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    • Participants in the Rhythmic Gymnastics Olympiad. Individual all-around

    16.09.2021

    Dash of the Bengal Tigress. The winning double of Mamun and Kudryavtseva
    The first victory of Margarita Mamun in the individual all-around came at the Olympics in Brazil. Yana Kudryavtseva dropped her mace and was left with the silver.

    Someone had to lose ...

    All four years of the Olympic cycle, Russian gymnasts Yana Kudryavtseva and Margarita Mamun trained and performed side by side. For two, they won almost three dozen world championship awards and were preparing to win gold and silver medals at the Olympic Games. The goal was achieved, but the result of the competition still turned out to be somewhat unexpected for fans of female gymnasts.

    For four years, Kudryavtseva performed better in the individual all-around. Margarita has never won serious international competitions in this discipline, and Yana had four victories in a row. But already following the results of the qualification in Rio de Janeiro, it became clear: Mamun was not going to give up without a fight - at the Olympics she was going to compete with her friend for the gold medal of the competition.
    At the end of the first day of the competition, Margarita became the first, and everyone froze in anticipation of a sharp struggle of the Russians.

    When the final began, there was no free space in the stands: thousands of fans came to enjoy the beauty and grace of female gymnasts. And Russian spectators came to celebrate the victory. The first two objects - the hoop and the ball - showed that there will be no equal to Margarita and Yana in this final: four marks for 19 points out of four made them unattainable for competitors. There remained a battle of friends for gold. Yana, a three-time world champion in the all-around, allowed a moment's relaxation and dropped her mace. Many finalists can only dream of an estimate of 17.883, but Kudryavtseva almost cried, as she realized that she had missed the chance for gold.

    Margarita, who performed under the first number, had to not flinch in the exercise with the ribbon in order to win. She understood: victory at the Olympic Games is close, worried, tuned in for a long time and tensely, and in the end she did everything brilliantly. The judges rated Margarita's performance at 19.233 points, and the Russian woman became the Olympic champion, without waiting for the performances of her rivals. Even theoretically, no one could catch up with Mamun. She won the all-around for the first time, and did it at the Olympics!

    Julia Barsukova, Alina Kabaeva, Evgenia Kanaeva, and now Margarita Mamun - these are a number of our glorious Olympic champions who do not give away to anyone Olympic victory for 16 years in a row ... And Yana Kudryavtseva five minutes later pulled herself together, performed brilliantly with the ribbon, securing silver, and then gave free rein to emotions. Both of our girls were worthy of gold, but today one of them had to lose.

    Bengal Tigress on the hunt

    Not all fans who were worried about Margarita today know where she got her colorful appearance, with an oriental bias. And the chest opens simply. The gymnast's father is from Bangladesh. Arriving to study in Russia, he met his love here, and the future champion was born. As a child, Margarita more than once visited relatives in the Asian republic, studied Bengali and once even played for the Bangladesh national team at a tournament, going down in history as the only gymnast-artist in the country. In 2010, Margarita was offered to compete at the Youth Olympics in Singapore, but she chose a more difficult path and remained in the Russian national team. And, as it turned out today, she was one hundred percent right.

    Spectators often note Margarita's special expression during performances. This largely explains the nickname Bengal Tigress, which Irina Viner named her ward. However, few people know that off the mat, the gymnast is very calm and modest. Moreover, the vivid emotions, which have become the hallmark of the athlete, were hardly brought up by the coaches in Margarita. Amina Zaripova and Irina Viner had to work pretty hard, because the girl began to practice rhythmic gymnastics at the age of seven, while usually they come to this sport at three or four years old. However, talent and talent to break through obstacles.

    Margarita publicly declared herself in the current Olympic cycle when Evgenia Kanaeva announced her retirement. But "number one" Mamun, frankly, has never been. Yes, she won four world championships in exercises with individual objects, and in 2014 and 2015 she took gold medals in the team, but her friend Yana Kudryavtseva performed stronger and more stable in the all-around. When Margarita was asked a year before the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro if she would agree to a guaranteed silver award if Yana took gold, she replied modestly and evasively: "Getting to the Olympics is worth it. Any medal from there is a success." But the athlete must have thought of gold.

    When the first number becomes the second

    Outside of competition, Margarita and Yana are not rivals. On the contrary, big friends, they communicate closely, live in the same room at competitions, and even a dog at the base in Novogorsk was brought in one for two. “We've been together for four years now, shoulder to shoulder. However, an equal fight on the carpet between the girlfriends did not work. Since 2013, Kudryavtseva, albeit behind the scenes, in the eyes of fans and specialists, took the place of the first number of the national team and was considered a contender for victory in any start.

    This attitude is easy to explain: since 2013, Kudryavtseva has been stamping victory after victory. First she became a three-time European champion, then she won five medals at the World Championships in Kiev, three of which are gold, two are silver. However, in Lately even silver awards have become a rarity - almost all starts, in which Kudryavtseva took part, ended with her victories. And to the Olympic Games in London, Yana approached the main favorite, having behind her 13 victories at the world championships, nine at the adult European championships, as well as four gold medals at the European Games in Baku. The lion's share of these victories was won in the all-around.

    And few people know that one of the most titled gymnasts of the planet in a sports school was at first among the laggards. “I came to the gym at the age of five. At first, I didn’t do much, for a long time I was among the laggards. And then - once - and won the children's championship of Russia. biographies. At the age of 15, Kudryavtseva became the youngest absolute world champion in rhythmic gymnastics in history. Then, of course, she already dreamed of a medal for the Olympic Games, but publicly preferred not to talk about it, limiting herself to the fact that she needed to be selected for the Games and get there without injuries.

    Yana has always been distinguished by iron nerves and the absence of mistakes. Today, however, she still wavered. And the mistake deprived her of her chances for first place. This is not the case in sports. I would very much like to present Kudryavtseva with the second gold award, but, alas, this is impossible. Someone should be the first, and someone - the second.

    Bronze medalist of the Games gymnast Rizatdinova: "I fought with Russian women to the last, but gymnastics is a very subjective sport"

    The Ukrainian athlete commented on her performance at the Games in Rio.

    Ukrainian athlete Anna Rizatdinova summed up the results of the rhythmic gymnastics tournament at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and commented on her own performance, an UNIAN correspondent reports.

    “Of course, I am happy with this medal. If four years ago, after the Games in London, I felt that somewhere I had not worked, I had not completed something to the end, now I have nothing to reproach myself with. I gave my best and, as you can see, my work was rewarded. I won an Olympic medal, "said the Ukrainian.

    When asked why it is impossible to fight on equal terms with the Russian athletes Mamun and Kudryavtseva, the gap from which was about three points, Rizatdinova replied: “I fought with them, fought to the end. But, unfortunately, gymnastics is a very subjective sport . Nevertheless, I have a medal. It does not matter what - gold, silver or bronze. There is a medal, this is the most important thing. "

    And when asked by UNIAN about whether the Korean woman Dream, with whom Rizatdinova fought for bronze, was twitching her nerves, she replied: "I did it. The tension was very strong. I would even say that there was not one Korean woman. Five people actually claimed the bronze award today." One loss of the apparatus could negate all efforts. Fortunately, everything turned out very well for me. The Russian Kudryavtseva lost the apparatus? I didn’t see it, I don’t follow my rivals at all. I always concentrate exclusively on my performance. "

    Kudryavtseva: after the fall of the maces I wanted to finish the performance

    Yana Kudryavtseva - about fallen clubs, tears and shame, the invisible presence of Viner, a dog-talisman and getting used to the platform.

    Yana Kudryavtseva for four years was the undisputed leader of rhythmic gymnastics, and therefore went to Rio de Janeiro as a favorite. An unfortunate mistake in the exercise with clubs nullified all her efforts, although in the remaining three exercises Kudryavtseva received the highest marks. In a conversation with journalists, among whom was the correspondent of the Championship, Yana tried to smile, but it was noticeable that she was emotionally devastated
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    - Are you more happy about silver or upset that you did not reach for gold?
    - “Glad to the“ silver ”, and the fact that everything is over. Of course, there is frustration, but let's be content with what we have, because it might not have happened. Considering how the year went, what kind of injuries I had this Olympics might not have happened. Therefore, I am glad and the silver medal.

    - What happened to the clubs?
    - At the end of the performance, the strength was already running out. I threw them badly, and did not have time to realize that they did not fly well. That is, I could have done something, but I didn't have time.

    - Is this error connected with the fact that this is the debut Olympiad for you?
    - I do not think. All the mistakes that were due to the fact that we are performing for the first time happened yesterday. I was even a little ashamed of my performance, but the coaches reassured me, saying that this was only the first day and only the beginning, and today it will be better. We tried out the hall and today the performance was much calmer. I think that this is personally my mistake, and not because of the debut.

    - How do you like the local platform atypical for rhythmic gymnastics?
    - Thanks to Irina Aleksandrovna Viner, we began to prepare for the platform in advance. For two months he stood with us in Novogorsk, and now there was also a platform at the final training camp, so we got used to it enough. Thank you very much for this, because without it it would be difficult to perform.

    - Before the last exercise, did you manage to throw out negative emotions?
    - I managed to cry a little after the clubs, to say that I would not go anywhere else, to show my character. But after talking with the coach, I got ready, went out and was able to speak calmly. The coach told me to calm down, explained that we are no longer fighting for the gold medal, but we must hold on and let go of all emotions. I was already performing calmly and relaxed.

    - Compared to qualifications, did you complicate the program?
    - Not. We cannot change the program during the competition.

    - Did you have an idea that it doesn't matter who wins, who will be the second, the main thing is that Russia has gold?
    - From my heart I say that I am insanely happy with this medal, this “silver” is gold for me. After all, I could not get here at all. Insanely happy for Margarita Mamun. It's a shame that it didn't work out as I expected, but I'm still glad.

    - Are you already thinking about the next Olympics?
    - I'm not going to make plans yet, I will have a rest. God forbid, I will hold out until the next Games and take part in them. I am 19 years old, so there is time to think.

    - Why did you have problems with the hoop in qualifying?
    - It's usually hard for me to do it. Firstly, it is always difficult to start with the hoop, but in the final I coped well with it.

    - They say you have a mascot dog that stayed at home. Maybe you missed his support?
    - He never went with us to competitions, so he is always waiting for us at home. At first he lived in Novogorsk, where we train, and now with my mother.

    - Does the absence of Irina Viner at the Olympics create problems for you?
    - No, because Irina Alexandrovna was always in touch after each type of program. We trained, we were recorded on video, then she analyzed all the mistakes and made adjustments. We can say that she completely controlled the whole process.

    Margarita Mamun: I love, I am loved, I am a happy person

    At almost the same time, the Russian national team won four gold medals. Margarita Mamun won the individual all-around in rhythmic gymnastics.

    Mamun bypassed her friend, 13-time world champion Yana Kudryavtseva, who made an unfortunate mistake in an exercise with clubs. This story is about how forever the second at the right moment became the first.

    I didn’t look at the grades, I didn’t know who was going what. The day passed in a very fast schedule: we changed our clothes, went to warm up, then perform. I tried to be absolutely concentrated, to do my best.

    - What did coach Amina Zaripova tell you?
    - She told me to be extremely concentrated.

    - This is the debut Olympiad for you. How does it feel?
    “I haven’t realized what happened yet. I didn't realize that it was over, how it ended ... Overall, I was very calm. As Irina Aleksandrovna (Viner. - Ed.) Says, we should have Olympic calmness.

    - Have you seen Yoannina's mistake?
    - Of course not. I didn’t look after anyone but myself. I learned from Yana after she did the last exercise with the tape. We were waiting for the other girls to perform, she sat down with me and told me.

    - You had the same mistake in qualifying.
    - Yes, literally distracted for a split second.

    - You are friends with Yana. How do you manage to maintain friendly relations with such intense competition?
    - We have such a sport that there is no direct competition. There is no need to compete, to be ahead of someone by a split second. I went out on the carpet, if I made a mistake, then it's your fault and no one else. On the carpet, we fight with ourselves, with our excitement.

    - Cry on each other's shoulder in case of failure?
    - We always support each other. We are together at the base in Novogorsk, together we go to competitions. We are already just native people. We are often asked about competition, about the situation in the women's team. I don't know, maybe we have such characters: we are complete opposites and that's why we communicate so well.

    - What did you say to her after the end of the tournament?
    - I asked: “Everything ?! Is it over ?! " And she asked me the same thing.

    Did the fact that you constantly lost absolute superiority to Yana leave any imprint? Did you realize that you have the worst starting position?
    - I knew that Yana, like no one else, knows how to get ready for important tournaments. I tried not to think about all these past years.

    You once said that you have such a quality as the fear of mistakes. Coming to the final for the exercise with clubs, were you not afraid to make a mistake again?
    - Not. She performed absolutely from scratch. As Irina Aleksandrovna told us, this was the last test in qualification, the last call. I tried to forget yesterday, not to transfer yesterday's problems to today.

    - Good performance in qualifications other than exercises with clubs gave you confidence?
    - Certainly. Even before the tournament began, the coaches told me that I was well prepared. It seemed to me that everything was wrong, everything was wrong.

