Team USA won the medal standings Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Russian team became fourth.
The Americans won 46 gold, 37 silver and 38 bronze medals in Rio. The US men's basketball team won the last gold medal at the Rio Olympics. The second place in the medal standings was taken by the British team - 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 awards. The German team took fifth place with 17 gold, 10 silver and 15 bronze medals.
Medal standings at the Rio 2016 Olympics
Final table of medals for 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 operated a state-run doping system, WADA recommended that the IOC ban the entire Russian team from the Olympics. On July 24, the IOC Executive Committee decided not to suspend the entire Russian team from the 2016 Games, leaving international sports federations the right to determine who will be able to compete in Rio.
As a result, the entire Russian track and field team, with the exception of long jumper Daria Klishina, and the entire Russian weightlifting team missed the Rio Games. Also, a number of Russian athletes were not allowed to participate in the Olympics. various types sports
The Russian rhythmic gymnastics team won the highest award of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in group exercises. The Spanish team came second, while the team from Bulgaria took bronze.
Wrestler Soslan Ramonov won a gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, becoming the champion in the competition in the up to 65 kg weight category.
Russian boxer Misha Aloyan won a silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil in the up to 52 kg weight category.
Russian Alexander Lesun won gold in the Olympic tournament in modern pentathlon.
Russian wrestler Abdulrashid Sadulaev won the Olympic gold medal in freestyle wrestling in the up to 86 kg weight category at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, defeating Selim Yasar from Turkey.
In the individual all-around in rhythmic gymnastics at the Rio Olympics, Margarita Mamun won a gold medal, silver went to Yana Kudryavtseva.
The Russian women's handball team won gold at the Olympic tournament, beating the French team with a score of 22:19.
In the final match with Iranian Hassan Yazdanicharati, Russian wrestler Aniuar Geduev won Olympic silver in the weight category up to 74 kg.
The Russian synchronized swimming team won gold at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, having won the team tournament after the pairs competition.
The Russian women's water polo team, in a bitter struggle, broke the resistance of the Hungarian team and won Olympic bronze.
Russian Ilya Shtokalov won a bronze medal at 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 athlete Alexey Denisenko won silver in the up to 68 kg weight category, losing to Jordanian representative Ahmad Abughaush with a score of 6:10.
Russian Ekaterina Bukina managed to win bronze in the up to 75 kg weight category, 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 injury, but by reaching the semifinals he had already guaranteed himself a bronze medal in the competition.
Russian Natalya Vorobyova won silver in the final of the Olympic freestyle wrestling tournament in the weight category up to 69 kg in a duel with Japanese athlete Sarah Dosho.
Russian Valeria Koblova won the silver medal at the Olympic freestyle wrestling tournament 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 for the Russian team in women's wrestling at the Games.
Boxer Anastasia Belyakova won bronze in the up to 60 kg weight category, losing in the semi-finals to the representative of France, Estelle Mosley, by technical knockout.
Russian Roman Anoshkin won a bronze medal in the single kayak competition at a distance of 1000 m.
Russian gymnast David Belyavsky won a bronze medal in the uneven bars exercise.
Russians Svetlana Romashina and Natalya Ishchenko became the first in the synchronized swimming competition among duets.
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 up to 85 kg category. In the final he defeated the Ukrainian athlete Zhan Balenyuk.
Sergei Semenov won a bronze medal at the Olympic competitions in Greco-Roman wrestling in the category up to 130 kg.
Russian boxer Evgeny Tishchenko won a gold medal in the up to 91 kg weight category.
Sofia Velikaya, Yana Yegoryan, 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 Swiss players Timea Bacsinszky and Martina Hingis with a score of 6:4, 6:4.
Sergei Kamensky became second in small-caliber rifle shooting 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 its first Olympic medal in sailing in 20 years, winning a bronze medal in the RS:X class.
Gymnast Aliya Mustafina took first place in the uneven bars exercise. This is the second time the athlete has won the Olympic Games. She previously 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 beat Australian Matthew Glaetzer.
Russian Greco-Roman wrestler Roman Vlasov won gold in the up to 75 kg category. In the final he defeated Danish Mark Madsen with a score of 5:1.
Russian athletes Timur Safin, Alexey 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 a bronze medal in the small-bore rifle shooting at 50 meters from a prone position, earning 187.3 points.
Russian swimmer Evgeny Rylov took third place in the 200-meter backstroke, setting a European record.
Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova won a silver medal in the 200m breaststroke.
Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina won Olympic bronze in the individual all-around. First and second places went to Americans Simone Biles and Alexandra Raisman.
The Russian women's epee fencing team won bronze medals at the Olympics, defeating the Estonia team in the match for third place with a score of 37:31
Russian fencer Inna Deriglazova won a gold medal in foil fencing, defeating two-time Olympic champion Italian Elisa di Francisca in the final.
Cyclist Olga Zabelinskaya won the Russian team's 13th medal at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, winning silver in the time trial.
The Russian women's artistic gymnastics team consisting of Angelina Melnikova, Daria Spiridonova, Aliya Mustafina, Maria Paseka and Seda Tutkhalyan won the silver medal in the team all-around.
Judoist Khasan Khalmurzaev won the Olympic gold medal in the up to 81 kg category.
Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova won silver in the 100m breaststroke at the Olympic Games in Brazil.
Yana Yegoryan won a gold medal in the saber fencing competition, defeating her compatriot Sophia Velikaya in the final, who took silver.
Gymnasts Denis Albyazin, David Belyavsky, Ivan Stretovich, Nikolai Kuksenkov and Nikita Nagorny won silver in the final of the team championship at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil.
Vladimir Maslennikov won bronze in air rifle shooting from 10 meters.
Russian foil fencer Timur Safin won the bronze medal, defeating Briton Richard Kruse.
Russian judoka Natalya Kuzyutina won a bronze medal in the up to 52 kg category.
Russian Vitalina Batsarashkina won the second medal of the Russian team at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. She took second place in the 10 meter air pistol competition.
And the Russian women's archery team won silver in the team competition.
The Russians, who competed as part of Tuyana Dashidorzhieva, Ksenia Perova, Inna Stepanova, lost in the final to the South Korean team with a score of 1:5.
Beslan Mudranov won gold at the 2016 Olympics. He managed to prevail in a duel against the representative of Kazakhstan, Eldos Smetov. This medal was the first for the Russian team at the Rio Olympics.
The fifteenth medal day of the XXXI Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro became 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, kayaking and canoeing, mountain biking, pentathlon, taekwondo and struggle. After the 15th medal day, Team USA secured victory in the unofficial medal standings with 116 medals to its name, of which 43 were gold. The Russian team rose 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 teammate Yana Kudryavtseva, who became the absolute world champion for three years in a row. Kudryavtseva made a mistake in the exercise with clubs, receiving a deduction for this element, and the score prevented her from claiming gold after Mamun completed her fourth event - the ribbon. However, silver medalist Kudryavtseva emphasized that she was happy to have a medal, because in her life the Olympic Games might not have happened at all.
“I won’t make any plans for now (about participation in the 2020 Olympic Games). I love Tokyo, it’s one of my favorite cities, we go there every year for competitions. I am sure that they will hold the Olympics at the highest level. I don’t think so, but I would like to,” said 20-year-old Mamun after the victory.
Kudryavtseva also noted that she hopes to compete at the Tokyo Games in four years.
“I’m glad for the silver, I’m glad it’s all over. Let's be content with what we have, because all this might not have happened. There might not have been any Games. I managed to cry after the clubs, but the coach and I talked. She said, “Let go of all your emotions.” And I already went out and calmly performed. Now I am incredibly happy with my silver. I cried, maybe because it was all over. While I’m resting, God willing, I’ll make it to Tokyo and 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 the sum of two exercises - with five ribbons and with two hoops and six clubs - 35.516 points. The Spaniards took first place, the Belarusians took third in qualifying. The teams of Italy, Japan, Israel, Bulgaria, and Ukraine also qualified for the finals.
Historical success of handball players
Russian handball players won Olympic gold medals for the first time on Saturday. In the final, Evgeny Trefilov's team defeated the French - 22:19. The game as a whole was held with the advantage of the Russians, only in the second half were the opponents able to equalize the score once, but the Russian team again took 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 silver medalists at the Beijing Games. After the victory in Rio, the captain of the Russian national team, Bliznova, announced her retirement. “I have set a golden point in my career,” said the athlete.
Trefilov said that he has no plans to leave the Russian national team yet. “I have all the titles except the European Championship. So this tournament I will definitely work with the national team. Let's try to work out one more Olympic cycle, why not? Another thing is that in life everything is possible,” said the champions’ coach.
Lesun tore everyone apart
The Olympic tournament in modern pentathlon ended with the triumph of 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.
Based on the results of four events, the Russian scored 1479 points, setting a new Olympic record. Silver went to the Ukrainian Pavel Timoschenko (1472). Mexican Marcelo Hernandez (1468) took bronze. “I came out and felt like I was going to tear everyone apart here. “I felt like the master here,” the Olympic champion shared his mood.
