President of the Russian Ski Racing Federation (RFSR) Elena Vyalbe said that Alexander Bolshunov And Savely Korostelev deservedly won gold in the classic team sprint style at the Alfa-Bank Russian Championship.
Bolshunov and Korostelev, playing for the first team of the Arkhangelsk region, showed a result of 18 minutes 10.4 seconds. Second place was taken by Ilya Semikov and Ermil Vokuev (Republic of Komi-1, lag – 4.7 seconds), bronze by the first team of the Republic of Tatarstan (Ivan Gorbunov, Sergey Ardashev; +8.0 seconds ).
– Yesterday you said that it would be better for Bolshunov to rest for a while…
– You see, we have made this decision. Now he wants to rest a little after the championship. He will be a week old.
— Weren’t you worried when he finally decided to start?
– He’s an adult. I think he understands how he feels and feels responsible. Maybe to some extent that’s good. We have now met yesterday’s winner in person. That’s cool too.
— Korostelev became Russian champion for the first time.
– Yes, I’m very happy with it. I think it’s very deserved.
— Do you think you will soon see him as a personal racing champion?
– Why not? I’m sure it’s the near future. I am sure he is one of those who will be at the top of the pedestal very soon.
— In the men’s race, have you seen competitors from the Arkhangelsk region team in the person of Savely and Alexander on the ski slope?
— It was immediately clear that Komi would compete 100%. To be honest, there were concerns because we all saw that Sasha wasn’t in the best shape. I thought Tatarstan would also fight. And when Terentyeva also saw the result in the prologue, she realized that she and Lesha Chervotkin were going to compete. In general, this is how everything happened, ”reports correspondent Vyalba.
The Russian championship takes place at the Malinovka ski center in the Arkhangelsk region from March 16 to 24.
Watch live broadcasts of the competition on and Match! Arena”, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source : MatchTV
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