    - Do you have a desire to continue your career for another Olympic cycle?
    “I don’t want to guess, but I just adore Tokyo. We go there every year for competitions, for the club world championship. I think they will hold the Olympics at the highest level. I would like to get there, of course.

    - Where do you get your inspiration, emotions?
    - It comes from myself. Of course, my loved ones help me. I love, I am loved, I am a happy person.

    Anna RIZATDINOVA: "After the hoop, Irisha was just a beast"

    Ukrainian gymnast told how she taught samba before Rio-2016 and about men in "Khudozhestva"

    Rhythmic gymnastics is such a subjective sport and so pro-Russian that it was difficult to expect more bronze medals for Anna Rizatdinova. Something incredible had to happen for the judges to rate our gymnast higher than Kudryavtseva and Mamun. Did not happen. Well, okay. But her samba was appreciated by the Brazilian audience, which awarded Rizatdinova with loud applause.

    I fought to the last. But we have a very subjective sport, everyone knows that. Believe me, in rhythmic gymnastics, an Olympic medal - even if it is "silver" or "bronze" - it is evaluated as gold. We believe that the top three will receive three gold awards.

    - Your “bronze” is doubly valuable, because in London 2012 Ukraine was without awards. You then had only tenth place.
    - After the 2012 Olympics, to be honest, my conscience was not very clear. In terms of work. But when the new Olympic four-year period began, I realized what awaited me. If I am consciously preparing for the Olympic Games, as the first number, then Ukraine needs to bring a medal. And today I did my best for this. Honestly. I gave everything I could, everything and strength and emotions. When I went to the last view - the tape - I realized that I could be the third. But we have such an insidious sport that if I put the ribbon on the floor once, my bronze would not be there. I trusted God and did my job. I worked everything honestly and God rewarded me.

    - You have prepared a new program for the 2016 Games.
    - I am very happy that this Olympics was held in Brazil. Because our sport is about music and dance. This is what is loved in Brazil. Here people, like no other, feel the rhythm. I tried to specially make a bright and memorable program for Rio. Happened. And they supported me tremendously today.

    - Especially your tape turned out to be rhythmic.
    - A year ago, we specially came to a tournament in the Brazilian city of Vitoria to feel the climate, to see how objects behave in this humidity. And there we took samba lessons from a local coach. For about three hours they danced, learned the movements, and upon arrival home they put on a ribbon with elements of samba.

    - In the fight for the third place, a Korean gymnast battered your nerves a little.
    - Yes, all the nearest five could be on the podium. I didn't watch her last show. It is distracting and morally crushing. You need to be self-centered.

    - You went out into the hall with Blokhin. Is she for you Irisha or Irina Olegovna?
    - Irisha. But strict Irisha. Since the 2013 World Cup, which was held in Kiev, Irisha has completely entered into coaching. Since then, she began to work closely with me. Before leaving, it is very important for me that there is a person nearby who will be my support, support, who can understand, calm down, feel your condition without words. And Irisha understands and feels me very much. And I myself asked her to come out with me, because Irisha and I are comfortable.

    You say Irisha will calm her down, but her joy was simply overwhelmed after each performance. What could knock you out of spirits.
    - Yes, she is very emotional and positive. But behind the site, after the hoop, when I was in fourth place, Irisha was just a beast. I understood that if I didn't fix the situation now, I would feel bad.

    - There is talk that it is time to start up men in rhythmic gymnastics at the Games.
    - Oh no. Rhythmic gymnastics is not for men. It is very elegant, it is feminine, it is music, dancing. No, I don't see men in rhythmic gymnastics.

    Gold for Rita Mamun behind the black curtains of Rio
    Our observer Irina Stepantseva reports from Brazil

    Yana, still saddened, will say that she is very happy for Rita. And it will be true. Rita, stunned, when asked about the first words that she had already said to Yana, exhale: “Is it really all over?”. Margarita Mamun is the champion, Yana Kudryavtseva is the silver medalist of the Olympic Games in individual all-around in rhythmic gymnastics. Both were supposed to stand on a pedestal. Nobody doubted it. But no one would have said in advance whose medal would be gold.

    Irina Viner-Usmanova was able to convince them: someone will be the first, and someone will not. Note, not the second, but just like that: "someone is not." Here in Rio, one had to either make a mistake or increase the advantage a little bit. Yana and increased. Yana made the mistake of dropping her mace.

    I threw the mace badly and did not have time to realize that it was flying badly, although I could have done something, but did not have time. I managed to get upset, sit down, cry, say that I'm not going anywhere else - as always, show my character. But my coach (Elena Lvovna Karpushenko - I.S.) talked, she said: let go of all emotions, give a smile and - go ahead.

    The maces were of the third kind. After two, Kudryavtseva was in the lead, the third ate not only the advantage, but also threw back almost a point. The last species, the tape, could no longer remedy the situation. But everything had to be done - unmistakably. With this, Kudryavtseva again went to the Olympic carpet. On which, as he will repeat several times after the awarding, it could not have appeared at all. Therefore, I am glad to silver. And - saddened. And - "we will be content with what we have." “Letting go of emotions”, Yana, in this form, received the highest mark of the competition.

    I am insanely happy with silver - it is gold for me. The most difficult thing before the starts? Emotionally, I am always in the right mood, I go and go from sight to sight. It was very difficult to warm up here, usually I never worry, but here there was still a tremor, and it was difficult to go out to the first sight. Of course, I wanted to approach the Games in the highest possible form. But - as they approached, so they approached.

    She will suddenly say: she cried after finishing her Olympic performance, not because of a loss, but glad that everything was over. And he will pick up a characteristic of that - "well enough" ended. It is no coincidence that he will pick it up - on the thirtieth of September, on her birthday, Yana had an operation. After that world championship in which she performed with a crushed leg and won.

    After all, in training, while we were here preparing for the start, I did not do all the jumps that I should jump. Only when I arrived for testing, the first time I jumped - they were afraid for the legs. Due to the stress, they sometimes hurt. A piece of my scaphoid broke off on the instep. I was told that I have such an abnormal foot, there is an additional bone in it. And she, in turn, pressed on the bone, which eventually crumbled. The photographs did not show this, and only in Germany after the World Cup, when I rested and the inflammation had passed, the doctors saw fragmentation. They immediately said: go to the operation. The bone was removed, small tears were sanded down. I had necrosis, everything crumbled ... First, I was offered to screw something with bolts. But then a sports career would be in jeopardy. Dad's friends, athletes, advised another clinic in Germany. The doctors had doubts about the further stability of the foot. But we didn't have much choice, so we decided to do this. We did it, began to recover from crutches. At the same time, I could not jump at all until March. In the middle of the exercise, she stopped and fell - the leg could not stand it.

    What were her years, and she received silver today, so that the incentive for the new Olympic cycle would remain - such thoughts haunted many on this day. Many were also happy and - saddened. And many will remember how at one time Alina Kabaeva, who was going to win, made a serious mistake at the Games in Sydney, then Yulia Barsukova won. But if she had not done it, she would not have performed at the Olympics in Athens. When the unconditional leader loses, and the second number wins, for one - it is annoying, for the second - joyfully: I have endured, I waited! And Yana, Yana, who won all world championships in a row - only 18 years old!

    And after the operation, after I was already in a cast, I weighed three kg less than at the World Championships. Firstly, on the basis of nervousness, of course. And secondly, I have a very strict dad - he will not allow any cakes or sweets. He Olympic champion swimming and, first of all, worried about the legs - so that the excess weight does not put pressure on them, because the extra 100-200 grams is very difficult for the operated leg. I am grateful to him for that. Although, of course, as a child, he felt sorry for me.

    ... And Amina Zaripova, the coach of Margarita Mamun, clearly did not want to take off her gold medal. So I walked in it in the mixed zone, waiting for the Olympic champion, for her in many ways - just Ritka.

    We walked in a fast schedule, after the next kind we warmed up, changed clothes, there were big warm-up carpets, we had to move from one to the other, - said Margarita. “I didn’t know who was following whom. You had to be extremely concentrated. I have not yet realized that it was all over and how it ended. In general, everything was calm. No, I didn't see Yana's mistake. And I found out about this only after her last exercise, when Yana came and sat down next to me, where everyone who had already finished performing were sitting. Yes, for me it is usual - the fear of a mistake. Not everything went smoothly in qualifying, I tried to forget about it.

    Oh, no - Mamun not only tried to forget about the mistake, also, by the way, in the exercise with clubs, but made every effort to this. No matter how you try, gymnasts will not open their souls wide open even at the moment of triumph. I had to recall the personal trainer Amin Zaripova aside.

    It's good that she made a mistake on testing. I made a difficult element and - relaxed, Irina Aleksandrovna and I reassured her: calm down, this is testing. Yes, mistakes stick into memory - did you notice that she was wearing a different swimsuit today? I also asked to rewind the electrical tape on the clubs, so that everything was from scratch for real. To make the "bad" go away. This is not important for female psychology, it is important for Mamun. Yana Kudryavtseva, a true athlete, fighter, athlete with a capital letter, probably does not pay attention to such things. And Rita is so soft, sincere.

    The coach again clutched the medal in her hands, which she never took off. And suddenly she said something that was somehow embarrassing to ask the winners.

    Honestly, I did not believe in the gold medal, because we always lost to Yana. Rita and I won not a single European championship, not a single world championship - we were second and fifth. Yesterday I told her that 20 years ago I went out to open personal all-around at the Games in Atlanta, which she will do too. She said: you must go out and understand: you did everything so that it did not hurt that day. I still remember that day, and I have it not very pleasant and not very good - because of the fourth place. And you should wake up and remember him as the happiest.

    It turns out that it was she, Zaripova, who asked the masseurs, choreographers, everyone who was from our people around to be silent and not speak - how the girls go from species to species, who is the first and who is the second.

    We did not know anything, I asked not to say anything. Why do I need this? I can't change anything. I will not suddenly put an element more difficult, we have a proven program that has been rolling for more than one day. And I am an emotional person, from the information I would start to shake some kind of inner veins, something would happen to me. Thank God I didn't know. And that we were completely closed in these black curtains. True, I heard two types, the first - Yana, then - Rita. And then - everything is as if in a fog. I learn from Elena Lvovna Karpushenko all the time - patience. She herself is crazy, what I think is what I say. It's hard for Ritka. But on the other hand, she's used to it. And for such an emotional assessment that Irina Aleksandrovna can give, she has already been prepared through me. Yes, Rita?

    And Rita Mamun at that moment could, it seems to me, also give out anything. However, no. The school of Russian rhythmic gymnastics is a manners for which one is not ashamed.

    For some reason, no one believes that we are friends with Yana. But we have this kind of sport - you went out, if you did everything, then you did, if you made a mistake, you made it yourself. Yana and I are dear people. Yana always knows how to pull herself together and perform very well. All these years I tried not to think that I was the second, just to work on myself and carry out the program to the maximum. The coaches told me even before the training camp that I was well prepared. It seemed to me that everything was wrong and everything was wrong. From the side you know better. In general - I love, I am loved, I am a happy person.

    ... Two medals in rhythmic gymnastics in individual all-around, as in London 2012. We were, of course, waiting for them. We were taught to do this, the athletes were trained. Irina Viner-Usmanova did not come to Rio, but she was in touch all the time - she gave an assessment of all trainings, talked with the athletes. And these words of the coach, they probably remember: “I always say to gymnasts: if you were immediately hanged a medal - Olympic, world, European, and you would not do anything for this, would you be pleased? No. This is called the bread of shame. And so - when they worked, went through everything, this is a glorious victory. "

    Olympic Games in Rio. Chronicle of events
    Irina Stepantseva

    Traditionally, the last days of the Olympic Games are rich in gold medals for our team. The fact is that beautiful girls - synchronized swimmers and gymnasts - enter the fight. Today the girls in the pool finished their competitive program, winning the fifth Olympiad in a row, and now it's time for the gymnasts-artists to start. They, like the synchronized swimmers, have not given gold awards to anyone since 2000. Naturally, they were not going to miss the first place at the Olympics in Brazil.

    On the first day in rhythmic gymnastics, qualifying competitions were held before the individual all-around. Russia was represented by and. Yana is a three-time world champion in individual all-around, the owner of a huge number of gold medals in performances with individual subjects, a four-time winner of the European Games in Baku.

    Olympic Games. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Rhythmic 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 in the all-around world championships twice and, as a rule, was inferior to her teammate. But together our girls are a formidable force capable of crushing any rivals.

    And the competitors of the Russians were more than serious. Here is the most experienced Ukrainian woman Anna Rizatdinova dreaming of adding an Olympic medal to a solid collection of awards. AND Melitina Stanyuta, one and a half dozen times ascending the podium at the world championships. And a Korean woman Song Young Jae, and Neta Rivkin from Israel - they all brilliantly prepared for the Olympics in Brazil and hoped that Russian girls would give them a chance to compete for awards.