“Alexander is the best athlete in the world, he has proven this throughout his career. It’s not for nothing that in an interview, when asked about his real main competitor, he said: “My competitor is Alexander Lesun.” This victory is primarily for President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, because the attention and support that he provides to our sport, there is no such support anywhere in the world,” said the head of the Russian Modern Pentathlon Federation, Vyacheslav Aminov.
Sadulaev could not lose
Freestyle wrestler Abdulrashid Sadulayev won a gold medal in the up to 86 kg weight category on Saturday. The two-time world champion confidently went through the entire tournament bracket, winning in the semifinals against the Olympic champion from Azerbaijan Sharif Sharifov, and in the final against a native of Ingushetia, Zelimkhan Kartoev, who now plays for Turkey under the name Selim Yasar.
“The Olympics have been my dream since childhood, today the dream has come true,” said the champion. “I’m very glad that I met the expectations of the coaches and fans. This is our common victory. I don't set a goal for myself to go 10-0. I go out onto the carpet and see how it goes. Each time it becomes more and more difficult to fight with your opponents, so you have to fight twice as hard in training. Yesterday we didn’t have a gold medal, so I had to win anyway, there’s no other way.”
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.
Race with obstacles and a broken finger
Russian cyclist Irina Kalentyeva was left without a medal in women's cross-country. The leader of the Russian mountain bike team arrived at the finish line 17th, but as always, unbending and with a positive attitude. Before this Olympics, Kalentyeva missed several races, since at the start of the season she had surgery for appendicitis, and during training before the competition, already in Rio, she broke her thumb.
“The operation for appendicitis also took its toll, and I broke my thumb shortly before the race, but I made it through. Maybe this is my last Olympics, we'll see. In the meantime, I’m getting ready for the World Cup in Andorra and the next season,” Kalentyeva told reporters. - The starting position was not the best, and five months of training to reach a high level after surgery for appendicitis is not enough. But I got there, albeit in the middle. I think that even participation in the Olympic Games is great. I’m not at the peak of my form yet, but I intend to get there by the World Cup finals.”
Swede Jenny Rissveds won gold in this type of program (1:30.15), the second was the representative of Poland, Maja Wloszczowska (1:30.52), and the third was Katarina Pendrel from Canada (1:31.41).
Minibaev completed the medal-free jumpers' performance
Now we can say for sure that Russian divers are leaving the Olympic Games without medals for the first time in 28 years. The last chance for them to win a medal in Rio was the final in the individual platform diving, where Viktor Minibaev qualified, but he also remained outside the 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’m not satisfied with our head coach (Oleg Zaitsev) in terms of his work: he keeps to himself, doesn’t say anything to anyone, and always does everything at the very last moment. It seems to me that, as a head coach, he should support us, but in two weeks in Rio he never came up to me, didn’t ask how I was doing,” Minibaev said after his performance at the Games.
Games debutant Nikita Schleicher, who stopped at the previous stage of the tournament, was left out of the finals. Following the results of the semi-finals, Schleicher stopped fighting and did so in good company - the Games medalist and one of the main diving stars Thomas Daly (Great Britain) also failed to make it to the finals. “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 German Sanchez won silver, and the American David Budaya won bronze.
Shtokalov without a second medal
The Russian kayaking 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 two-man canoe competition at a distance of 1000 meters. German rowers Sebastian Brendel and Jan Wandrey won the gold medal. At the same time, during the swim, the Russians, for whom the Games were the first tournament in one crew, were in second position.
Also on this day, the crew of four kayaks consisting of Roman Anoshkin, Vasily Pogreban, Kirill Lyapunov and Oleg Zhestkov, who unexpectedly did not make it to the final A, showed the first result in the consolation race. The German men's team celebrated their victory in the main final of these competitions.
Evgeny Lukantsov became sixth in the B final in the kayaking competition at a distance of 200 meters, in which Briton Liam Heath won the gold medal. The crew of the Hungarian women's team took first place in the 500-meter four-man kayak competition, making Donata Kozak a five-time Olympic champion.
Verchenova showed the best result, but it was too late
The second set of awards was played out in a golf tournament; Korean Park Inbi became the Olympic champion. Russian Maria Verchenova showed 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 completed one of the holes in just one stroke.
The women's triathlon race turned out to be quite predictable in all respects. Its winner was American Gwen Jorgensen, who dominates the sport last years, and the silver medalist is the champion of London 2012, Swiss Nicola Spirig. The Russians also, as expected, took places below the second ten: 20th place Alexandra Razarenova (lag +4.53), 25th - Maria Shorets (+5.17), 32nd - Anastasia Abrosimova (+6.29).
Neymar led Brazil to victory
The Brazilian national team won the final of the home Olympic Games over the German team, taking revenge for the humiliating defeat at the home World Cup. The main time of the match at the Maracanã stadium ended with the score 1:1 - the Germans responded to Neymar's goal (27th minute) with a goal from Max Mayer (59). The home team won the penalty shootout with a score of 5:4, with Neymar scoring the decisive kick. The Nigerians won bronze, beating Honduras 3:2 in the match for third place.
Meanwhile, the US basketball team expectedly won gold medals, defeating the Spanish team in the final with a score of 101:72. Bronze medals were previously won by the basketball players of the Serbian national team, who beat France. The Serbs won gold in men's water polo, in the final of which they defeated the Croats, and the Italians came third.
Also becoming Olympic champions on Saturday were boxers Arlen Lopez and Robeisy 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 medals were awarded in the running: Briton Mo Farah won the 5000 meters, American Matthew Centrowitz won the 1500 meters, South African Caster Semenya won the 800 meters, and the US women's and men's teams won the 4x400 meters relay.
Finally, the game day ended with a volleyball match between the women's teams of China and Serbia. The Serbians, who had attacked the Russian national team at the quarterfinal stage, confidently won the first set 25:19, but later they were unable to impose a serious fight on the Chinese and eventually lost in the next three – 17:25, 22:25, 23:25. The match for bronze took place earlier, the American athletes were stronger than the Dutch team in four sets - 25:23, 25:27, 25:22, 25:19.
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The Russian team retained fifth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the 14th day of competition. Russian athletes have 48 medals: 13 gold, 16 silver and 19 bronze.
On the fourteenth competition day, 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 USA team retained its leadership in the unofficial team standings (38 gold, 35 silver and 32 bronze medals). Team Great Britain took second place (24-22-14). The Chinese close the top three (22-18-25).
15:15. Men. Double canoe. 1000 m
Bronze medalist of the Rio Olympics Ilya Shtokalov, paired with Ilya Pervukhin, will try to compete for awards in the final of the canoe pair at a distance of 1000 m.
16:00. Men. Up to 86 kg
Wrestlers are traditionally one of the pillars of Russia's entire team success at the Olympics. In the up to 86 kg weight category, Russian Abdulrashid Sadulayev 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, the Russian unique Bilyal Makhov will take to the mat in the weight category up to 125 kg. At the World Championships in Las Vegas in 2015, he won two bronze medals, competing in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. At the Rio Olympics, Bilyal, as in London four years earlier, opted for freestyle wrestling. In London, Makhov became third, and in Rio he will try to get on 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. There is no doubt that both Russians are capable of winning a medal of the highest standard.
21:30. Women. France - Russia
The Russian national team made it to the final of the women's handball tournament for the first time since 2000, giving its fans a nervous tic and gray temples in the match with Norway. Evgeniy Trefilov and his players literally snatched a ticket to the final from the hands of the Scandinavians and are ready to give battle to the no less dangerous French women.
00:00. Men. Run + shoot
The battle for awards in modern pentathlon is coming to an end, where Russian Alexander Lesun, a two-time world champion in the individual competition, has a good chance of winning a medal. Now the Russian has a 30-point lead over his next opponent, having simultaneously set an Olympic record in fencing.
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 equal battle to representatives of China and Great Britain. We can only hope that the successful performance of Viktor Minibaev and Nikita Schleicher will become a stepping stone to the revival of traditions in this sport.
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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. Russian athletes have 44 medals - 12 gold, 15 silver and 17 bronze.
On the thirteenth day of competition, the Russian team won three awards. Taekwondo player Alexey Denisenko won silver in the up to 68 kg weight category. In women's wrestling, Ekaterina Bukina (up to 75 kg) received bronze, another bronze went to boxer Vladimir Nikitin (up to 56 kg), who was unable to compete in the semi-final fight due to injury.
The USA team retained its leadership in the unofficial team standings (35 gold, 33 silver and 32 bronze medals). Team Great Britain took second place (22-21-13). The Chinese close the top three (20-16-22).
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The Russian team retained fourth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the 12th day of competition. Russian athletes have won 41 medals - 12 gold, 14 silver and 15 bronze.
