Ivanyuk: “The start in Belarus is a good showdown before the Russian Championship”

Bronze medalist at the World High Jump Championships Ilya Ivanyuk considers the Belarus Open Championship a good test before the Russian Championship.

On Friday, Ivanyuk finished second in the Russian Cup to Zhukovsky with a score of 2.23m. The first place was taken by Danil Lysenko, who repeated the best result of the season in the world (2.33). Third place goes to Nikita Anischenkov (2.23).

– The next start is the Belarus Open Championship?

– I had planned to go to the Kutz Memorial, but I’ll probably skip it. I would have liked to have had a little more time to settle the technical aspects. Experience from recent competitions has shown that frequent travel is not very good. I want to take time for myself. From Smolensk to Minsk, it’s geographically closer for me to go, the stadium there is beautiful, beautiful. I really hope the weather will be better there than today. Danil Lyssenko has promised to come. All the strongest Belarusians will be there. I decided to prepare myself better there, especially since it will be a very good test of strength before the Russian Championship. If there are errors, it will be time to correct them.

– That is to say that the championship of Belarus leads for you to the championship of Russia?

“It’s just that a very strong company gathers there, where you can show a crazy cool result. It can really be seen as an introduction, training. At the same time, high jumps can be there. This is facilitated by the quality of the Dynamo Minsk stadium – there is a good surface, a dense bowl with a minimum of wind If we are lucky with the weather, we will show good results in competitions with Belarusian athletes Here Dani (Lysenko) already has the experience of playing with Dmitry Nabokov, but I haven’t yet, ” correspondent reports in the words of Ivanyuk.

The Belarusian Athletics Open will be held in Minsk from July 28-30.