    Mamun pleasantly surprises

    For Russian girls, the Olympics in Brazil began with a hoop. Margarita with her favorite subject was inimitable. Not a single mistake, not a single misfire and a high level of difficulty provided the athlete with the highest score among all the participants in the competition - 18.833. Kudryavtseva, although a little behind, was also great - 18,166. Only experienced Stanyuta and Rizatdinova managed to wedge in between the Russians, who scored 18,400 points each. But, be that as it may, a shock start was made. The excitement, if it did arise, had to pass: our girls succeeded.

    In the second change of subjects, Margarita continued to surprise those who considered Yana Kudryavtseva to be the unconditional first number of the Russian team. In exercises with the ball, Margarita showed real Olympic calmness, 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 from second place - 18.616. However, Ukrainian Rizatdinova was quite close by - 18.566. It is curious that the Korean gymnast Son also took a high place after two changes of objects. Exercises with the ball were a success for her: she received 18 points and was in the top five along with four applicants 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. All of them still had to show their mastery of ribbon and clubs. All the leaders, including the Russian women, first took up maces. And here it was Yana Kudryavtseva's turn to recoup for small flaws at the start of qualification. The impeccable performance of the world champion in the all-around gave her 19,000 points and immediately moved to the first place, since the competitors were imperfect. Margarita received only 17.5 points for the clubs and was in third place. Rizatdinova still held the second place 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 the first according to the results of the qualification, but the exercise with the ribbon still changed the final balance of power. Yana with the fourth subject earned a mark of 18.216 and secured herself second place. Everything depended on the results of Margarita, 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 mark at the end of the competitive day.

    Thus, according to the results of the qualification, she took first place, breaking away from Yana Kudryavtseva, who finished in second position, by 0.3 points. However, it is not the separation that is important, but the very fact of the confrontation. At this Olympics, there is no prima in the team, and at the end of today, hardly anyone would dare to name the champion: Mamun and Kudryavtseva were equally great! However, the fact that the gold in the individual all-around will again go to Russia, few doubts.

    Vladimir RAUSH
    from the Olympic Park

    Writing about Russian rhythmic gymnastics is simple and difficult at the same time. Simply - because everything seems to be on the surface. The fans are used to the fact that ours always win in this sport. Yesterday. Today. And tomorrow too. Any other outcome will be perceived as news of the end of the world. As if the world collapsed, or the earth went out of its orbit. The comparison may be trivial, but nothing else comes to mind. If only because over the past twenty years Olympic history this has never happened.

    The difficulty of reporting on rhythmic gymnastics is that it is almost impossible to say something new. Everything has already been written before us. And about the cruel regime of the day and the nutrition of the athletes who live at the base in Novogorsk, in fact, in a barracks position. And about their grueling training. Not just physically difficult - any professional athlete will tell you about them. We are talking specifically about training, which is morally exhausting. Endless repetitions of individual elements and runs of entire programs - to shine, to automatism. Those who maximize the rating, but hit the psyche with a hammer and crumble the brain.

    SESSIONAL KUDRYAVTSEVA

    When planning to write about competitions in individual all-around, your correspondent wondered: what place did they take Margarita Mamun and Yana Kudryavtseva at the past Games? Only after several minutes of intense reflection, my memory suddenly suggested that not one of them performed there. Other Russians shone in London - gorgeous Evgeniya Kanaeva and her teammate Daria Dmitrieva... It's not about my sclerosis, it's just that Mamun and Kudryavtseva were 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 of recent months was an interview Kudryavtseva in "SE", in which the athlete said: it is not very important for her to win in Rio de Janeiro. The main thing that gold medal went to the Russian woman. Hearing this, I was amazed. This undermined the essence of elite sport. His main driving force has always been personal ambition, multiplied by the prestige of the Olympic champion title. All athletes are always driven forward by one thing - the desire to become the best, to surpass, to prove.

    And here a person voluntarily renounces the main thing in his life, sacrificing this in favor of partners. If there was a share of cunning in Yana's words, it was quite small - I don't think she was twisting her soul, wanting to play the role of an unmercenary. It is just such a degree of physical and spiritual self-sacrifice, brought to the absolute. It is worth understanding this, and no other explanation is needed to describe the psychological portrait of Russian "artists". Although, perhaps, it is not given to us, mere mortals, to fully understand it.

    MALFUNCTIONAL CLUBS

    Pre-launch layouts seemed to speak in favor of Kudryavtseva... At three world championships of this Olympic cycle, she invariably took first place in the all-around, each time leaving her friend in the national team and the main rival Mamun behind the back. However, in the course of the Olympic qualification, Margarita presented a surprise. She confidently won the competition, breaking away from the second Russian woman by a solid 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. You can imagine the level of her overall assessment, if the failure did not follow!

    In such a subjective sport as rhythmic gymnastics, qualification is always more than just selection. It is also an opportunity for judges to assess in advance the level of athletes and their readiness. It is no secret that the impression left in qualifications is often reflected in the marks received in the main competitions. And from this point of view, the Olympic all-around acquired a 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 types she won almost one and a half points from herself on Friday. Mamun, on the contrary, was slightly inferior to herself. In general, the two leaders of the tournament were separated by quite impressive 0.275 points: 38.475 for Kudryavtseva versus 38.200 for Mamun.

    Exercises with clubs in the light of what happened the day before acquired special significance. Mamun to the famous song We will Rock You Queen groups really rocked the hall, and most importantly - the judges. 19,050 - with that rating, she would have won this event in qualifying. But Kudryavtseva had a real sports tragedy. Performing the last toss of the club to the closing chords of her musical composition, she was unable to keep the slippery object in her palm and dropped it on the carpet.

    In anticipation of the assessment, Yana sat with her head lowered. The body shook with silent sobs. 17.883 - these points kept her overall second place, but deprived of all hope of winning. At that moment she lagged behind the other Russian woman by 0.892 points - this does not work out within the framework of one type.

    FORGETTING ABOUT PAIN

    Exactly Mamun opened the final view of the program - exercises with a ribbon. The camera zoomed in on her face just before the exit - from nervous tension it turned into a mask. But Rita coped with her task: falling on the carpet in the final of the exercise meant not only a spectacular ending, but also a huge relief in her soul. An estimated 19.233 gymnast and her mentor, famous in the past Amina Zaripova greeted in an embrace. It was clear, I had just finished my speech Olympic champion!

    I must pay tribute Kudryavtseva... She went to the platform, knowing full well that she would not rise above the second place. And this is where the habit worked in the right moments forget about pain - both moral and physical. Yana not only performed her program flawlessly, but even surpassed her rival - 19,250. And although this did not affect her standing in any way, for some reason I am sure that for the athlete herself it was extremely important.

    Everything in the world was not in vain. It was not in vain.

    Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Olympic Games 2016.
    Rhythmic gymnastics. August 20.
    Individual championship. The final.         1. MAMUN - 76.483. 2. KUDRYAVTSEVA - 75.608. 3. Rizatdinova (Ukraine) - 73.583. 4. Song Yong Jae (Korea) - 72.898 5. Stanyuta (Belarus) - 71.333. 6. Galkina (Belarus) - 70.932.

    The US team won the medal standings at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, with the Russian team finishing fourth.

    Americans in Rio have won 46 gold, 37 silver and 38 bronze medals. By the owner last gold The Rio Olympics became the US men's basketball team. The second place in the medal standings was taken by the British team - 27 gold, 23 silver and 17 bronze medals. The third were the Chinese - 26 gold, 18 silver and 26 bronze medals. The Russian national team won 56 medals in Rio - 19 gold, 18 silver and 19 bronze medals. The fifth place was taken by the German team - 17 gold, 10 silver and 15 bronze medals.

    Medal standings at the Rio 2016 Olympics

    Rio 2016 Olympic medal final table

    Following a report by the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) led by Richard McLaren, which argued that Russia had a state-run doping system, WADA recommended that the IOC remove the entire Russian team from the Olympics. On July 24, the IOC Executive Board decided not to remove the entire Russian national team from the 2016 Games, leaving the international sports federations the right to determine who can play in Rio.

    As a result, the entire Russian national team in athletics, with the exception of long jumper Daria Klishina, and the entire Russian weightlifting team missed the Games in Rio. Also, a number of Russian athletes in various sports were not allowed to participate in the Olympics.

    The Russian rhythmic gymnastics team won the highest award of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in group exercises. The Spaniards took the second place, the bronze went to the team from Bulgaria.

    Wrestler Soslan Ramonov won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, becoming the champion in the 65 kg weight category.

    Russian boxer Misha Aloyan won a silver medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil in the weight category up to 52 kg.

    Russian Alexander Lesun won gold in the modern pentathlon Olympic tournament.

    Russian wrestler Abdulrashid Sadulayev won the gold medal of the Olympic freestyle wrestling tournament in the weight category up to 86 kg 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 in the Olympic tournament, beating the French national 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 national synchronized swimming team won gold at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, winning after the pairs competition in the team tournament.

    The Russian women's water polo team in a bitter struggle broke the resistance of the Hungarian team and won the bronze medal of the Olympics.

    Russian Ilya Shtokalov won the bronze medal of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in a solo canoe at a distance of 1000 m.In the final he took fourth place, but the result of Sergei Tarnovsky, who became the third from Moldova, was canceled due to a positive doping test.

    Russian taekwondo fighter Alexey Denisenko won silver in the weight category up to 68 kg, losing to the representative of Jordan Ahmad Abughaush with a score of 6:10.

    Russian Ekaterina Bukina managed to win bronze in the fight in the weight category up to 75 kg, defeating Cameroonian Annabel 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 reaching the semifinals 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 the Japanese athlete Sara Dosho.

    Russian woman Valeria Koblova won the silver medal of the Olympic freestyle wrestling tournament in the weight category up to 58 kg, losing in the final match to the Japanese woman Kaori Ite with a score of 2: 3. This is the first medal of the Russian national team in female wrestling at the games.

    Boxer Anastasia Belyakova won bronze in the weight category up to 60 kg, losing in the semifinals by technical knockout to the representative of France Estelle Mosley.

    Russian Roman Anoshkin won a bronze medal in the single kayak competition at a distance of 1000 m.

    Russian gymnast David Belyavsky won the bronze medal in the uneven bars.

    Russian women 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 ring exercise.

    Davit Chakvetadze won the Greco-Roman wrestling competition in the category up to 85 kg. In the final, he defeated the Ukrainian athlete Zhan Balenyuk.

    Sergey Semyonov won a bronze medal at the Olympic Greco-Roman wrestling competitions in the category up to 130 kg.

    Russian boxer Evgeny Tishchenko won a gold medal in the weight category up to 91 kg.

    Sofia Velikaya, Yana Yegoryan, Yekaterina Dyachenko and Yulia Gavrilova became the first in the team saber event at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In the final, the Russian national team beat the Ukrainian team with a score of 45:30.

    Tennis players Yekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won gold at the Olympic Games in doubles defeating Swiss Timea Bachinski and Martina Hingis with a score of 6: 4, 6: 4.

    Sergey Kamensky became the second in shooting from a small-bore rifle from 50 meters from three positions and brought the Russian national team silver.

    Gymnast Maria Paseka won a silver medal in the vault.

    Stefania Elfutina brought Russia the 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 exercise on uneven bars. This is the second time the athlete 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 was ahead of Australian Matthew Gletzer.

    Russian Greco-Roman wrestler Roman Vlasov won gold in the category up to 75 kg. In the final, he defeated Dane 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 shooting with a small-bore rifle from 50 meters from a prone position, earning 187.3 points.

    Russian swimmer Evgeny Rylov finished third in the 200 meters backstroke, setting a European record.

    Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova won a silver medal in the 200m breaststroke swim.

    Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina won the Olympic bronze in individual all-around. First and second places went to American Simone Biles and Alexandra Reisman.

    The Russian women's national epee fencing team won the bronze medals of the Olympics, beating the Estonian team in the duel for third place with a score of 37:31

    Russian fencer Inna Deriglazova won the gold medal in foil fencing, defeating two-time Olympic champion Italian Eliza di Franchiska in the final.

    Cyclist Olga Zabelinskaya won the 13th medal for the Russian national team at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, winning silver in the time trial.

    Russian women's national team artistic gymnastics with Angelina Melnikova, Daria Spiridonova, Aliya Mustafina, Maria Pasek and Seda Tutkhalyan became the silver medalist in the team all-around.

    Judoka Khasan Khalmurzaev won the Olympic gold medal in the category up to 81 kg.

    Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova won silver in the 100m breaststroke at the Olympic Games in Brazil.

    Yana Yegoryan won the gold medal in the saber fencing competition, defeating her compatriot Sophia Velikaya in the final, who won 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 by 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 national team at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. She took second place in the air pistol shooting competition from a distance of 10 meters.

    And the Russian women's national archery team won silver in the team competition.

    The Russians, who played in the composition 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 gain the upper hand in a duel against the representative of Kazakhstan, Eldos Smetov. This medal was the first for the Russian team at the Rio Olympics.


    Fifteenth medal day 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.

    A total of 30 sets of awards were played on Saturday in athletics, boxing, badminton, football, basketball, volleyball, handball, water polo, triathlon, golf, rhythmic gymnastics, diving, rowing and canoeing, mountain biking, pentathlon and taekwondo fight. After 15th medal day, the US team secured an unofficial medal victory with 116 awards, 43 of which were gold. The Russian national team climbed 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, beating her 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, the silver medalist Kudryavtseva stressed that she was happy to have a medal, because in her life the Olympic Games might not have happened at all.