On the twelfth day of competition, the Russian team won three awards. In women's wrestling, Russians received two silver medals. They went to Valeria Koblova (weight category up to 58 kg) and Natalya Vorobyeva (up to 69 kg). The bronze medal went to Anastasia Belyakova, who lost in the semi-finals of the Olympic boxing tournament in the weight category up to 60 kg.
The USA team retained its leadership in the unofficial team standings (30 gold, 32 silver and 31 bronze medals). Team Great Britain took second place (19-19-12). The Chinese close the top three (19-15-20).
Twenty-three sets of medals will be awarded on Thursday on the 13th day of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Finals are scheduled for boxing, wrestling, badminton, kayaking, canoeing, athletics, diving, sailing, field hockey, triathlon and taekwondo. The semifinal match will be played by the Russian women's handball team against Olympic and world champions from Norway.
On the second and final day of the women's wrestling competition, medals will be played 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 Samar Hamza from Iran. On Thursday, the final boxing match in the up to 81 kg category will take place - Cuban Julio Cesar la Cruz and Adilbek Niyazymbetov from Kazakhstan meet. In the semi-finals of the up to 56 kg category, 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 the bronze medal.
In kayaking and canoeing, four finals will be held starting from 15:08 Moscow time. Men will compete for awards in double kayaks at distances of 200 and 1000 m, as well as among single canoes (200 m), while women will determine the strongest in single kayaks at a distance of 500 m. At a distance of 200 m, Russian canoeist Andrei Kreitor will perform in the final , while kayaker Elena Anyushina managed to make it only to the B final and will not be able to compete for medals.
In taekwondo, two sets of medals will be competed. Bronze medalist of the 2012 London Olympics Alexey Denisenko in the up to 68 kg category will start with a fight with Edgar Contreras from Venezuela; Russians are not represented in the women's up to 57 kg category. 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 race will be held - in the 49th class among men and women. Russian athletes did not start in these events.
Six athletics finals
In athletics, six sets of medals will be competed for. The day's program will include the finals of the men's 400-meter hurdles (18:00 Moscow time), in the evening there will be finals in the discus throw among men (02:30 Moscow time), women's javelin and the decisive disciplines in the men's decathlon, as well as the final race at the distance 400m hurdles for women and 200m for men. Also on Thursday will be the men's 1500m semi-finals and 4x100m relay heats, the 800m semi-finals, high jump qualifying and women's 4x100m relay heats.
The semi-finals start at 16:00 Moscow time, and at 22:00 the finals in women's 10-meter platform diving, where Ekaterina Petukhova and Yulia Timoshinina started qualifying the day before.
Badminton will host a match for third place and a final in women's doubles and a match for third place in men's doubles. singles. The bronze medals will be played by China's Tang Yuanting and Yu Yang, as well as South Korea's Jung Kyun-eun and Shin Seung-chan, while the women's doubles final will feature Denmark's Christina Pedersen and Camilla Rutter Juhl against Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi of Japan. The match for third place among men's pairs will feature China's Chai Biao and Hong Wei, as well as Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge from Great Britain. In addition, the semi-finals of the women's singles are scheduled, where Japan's Nozomi Okuhara will meet Sindhu Pusarla of India, and Spain's Carolina Marin will face China's Li Xuezrui.
At 04:00 Moscow time, the Russian pair Vyacheslav Krasilnikov / Konstantin Semenov will begin the match for third place in the beach volleyball tournament with Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen from the Netherlands, and in the final (05:59) the Brazilians Alison and Bruno Schmidt, as well as the Italians Daniele, will meet Lupu and Paolo Nicolai. The first awards in team sports at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be played in field hockey. In the match for third place in the men's tournament (start - 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 will begin the semi-final at 02:30 Moscow time 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 compete. In the semifinals of the women's volleyball tournament on Thursday, the national teams of Serbia and the USA (19:00 Moscow time), as well as China and the Netherlands (04:15) will meet. In the women's basketball competition, teams from Spain and Serbia (21:00 Moscow time), as well as France and the USA (01:00) will play in the semifinals.
In synchronized swimming, competitions start in groups where a technical program will take place. On Thursday, the quarterfinal races in BMX cycling among men will take place, where Evgeny Komarov will compete, and the golf tournament with the participation of Maria Verchenova will continue. On the first day of the pentathlete competition, fencing matches will take place; Alexander Lesun, Donata Rimshaite and Gulnaz Gubaidullina will compete in this event as part of the Russian national team.
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The Russian team retained fourth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the 11th day of competition. Russian athletes have won 38 medals - 12 gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze.
On the eleventh day of competition, the Russian national team’s treasury was replenished with three awards. Synchronized swimmers Svetlana Romashina and Natalya Ishchenko won gold medals in the duet, becoming four-time Olympic champions. Bronze medals were won by gymnast David Belyavsky in the parallel bars exercise and kayaker Roman Anoshkin in the 1000 m distance.
The USA team retained its leadership in the unofficial team standings (28 gold, 28 silver and 28 bronze medals). Team Great Britain took second place (19-19-12). The Chinese close the top three (17-15-19).
Sixteen sets of awards will be played on the 12th day of the Summer Olympic Games, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Final competitions will be held in boxing, badminton, athletics, equestrianism, sailing, table tennis, taekwondo and wrestling. The semifinal match will be played by the women's water polo team, while the volleyball players will face the quarter finals.
Women's wrestling competitions start on Wednesday - in the categories up to 48, 58 and 69 kg. Milana Dadasheva (48 kg) will meet Kim Hyun Kyung from the DPRK in the first fight, Valeria Koblova (58 kg) will face Germany’s Louise Nimes, and Olympic champion Natalia Vorobyova’s opponent (69 kg) will be Elmira Syzdykova from Kazakhstan. The first awards will be played in taekwondo - in the men's category up to 58 kg and in the women's category up to 49 kg. The Russian national team is not represented in the lightest weights.
The boxers will hold the final match in the up to 69 kg category, where Shahram Giyasov from Uzbekistan and Daniyar Eleusinov from Kazakhstan will meet. The semifinal fight in the up to 60 kg category will be held by Anastasia Belyakova - with the Frenchwoman Estelle Mossely, Misha Aloyan in the up to 52 kg category will meet with the Colombian Saber Avila.
In athletics, four sets of awards will be played, including in the women's long jump, where Daria Klishina is performing - the final in this event is scheduled for 03:15 Moscow time. At 17:15 the final race of the men's 3000 m hurdles will start, 04:30 - the women's 200-meter race, 04:55 - the women's 100 m hurdles. Also on Wednesday will be the men's 5000m preliminaries and qualifying for the javelin and discus, as well as the women's 800m preliminaries.
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 were able to get through. In equestrian sport, the final of the team competition in show jumping is planned.
Quarterfinals of the volleyball team
At 16:00 Moscow time, the first match of the playoffs will be played by the volleyball players of the Russian national team - Vladimir Alekno’s team will meet with the Canadians in the quarterfinals. Other pairs were the teams of the USA and Poland, Italy and Iran, Brazil and Argentina. The Russian water polo team will meet with rivals from Italy in the semi-finals (22:30), and at 18:20 the teams of Hungary and the USA will meet.
The women's beach volleyball tournament ends on Wednesday. The final at 05:59 Moscow time will feature the German pair Laura Ludwig/Kira Walkenhorst and the Brazilian Agatha Bednarchuk/Barbara Seixas, while the bronze medals will be played by the Brazilians Larissa França/Talitha Antunes and the Americans Kerry Walsh Jennings/April Ross.
The Olympic table tennis competition will end with matches in the men's team tournament, where the national teams of South Korea and Germany will meet in the match for third place at 17:00 Moscow time, while the tennis players of China and Japan will compete in the final at 01:30. At 17:50 Moscow time the final match in mixed doubles badminton will take place, where Tontowi Ahmad and Liliana Natsir from Indonesia will play against Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying from Malaysia. In addition, the women's singles quarter-finals will take place on Wednesday.
In the quarter finals of the men's basketball tournament, the teams of Australia and Lithuania, Spain and France, the USA and Argentina, Croatia and Serbia meet. The men's football tournament will host the semi-finals - at 19:00 Moscow time the teams of Brazil and Honduras will play at the famous Maracana, and at 22:00 the national teams of Nigeria and Germany will meet in Sao Paulo. In the semi-finals of the women's field hockey tournament, teams from 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 national teams.
Preliminary competitions in kayaking, canoeing and BMX cycling will also be held on Wednesday. The women's golf tournament starts with the participation of Russian Maria Verchenova. There will be qualifications in women's 10-meter platform diving, where Ekaterina Petukhova and Yulia Timoshinina will perform.
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17:05 Horseback Riding. Team Championship. Show 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 medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the tenth day of competition. Russian athletes have won 35 medals - 11 gold, 12 silver and 12 bronze.
On the tenth day of competition, the Russian national team’s piggy bank was replenished with five awards. Boxer Evgeny Tishchenko won gold in the weight category up to 91 kg and Greco-Roman wrestler David Chakvetadze in the weight category up to 85 kg. Gymnast Denis Ablyazin brought silver in the vault and bronze in the rings exercise. Greco-Roman wrestler Sergei Semenov also won a bronze medal in the weight category up to 130 kg.
