The ninth day of the XXXI summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro became the most productive for the Russian team. Our athletes won seven medals, including three gold that lifted Russia to fourth place in the medal standings.
Pleased tennis player. Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won the doubles, beating the representatives of Switzerland in two sets (6:4, 6:4).
Roman Vlasov became the best in Greco-Roman wrestling in the weight category up to 75 kg, He easily defeated opponents on the way to the final, which was won by Dane Mark Madsen (5:1 by the sum of points in two periods).
One more “gold” in a moneybox of our national team was brought Aliya Mustafina. Thanks to the strong program she became the first second in qualifying on the uneven bars, and then in the finale surpassed the Madison Head. Thus, Mustafina collected at the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro rewards of all the virtues: “gold on the uneven bars, silver in team all-around and a bronze in the individual.
Another Russian gymnast Maria Paseka became silver medalist in the competition in the vault. We can say that she was lucky. Both attempts were not too successful, but the Swiss miss Julie Steingruber, who took third place, made even worse. First place went to the clear favorite – American Simone Balls.
But Sergei Kamensky no luck. In competitions in rifle shooting from three positions he was leading in the qualification (1184 points and 1,200 possible – an Olympic record), and in the final, but the last shot just 8.3 points and lost the gold medal to the Italian Nicolo Campriani (the difference between them was only 0.3 points). In the end the Russians only “silver”.
The bronze medal was won by Russian rider Denis Dmitriev. He is not very lucky in the semifinals, by lot it fell to him to compete with Briton Jason Kenny, triple Olympic champion and world-record holder in the sprint. Dmitriev gave to 1/2, but then bounced back for the defeat, winning the race for third place.
Another “bronze” went to Stephanie Eluting. The regatta RS:X was held for her with varying degrees of success. In the course of qualification Stefania even arose in the first place, but to stay on top of are unable. The sum of all the races she was in third position. But it is quite a lot, Russia did not win medals in sailing for 20 years.
Records
South African athlete Wade van Niekerk broke the world record in the women’s 400 meters. The result is 43,03 s. 0.15 s. faster time American Michael Johnson, shown in 1999.
But Usain Bolt was not able to set a new record for the hundred. According to the Jamaican athlete, he was anxious to upgrade its own achievement (9,58 s. in 2009), but it was prevented by the lack of time to rest after the semifinal race. However, the gold still went to him.
Klishina will jump
Russian high jumper Darya Klishina length still perform at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Court of arbitration for sport upheld her complaint on the decision of the International Association of athletics federations to disqualify the athlete from the Olympic Games. Initially, she was the only Russian athlete, podsushennoy to participate in the competition. But on August 14, when Klishina already trained in Rio before the show, the Association suddenly changed his mind, citing new information. Arbitration sided with Russians, now she has to go through all three stages of admission to the competition, as did other representatives of the Russian team.