    “I’m not going to think about it yet (about participation in the 2020 Olympic Games). I adore Tokyo, this is one of my favorite cities, we go there every year to compete. I am sure that they will hold the Olympics at the highest level. I’m not guessing, but I would like to, ”said 20-year-old Mamun after the victory.

    Kudryavtseva also noted that she hopes to perform at the Tokyo Games in four years.

    “Glad for the silver, glad it's over. Let us be content with what we have, because all this might not have happened. There could be no Games. I managed to cry after the clubs, but the coach and I talked. She said, "Let go of all emotions." And I already went out and performed calmly. Now, with all my heart, I am insanely happy with my silver. Cried, maybe because it was over. While I am resting, God forbid, I will make it to Tokyo, and I will perform there, I am only 19 years old, ”said Kudryavtseva.

    In the morning, the Russian national rhythmic gymnastics team in group exercises qualified with the second result in the final of the Olympic tournament, which will be held on Sunday. Anastasia Maksimova, Anastasia Bliznyuk, Anastasia Tatareva, Maria Tolkacheva and Vera Biryukova scored 35.516 points on the sum of two exercises - with five ribbons and with two hoops and six clubs. The first place was taken by the Spaniards, the third in the qualification were the Belarusians. Also, the national teams of Italy, Japan, Israel, Bulgaria, Ukraine made it to the final.

    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 women - 22:19. The game as a whole was played with the advantage of the Russians, only in the second half did the rivals manage to level the score once, but the Russian team again went into the lead and brought the matter to victory.

    For two Russian handball players - Ekaterina Marennikova and Irina Bliznova - these medals became 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 put 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 titles except the European Championship. So this tournament will work with the national team for sure. Let's try to work out another Olympic cycle, why not? It's another matter that everything is possible in life, ”said the coach of the champions.

    Lesun tore everyone

    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 fells), but managed to start first and did not give up a position at the finish line.

    According to the results of four events, the Russian scored 1479 points, setting a new Olympic record. Silver went to the Ukrainian Pavel Timoshchenko (1472). Bronze from the Mexican Marcelo Hernandez (1468). “I went out, and there was a feeling that it was as if I would tear everyone up here. I felt like a master here, ”the Olympic champion shared his mood.

    “Alexander is the best sportsman in the world, he has proved it with his entire career. No wonder he in an interview when asked about the real main competitor said: "My competitor is Alexander Lesun." This victory is primarily President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, because the attention, support that he gives to our sport, there is no such support anywhere in the world, "said the head of the Federation of Modern Pentathlon of Russia Vyacheslav Aminov.

    Sadulayev could not lose

    Freestyle wrestler Abdulrashid Sadulayev won a gold medal in the weight category up to 86 kg on Saturday. The two-time world champion confidently passed the entire tournament grid, defeating the Olympic champion from Azerbaijan Sharif Sharifov in the semifinals, and Zelimkhan Kartoyev, a native of Ingushetia, who now plays for Turkey under the name Selim Yasar in the final.

    “The Olympics have been my dream since childhood, today my dream has come true,” said the champion. - I am very glad that I met the hopes of the coaches and fans. This is our common victory. I don't set myself a 10-0 goal to do. I go out on the carpet, and then how it goes. Each time it is harder and harder to fight with rivals, so you have to fight twice more in training. We didn’t have a gold medal yesterday, so I had to win anyway, there’s no other way. ”

    The bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympics, three-time world champion Bilyal Makhov (125) performed extremely unsuccessfully - the super heavyweight lost the first meeting and dropped out of the fight for the tournament medals.

    Obstacle Race with Broken Finger

    Russian cyclist Irina Kalentieva was left without a medal in the women's cross-country. The leader of the Russian national mountain bike team came to the finish line 17th, but as always unbending and with a positive attitude. Before this Olympics, Kalentieva missed several races, since at the start of the season she underwent surgery for appendicitis, and in training before the competition, already in Rio, she broke her thumb.

    “The operation for appendicitis also affected, and I broke my thumb shortly before the race, but I passed it. Maybe this is my last Olympics, we'll see. In the meantime, I'm getting ready for the World Cup in Andorra and for the next season, - Kalentieva told reporters. - The starting position was not the best, and five months of training to reach a high level after appendicitis surgery is not enough. But I got there, albeit in the middle. I think that even participating in the Olympic Games is great. I am not at my peak yet, I intend to recruit it for the World Cup final. "

    The gold in this type of program was won by the Swede Jenny Rissweds (1.30.15), the second was the representative of Poland Maya Włoszczowska (1.30.52), the third - Katarin Pendrel from Canada (1.31.41).

    Minibaev completed the jumpers' medleless gait

    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 individual jumping from the platform, where Viktor Minibaev went, but he also remained outside the winners (8th result).

    “There is disappointment, but life does not stand still. I will be preparing for the World Championships in Budapest and the Tokyo Olympics. But I am not satisfied with our head coach(Oleg Zaitsev) in terms of his work: he is in himself, does not say anything to anyone, always everything at the very last moment. It seems to me, as a head coach, he should support us, and for two weeks in Rio he never approached me, did not ask me how things were, ”Minibaev said following his performance at the Games.

    Out of the final was the debutant of the Games Nikita Schleikher, who stopped at the previous stage of the tournament. At the end of the semifinals, Schleicher stopped fighting and did it in good company - the medalist of the Games and one of the main diving stars Thomas Daly (Great Britain) also failed to make it to the final. “Now I have even more motivation for Tokyo, I want to be the Olympic champion in individual jumping from the platform,” admitted Daly.

    Well, the Chinese Chen Aisen won that day, the Mexican Herman Sanchez won the silver, the American David Budaya won the bronze.

    Shtokalov without a second medal

    The Russian national kayaking and canoeing team was left without medals on the last day of the competition at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Russians Ilya Shtokalov and Ilya Pervukhin took fifth place in the competitions in double canoe at a distance of 1000 meters. German rowers Sebastian Brendel and Jan Vandrei won the gold medal. At the same time, during the swim, the Russians, for whom the Games became the first tournament in one crew, were in the second position.

    Also that day, the four-row kayak crew 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 national team celebrated their victory in the main final of this competition.

    Evgeny Lukantsov became the sixth in the final B in the 200-meter kayak competition, in which the British Liam Heath won the gold medal. The crew of the Hungarian women's national team became the first in the 500-meter four-kayak competition, making Donata Kozak a five-time Olympic champion.

    Verchenova showed the best result, but too late

    The second set of awards was played in a golf tournament, and a Korean woman named Pak 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 hit.

    The women's triathlon race proved to be pretty predictable in all respects. The winner was the American Gwen Jorgensen, who has dominated this sport in recent years, and the silver medalist was the 2012 London champion, Swiss Nicola Spirig. The Russians, as expected, took places below the second ten: Alexandra Razarenova's 20th place (+4.53 lag), 25th - Maria Shorets (+5.17), 32nd - Anastasia Abrosimova (+6.29).

    Neymar led the Brazilians to victory

    Brazil's footballers defeated Germany in the home Olympics final, taking revenge for their humiliating defeat at the home world championship. The main time of the match at the Maracanã stadium ended with a score of 1: 1 - the Germans responded to Neymar's goal (27th minute) with the ball from Max Mayer (59). In the penalty shootout, the home team won with a score of 5: 4, the decisive blow was realized by Neymar. Bronze was won by the Nigerians, who beat Honduras in the match for third place - 3: 2.

    Meanwhile, the US basketball players expectedly won gold medals, defeating the Spanish women 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. Gold came to the Serbs in men's water polo, in the final of which they defeated the Croats, and the Italians became the third.

    Boxers Arlen Lopez and Robeci Ramirez (both Cubans), Briton Nicola Adams, Chinese badminton player Chen Long, German javelin thrower Thomas Rehler and Spanish high jumper Ruth Beitia also became Olympic champions on Saturday.

    Five sets of awards were played at once in running: Briton Mo Farah won at a distance of 5000 meters, American Matthew Centrovitz - at 1500 meters, South African Caster Semenya - at 800 meters, as well as the US women's and men's teams in the relay race 4 x 400 meters.

    Finally, the game day ended with a volleyball match between the women's teams of China and Serbia. The offenders of the Russian national team at the quarterfinals stage, the Serbs confidently won the first set 25:19, but later they could not impose a serious fight on the Chinese women and eventually lost in the next three - 17:25, 22:25, 23:25. The match for the bronze took place earlier, the American athletes were stronger than the Netherlands national team in four sets - 25:23, 25:27, 25:22, 25:19.

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    The Russian national team retained the fifth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the 14th day of the competition. On account Russian athletes 48 medals: 13 gold, 16 silver and 19 bronze.

    On the fourteenth day of competition, the Russian national 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 Dunaitsev in the weight category up to 64 kg and the women's water polo team won bronze medals.

    The USA team retained the lead in the unofficial team standings (38 gold, 35 silver and 32 bronze medals). The UK team is in second place (24-22-14). The top three are closed by the Chinese (22-18-25).

    15:15. Men. Canoe two. 1000 m

    Ilya Shtokalov, bronze medalist of the Rio Olympics, together with Ilya Pervukhin, will try to compete for awards in the canoe-two finals at a distance of 1000 m.

    16:00. Men. Up to 86 kg

    Wrestlers are traditionally one of the pillars of Russia's overall team success at the Olympics. In the weight category up to 86 kg, the 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, in the weight category up to 125 kg, the Russian unique Bilyal Makhov will appear on the carpet. At the 2015 World Championships in Las Vegas, he won two bronze medals in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling. At the Olympics in Rio, Bilyal, as in London four years earlier, made a choice in favor of freestyle wrestling. In London, Makhov became the third, and in Rio he will try to climb 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 places in the qualification. Now they have to prove their superiority in the final of the personal all-around. There is no doubt that both Russians are capable of winning a medal of the highest standard.

    21:30. Women. France - Russia

    For the first time since 2000, the Russian national team made it to the final of the women's handball tournament, presenting their fans with a nervous tic and gray whiskey in a match with Norway. Evgeny Trefilov and his charges literally snatched the ticket to the final from the hands of the Scandinavians and are ready to fight no less dangerous French women.

    00:00. Men. Running + shooting

    The battle for awards in modern pentathlon is coming to an end, where the Russian Alexander Lesun, two-time world champion in the individual competition, has good chances for a medal. Now the Russian has a gap of 30 points from his next opponent, simultaneously setting an Olympic record in fencing.

    22:30. Men. Tower 10 m

    The Russian diving team did not excel this time. Since the days of the magnificent Dmitry Sautin, Dmitry Dobroskok and Gleb Galperin, Russian jumpers are less likely to give an equal fight to the representatives of China and Great Britain. It remains to be hoped that the successful performance of Viktor Minibaev and Nikita Schleikher will become a stepping stone to the revival of traditions in this form.

    Day 15, 20 August 2016, Broadcasts watch online:

    The Russian national team dropped to fifth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the 13th day of the competition. On the account of Russian athletes 44 medals - 12 gold, 15 silver and 17 bronze.

    On the thirteenth day of competition, the Russian national team won three awards. Taekwondo fighter Alexey Denisenko won silver in the weight category up to 68 kg. In the women's wrestling, Ekaterina Bukina (up to 75 kg) won bronze, another bronze went to boxer Vladimir Nikitin (up to 56 kg), who, due to an injury, was unable to qualify for the semifinal fight.

    The USA team retained the lead in the unofficial team standings (35 gold, 33 silver and 32 bronze medals). The UK team is in second place (22-21-13). The top three are closed by the Chinese (20-16-22).

    Day 14, 19 August 2016, Broadcasts watch online:

    The Russian national team retained the fourth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the 12th day of the competition. On account of Russian athletes 41 medals - 12 gold, 14 silver and 15 bronze.

    On the twelfth day of competition, the Russian team won three awards. In the women's wrestling, the Russians received two silver medals. They went to Valeria Koblova (weight category up to 58 kg) and Natalia Vorobyova (up to 69 kg). The bronze medal was won by Anastasia Belyakova, who lost in the semifinals of the Olympic boxing tournament in the weight category up to 60 kg.

    The USA team retained the lead in the unofficial team standings (30 gold, 32 silver and 31 bronze medals). The second place is taken by the UK team (19-19-12). The top three are closed by the Chinese (19-15-20).

    Twenty-three sets of awards will be drawn on Thursday, the 13th day of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Finals are scheduled for boxing, wrestling, badminton, kayaking and canoeing, athletics, diving, sailing, field hockey, triathlon and taekwondo. The semifinal match will be played by the Russian women's handball team against the Olympic and world champions from Norway.

    On the second and final day of the women's wrestling competition, medals will be awarded in three weight categories - up to 53, 63 and 75 kg. In the weight category up to 63 kg, the Russian woman Inna Trazhukova will have her first fight with the Hungarian Marianna Shashtin, while in the heavy category Yekaterina Bukina will face Samar Khamza from Iran. The final fight of boxers in the category up to 81 kg will take place on Thursday - Cuban Julio Cesar la Cruz and Adilbek Niyazymbetov from Kazakhstan will meet. In the semifinals 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 the injury of the Russian, who will receive a bronze medal.

