the leaders changed, at some point, ahead of all was the Russian sportsman. But the victory went to the Spaniard Marcus Drum, bypassed rivals before the finish. Have Anoshkina “bronze”.
Records
Weightlifters competing in the category of over 105 kg, twice broke the world record. First Georgians, Lasha Talakhadze lifted in the snatch 215 kg, one kilo improved record Behdad Salimi set on the 2011 world Championships. Subsequently, the Iranian Behdad Salimi exceeded the achievement of talahadze for another kg – 216 lbs. But the total weight (jerk and snatch), the victory went to the representative of Georgia.
Where he was going Efimova
Journalists almost blew a scandal out of words swimmer Yulia Efimova, who said she plans to return to the United States. It turned out that the sportswoman, twice silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will do so only in order to pick up their belongings from the rented apartment.
Retirement
Fencer Gavrilova Yuliya, who in Rio Olympic champion, announced his retirement from sports. “I, unfortunately, probably finish my career – I want to announce it. Do not know how to continue – maybe I’ll get bored and come back, but so far decided for myself that I take a long break,” she said.
The team sablistok, which also consisted of Sophia Velikaya, Yulia Gavrilova and Yana egorian, Gavrilova defeated in the final the representatives of Ukraine. The Russian team won with a score of 45:30.
Took medals from Beijing
While Russian athletes win awards in Rio de Janeiro, the IOC takes the same that was received in 2008 in Beijing. The international Olympic Committee decided to deprive the Russian team gold medal in female relay race 4 100 m in the composition of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina and Yuliya Chermoshanskaya. In the review of the doping test of the latter was positive, was discovered stanozolol and turinabol.