The USA team retained its leadership in the unofficial team standings (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 competition day of the Summer Olympic Games, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Final competitions will be held in boxing, cycling, kayaking and canoeing, athletics, open water swimming, diving, artistic gymnastics, sailing, synchronized swimming, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling; the quarterfinal matches will be held by the Russian women's national teams. volleyball and handball.
In artistic gymnastics, starting from 20:00 Moscow time, final finals will be held on individual apparatus - on uneven bars and horizontal bar for men, in floor exercises for women. This evening, among the Russian gymnasts, only David Belyavsky will perform, who showed the second result in the uneven bars qualification, losing only to the Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev. On Tuesday there will be competitions in the final two categories of Greco-Roman wrestling - up to 66 and 98 kg. Islam-Beka Albiev (66 kg) will have his first match with Romanian Ion Panait, while Islam Magomedov (98 kg) will face Ardo Arusaar from Estonia in the 1/8 finals.
In synchronized swimming, a free program for duets is planned, after which the results will be summed up. After two days of competition, the favorites of the Games, Russians Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, are in the lead.
The first sets of awards will be awarded in kayaking and canoeing. Men will determine the strongest in single canoe and kayak at a distance of 1000 m, while 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 in a double kayak managed to make it to the finals.
The open water swimming tournament will end with a 10-kilometer swim among men, where Evgeny Dratsev will start. The semi-finals (16:00) and finals (00:00) will be held in men's 3-meter springboard diving, where Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov took the start.
Daria Klishina's first start
The next five sets of awards will be played in athletics. The finals in the men's triple jump start at 14:50 Moscow time, and the women's discus throw starts at 17:20 Moscow time. The men's high jump will begin at 02:30, the women's 1500m final will begin at 04:30, and the evening will end with the men's 110m hurdles decider (04:45). On Tuesday, qualifying will take place in the women's long jump, where the only representative of Russia in the athletics tournament, Daria Klishina, will compete.
In sailing, medal races will be held 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 final champions of the 2016 Games will also be determined. The men's keirin will start with the preliminary heats; the women's sprint will host the decisive competition, starting with the 1/4 finals, where the vice-champion of the current Games in the team sprint, Anastasia Voinova, managed to get through. There will also be awards in the women's omnium.
Brazilian boxer Robson Conceicao and Frenchman Sofiane Umia from France will hold the final fight in the up to 60 kg category. Vladimir Nikitin in the up to 56 kg category will meet with world champion Irishman Michael Conlan, while Vitaly Dunaytsev's opponent (64 kg) will be Hu Qianxun from China.
In table tennis, the finals of the women's team tournament will be held, where the teams of China and Germany will meet, while the teams of Singapore and Japan will compete for bronze medals. In badminton, a match for third place in mixed doubles is scheduled, as well as the semi-finals of the men's and women's doubles tournaments.
Volleyball and handball players begin the playoffs
The Russian women's volleyball and handball teams begin the playoff stage on Tuesday. Russian handball players will play against the Angola national team at 02:30 Moscow time, the remaining pairs are made up of teams from Brazil and the Netherlands, Spain and France, Norway and Sweden. The volleyball players will play a match against rivals from Serbia at 00:00; teams from South Korea and the Netherlands, Japan and the USA, Brazil and China will compete for three more spots in the semi-finals.
Russians Konstantin Semenov and Vyacheslav Krasilnikov reached the semifinals of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament, where they will meet Italians Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo, who earlier beat another Russian pair Nikita Lyamin/Dmitry Barsuk in the quarter finals. The other semi-final will feature Brazil and the Netherlands.
The semifinal matches will be held in the men's beach volleyball tournament, while in the women's tournament, Brazilians Larissa and Talita will compete with Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst from Germany for reaching the finals.
The women's football tournament will feature semi-finals - the teams of Brazil and Sweden will play at the Maracana stadium (19:00 Moscow time), and in Belo Horizonte - Canada and Germany (22:00). 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 - the teams of Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as Argentina and Germany, are meeting. In the men's water polo tournament, teams from Hungary and Montenegro, Greece and Italy, Brazil and Croatia, Serbia and Spain will play in the quarter finals.
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Wrestler Roman Vlasov, gymnast Aliya Mustafina and tennis players Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova provided a record 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 competition day.
Sunday, which smoothly flowed into Monday, was also remembered for the next 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 due to 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 signature event, became extremely important. The Russian woman became a two-time Olympic champion, winning her 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 she competed at these Games with back pain, but even despite this, she also won silver in the team competition and bronze in the individual all-around.
In the uneven bars exercise, Mustafina won with a score of 15.900, ahead of American Madison Koshan (15.833) and German Sophie Scheder (15.566).
Many expected that Mustafina might announce her retirement, but senior coach of the Russian national team Valentina Rodionenko told TASS that the 21-year-old athlete intends to rest for two years and then begin preparing for the Olympic cycle before the 2020 Games in Tokyo. The athlete herself later confirmed this.
In addition, Maria Paseka became second in the vault, in which she is the current world champion. Gold was won by American Simone Biles, who won in Rio de Janeiro in the all-around and team competitions; Swiss Julia Steingruber took third place.
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 seventh, but at the same time said that she does not intend to end her career, but wants to compete at the World Championships next year in Canada.
On the men's side, Briton Max Whitlock performed well, winning gold in the floor exercise and pommel horse. The Russians did not compete in the freestyle, but in the pommel horse exercise David Belyavsky and Nikolai Kuksenkov took fifth and sixth places, respectively.
Historical gold in tennis
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won Olympic gold in women's doubles for the first time in the history of the Russian national team. The girls in the Olympic final left no chance for the Swiss pair Martina Hingis/Timea Bacsinszky, 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 catch the flight from Canada and barely had time to arrive on the eve of the start of the Olympic tournament.
After the final, the strength of the Russians was recognized by Hingis, and Vesnina and Makarova themselves said that for them the Olympics was a priority tournament this year, for which they endured the trials associated with flight delays and poor living conditions at the Games.
The Olympic tennis tournament 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 Olympic Games in London and also won silver in mixed doubles.
Repeat Karelin's path
In the evening program, Russia rightly expected victory from Greco-Roman style wrestler in the up to 75 kg weight category Roman Vlasov. The 25-year-old Russian lived up to expectations.
Vlasov left no chance to any of his rivals, and in the final he beat Dane Mark Madsen with a score of 5:1. The Russian was not stopped by an unpleasant episode in the semi-finals, where the referee allowed the Croatian Bozo Starcevic to strangle the Russian, causing him to lose consciousness, but soon came to his senses and won the fight.
Thus, Vlasov became a two-time Olympic champion, winning four years ago in London. Four years later in Tokyo, he has a chance to repeat the record of Alexander Karelin, who won three golds in a row (1988, 1992, 1996). The two-time winner of the Games himself said that it is impossible to beat Karelin’s record. “This man (Karelin - TASS note) has done everything in sports. He’s a colossus,” Vlasov said.
Kamensky silver and Elfutina bronze in windsurfing
The final day of the Olympic shooting competition turned out to be extremely disappointing, where two Russians qualified for the finals of the discipline in rifle shooting from 50 meters from three positions - Sergei Kamensky, who became the first in qualification, and Fedor Vlasov.
Before his final shots for first place, Kamensky was ahead of Italian Nicola Campriani, who had already become an Olympic champion in 10-meter air rifle shooting. The Italian missed the last shot, but Kamensky shot even worse, becoming vice-champion.
Frenchman Alexis Reynaud won bronze. Vlasov, who was in the lead during the final, became seventh.
The results of the shooting tournament turned out to be successful for domestic representatives of bullet shooting and unsuccessful for representatives of clay pigeon shooting. In bullet shooting, the Russians won four medals: two silver and two bronze. However, in Olympic London they did not have one. In skeet shooting, none of the Russians even managed to overcome the qualifications.
The first Olympic medal in domestic sailing for women was won by Stefania Elfutina, who became third in the RS:X class (windsurfing). Frenchwoman Charlene Picon (64) won, followed by Chinese Chen Payna (66). The last time Russians won medals in sailing was 20 years ago in Atlanta: Georgy Shaiduko, Igor Skalin and Dmitry Shabanov won silver in the Soling class.
Denis Dmitriev won bronze in the individual sprint in the cycling track. In the fight for third place, the Russian was stronger than Australian Matthew Glaetzer in both heats. Briton Jason Kenny won gold, beating his compatriot Callum Skinner in the final. In track cycling at the 2016 Games, Team GB has already won 6 medals in 6 disciplines (4 gold and 2 silver). For the Russian national team, Dmitriev’s medal in this discipline at the Olympic Games was the debut: the previous time a domestic cyclist won a Games medal in the individual sprint in the cycling track was in 1988 in Seoul, when the Soviet athlete Nikolai Kovsh became the silver medalist.