    In rowing and canoeing, four finals will take place 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 a single kayak at a distance of 500 m.Russian canoeist Andrey Kraytor will perform in the final at a distance of 200 m. , while the kayaker Elena Anyushina managed to get through only to the final B and will not be able to compete for medals.

    In taekwondo, two sets of medals will be played. Bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympics in London Alexei Denisenko in the category up to 68 kg starts with a duel with Edgar Contreras from Venezuela, in the women's category up to 57 kg the Russians are not represented. Olympic triathlon competitions begin - in the men's individual championship, three representatives of Russia will start at 17:00 Moscow time - Alexander Bryukhankov, Dmitry Polyansky and Igor Polyansky. In sailing, the final medal races will be held - in the 49th class among men and women. Russian athletes did not start in these events.

    Six finals of athletics

    In athletics, six sets of awards will be played. In the daytime program - the final of the 400-meter hurdles for men (18:00 Moscow time), in the evening there will be finals in the discus throw among men (02:30 Moscow time), javelins for women and decisive disciplines in the men's decathlon, as well as the final race at a distance 400 m hurdles for women and 200 m for men. In addition, on Thursday, the semifinals in the 1,500 m race and preliminary races in the 4x100 m relay for men, the semi-finals in the 800 m race, qualification in the high jump and preliminary races in the 4x100 m relay for women will take place on Thursday.

    At 16:00 Moscow time, the semi-final starts, and at 22:00 - the final in diving from a 10-meter platform for women, where Yekaterina Petukhova and Yulia Timoshinina went to the start of the qualification the day before.

    Badminton will host a match for third place and final in women's doubles and a match for third place in men's singles... Bronze medals will be played by Chinese women Tang Yuanting and Yu Yang, as well as Zhong Kyun Eun and Shin Seung Chan from South Korea, while Danes Kristinna Pedersen and Camilla Rutter Yul will play in the final of the women's doubles competition against Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaki Takahashi from Japan. Chinese Chai Biao and Hong Wei, as well as Markus Ellis and Chris Langridge from Great Britain, will play in the match for third place among men's pairs. In addition, the women's singles semi-finals are scheduled, where Japanese Nozomi Okuhara will face Sindhu Pusarla from India, and Spanish Carolina Marin - with Chinese Li Xuezhui.

    At 04:00 Moscow time, the Russian pair Vyacheslav Krasilnikov / Konstantin Semyonov will start the match for the third place in the beach volleyball with Alexander Browver and Robert Meuevsen from the Netherlands, and in the final (05:59) Brazilians Alison and Bruno Schmidt, as well as Italians Daniele Lupu and Paolo Nicolai will play. The first team event awards at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics will be played in field hockey. The national teams of the Netherlands and Germany will play in the match for the third place in the men's tournament (beginning - 18:00 Moscow time), the gold medals will be challenged by the teams of Belgium and Argentina (23:00).

    The Russian women's handball team at 02:30 Moscow time will start the semifinals 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 face off. In the semifinals of the women's volleyball tournament on Thursday, the teams of Serbia and the United States will meet (19:00 Moscow time), as well as China and the Netherlands (04:15). In the women's basketball teams, teams from Spain and Serbia (21:00 Moscow time), as well as France and the United States (01:00) will play in the semifinals.

    In synchronized swimming, the competition will start in the groups where the technical program will be held. On Thursday, the quarterfinals in BMX cycling among men will take place, where Evgeny Komarov is performing, the golf tournament with the participation of Maria Verchenova will continue. On the first day of the pentathlon competition, fencing fights will be held, with Alexander Lesun, Donata Rimshaite and Gulnaz Gubaidullina performing in this form as part of the Russian national team.

    Day 13, August 18, 2016, Broadcasts watch online:

    The Russian national team retained the fourth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the 11th day of the competition. On the account of Russian athletes 38 medals - 12 gold, 12 silver and 14 bronze.

    On the eleventh day of the competition, the piggy bank of the Russian national team was replenished with three awards. Synchronized swimmers Svetlana Romashina and Natalya Ishchenko won gold medals in a duet, becoming four-time Olympic champions. Bronze medals were won by gymnast David Belyavsky in exercises on parallel bars and kayaker Roman Anoshkin at a distance of 1000 m.

    The USA team retained the lead in the unofficial team standings (28 gold, 28 silver and 28 bronze medals). The second place is taken by the UK team (19-19-12). The top three are closed by the Chinese (17-15-19).

    Sixteen sets of awards will be drawn on the 12th day of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The final competitions will be held in boxing, badminton, athletics, equestrian sports, sailing, table tennis, taekwondo and wrestling. The semifinal match will be held by the women's water polo team, while the volleyball players will face the quarter-finals.

    Women's wrestling competitions start on Wednesday - in categories up to 48, 58 and 69 kg. Milana Dadasheva (48 kg) in the first fight will meet with Kim Hyun Ken from the DPRK, Valeria Koblova (58 kg) - with German Luisa Nimesh, and the rival of the Olympic champion Natalia Vorobyova (69 kg) will be Elmira Syzdykova from Kazakhstan. The first awards will be raffled off in taekwondo - in the men's category up to 58 kg and the women's category up to 49 kg. The Russian national team in the lightest weights is not represented.

    Boxers will have a final match in the category up to 69 kg, where Shahram Giyasov from Uzbekistan and Daniyar Yeleusinov from Kazakhstan will meet. Anastasia Belyakova will play the semifinal bout in the up to 60 kg category - with Estelle Mosseli from France, Misha Aloyan in the up to 52 kg category will face 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 3000 m hurdles for men will start, 04:30 for the women's 200-meter race, 04:55 for the 100 m hurdles for women. In addition, on Wednesday, there will be 5000m preliminary races and qualification in javelin and discus throw for men, as well as 800m preliminary races for women.

    In sailing, medal races will be held 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 managed to break through. In equestrian sports, the final of the team show jumping is planned.

    Volleyball team quarterfinals

    At 16:00 Moscow time, the volleyball players of the Russian national team will play the first playoff match - the team of Vladimir Alekno will meet with the Canadians in the quarterfinals. Other couples made up the national teams of the USA and Poland, Italy and Iran, Brazil and Argentina. The water polo team of Russia in the semifinals will meet with rivals from Italy (22:30), at 18:20 the meeting of the national teams of Hungary and the USA will take place.

    The women's beach volleyball tournament ends on Wednesday. In the final at 05:59 Moscow time, the German pair Laura Ludwig / Kira Valkenhorst and the Brazilian Agatha Bednarchuk / Barbara Seixas will compete, the Brazilians Larissa Fransa / Talita Antunes and the American Kerri Walsh Jennings / April Ross will compete for bronze medals.

    The Olympic table tennis competition will end with duels in the men's team tournament, where the teams of South Korea and Germany will meet in the match for third place at 17:00 Moscow time, while tennis players from China and Japan will compete in the final at 01:30. At 17:50 Moscow time, the final match in mixed doubles will be held in badminton, where Tontovi Ahmad and Liliana Natsir from Indonesia will play against Chan Peng Sun and Go Liu Ying from Malaysia. In addition, the women's singles quarterfinals will take place on Wednesday.

    The teams of Australia and Lithuania, Spain and France, the USA and Argentina, Croatia and Serbia meet in the quarter finals of the men's basketball tournament. The semifinals will be held in the men's football tournament - at 19:00 Moscow time, the teams of Brazil and Honduras will play at the famous Maracana, and at 22:00 in Sao Paulo, the national teams of Nigeria and Germany will meet. Teams from the Netherlands and Germany, as well as New Zealand and the United Kingdom, play in the semifinals of the women's field hockey tournament. Teams from Brazil and France, Germany and Qatar, Denmark and Slovenia, Croatia and Poland will play in the quarter finals of the men's handball tournament.

    There will also be preliminary competitions in rowing and canoeing and BMX cycling on Wednesday. The women's golf tournament starts with the participation of the Russian woman Maria Verchenova. Qualification in diving from a 10-meter platform for women will be held, where Ekaterina Petukhova and Yulia Timoshinina will perform.

    Day 12, 17 August 2016, Broadcasts watch online:

    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 national team retained the fourth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the tenth day of competition. On account of Russian athletes 35 medals - 11 gold, 12 silver and 12 bronze.

    On the tenth day of the competition, the piggy bank of the Russian national team was replenished with five awards. Gold was won by boxer Evgeny Tishchenko in the weight category up to 91 kg and the Greco-Roman style wrestler David Chakvetadze in the weight category up to 85 kg. Gymnast Denis Ablyazin brought silver in the vault and bronze in the exercises on the rings. Also, a bronze medal was awarded to the Greco-Roman wrestler Sergei Semenov in the weight up to 130 kg.

    The USA team retained the lead in the unofficial team standings (26 gold, 23 silver and 26 bronze medals). The UK team is in second place (16-17-8). The top three are closed by the Chinese (15-14-17).

    Twenty-five sets of awards will be drawn on the 11th competitive day of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Final competitions in boxing, cycling, rowing and canoeing, athletics, open water swimming, diving, artistic gymnastics, sailing, synchronized swimming, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling will be held, quarterfinal matches will be played by the Russian women's national teams. volleyball and handball.

    In artistic gymnastics, starting at 20:00 Moscow time, the final finals will be held on individual apparatus - on the uneven bars and a crossbar for men, in floor exercises for women. This evening, of the Russian gymnasts, only David Belyavsky will perform, who showed the second result in qualifying on the uneven bars, losing only to Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev. On Tuesday, competitions will be held in the two final categories of Greco-Roman wrestling - up to 66 and 98 kg. Islam-Beka Albiev (66 kg) will play the first fight with Romanian Ion Panait, while the rival of Islam Magomedov (98 kg) in the 1/8 finals will be Ardo Arusaar from Estonia.

    In synchronized swimming, a free program is planned for duets, 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 raffled off in kayaking and canoeing. Men will determine the strongest in single canoe and kayak at a distance of 1000 m, for women there will be finals among double kayaks and single kayaks (200 m). The canoeist Ilya Shtokalov and the kayaker Roman Anoshkin, as well as Elena Anyushina and Kira Stepanova in a double kayak, managed to make it to the final.

    The open water swimming tournament will conclude with a 10-kilometer swim among men, where Evgeny Drattsev will start. The semifinals (16:00) and the final (00:00) in diving from a 3-meter springboard for men will take place, where Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov took the start.

    The first start of Daria Klishina

    Five consecutive sets of awards will be played in athletics. At 14:50 Moscow time the final in the men's triple jump starts, at 17:20 Moscow time - in the discus throw among women. At 02:30 the high jump competition for men will begin, at 04:30 - the final 1500 m race for women, and the evening will end with a decisive 110-meter hurdle race for men (04:45). Qualification in women's long jump will take place on Tuesday, where the only representative of Russia in the athletics tournament, Daria Klishina, will perform.

    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 drawing of medals in the men's category over 105 kg.

    In cycling on the track will also be determined recent champions Games-2016. Men in keirin start from the preliminary races, decisive competitions will take place in the women's sprint - starting from the quarter finals, where the vice-champion of the current Games in the team sprint Anastasia Voinova managed to break through. There will also be awards for the women's omnium.

    Brazilian boxer Robson Conceicao and Frenchman Sophian Umia from France will fight in the final fight in the 60 kg category. Vladimir Nikitin in the category up to 56 kg will meet with the world champion Irishman Michael Konlan, while Vitaly Dunaitsev (64 kg) will face Hu Qianxun from China.

    The table tennis finals will be held in the women's team tournament, where the national teams of China and Germany will play, while the bronze medals will be played by the teams of Singapore and Japan. In badminton, a match is planned for third place in the mixed doubles, as well as the semifinals of the men's and women's doubles tournaments.

    Volleyball players and handball players start the playoffs

    The women's national teams of Russia on volleyball and handball on Tuesday begin the stage of the playoffs. Russian handball players at 02:30 Moscow time will play against the Angola national team, the rest of the pairs were made up by the teams of Brazil and the Netherlands, Spain and France, Norway and Sweden. At 00:00 volleyball players will play a match against rivals from Serbia, three more tickets to the semifinals will be played by the teams of South Korea and the Netherlands, Japan and the USA, Brazil and China.

    The Russians Konstantin Semyonov and Vyacheslav Krasilnikov reached the semifinals of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament, where they will meet with the Italians Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo, who earlier beat another Russian couple Nikita Lyamin / Dmitry Barsuk in the quarterfinals. Brazil and the Netherlands will play in the other semi-final.

    The semi-finals will take place in the men's beach volleyball tournament, while the Brazilian women Larissa and Talita will compete for the finals with Laura Ludwig and Kira Valkenhorst from Germany.

    The women's football tournament will feature semi-finals - teams from Brazil and Sweden will play at the Maracanã 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 quarter finals of the women's basketball tournament of the Olympics on Tuesday.

    In field hockey, the semifinals in the men's tournament are planned - teams from Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as Argentina and Germany. 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.

