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Ukraine in Rio: the day of the 15th

Украина в Рио: день 15-йHronika.info watching the Ukrainian trace in the course of the fifteenth day of the 31-year-old the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.

During the penultimate day of the Olympic games in Rio Ukrainians will speak in the 10 finals – medal expectations associated with rowing, wrestling, triathlon, modern pentathlon, Cycling, athletics and rhythmic gymnastics.

Men’s canoe-deuce and the women’s kayak four without any problems made it to the finals in their disciplines. Ukrainian rowers is difficult to name the main contenders for the gold medal but our crews are quite capable.

World champion in modern pentathlon Pavel Timoshenko is the fifth since the fencing is today the main wagon sports world is waiting for the swimming, fencing for bonus seconds, jumping and combine (running+shooting a gun).

Ukrainian Anna grace Rizatdinova the day before in qualifying, took fifth place – a native of Simferopol is considered to be a major contender for bronze, because judges are unlikely to give Rizatdinova to encroach on the hegemony of the two Russians.

Athletics is an excellent medal prospects in four relay 4 on 400 meters in the semi-finals Ukrainian women showed the third result, having conceded only fours star from the United States and Jamaica.

Schedule of medal disciplines with the participation of Ukrainians:

Rowing. Men. Canoe-deuce at 1000 m: Dmitry Yanchuk and Taras Mishchuk (competition starts at 15:22 Kyiv time).

Rowing. Women. Kayak-four at 500 m: Mariya Povkh, Svetlana akhadova, Todorova, Anastasia and Inna Grischuk (15:47).

Wrestling. Men, up to 125 kg: Alen Zaseev (16:08).

Triathlon. Women: Yuliya Yelistratova (17:00).

Modern pentathlon: Pavel Timoshenko, Andrew Fedechko (18:00).

Cycling. Women cross-country: Yana Belomoina, Irina Popova (18:30).

Rhythmic gymnastics, individual all-around: Anna Rizatdinova (21:20).

Athletics. Women high jump: Irina Gerashchenko (02:30).

Athletics. Men javelin throw: Dmitry Kosinski (02:55).

Athletics. Women relay 4 x 400 m: Alina Logvinenko, Olga Bibik, Tatiana Melnik and Olga Land (04:00).

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