The silver medalist of the Games in the team sprint Anastasia Voinova, who reached the 1/8 finals in the sprint, continues to fight in the cycling track.
WADA accused Klishina of hiding samples
There was confirmation from Klishina's lawyer Paul Green that the athlete could have revealed doping tests taken during the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. According to International Olympic Committee (IOC) representative Mark Adams during the organization's briefing, the athlete will not compete at the Games if her name is mentioned in McLaren's report.
“The Klishina situation is an IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) 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 must check with the IAAF about Klishina.”
“If you are affected in any way 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 passed about 360 doping tests in Tbilisi.
CAS admitted Klishina to the 2016 Games
On Monday morning, it became known that CAS upheld the appeal of Russian athlete Daria Klishina against the decision of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) not to allow her to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
“CAS upheld Klishina’s appeal against the IAAF’s decision not to allow her to compete at the Olympics,” the Reuters report said.
Russian track and field athletes were suspended from participating in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics due to the disqualification of the national federation; only Klishina, who lives and trains abroad, was supposed to compete at the Games. On July 21, CAS unanimously decided to reject the claim of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and domestic athletes against the IAAF for exclusion from the Games.
Bolt's seventh victory and the start of synchronized swimmers
The main event of the Olympic athletics tournament, of course, was the 100-meter race, in which Jamaican representatives Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake, as well as American Justin Gatlin, expectedly made it to the final. 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. Gatlin took silver, and Canadian Andre de Grasse took bronze.
Synchronized swimming competitions have begun. Svetlana Romashina and Natalya Ishchenko confidently won the free competition, scoring 98.0067 points. In second place are Chinese Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan (96.0067), and third are Japanese 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 Hungarian team won bronze, defeating the Ukrainians (39:37). In the fencing competition, the Russian team took first place with four gold, one silver and two bronze medals.
The group stage has ended for two Russian women's team sports. The handball players beat the Netherlands 38:34 and won all five matches in the preliminary stage of the Games for the first time since 1980. The volleyball players lost to the hosts of the tournament in three games and entered the playoffs from second place. Their opponent in the quarter finals will be the Serbian team.
The last domestic women's couple in beach volleyball finished the fight - Ekaterina Birlova and Evgenia Ukolova lost to the current world champions Agata Bednarchuk and Barbara Seixas from Brazil.
The first Olympic golf champion since 1904 was crowned in Rio. The winner was Briton Justin Rose. Swede Henrik Stenson won silver, and US representative Matt Kuchar won bronze. Russian players did not play at this tournament, from which a number of strong golfers refused to participate due to the Zika virus.
Following the results of the day of the competition program of the Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Russian team rose to fourth place in the unofficial Olympic standings. Russian athletes have won 30 medals - nine gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze. The USA team retained its leadership in the unofficial team standings (26 gold, 21 silver and 22 bronze medals). The British team moved up to second place (15-16-7), pushing the Chinese team to third place (15-13-17).
Seventeen sets of awards will be played on the tenth competition day of the Summer Olympic Games, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Final competitions will be held in boxing, cycling, athletics, open water swimming, equestrianism, artistic gymnastics, sailing, weightlifting and wrestling; the next matches will be held by the Russian men's volleyball team and water polo players.
In artistic gymnastics, finals will continue on individual apparatus - in the vault and on the rings for men, as well as on the balance beam for women (beginning at 20:00 Moscow time). Denis Ablyazin and Nikita Nagorny qualified in the vault; only Ablyazin will perform on the rings in the final. Russians do not compete in beam exercises. Greco-Roman wrestlers will compete for medals in the categories up to 85 and 130 kg; in the weight category up to 85 kg, Davit Chakvetadze will meet with Azerbaijani Saman Tahmasebi, while Sergei Semenov’s first opponent will be Murat Ramonov from Kyrgyzstan.
Five new sets await owners in athletics. At 16:40 Moscow time the final of the women's hammer throw starts, 17:15 - the women's 3000 m race (steeplechase), 02:35 the pole vault tournament (men) begins, 04:35 - the final of the 800 m race m for men, and at 04:45 - 400 meters for women. Also on Monday will be the 110m and 400m hurdles and 3000m hurdles preliminaries, as well as the men's triple jump qualifying, the women's 200m and 400m hurdles prelims and the women's discus qualifying.
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, finishing only in 15th place. In track cycling, there will be competitions in the omnium for men, where there are no Russian representatives. In addition, the women's sprint tournament will start from the 1/8 finals stage, where Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva, vice-champions of the Games in Rio de Janeiro in the team sprint, will perform.
At 01:15 Moscow time the final of the boxing tournament in the up to 91 kg category starts, where Evgeniy Tishchenko will meet with Kazakh Vasily Levit. The first fight at the tournament will be held by Misha Aloyan; in the 1/8 finals in the up to 52 kg category, the two-time world champion will meet with the Frenchman Elye Konki. While Anastasia Belyakova (up to 60 kg) will have a quarterfinal match with American Mikaela Mayer.
At 15:00 the first competition of the Games in open water swimming starts - among women (10 km). The Russians failed to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in this event. In equestrian sport there will be a final in personal dressage, where Marina Aframeeva and Inessa Merkulova failed to make it. In weightlifting, medals will be played in the category up to 105 kg for men.
Volleyball players complete group tournament
The Russian men's volleyball team will play its final match group tournament— against the Iranian team (21:00 Moscow time). Vladimir Alekno's team has already guaranteed themselves access to the quarter finals; based on the results of Monday's matches, the Russians' opponent in the first playoff match will be determined. The Russian women's water polo team will play in the quarter finals on Monday - against the Spanish team (01:40).
At 21:15 Moscow time the qualifications for men's three-meter springboard diving begin, where Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov will perform. In synchronized swimming, duets will have to qualify in the technical program. The Russian national team in this event is represented by three-time Olympic champions and multiple world champions Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, who the day before showed the best result in the free program.
Russian badminton duo Vladimir Ivanov/Ivan Sozonov will play their quarterfinal match, which was postponed from Sunday due to schedule changes. The opponents will be Chai Biao and Hong Wei from China. In the quarter finals of the beach volleyball tournament, Dmitry Barsuk and Nikita Lyamin will meet with Italians Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai (05:00 Moscow time).
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The Russian team rose from seventh to sixth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the eighth day of competition. Russian athletes won 23 medals - six gold, nine silver and eight bronze.
On the eighth competition day, the Russians won one medal. Russian saber fencers Sofia Velikaya, Yana Yegoryan, Yulia Gavrilova and Ekaterina Dyachenko won Olympic gold in the team competition. In the final, the Russians defeated the Ukrainian team with a score of 45:30.
The USA team retained its leadership in the unofficial team standings (24 gold, 18 silver and 19 bronze medals). The Chinese team took second place (13-11-17). The British round out the top three (10-13-7).
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18:00 Tennis. Finals.
18:55 Shooting. Men. Three position rifle. The final.
19:55 Gymnastics. Finals in individual events.
20:35 Handball. Women. Russia - Netherlands
22:10 Diving. Women. Springboard. 3 m. Final.
On the seventh competition day, the Russians won three medals. The Russian foil fencing team consisting of Timur Safin, Alexey Cheremisinov and Artur Akhmatkhuzin won gold, defeating 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 team in the small-caliber rifle shooting from 50 meters from a prone position.
The USA team retained its leadership in the unofficial team standings (20 gold, 13 silver and 17 bronze medals). The Chinese team is in second place (13-10-14). The British round out the top three (7-9-6).
Twenty-one sets of awards will be played on the eighth competition day of the Summer Olympic Games, taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Competitions will be held in rowing, cycling, athletics, shooting, fencing, trampolining, weightlifting, tennis and swimming, and the next matches will be held by the Russian men's volleyball team and water polo players.
At 15:00 Moscow time, qualifications will begin in the men's 25 m high-speed pistol shooting, where 40-year-old Alexey Klimov, the holder of the world record, which he set in April at a tournament in Rio de Janeiro, will compete. The final in this discipline is scheduled for 18:30 Moscow time. The semi-finals in the men's monastery start at 21:00 Moscow time; after the first qualification on Friday, Anton Astakhov takes only 20th place.
In fencing, a team saber tournament will be held, where the Russian team has the right to count on success, given that Yana Yegoryan and Sophia 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 its first match in the quarter 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 again be the Ukrainian team, led by the 2008 Olympic champion Olga Kharlan.
In track cycling on Saturday, medals will be played in the women's team pursuit race (23:14 Moscow time), where the Russian team does not take part, 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 competed for in athletics. At 16:50 the men's discus throwing final starts, 02:53 - the men's long jump competition, 03:27 - the men's 10,000 m race, 04:37 - the women's 100-meter final, the decisive events in the women's will also take place heptathlon. Also on Saturday will be preliminary competitions in the men's 100m and pole vault, semi-finals in the men's 400m and 800m, as well as qualifying in the 400m and 3000m steeplechase and triple jump. among women.