    Day 11, August 16, 2016, Broadcasts watch online:

    Wrestler Roman Vlasov, gymnast Aliya Mustafina and tennis players Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova secured a record for Russia in terms of gold medals won at the current Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro - three awards at the end of the competitive day.

    Sunday afternoon, smoothly flowing into Monday, was also remembered for another round in the proceedings with the Russian athlete Daria Klishina, whom the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) did not allow to participate in the Olympics because of her appearance in the report of the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

    Unbending Aliya

    Mustafina's gold became extremely important in the exercise on the uneven bars, which is considered her signature look. The Russian woman became a two-time Olympic champion, winning the 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 at these Games she performed with back pain, but even so, she also won silver in team competitions and bronze in individual all-around.

    In the uneven bars, Mustafina won 15,900 ahead of American Madison Koshan (15.833) and German Sophie Scheder (15.566).

    Many expected that Mustafina could announce her retirement, but the head 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 to prepare for the Olympic cycle before the 2020 Games in Tokyo. The athlete herself later confirmed this.

    In addition, Maria Paseka became the second in the vault, in which she is the reigning world champion. Gold was won by American Simone Biles, who won in Rio de Janeiro already in the all-around and in team competitions, the third place was taken by the Swiss Julia Steingruber.

    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 the seventh, but at the same time announced that she did not intend to end her career, but wanted to compete at the World Championships next year in Canada.

    Britain's Max Whitlock, who won gold in floor exercise and on horseback, successfully competed in men. The Russians did not perform in the freestyle, and in the exercise on the horse David Belyavsky and Nikolai Kuksenkov took fifth and sixth places, respectively.

    Historic 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 chances for the Swiss pair Martin Hingis / Timea Bachinski, 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 have time for a flight from Canada and barely managed to arrive on the eve of the start of the Olympic tournament.

    After the final, the strength of the Russians was recognized by Khingis, and Vesnina and Makarova themselves said that the Olympics were a priority tournament for them this year, for which they postponed trials related to flight delays and poor living conditions at the Games.

    The tennis tournament of the Olympics ended in the men's final, in which Briton Andy Murray defeated Argentine Juan Martin del Potro with a score of 7: 5, 4: 6, 6: 2, 7: 5. The bronze medalist was the Japanese Kei Nishikori, who defeated the 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 the mixed doubles.

    Repeat the path of Karelin

    In the evening program, Russia rightly expected victory from the Greco-Roman style wrestler in the weight category up to 75 kg Roman Vlasov. The 25-year-old Russian justified hopes.

    Vlasov left no chances to any of his rivals, and in the final he beat Dane Mark Madsen with a score of 5: 1. Nor did the Russian stop an unpleasant episode in the semifinals, where the judge allowed the Croat Bozho Starcevic to strangle the Russian, which made him lose consciousness, but soon came to his senses and won the fight.

    Thus, Vlasov became a two-time Olympic champion, having won four years ago in London. Four years later in Tokyo, he has a chance to repeat the record of Alexander Karelin, who won three gold in a row (1988, 1992, 1996). The two-time winner of the Games himself said that it was impossible to break Karelin's record. “This man (Karelin. - approx. TASS) did everything in sports. He is a colossus, ”said Vlasov.

    Silver Kamensky and bronze by Elfutina in windsurfing

    The final day turned out to be extremely offensive Olympic competitions in shooting, where two Russians reached the final 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 the first place, Kamensky was ahead of the Italian Nicola Campriani, who had already become the Olympic champion in air rifle shooting from 10 meters here. The Italian smeared the last shot, but Kamensky shot even worse, becoming the vice-champion.

    The bronze was won by the Frenchman Alexis Reino. Vlasov, who was in the lead during the final, finished seventh.

    The results of the shooting tournament turned out to be successful for domestic representatives of bullet shooting and unsuccessful for representatives of trap shooting. In bullet shooting, the Russians won four medals: two silver and two bronze. Moreover, in Olympic London they had none. In trap shooting, none of the Russians even managed to overcome the qualification.

    The first Olympic medal in domestic sailing among women was won by Stefania Elfutina, who became the third in the RS: X (windsurfing) class. Frenchwoman Charlene Picon (64) won, the second was Chinese woman Chen Payna (66). The last time the Russians won medals in sailing 20 years ago was in Atlanta: Georgy Shaiduko, Igor Skalin and Dmitry Shabanov won silver in the Soling class.

    Denis Dmitriev won bronze in the personal sprint in the cycle track. In the fight for third place, the Russian in both races was stronger than Australian Matthew Gletzer. Gold was won by Briton Jason Kenny, who beat his compatriot Callum Skinner in the final. In the cycling track at the 2016 Games, the UK team 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 became a debut: the previous time a domestic cyclist won a medal in the Games in an individual sprint on a cycle track in 1988 in Seoul, when Soviet athlete Nikolai Kovsh became a 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 wrestle in the cycle track.

    WADA accused Klishina of concealing samples

    There was confirmation from the words of Klishina's lawyer Paul Green that the athlete could open the doping tests made during the 2013 World Cup in Moscow. According to the representative of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Mark Adams during the organization's briefing, the athlete will not perform at the Games if her name is mentioned in the McLaren report.

    “The Klishina situation is a matter for the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations),” Adams said. - We have already said that each federation makes decisions on such cases. As for the McLaren report, this is one of three key components that allow Russian athletes to prove their innocence. WADA has done everything to ensure that all federations are aware of this information, and we must ask the IAAF about Klishina. "

    “If you are somehow touched upon in 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 had passed about 360 doping tests in Tbilisi.

    CAS admitted Klishina to the 2016 Games

    On Monday morning, it became known that CAS granted the appeal of the 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 granted Klishina's appeal against the IAAF's decision not to allow her to participate in the Olympics," Reuters said in a statement.

    Russian athletes were barred from participating in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro due to the disqualification of the national federation; only Klishina, who lives and trains abroad, was supposed to perform 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 non-admission to 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 the final of which Jamaica's representatives Usain Bolt and Johan Blake, as well as American Justin Gatlin, as expected. His presence did not go unnoticed by the fans - the stands booed him before the final, given that Gatlin was twice caught for using illegal drugs. Neither he nor Blake managed to stop Bolt, who became the first three-time Olympic champion in history at a distance of 100 meters. Silver went to Gatlin, bronze - Canadian Andre de Grasse.

    The synchronized swimming competition has begun. Svetlana Romashina and Natalya Ishchenko confidently won the free competition, gaining 98.0067 points. In second place are Chinese women Huang Xuechen and Sun Wenyan (96.0067), in third place are Japanese women Yukiko Inui and Risako Mitsui (94.4000).

    The Olympic fencing tournament has ended. The French epee fencers became Olympic champions, beating the Italian team in the final with a score of 45:31. The Hungarian national team won the bronze, defeating the Ukrainians (39:37). In the fencing standings, the first place was taken by the Russian team with four gold, one silver and two bronze medals.

    The group stage for two Russian women's team sports has ended. The handball players beat the Netherlands 38:34 and for the first time since 1980 won all five matches of the preliminary stage of the Games. The volleyball players lost to the hosts of the tournament in three games and advanced to the playoffs from second place. Their rival 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 reigning world champions Agatha Bednarchuk and Barbara Seixas from Brazil.

    The first Olympic golf champion since 1904 was determined in Rio. Briton Justin Rose became the winner. The silver was won by the Swede Henrik Stenson, the bronze by the representative of the United States, Matt Kuchar. Russian players in this tournament, from which a number of strong golfers refused to participate due to the Zika virus, did not play.

    At the end of the day of the competitive program of the Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Russian team climbed to fourth place in the unofficial standings of the Olympics. On account of Russian athletes 30 medals - nine gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze. The USA team retained the lead in the unofficial team standings (26 gold, 21 silver and 22 bronze medals). The UK team moved up to second place (15-16-7), pushing the Chinese team into third place (15-13-17).

    Seventeen sets of awards will be awarded on the tenth competitive day of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The final competitions in boxing, cycling, athletics, open water swimming, equestrian sports, gymnastics, sailing, weightlifting and wrestling will be held, the next matches will be held by the Russian men's volleyball and water polo teams.

    In artistic gymnastics, the 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. In exercises on the balance beam, the Russians do not perform. Greco-Roman wrestlers will compete for medals in the categories up to 85 and 130 kg, in the weight up to 85 kg Davit Chakvetadze will meet with the Azerbaijani Saman Takhmasebi, while the first rival of Sergei Semenov will be Murat Ramonov from Kyrgyzstan.

    Five next kits await owners in athletics. At 16:40 Moscow time the final in women's hammer throw starts, 17:15 - the 3000m race for women (steeplechase), 02:35 the pole vaulters tournament (men) starts, 04:35 - the final in the 800 m for men, and at 04:45 - 400 meters for women. In addition, on Monday there will be preliminary races of 110 and 400 m hurdles and 3000 m hurdles, as well as qualification in the triple jump for men, preliminary races for 200 m and 400 m with hurdles and qualification in discus throw for women.

    In sailing, there will be medal races in the Laser class for men and women. Sergey Komissarov started in this discipline, but he will not take part in the decisive race, taking only 15th place. In track cycling, there will be an omnium competition for men, where there are no representatives of Russia. In addition, the women's sprint tournament starts from the 1/8 finals stage, where the vice-champions of the Games in Rio de Janeiro will compete in the team sprint Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva.

    At 01:15 Moscow time, the final of the boxing tournament in the category up to 91 kg starts, where Evgeny Tishchenko will meet with Kazakhstani Vasily Levit. The first fight in the tournament will be held by Misha Aloyan, in the 1/8 finals in the category up to 52 kg two-time champion the world will meet with the Frenchman Elie Konki. Whereas Anastasia Belyakova (up to 60 kg) will have a quarterfinal match with American Mikaela Mayer.

    The first competition of the Games in swimming in open water - among women (10 km) starts at 15:00. The Russians did not manage to break into the 2016 Olympics in this form. In equestrian sports, the final in personal dressage will take place, where Marina Aframeeva and Inessa Merkulova did not manage to break through. In weightlifting, medals will be played in the category up to 105 kg for men.

    Volleyball players complete the group stage

    The Russian men's national volleyball team will play the final match group tournament- against the Iranian team (21:00 Moscow time). Wards of Vladimir Alekno have already guaranteed themselves access to the quarter-finals, according to the results of Monday's matches, the opponent of the Russians in the first playoff meeting 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, qualification starts in diving from a three-meter springboard for men, where Ilya Zakharov and Evgeny Kuznetsov will perform. In synchronized swimming, the duets will qualify in the technical program. The Russian national team in this form is represented by three-time Olympic champions and multiple world champions Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, who showed the best result in the free program the day before.

    The Russian duo of badminton players Vladimir Ivanov / Ivan Sozonov will play the quarterfinal match, which was postponed from Sunday due to changes in the schedule. The rivals will be Chai Biao and Hong Wei from China. In the 1/4 finals of the beach volleyball tournament, Dmitry Barsuk and Nikita Lyamin will meet with the Italians Daniele Lupo and Paolo Nicolai (05:00 Moscow time).

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    The Russian national team climbed from seventh to sixth place in the unofficial medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the eighth day of competition. Russian athletes have won 23 medals - six gold, nine silver and eight bronze.

    On the eighth competition day, the Russians won one medal. Russian saber fencers Sofya Velikaya, Yana Yegoryan, Yulia Gavrilova and Yekaterina Dyachenko won Olympic gold in team competition. In the final, the Russians defeated the Ukrainian team with a score of 45:30.

    The USA team retained the lead in the unofficial team standings (24 gold, 18 silver and 19 bronze medals). The second place is taken by the team of China (13-11-17). The British are at the bottom of the top three (10-13-7).

    Day 9, August 14, 2016, Broadcasts watch online:

    18:00 Tennis. Finals.

    18:55 Shooting. Men. Rifle in three positions. The final.

    19:55 Gymnastics. Finals in separate forms.

    20:35 Handball. Women. Russia - Netherlands

    22:10 Diving. Women. Springboard. 3 m. Final.

    On the seventh day of competition, 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 team championship from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

    Russian cyclists Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva won silver in the team sprint on the track, and Kirill Grigoryan brought bronze to the Russian national team's piggy bank in shooting with a small-bore rifle from 50 meters from a prone position.

    The USA team retained the lead in the unofficial team standings (20 gold, 13 silver and 17 bronze medals). The second place is taken by the team of China (13-10-14). The British are at the bottom of the top three (7-9-6).

    Twenty-one sets of awards will be awarded on the eighth competitive day of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Competitions will be held in rowing, cycling, athletics, shooting, fencing, trampoline jumping, weightlifting, tennis and swimming, the next matches will be held by the Russian men's volleyball and water polo teams.

    At 15:00 Moscow time, qualification will begin in shooting from a high-speed pistol from 25 m for men, where 40-year-old Alexei Klimov, the world record holder, which he set in April at a tournament in Rio de Janeiro, will play. The final in this discipline is scheduled for 18:30 Moscow time. At 21:00 Moscow time, the semifinal in the men's skete starts, after the first qualification on Friday, Anton Astakhov takes only 20th place.

