Spartakiad 3×3 basketball tournament bronze medalist Polina Shurnova in a conversation with a correspondent spoke about the support of her relatives during the competition, and also said that she had no ashamed of losing in the semi-finals. future winners of the tournament.
Shurnova performed at the All-Russian Spartakiad in summer sports among the strongest athletes in the women’s team of the Sverdlovsk region. In the match for 3rd place, the team defeated the St. Petersburg team with a score of 17:16. In the semifinals, basketball players from Sverdlovsk lost to Muscovites.
– It was a shame to lose a point in the semi-finals, but such an opponent is not ashamed. To be honest, they lost. Not enough strength, maybe experience. In any case, we are well prepared for the Spartakiad and, of course, it’s great to win a medal. And the fact that I also scored the winning goal in the game for third place is usually cool! In the middle of the game I received a nasty blow to the head and thought I wouldn’t get out. But gradually she came to her senses, got out – and successfully.
– Immediately after the bronze medal game, you burst into tears while talking on the phone. Who caused such emotions?
– After the game, I always call my husband. At home there was a little son Timothy – 1 year and 9 months. This is the first major separation from him – before she leaves only two days, in Perm for the matches of the Russian championship. He watches my games on TV until he says nothing but “Mom”, but he already understands that it’s me. The emotions accumulated during the three days of the tournament, it all came out after the match for the bronze medal.
— Your team participated brilliantly in the Russian Championship 2021/22 during the season, but did not qualify for the final due to a lack of ranking points. Does Spartakiad bronze make up for that?
“Everything went according to plan. We only played one out of four tandems then, now we have drawn conclusions. Next season we will participate from the start, so we will fight and show ourselves again.
Source : MatchTV
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