Hronika.info watching the Ukrainian trace in the course of the eighth day of the 31-year-old the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro.
Sunday afternoon on the dedicated Olympics medal events in Golf, athletics, shooting, sailing, gymnastics, tennis, Boxing, diving, Cycling, Greco-Roman wrestling and fencing. There is an interest we have.
The men’s team of Ukraine on fencing on the sword arrived in Rio to protect the status of current world Champions – the Ukrainians in the quarterfinals will meet with the Russian team, which has already been beaten to winning the world championship in Moscow.
Oleg Verniaiev silver in the all-around try to reinforce medal in the pommel horse. The leader of the Ukrainian team in gymnastics has never taken a medal on this apparatus. Why would Rio not to correct this unfortunate misunderstanding? In the final Vernaeve qualified with the fifth result.
The program of shooting sports at the Olympics ends with a draw awards of three positions with a 50-meter distance. Oleg and Sergey Kulish will try to break through to the finals.
Elena Fedorova on the eve of the eighth result, has made it to the finals in diving with three-meter springboard. To question the hegemony of the two Chinese women do not have to – Fedorov and many others will try to cling to bronze.
Schedule of medal disciplines with the participation of Ukrainians:
Shooting. Men. Rifle shooting from three positions, 50 m: Oleg, Sergey Kulish (competition starts at 15:00 Kyiv time).
Athletics. Women. Marathon: Olga Kotovskaya, Natalia Legonkova, Svetlana Stanko-Klimenko (15:30).
Fencing. Men. Team epee: team Ukraine (Dmitry Kyrychenko, Bogdan Nikishin, Anatoliy Gerey and Maxim Brushwood, 16:30).
Gymnastics. Men. Exercises on the horse: Oleg Verniaiev (21:34).
Jumping into the water. Women. A springboard, 3 m: Elena Fedorova (22:00).
At 02:30 Kyiv time in qualifying will start the main hope of Ukraine in track and field high jumper Bohdan Bondarenko. In addition to the national champion in the final will try to break through Andriy Protsenko Dmitry Jakovenko. A similar problem is also facing Olga Countryman (400m).
Weightlifter Anastasia Lysenko will play in group B in the category up to 75 kg, and Maria Utiline and Artem Pochtarev will spend the next matches of the group stage of the badminton tournament.