Final day of sailing
The Olympic pool swimming tournament ends on the eighth competition day of the Games, where the final four sets of awards will be played out. At a distance of 50 m freestyle, Rosalia Nasretdinova and Natalya Lovtsova started the preliminary heats, but they failed to even make it to the semifinals. The men will swim the 1500m 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 relays. The Russian women's team (Anastasia Fesikova, Yulia Efimova, Svetlana Chimrova, Veronika Popova) reached the final with the fourth time, the men's team (Grigory Tarasevich, Anton Chupkov, Evgeny Koptelov and Alexander Sukhorukov) - with the sixth.
Qualifying for the men's trampoline tournament starts at 20:03, where 2015 World Championship bronze medalist Dmitry Ushakov and Andrey Yudin will perform (the finals will start at 21:42). The rowing competition will end with the final races of singles and eights for men and women. In weightlifting, men will compete for medals in the up to 94 kg category.
The Russian men's volleyball team at 21:00 Moscow time will play a group tournament match against the world champions from Poland, who have not yet lost in this tournament and have guaranteed themselves a ticket to the quarter finals. The women's water polo team will play the final match of the preliminary stage against the Italians at 16:20. In this event, all teams advance to the quarterfinals, and in the group tournament there is a fight for the best seed in the playoffs.
In the badminton tournament, the Russian duo Vladimir Ivanov/Ivan Sozonov will play the third match of the group stage - with Lee Yong-Dae and Ye Yong-Sung from South Korea. The first match at the Games will be played by Natalya Perminova, who meets Elisabeth Baldauf from Austria. Russian beach volleyball pair Nikita Lyamin and Dmitry Barsuk will meet Brazilians Evandro and Pedro Solberg in the 1/8 finals.
Semi-final Tishchenko
The boxers will hold semi-final fights in the up to 91 kg category, where Evgeniy Tishchenko will meet Rustam Tulaganov from Uzbekistan at 18:45 Moscow time. The second pair was Vasily Levit from Kazakhstan and Cuban Erislandy Savon. At 22:00 the semi-final in women's 3-meter springboard starts, where Kristina Ilinykh reached the semi-final, while Nadezhda Bazhina failed to do so.
The time has come for the decisive matches in tennis, where the semi-finals of men's singles, women's singles, as well as matches for third place in women's doubles and semi-finals in mixed doubles will take place. In the men's singles semi-finals, Briton Andy Murray will play against Japanese Kei Nishikori, and in the other, 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 - Lucija Safařová/Barbora Strycová and Andrea Hlaváčková/Lucija Hradecka.
There will also be quarterfinal matches of the men's football tournament, where teams from 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 Olympic Games after the sixth day of competition. Russian athletes have won 19 medals - four gold, eight silver and seven bronze.
On the sixth competition day, the Russians won four medals. Yulia Efimova became vice-champion in the 200 m breaststroke. The women's epee team won bronze in the team competition. Swimmer Evgeny Rylov replenished the team's treasury with a bronze medal in the 200 m backstroke, and gymnast Aliya Mustafina brought a medal of the same value in the individual all-around.
The USA team retained its leadership in the unofficial team standings (16 gold, 12 silver and 10 bronze medals). The Chinese team is in second place (11-8-11). The Japanese close the top three (7-2-13).
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On the fifth day of competition, the Russian Olympic team won one gold, one silver and one bronze medal 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 came as a real surprise to Russian fans.
Silver
The first medal for the Russian team was brought by the winner of two bronze medals at the 2012 Olympic Games, Olga Zabelinskaya. 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 the American Christine Armstrong, who was less than six seconds ahead of the Russian woman.
“I have dual feelings,” Zabelinskaya noted immediately after the finish. — Yes, I became a silver medalist at the Olympics, 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 qualitatively preparing for the next Games in 2020 in Tokyo. I take into account her spirit for sports, and her health still allows her to show good results,” Alexander Gusyatnikov, adviser to the president of the Russian Cycling Federation, told TASS.
Zabelinskaya herself, returning to reporters after the award ceremony, said that she intends to continue training until the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, where she hopes to win a gold medal.
Gold
Russia secured its place in the final of the individual women's foil competition even before the semi-final bouts. Domestic fencing has another opportunity to win Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro (the first top medal was won by Yana Yegoryan in saber).
By the will of the lot, two Russians met in the semifinals: Aida Shanaeva and Inna Deriglazova. In this confrontation, Deriglazova celebrated success, who then received the right to compete 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, I believed in my victory,” admitted Deriglazova. “Thanks to my coach, who prompted me and gave me advice.”
In the final, the Russian woman faced Italian Elisa di Francisca. “In terms of titles, of course, the Italian is stronger, but in terms of youth and desire to win, Inna surpassed her. Youth defeated experience,” noted the head coach of the Russian fencing team, Ilgar Mamedov.
Bronze
The third place, which was taken in Rio de Janeiro by one of the youngest Russian swimmers, Anton Chupkov, also came as a pleasant surprise for all Russian fans.
Bronze at the 2016 Games is the biggest achievement in the swimmer’s career. Russian swimmers have not won a medal in the 200m breaststroke since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Then Andrey Korneev finished 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’m pleased with myself: I completed the maximum task and 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 Olympic Games after the fifth day of competition. Russian athletes have won 15 medals - four gold, seven silver and four bronze. The USA team retained its leadership in the unofficial team standings (11 gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze medals). The Chinese team is in second place (10-5-8). The Japanese (6-1-11) round out the top three.
Twenty-one sets of medals will be awarded on Thursday on the sixth day of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Competitions will be held in rowing, archery, cycling, rowing slalom, shooting, artistic gymnastics, judo, fencing, rugby sevens, 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 the 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, was entered in this event.
Judokas will compete for medals in the categories up to 100 kg (men) and 78 kg (women). The Russian national team includes London 2012 Olympic champion Tagir Khaibulaev, who will face Azerbaijani Elmar Gasimov, a two-time European Championships medalist, in the 1/16 finals. Russian women are not represented in the light heavyweight category.
In fencing, there will be a team epee tournament, where the Russian team (Lyubov Shutova, Violetta Kolobova and Tatyana Logunova) will start with the 1/4 finals - a match against the French. The French team took fourth place at the 2015 World Championships in Moscow, where the Russians lost in the quarter finals. Shutova, Kolobova and Logunova performed in Rio de Janeiro in the individual epee tournament, losing unanimously in the 1/16 finals, and the Hungarian Emese Szasz became the Olympic champion.
In artistic gymnastics, the women's individual all-around final will be held, where Seda Tutkhalyan and Aliya Mustafina, who took fourth and fifth places according to the qualifying results, will perform. The first two places went to Americans Simone Biles and Aly Raisman, and Rebecca Andrade from Brazil took third. At 14:00 Moscow time the decisive stage of the women's archery tournament starts, where only Inna Stepanova managed to make it to the 1/8 finals.
Efimova's second final
Four further sets of medals will be competed for in swimming. Yulia Efimova will have her second attempt to win Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro; the women's 200m breaststroke final is scheduled for 04:17 Moscow time. At 04:26 the final of the men's 200-meter backstroke starts, where Evgeny Rylov came out with the best result. The men's 200-meter medley final is scheduled for 05:01, where Semyon Makovich failed to even make it to the semifinals. American Michael Phelps, a 21-time Olympic champion, competes in this event, and his main competitor is compatriot Ryan Lochte, who has won the Olympics six times.
Finally, at 05:18, the women will compete for medals in the 100-meter freestyle, where Veronika Popova and Natalia Lovtsova failed to reach the semifinals.
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 at the 2008 Games in Beijing, will compete among canoe duos. The final here is scheduled for 20:15. The semi-final in the women's single kayak starts at 19:15, where Marta Kharitonova will perform (decisive heats are scheduled for 21:00). The winners will be determined in the men's rugby sevens tournament, where the playoff stage will take place, starting with the 1/4 finals.
Competitions on the cycling track open with the men's team sprint, where qualification starts at 22:00, and the decisive race will take place at 00:25. The Russian team did not qualify for the Games in this event. In addition, preliminary heats for the men's and women's team pursuit will take place on Thursday.
Six sets of medals will be competed for in rowing - finals will take place in men's and women's four sculls, men's double sculls, men's and women's double sculls and men's lightweight fours. The four sculls finals were postponed from Wednesday due to bad weather. Russian crews did not compete in these types of programs. Preliminary tournaments in badminton and golf will begin, and sailing and equestrian competitions will continue.
Decisive men's singles matches will take place in table tennis. The first semi-final will feature the 2012 Olympic team champion and eight-time world champion Chinese Ma Long and multiple world championship medalist Jun Mizutani from Japan. The second pair was made up of one of the strongest European tennis players, 40-year-old Vladimir Samsonov from Belarus, and two-time Olympic champion and seven-time world champion Zhang Jike from China.