    In fencing, a saber fencer team tournament will be held, where the Russian national team has the right to count on success, given that Yana Yegoryan and Sofya Velikaya became the champion and silver medalist of the Games in the individual championship. The team also includes Ekaterina Dyachenko, the first match the Russian national team will play in the quarter-finals against rivals from Mexico. The Russian national 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 in the team Olga Harlan.

    In track cycling on Saturday, medals will be played in the team pursuit for women (23:14 Moscow time), where the Russian national team does not take part, and for the women's keirin (23:33). Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva will start the first round in keirin (16:00).

    Five sets of awards will be played in athletics. At 16:50, the men's final in discus throwing starts, 02:53 - the long jump competition for men, 03:27 - the men's 10,000 m race, 04:37 - the final of the women's 100-meter, decisive events in the women's heptathlon. In addition, on Saturday there will be preliminary competitions in the 100 m running and pole vaulting for men, the men's 400 and 800 m semifinals, as well as qualifications in the 400 m and 3000 m (steeple chase) and triple jumping - among women.

    Final sailing day

    The Olympic pool swimming tournament ends on the eighth competitive day of the Games, where four final sets of awards will be played. At a distance of 50 m freestyle, Rosalia Nasretdinova and Natalya Lovtsova entered the start of the preliminary heats, who could not even make it to the semifinals. The men will swim 1,500 m 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 relay races in complex swimming 4x100 m. The Russian women's team (Anastasia Fesikova, Yulia Efimova, Svetlana Chimrova, Veronika Popova) reached the final with the fourth time, men's (Grigory Tarasevich, Anton Chupkov, Evgeny Koptelov and Alexander Sukhorukov) - with the sixth.

    The qualification of the men's trampoline tournament starts at 20:03, where the bronze medalist of the 2015 World Championship Dmitry Ushakov and Andrey Yudin will perform (the final will start at 21:42). The rowing competition will conclude with the final heats of singles and eights for men and women. In weightlifting, men will compete for medals - in the category up to 94 kg.

    The Russian men's national volleyball team at 21:00 Moscow time will play a group stage match against the world champions from Poland, who have not yet lost at 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 form, all teams advance to the quarterfinals, and in the group stage there is a struggle for the best seed in the playoffs.

    In the badminton tournament, the Russian duo Vladimir Ivanov / Ivan Sozonov will play their third group stage match with Lee Yeon-Dae and Ye Yeon-Sung from South Korea. The first match at the Games will be played by Natalya Perminova, who meets with Elisabeth Baldauf from Austria. Russian beach volleyball couple Nikita Lyamin and Dmitry Barsuk will meet Brazilians Evandro and Pedro Solberg in the 1/8 finals.

    Semifinal Tishchenko

    Boxers will hold semi-final fights in the category up to 91 kg, where Evgeny Tishchenko will meet with Rustam Tulaganov from Uzbekistan at 18:45 Moscow time. The second pair was made up of Vasily Levit from Kazakhstan and the Cuban Erislandi Savon. At 22:00, the semifinal in diving from a 3-meter springboard for women starts, where Kristina Ilinykh reached the semifinals, while Nadezhda Bazhina failed to do so.

    The time has come for the decisive tennis matches, which will host the men's singles semifinals, the women's singles semifinals, as well as the matches for the third place in the women's doubles and the mixed semifinals. In the men's singles semifinals, Briton Andy Murray will play against Japanese Kei Nishikori, in the other - Argentine Juan Martin del Potro will face off against Spaniard Rafael Nadal. Women's semifinals are as follows: Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) - Madison Keys (USA); Monica Puig (Puerto Rico) - Angelique Kerber (Germany). Two Czech duos - Lucie Shafarzhova / Barbora Strycova and Andrea Glavachkova / Lucie Hradecka - will compete for bronze in the women's doubles category.

    The quarterfinals of the men's football tournament will also be held, where teams from Portugal and Germany, Nigeria and Denmark, South Korea and Honduras, Brazil and Colombia will play.

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    The Russian national team dropped from 6th to 7th place in the unofficial team medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the sixth day of competition. On the account of Russian athletes 19 medals - four gold, eight silver and seven bronze.

    On the sixth day of competition, the Russians won four medals. Yulia Efimova became the vice-champion at a distance of 200 m breaststroke. The women's national epee team won the bronze medal in the team competition. Swimmer Yevgeny Rylov replenished the team's piggy bank with a bronze medal at a distance of 200 m on the back, and gymnast Aliya Mustafina brought a medal of the same dignity in personal all-around.

    The USA team retained the lead in the unofficial team standings (16 gold, 12 silver and 10 bronze medals). The second place is taken by the team of China (11-8-11). The Japanese are at the bottom of 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 were a real surprise for the Russian fans.

    Silver

    Olga Zabelinskaya, the winner of two bronze medals at the OI-2012, brought the first medal to the collection of the Russian national team. 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 ahead of the Russian woman by less than six seconds.

    “I have two feelings,” Zabelinskaya said 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 also become a champion. Armstrong bypassed 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 attitude to sports, and her health still allows her to show good results, ”said Alexander Gusyatnikov, advisor to the president of the Russian Cycling Federation, to TASS.

    Zabelinskaya herself, returning to journalists after the awards ceremony, announced that she intends to continue training until the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, where she hopes to win a gold medal.

    Gold

    Russia secured a spot in the women's individual foil final even before the semifinal bouts. Domestic fencing has one more opportunity to win Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro (the first medal of the highest dignity was won by Yana Yegoryan in the saber).

    By draw, two Russians met in the semifinals: Aida Shanaeva and Inna Deriglazova. In this confrontation, Deriglazova celebrated success, after which she received the right to speak in the final, where Inna fulfilled 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, believed in my victory, Deriglazova admitted. “Thanks to my coach who prompted me and gave me advice.”

    In the final, the Russian woman was opposed by the Italian Eliza di Francisca. “In titles, of course, the Italian is stronger, but in her youth and desire to win, Inna surpassed her. Youth won over experience, "said Ilgar Mammadov, head coach of the Russian fencing team.

    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.

    The bronze medal of the 2016 Games is the greatest achievement in a swimmer's career. Russian swimmers have not won 200m breaststroke medals since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Then Andrei Korneev finished the swim with the third result.

    “This bronze is for me with a particle of gold, because these are my first Games,” the athlete emphasized. - I am pleased with myself: I completed the maximum task, won a medal. It was cool".

    The Russian national team dropped to sixth place

    The Russian national team dropped from 5th to 6th place in the unofficial team medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the fifth day of competition. On the account of Russian athletes 15 medals - four gold, seven silver and four bronze. The USA team retained the lead in the unofficial team standings (11 gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze medals). The second place is taken by the team of China (10-5-8). The Japanese are at the bottom of the top three (6-1-11).

    Twenty-one sets of awards will be drawn on Thursday, the sixth day of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Competitions will be held in rowing, archery, cycling, rowing slalom, shooting, artistic gymnastics, judo, fencing, rugby 7, table tennis and swimming, the next matches will be played by the Russian men's national volleyball team and water polo players.

    Sixth day, August 11

    At 15:00 Moscow time, preliminary competitions in air rifle shooting from 50 m from three positions for women will start, at 18:00 the final will begin here. In this form, Daria Vdovina is declared, who has already performed in rifle shooting from 10 m, where she took fifth place.

    The judokas will compete for medals in the categories up to 100 kg (men) and 78 kg (women). The Russian national team includes the Olympic champion of London 2012 Tagir Khaibulaev, who will be opposed in the 1/16 finals by Azerbaijani Elmar Gasimov, two-time winner of the European Championships. The Russians are not represented in the light heavyweight category.

    In fencing, a team epee tournament will be held, where the Russian national team (Lyubov Shutova, Violetta Kolobova and Tatyana Logunova) will start from the quarter finals - a match against French women. The French national team finished fourth at the 2015 World Cup in Moscow, where the Russians lost in the quarter-finals. Shutova, Kolobova and Logunova performed in Rio de Janeiro in the personal epee tournament, losing amicably in the 1/16 finals, and the Hungarian Emeshe Sas became the Olympic champion.

    In artistic gymnastics, the final in women's individual all-around will be held, where Seda Tutkhalyan and Aliya Mustafina, who took fourth and fifth places, respectively, according to the results of qualifications, will perform. The first two places were taken by American women Simone Biles and Eli Reisman, the third was Rebecca Andrade from Brazil. At 14:00 Moscow time, the decisive stage of the women's archery tournament starts, where only Inna Stepanova managed to break into the 1/8 finals.

    Efimova's second final

    In swimming, four consecutive sets of medals will be played. The second attempt to win Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro will be with Yulia Efimova, 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 final of the men's 200-meter complex swimming is scheduled for 05:01, where Semyon Makovich could not even make it to the semifinals. In this form, American Michael Phelps, a 21-time Olympic champion, performs, and his main competitor is his compatriot Ryan Lochte, who won the Olympics six times.

    Finally, at 05:18, the women will compete for medals in the 100-meter freestyle, where Veronika Popova and Natalya Lovtsova failed to reach the semifinals.

    Ends on Thursday Olympic program in rowing slalom. Mikhail Kuznetsov and Dmitry Larionov, who won bronze medals at the 2008 Games in Beijing, will compete in the semi-finals (18:30 Moscow time) among the canoe-twos. The final is scheduled here at 20:15. The semi-final in the women's single kayak starts at 19:15, where Marta Kharitonova will perform (the decisive races are scheduled for 21:00). The winners will be determined in the men's rugby-7 tournament, where the play-off stage will take place, starting with the quarter finals.

    Competitions on the cycle 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 national team in this event did not qualify for the Games. In addition, preliminary runs in the men's and women's team pursuit races will take place on Thursday.

    Six sets of awards will be played in rowing - finals will be held in fours of doubles for men and women, men's doubles, men's and women's doubles of doubles and men's fours of light weight. The final races in the fours of doubles were postponed from Wednesday due to bad weather. Russian crews did not perform in these types of programs. The preliminary badminton and golf tournaments will start, the sailing and equestrian competitions will continue.

    In table tennis, the decisive duels of the men's singles category will take place. In the first semifinal, the 2012 Olympic champion in the team and eight-time world champion Chinese Ma Long and multiple world championship medalist Jun Mizutani from Japan will play. 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, seven-time world champion Zhang Jike from China.

    Revenge of volleyball players

    At 15:00 Moscow time, the Russian women's water polo team will play the second group round match against rivals from Brazil. Volleyball players under the leadership of Vladimir Alekno will play against the Egyptians at 17:35 - the Russian national team needs to rehabilitate 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 Semyonov. Guaranteed to reach the 1/8 finals, the Russians will play for the best seed with Reinder Nummerdor and Christian Warenhorst from the Netherlands. Whereas Ekaterina Birlova and Evgenia Ukolova at 21:30 will play with Americans Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Sweet for the opportunity to break into the playoffs from third place.

    In tennis, matches must be rescheduled from Wednesday due to rain. In the women's quarterfinals, Daria Kasatkina meets with the American Madison Keyes, and Evgeny Donskoy in the 1/8 finals of the men's tournament will play with Steve Johnson from the United States. In the quarterfinals of the women's doubles Kasatkina and Svetlana Kuznetsova will face Czechs Andrea Glavachkova and Lucia Gradetskaya, while Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina will face Garbigne Mugurus and Carla Suarez Navarro from Spain.

    Beach volleyball. Women. Russia - USA


    The Russian national team is ranked fifth in the unofficial team medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the fourth day of competition. Russian athletes have won 12 medals - three gold, six silver and three bronze.

    Twenty sets of awards will be drawn on Wednesday, the fifth day of the Summer Olympics 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, the next matches will be held by the Russian women's volleyball and handball teams.

    At 14:00 Moscow time, the qualification in pistol shooting from 50 m starts, where Vladimir Goncharov and Denis Kulakov are performing, and the final is scheduled for 18:00. Goncharov in this form is the bronze medalist of the 2002 World Championship, and at the current Games he became the eighth in air pistol shooting from a distance of 10 m.

    There will also be competitions in the double trap, where the qualification starts at 15:00 Moscow time, the semifinals at 21:00 Moscow time, and the final at 21:25. The Russian national team will include Vasily Mosin and Vitaly Fokeev. Mosin four years ago in London won the only shooting medal for the team - bronze in the double-ladder, and in 2013 he became the vice-champion of the world.

    In artistic gymnastics, the final in the individual all-around will take place, where David Belyavsky and Nikolai Kuksenkov made their way into the number of 24 participants. The best result in qualifying was shown by Ukrainian Oleg Vernyaev, the second was the main favorite, the Olympic champion of London in individual all-around and the champion of the Games in Rio de Janeiro in the team championship Kohei Uchimura.

    In road cycling, awards will be played out in individual races with a separate start for men and women, where Sergei Chernetsky and bronze medalist of the London Games Olga Zabelinskaya will start. In group road races at the current Games, Chernetsky became 31st, and Zabelinskaya showed 16th result.

    The judokas will compete for medals in the category up to 90 kg for men and 70 kg for women. In the 1/16 finals, repeated world championship medalist and European champion in 2015, Russian Kirill Denisov will meet with Mammadali Mehdiyev from Azerbaijan, while there are no representatives of Russia in the women's middleweight division.