Volleyball players' revenge
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 will play against the Egyptians at 17:35 - the Russian team needs to rehabilitate itself for the defeat from the Argentines on Monday.
At 19:00 the third match of the preliminary stage will be played by the Russian beach volleyball duo Vyacheslav Krasilnikov / Konstantin Semenov. Having guaranteed themselves access to the 1/8 finals, the Russians will play the top seed with Reinder Nummerdor and Christian Varenhorst from the Netherlands. While Ekaterina Birlova and Evgenia Ukolova will play against Americans Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Sweet at 21:30 for the opportunity to make it to the playoffs from third place.
Tennis matches are scheduled to take place after they were postponed from Wednesday due to rain. In the women's quarterfinals, Daria Kasatkina meets with American Madison Case, and Evgeniy 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 Czechs Andrea Hlavackova and Lucia Hradetskaya, and Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina will meet Garbiñe Muguruza 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 fourth day competitions. Russian athletes have won 12 medals - three gold, six silver and three bronze.
Twenty sets of medals will be awarded on Wednesday on the fifth day of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Competitions will be held in rowing, cycling, rowing slalom, shooting, artistic gymnastics, judo, diving, fencing, weightlifting, table tennis and swimming, and the next matches will be held by Russian women's volleyball and handball teams.
At 14:00 Moscow time the qualifying round for the 50m pistol shooting starts, where Vladimir Goncharov and Denis Kulakov are performing, and the final is scheduled for 18:00. Goncharov in this event is the bronze medalist of the 2002 World Championship, and at the current Games he became eighth in air pistol shooting from a distance of 10 m.
There will also be competitions in the double trap, where qualification starts at 15:00 Moscow time, semi-finals at 21:00 Moscow time, and finals at 21:25. The Russian national team will include Vasily Mosin and Vitaly Fokeev. Four years ago in London, Mosin won the team’s only shooting medal - bronze in the double trap, and in 2013 he became vice-world champion.
In artistic gymnastics, the final will take place in the individual all-around, where David Belyavsky and Nikolai Kuksenkov made it to the 24 participants. The best result in qualifying was shown by Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev, the second was the main favorite, Olympic champion of London in the individual all-around and champion of the Rio de Janeiro Games in the team championship Kohei Uchimura.
In road cycling, awards will be played out in individual time trial races for men and women, where Sergei Chernetsky and London Games bronze medalist Olga Zabelinskaya will take the start line. In the group road races at the current Games, Chernetsky became 31st, and Zabelinskaya showed 16th result.
Judokas will compete for medals in the category up to 90 kg for men and 70 kg for women. In the 1/16 finals, multiple world championship medalist and 2015 European champion, Russian Kirill Denisov, will meet Mammadali Mehdiyev from Azerbaijan, while there are no Russian representatives in the women's middleweight.
Great hopes for fencing
In fencing, the Olympic champions in 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 meet with Hungarian Tamas Deci in the first round, bronze medalist of the Athens Games and eight-time world champion Alexey Yakimenko will meet with Bulgarian Pancho Paskov. Yakimenko is the current world champion in this discipline, and Hungarian Aron Szilágyi 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 opponents will be determined after the preliminary fights.
Swimmers will compete for four sets of awards. The main event of the day is the men's 100-meter freestyle, where the final, which Russian swimmers Vladimir Morozov and Andrey Grechin failed to qualify for, is scheduled for 05:03 Moscow time.
Russia will be represented in the 200m breaststroke final 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.
The Russians did not start at the women's 200 m butterfly, 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 and Zakharov against the Chinese champions
On Wednesday, medals will be played in synchronized diving from a 3-meter springboard (starts at 22:00 Moscow time), where Evgeny Kuznetsov and Ilya Zakharov, who became vice-world champions a year ago in Kazan, will perform. The Russian duo also lost to the Chinese representatives at the 2012 Games in London, where Zakharov, however, won in ski jumping. This time the main rivals of the Russians will be Olympic champion in synchronized diving from the platform Cao Yuan and two-time Olympic champion in synchronized diving from China Qin Kai from China.
In the rowing slalom there will be competitions in the men's single kayak, where Pavel Eigel reached the semi-finals, starting at 19:57 Moscow time. The first medals of the Games in Rio de Janeiro will be played in rowing, where the finals will be held in the men's and women's quadruple sculls (16:22 Moscow time). Russian boats did not start in these events.
Weightlifters will compete for medals in the categories up to 77 kg (men) and 69 kg (women). Table tennis will feature semi-finals, a match for third place and a women's singles final. One semi-final pair was made up of two-time Olympic champion Li Xiaoxia from China and Japanese Ai Fukuhara, in the other match Kim Song-I from the DPRK will meet 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 Chinese Ding Ning.
The Russian women's volleyball team will play the third match of the group tournament - at 23:05 Moscow time, Yuri Marichev's charges will meet with rivals from Cameroon, who lost two matches here. The handball players of the Russian national team, led by Evgeny Trefilov, will play against the Swedish team at 20:20 Moscow time. The Swedish and Russian teams lead Group B with two victories each.
Matches of “silver” archers
On Wednesday, matches will take place in the 1/16 finals of the personal archery tournament, where three silver medalists of the 2016 Games will compete as a team. Inna Stepanova and Ksenia Perova will meet each other, while Tuyana Dashidorzhieva will meet with the Chinese Cao Hui. In the beach volleyball competition, the third match of the preliminary stage will be held by the Russian duo Nikita Lyamin / Dmitry Barsku, who will meet with the Germans Markus Bockermann and Lars Fluggen at 05:00 Moscow time. The victory guarantees the Russians access to the 1/8 finals.
The first fight at the tournament will be held by Russian boxer Vladimir Nikitin (category up to 56 kg), who will meet Lionel Varavara from Vanuatu in the 1/16 finals at 18:00 Moscow time. Evgeniy 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 (fight starts at 19:30 Moscow time).
Evgeniy Donskoy will play a 1/8 final match in men's singles tennis against Steve Johnson from the USA. In the women's singles, it's time for the quarterfinals, where Daria Kasatkina will meet American Madison Case (7th racket of the tournament). In the women's doubles in the 1/4 finals, Kasatkina and Svetlana Kuznetsova will meet the Czechs Andrea Hlavackova and Lucy Hradetskaya, while Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina will play against the Spanish pair Carla Suarez Navarro / Garbiñe Muguruza.
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The Russian team ranks seventh in the unofficial team medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the third day of competition. Russian athletes have won 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 the 10 m air rifle. Saber fencer Yana Yegoryan won gold, defeating compatriot Sofia Velikaya in the final. Swimmer Yulia Efimova also won silver in the 100m breaststroke and gymnasts Ivan Stretovich, Nikolai Kuksenkov, David Belyavsky, Denis Ablyazin and Nikita Nagorny in the team all-around.
The USA team retained its leadership in the unofficial team standings (5 gold, 7 silver and 7 bronze awards). The Chinese team is in second place (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 competition. Russian athletes have five medals - one gold, two silver and two bronze.
Vitalina Batsarashkina won a silver medal in air pistol shooting from 10 meters, the women's team won a silver medal in archery. On the second day of competition, the Russian team’s medal tally was also replenished with bronze medals for foil fencer Timur Safin and judoka Natalya Kuzyutina (weight category up to 52 kg). The only gold medal was won by judoist Beslan Mudranov (up to 60 kg), who became the champion of the 2016 Games on Saturday.
Second medal day of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. On this day, 14 sets of awards are awarded in pistol and archery shooting, fencing, judo, road cycling, weightlifting, swimming and diving.
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21:00 Shooting / Women. Ladder. The final
The XXXI Summer Olympic Games started in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday night. They will compete for 306 sets of medals. Athletes from 203 countries will compete for them. In addition, athletes from the refugee team will perform under the Olympic flag.
It should be noted 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 sevens;
- kayaking 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 sevens.
Four main Olympic venues
The most basic sporting events will take place in the Barra Tijuca Park near Lake Jacarepagua. This place housed three "Carioca Arena". They will host competitions in sports such as:
- judo;
- struggle;
- basketball;
- taekwondo;
- fencing.
There is also an aquatic stadium, an Olympic tennis center, a Maria Lenk aquatic center, a handball Future Arena, three Riocentro pavilions (table tennis, boxing and badminton), a golf course, a gymnastics arena, a velodrome and an aquatic stadium.
As for the other three clusters: Maracana, Deodoro and Copacabana then competitions in other sports should take place on their territory.
It is important to emphasize that the opening ceremony took place in the Maracanã and the closing ceremony of the 2016 Games will take place.
Only those countries' Olympic committees that are members of the IOC have the right to take part in the Rio Olympics. These are 206 countries. For the first time ever, a “refugee team” (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 amount was approved by the IOC. Initially, there was an application for 389 athletes, but some of the athletes did not qualify according to certain criteria.
About the selection criteria for Russian athletes
After lengthy proceedings in a high-profile anti-doping scandal, it was first decided not to allow the entire Russian National Team to participate in 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 violations of anti-doping rules.
The final decision on the admission of the Russian Team rested with three people from the IOC:
- Head of the Athletes' Commission Claudia Bockel (German).
- Head of the medical commission Ugur Erdener (Turkish).
- Member of the Executive Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch (Spanish).
These three people excluded 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 were identified there.
RFAbout the finals of the rhythmic gymnastics competition at the Olympics, which brought gold and silver to athletes from Russia
Band exercise begins Margarita Mamun.
Vladimir RAUSH
from the Olympic Park
Writing about Russian rhythmic gymnastics is simple and difficult at the same time. Simple - because everything seems to lie on the surface. Fans are accustomed to the fact that ours always win in this sport. Yesterday. Today. And tomorrow too. Any other outcome will be taken as news of the end of the world. As if the world had collapsed, or the earth had left its orbit. The comparison may be banal, but nothing else comes to mind. If only because over the past twenty years Olympic history This has never happened before.
The difficulty of reporting on rhythmic gymnastics is that it is almost impossible to say anything new. Everything has already been written before us. And about the most severe daily and nutritional regime for the athletes who live at the base in Novogorsk in virtually barracks-like conditions. And about their grueling training. Not just physically difficult ones - any professional athlete will tell you about them. We are talking specifically about training that is mentally exhausting. Endless repetitions of individual elements and runs of entire programs - to the point of brilliance, to the point of automatism. Those that increase your grade as much as possible, but hit your psyche with a hammer and crush your brain.
UNRESREBRENITA KUDRYAVTSEVA
Getting ready to write about the individual all-around competitions, your correspondent wondered: what place did they take? Margarita Mamun And Yana Kudryavtseva at the previous Games? Only after several minutes of intense thought did memory suddenly prompt me - not one of them performed there. Other Russians shone in London - gorgeous Evgenia Kanaeva and her teammate Daria Dmitrieva. This is not about my sclerosis, it’s just that Mamun and Kudryavtseva are so accustomed to their constant victories that it seems that they were always on the platform.
It was not by chance that I began to remember the performance of our athletes in London. One of the revelations last months became an interview Kudryavtseva in “SE”, in which the athlete stated: it is not very important for her to win in Rio de Janeiro. The main thing is that the gold medal goes to the Russian woman. Hearing this, I was amazed. This undermined the whole essence of elite sport. His main driving force has always been personal ambitions, coupled with the prestige of the title of Olympic champion. All athletes are always driven forward by one thing - the desire to become the best, to surpass, to prove.
And here a person voluntarily gives up the main thing in his life, sacrificing it in favor of his partners. If there was a share of slyness in Yana’s words, it was very small - I don’t think that she was bending her heart, wanting to play the role of a disinterested person. This is simply such a degree of physical and spiritual self-sacrifice, brought to the absolute. Once you understand this, no other explanation is needed to describe the psychological portrait of Russian “artists”. Although, perhaps, we, mere mortals, are not given the opportunity to fully understand it.
ILL-FATED MACES
Pre-launch scenarios seemed to speak in favor Kudryavtseva. At three world championships of this Olympic cycle, she invariably took first place in the all-around, each time leaving her teammate and main rival behind Mamun behind the back. However, during the Olympic qualification, Margarita presented a surprise. She confidently won the competition, breaking away from the second Russian by a respectable 0.385 points. And this despite the fact that Mamun suffered a collapse in exercises with clubs - she lost the apparatus, received a serious deduction and took only 11th place in this discipline. One can imagine the level of its overall rating if the failure had not occurred!
In such a subjective sport as rhythmic gymnastics, qualification is always more than just selection. This is also an opportunity for judges to assess in advance the level of athletes and their readiness. It's no secret that the impression left in qualifying is often reflected in the marks received in the main competitions. And from this point of view Olympic all-around acquired new intrigue.
However, as soon as the tournament began, everything quickly fell into place. Kudryavtseva noticeably added to the complexity of the programs in exercises with a hoop and a ball, and after the first two events she won almost one and a half points against herself on Friday. Mamun, on the contrary, was a little inferior to herself. In general, the two tournament leaders were separated by a fairly impressive 0.275 points: 38.475 for Kudryavtseva versus 38.200 for Mamun.
Exercises with clubs took on special significance in light of what had happened the day before. Mamun to the famous song We will Rock You Queen really rocked the hall, and most importantly, the judges. 19.050 - with this score she would have won this event in qualifying. But Kudryavtseva had a real sports tragedy. Performing the final throw of the mace to the final chords of his musical composition, she was unable to hold the slippery object in her palm and dropped it on the carpet.
While waiting for the assessment, Yana sat with her head bowed. The body shook with silent sobs. 17.883 - these points retained her overall second place, but deprived her of any hope of victory. At that moment she was 0.892 points behind the other Russian woman - this cannot be won back within one event.
FORGETING ABOUT PAIN
Exactly Mamun opened the final type of the program - exercises with tape. The camera showed her face close up just before leaving - from nervous tension it turned into a mask. But Rita coped with her task: falling on the carpet at the end of the exercise meant not only a spectacular ending, but also a huge relief in her soul. Score 19,233 gymnast and her mentor, famous in the past Amina Zaripova greeted in a hug. It was clear that the Olympic champion had just completed her performance!
We must pay tribute Kudryavtseva. She stepped onto the platform, knowing full well that she would no longer rise higher than second place. And this is where the habit of forgetting about pain, both moral and physical, came into play at the right moments. Yana not only completed her program flawlessly, but even surpassed her opponent - 19.250. And although this did not affect her tournament position in any way, for some reason I am sure that this was extremely important for the athlete herself.
Everything in the world was not in vain. It was not in vain.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Olympic Games 2016.
Gymnastics. August 20.
Individual championship. The final.
1. MAMUN - 76,483. 2. KUDRYAVTSEVA - 75,608. 3. Rizatdinova (Ukraine) - 73,583. 4. Song Young Jae (Korea) - 72,898. 5. Stanyuta (Belarus) - 71,333. 6. Galkina (Belarus) - 70,932.
The last days of the Olympic Games are traditionally rich in gold medals for our team. The fact is that beautiful girls – synchronized swimmers and gymnasts – are joining the fight. Today the girls in the pool completed the competitive 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 awards to anyone since 2000. Naturally, they were not going to miss out on first place at the Olympics in Brazil.
On the first day, qualifying competitions were held in rhythmic gymnastics before the individual all-around. Russia was represented by and. Yana is a three-time world champion in individual all-around, winner of a huge number of gold medals in individual apparatus performances, and four-time winner of the European Games in Baku.
Olympic Games. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gymnastics. Individual all-around. Qualification
1. (Russia) – 74,383.
2. (Russia) – 73,998.
3. Anna Rizatdinova (Ukraine) – 73.935.
Margarita is not yet such a brilliant and titled athlete. She was second twice at the world all-around championships and, as a rule, was inferior to her teammate. But together our girls are a formidable force, capable of crushing any rivals.
And the Russians had more than serious competitors. Here is the most experienced Ukrainian Anna Rizatdinova, who dreams of adding an Olympic medal to her solid collection of awards. AND Melitina Stanyuta, who stood on the podium at the World Championships a dozen times. And Korean Son 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 hoops. 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 participants in the competition - 18.833. Kudryavtseva, although a little behind, was also great - 18.166. Only the experienced Stanyuta and Rizatdinova, who scored 18,400 points, managed to wedge themselves between the Russians. But, be that as it may, an important start was made. The excitement, if it arose, should have passed: our girls did everything well.
In the second change of subjects, Margarita continued to surprise those who believed Yana Kudryavtseva to be the undisputed number one of the Russian team. Margarita showed true Olympic calm 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 her from second place – 18.616. However, Ukrainian Rizatdinova was very close - 18.566. It is curious that the Korean gymnast Song also occupied a high place after two changes of apparatus. Her exercises with the ball were a great 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
The athletes returned to the arena after an hour and a half break. They all still had to show their mastery of the ribbon and clubs. All the leaders, including the Russians, first took maces in their hands. And here it was Yana Kudryavtseva’s turn to make up for minor shortcomings at the start of qualifying. The world champion's impeccable performance in the all-around gave her 19,000 points and immediately moved her to first place, since her competitors were imperfect. Margarita received only 17.5 points for clubs and ended up in third place. In the second, Rizatdinova still held on with a minimal advantage over Mamun. Stanyuta and Son were in the top five, but the gap was almost a point.
It seemed that Yana would remain first based on the qualifying results, but the exercise with the ribbon nevertheless changed the final balance of power. Yana with the fourth subject earned a score of 18.216 and secured second place. Everything depended on Margarita’s results, 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 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 fact of the confrontation itself. There is no prima in the team at this Olympics, and based on the results of today, hardly anyone will dare to name the champion: Mamun and Kudryavtseva were equally magnificent! However, few people doubt the fact that gold in the individual all-around will again go to Russia.