    High hopes for fencing

    In fencing, the Olympic champions in the 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 in the first round will meet with Hungarian Tamas Dechi, bronze medalist of the Games in Athens and eight-time world champion Alexei Yakimenko - with Bulgarian Pancho Paskov. Yakimenko is the reigning world champion in this discipline, and olympic title will be defended by the Hungarian Aron Siladyi.

    There was a Russian final in the women's foil at the 2015 World Championships in Moscow - 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 hold their first fights in the 1/16 finals, their rivals will be determined after the preliminary fights.

    Swimmers will compete for four consecutive 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 could not reach, is scheduled for 05:03 Moscow time.

    In the final at a distance of 200 m breaststroke Russia will be represented by 19-year-old Anton Chupkov, a four-time winner of the European Games. According to the results of the semifinals, he showed the 6th result.

    At a distance of 200 m butterfly for women, the Russians did not start, but the Russian national team will take part in the preliminary heat of the 4x200 m freestyle relay, where the final will take place at 05:55.

    Kuznetsov with Zakharov against the Chinese champions

    On Wednesday, medals will be drawn in synchronized jumping into the water from a 3-meter springboard (beginning - 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 lost to the representatives of China at the 2012 Games in London, where Zakharov, however, won in ski jumping. This time, the main rivals of the Russians will be the Olympic champion in synchronized platform jumping Cao Yuan and two-time Olympic champion in synchronized jumping from the platform Qin Kai from China.

    In rowing slalom, there will be competitions in the men's single kayak, where Pavel Eigel reached the semifinals, which starts 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 fours of doubles (16:22 Moscow time). Russian boats in these types did not start.

    Weightlifters will compete for medals in categories up to 77 kg (men) and 69 kg (women). Table tennis will feature semi-finals, a third-place match and a women's singles final. Two-time Olympic champion Li Xiaoxia from China and Japanese Ai Fukuhara made up one semifinal pair, in another match Kim Sung-I from North Korea and 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 will meet Chinese woman Ding Ning.

    The Russian women's volleyball team will play the third match of the group stage - at 23:05 Moscow time, Yuri Marichev's charges will meet with rivals from Cameroon, who have lost two matches here. The handball players of the Russian national team under the leadership of Evgeny Trefilov will play with the Swedish team at 20:20 Moscow time. The Swedish and Russian teams lead Group B with two victories each.

    Silver Archer matches

    On Wednesday, matches of the 1/16 finals of the personal tournament of archers will take place, where three silver medalists of the 2016 Games in the team will play. Inna Stepanova and Ksenia Perova will meet each other, while Tuyana Dashidorzhieva will meet with the Chinese woman Cao Hui. In the beach volleyball competition, the third match of the preliminary stage will be played by the Russian duo Nikita Lyamin / Dmitry Barsku, who will meet Germans Markus Bokkermann and Lars Fluggen at 05:00 Moscow time. The victory guarantees the Russians access to the 1/8 finals.

    The first fight in the tournament will be held by Russian boxer Vladimir Nikitin (category up to 56 kg), who will face Lionel Varavara from Vanuatu in the 1/16 finals at 18:00 Moscow time. Evgeny 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 (the beginning of the fight - 19:30 Moscow time).

    Evgeny Donskoy will play in the 1/8 finals against Steve Johnson from the USA in the men's singles tennis. In the women's singles, it's time for the quarterfinals, where Daria Kasatkina will face American Madison Keyes (7th racket of the tournament). In the women's doubles in the quarter-finals, Kasatkina and Svetlana Kuznetsova will face Czechs Andrea Glavachkova and Lucy Gradetskaya, while Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina will play against Spanish pair Carla Suarez Navarro / Garbinier Mugurus.

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    The Russian national team is ranked 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 air rifle shooting from 10 meters. Saber fencer Yana Yegoryan won gold, defeating her compatriot Sophia Velikaya in the final. Silver was also won by swimmer Yulia Efimova in 100 m breaststroke and gymnasts Ivan Stretovich, Nikolay Kuksenkov, David Belyavsky, Denis Ablyazin and Nikita Nagorny in the team all-around.

    The USA team retained the lead in the unofficial team standings (5 gold, 7 silver and 7 bronze medals). The second place is taken by the team of China (5-3-5). The Australians are at the bottom of the top three (4-0-3).

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    The Russian national team is ranked 7th in the unofficial team medal standings of the 2016 Olympic Games after the second day of competition. The 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 - in archery. On the second day of competition, the medal asset of the Russian national team 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 on account of the judoka Beslan Mudranov (up to 60 kg), who became the champion of the 2016 Games on Saturday.

    The second medal day of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. On this day, 14 sets of awards are played out in pistol and archery, fencing, judo, road cycling, weightlifting, swimming and diving.

    August 7, 2016, Day 2, Watch broadcasts online:

    21:00 Shooting / Women. Ladder. The final

    In the Brazilian Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night, the XXXI Summer Olympic Games started. They will compete for 306 sets of medals. Athletes from 203 countries of the world will compete for them. In addition, athletes from the refugee team will perform under the Olympic flag.

    Note that the Brazilian resort needed a lot of money to host the 2016 Games. More than $ 9 billion was spent on the construction of the Olympic facilities and the reconstruction of the transport system. 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;
    • rowing 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;
    • jumping on a trampoline;
    • tennis;
    • taekwondo.

    It is noteworthy that the Olympic Games included two new sports: golf and rugby-7.

    Four major Olympic venues

    The most important sporting events will take place at Barra Tijuca Park near Lake Jacarepagua. There are three "Carioca Arena"... They will host competitions in such sports as:

    • judo;
    • fight;
    • basketball;
    • taekwondo;
    • fencing.

    There is also a water stadium, an Olympic tennis center, the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center, a Future Arena handball, three Riocentro pavilions (table tennis, boxing and badminton), a golf course, a gymnastic arena, a velodrome and a water stadium.

    As for the other three clusters: Maracana, Deodoro and Copacabana then competitions in other sports should be held on their territory.

    It is important to emphasize that the opening ceremony was held in Marakana and the closing of the 2016 Games should take place.

    In the Rio Olympics, only those countries of the Olympic Committees that are members of the IOC are eligible to participate. These are 206 countries. For the first time ever in Olympic medals the "team of refugees" (South Sudan, Kosovo) will fight.

    By the way, the USA 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 Games in Rio with 271 athletes. This number was approved by the IOC. Initially, there was an application for 389 athletes, but some of the athletes did not pass the admissions according to certain criteria.

    On the selection criteria for Russian athletes

    After lengthy proceedings in a high-profile anti-doping scandal, at first it was decided not to admit the entire Russian national team to the 2016 Olympics. This even applied 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 under anti-doping rules.

    The final decision on the admission of the Russian National Team was entrusted to three people from the IOC:

    1. Head of the Athletes' Commission Claudia Bockel (German).
    2. Head of the Medical Commission Ugur Erdener (Turk).
    3. Member of the Executive Committee Juan Antonio Samaranch (Spaniard).

    These three men ruled out the Russian national rowing team as well as the weightlifting team. According to them, the largest number of cases of violations of the anti-doping program were revealed there.

    RF

    On Saturday, in exact accordance with the forecast, two awards at once - gold and silver - were won by the Russians at the end of the Olympic tournament in rhythmic gymnastics in individual all-around. The victory went to Margarita Mamun, and the 13-time world champion Yana Kudryavtseva, who was considered the favorite, was left with silver due to an error in the exercise with clubs. And on Sunday, the Russian national team won gold in the group exercises. Thus, our team has won both gold medals on the line in rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympics for the fifth time in a row. VALERIA MIRONOVA - with details from Rio de Janeiro.


    Yana Kudryavtseva found herself in Rio in a similar situation to the one in which the superchampion of those years Alina Kabaeva found herself in 2000 at the Sydney Games, who by her 18 years had won the all-around world championships three times, and in total she had already earned 13 top world titles. From Alina Kabaeva, the hoop "ran away" in Australia, and with it the Olympic title. He then went to her colleague in the national team Yulia Barsukova. Kabaeva achieved her goal only four years later in Athens. In Rio, Yana Kudryavtseva, despite having undergone a complex operation on the foot at the end of last year (she had a completely fractured scaphoid bone in the lifting area) and a three-month absence from competitive practice, came as a favorite. With all due respect to Margarita Mamun, who has also won several events at the world championships during her career, this brilliant 19-year-old gymnast was still considered the second number of the national team. But it was she, and not Yana Kudryavtseva, who was destined to win here first qualifying competitions, in which both of our athletes did not avoid mistakes, and then the final.

    The main all-around competition, in which ten finalists consistently performed exercises with a hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon, was opened by Margarita Mamun. However, after two of her absolutely unmistakable exits, there was a feeling that the judges, despite all their impartiality (this fact was noted here by all the participants), still a little bit, but they held back their marks. Probably because then it was Yana Kudryavtseva's turn. And the arbiters, of course, knew firsthand how charmingly she can do her exercises. And when for her exits, first with a hoop, and then with a ball, Kudryavtseva received one and a half to two tenths more than Margarita Mamun, the feeling that it was her who was being brought to the highest pedestal was finally strengthened.

    But everything changed in one second. With the final chord of the "cosmic" composition, under which Kudryavtseva launched, there were clubs to the sky, but could not catch them back. Although she tried to hide her embarrassment, already lying in the final position and covering the clubs with her hand. This mistake decided the fate of the Olympic gold, which smoothly rolled from her hands to the hands of her reliable understudy. Ironically, Yan Kudryavtsev was brought up with objects for which she worried less than others. “The most difficult exercises for me are with a hoop and a ribbon,” she told Kommersant. “There you have to run, jump, jump and fly, which, given my injury, is unsafe for me. The clubs are quieter. There you work more with your hands. "

    It is noteworthy that the victory in the final form - in the exercise with the ribbon - was again won by Yana Kudryavtseva. But she went to him, knowing for sure that she would never become a champion under any circumstances.

    Recalling the fateful moment for her, Yana Kudryavtseva said: “At the end of the performance, my strength was already running out, I threw the clubs badly and did not have time to realize that they were flying badly. That is, she could have done something, but did not have time. Of course, there is frustration, but there could be no silver either. "

    Margarita Mamun (right) in the individual all-around beat her titled partner in the Russian national team, the favorite of the tournament, Yana Kudryavtseva

    And Margarita Mamun, who cleanly performed all her compositions, staged by the head coach of the team Irina Zenovka and honed in collaboration with personal trainer Amina Zaripova under the supervision of the President of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation and the head coach of the national team Irina Viner-Usmanova, was in seventh heaven. “On the whole, I was calm,” the Olympic champion recalls her feelings during the tournament. “I didn’t see Yana’s mistake and didn’t know who was in which place. I found out about the mistake when Yana made the tape and came to me. After all, I also made a mistake in qualification - I was distracted for a split second. But after yesterday's clubs, I was no longer afraid to make a mistake again. Our sport is like this: I went out and did it. Wrong - only your fault. Yana and I always support each other and have become relatives to each other. "

    Irina Viner-Usmanova believes that Margarita Mamun did all the exercises very cleanly. But she was especially noted for her ribbon exercise. “The tape is the last view on which everything could be decided. This is a very difficult subject, especially in Brazil, where the humidity is very high. We were scared that the ribbons would be tied, but I told the girls right away - some would be the first, some would not, and we worked calmly and correctly, ”Ms Viner-Usmanova emphasized.

    And she called the performance of Yana Kudryavtseva a feat and a huge victory, referring to everything she experienced after the 2015 World Cup, in which the gymnast won with a broken leg. “Yana underwent a major operation, was in a cast for a month, then recovered for a long time. And today we saw the highest mark in three out of four types. In just one form, Yana did not bring the matter to the end, ”Ms Viner-Usmanova expressed regret and wished Yana Kudryavtseva, drawing an analogy with Alina Kabaeva, to rectify the situation at the 2020 Games in Tokyo.

    The Olympic triumph of Russian rhythmic gymnastics became complete - for the fifth time in a row - the next day, when group exercises... And this ending had a completely different plot than the personal ending. He even made me remember that there were times when someone else could challenge the Russian "artists", could get ahead of them.

    In Rio, the Spanish women threw themselves into a challenge, having famously prepared for this Olympics. As cool as it was for the 1996 Olympics, when the group mined gold. They excelled in qualification, and in the first final exercise - with five ribbons - slightly, two tenths of a point, ahead of the Russian group. Moreover, between the two favorites, the Bulgarians also wedged themselves in. In the stands they whispered about the sensation until the performance of the Russian five - Vera Biryukova, Anastasia Bliznyuk, Anastasia Maksimova, Anastasia Tatareva and Maria Tolkacheva - took place in exercises with three clubs and two hoops.

    It was amazing - in terms of dynamics, in terms of saturation with complex elements - the program. And for her, the Russian group received an amazing rating - 18.633. Against the background of her performance, even very, very, really decent in terms of the level of performances of Spanish women and Bulgarians did not look. These were the universes too different. And the points received for the clubs with hoops were, of course, quite enough for the Russian girls to take gold in total.

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