Track and field athlete Alexander Soloviev became the winner of the Russian team championship, winning tournament gold in the pole vault.
The competition takes place in Sochi, Soloviev showed a result of 5.72 meters. Timur Morgunov won silver (5.60), bronze went to Mikhail Shmykov (5.50).
The team from the Krasnodar Territory/Udmurtia Republic won the women’s 4×100 m relay (45.49 seconds). Second place went to the team from the Kursk region (46.42), the team from St. Petersburg took bronze (46.58). In the men’s relay race over the same distance, the best result was achieved by the team from the Krasnodar Territory (40.33). The St. Petersburg team won silver (40.73), the bronze medal was won by the Moscow region team (40.74).
Boris Bezdolny won gold in the javelin throw (79.88 meters), Dmitry Tarabin took second (78.22), Belarusian Alexey Kotkovets showed the third result (76.34). Since Belarusian athletes participate in out-of-competition competitions, Nikolai Orlov (74.38) received bronze from the Czech Republic.
Watch live broadcasts of the Russian team championship on and the holding channels, as well as on the sites sportbox.ru matchtv.ru.
More sports news in our telegram channel .
Source : MatchTV
I’m John White and I’m an experienced journalist working in the news industry. My specialty is covering sports news, which I’ve been doing for over 6 years now. During this time, I have worked as an author with Athletistic, a popular online news website focusing on sports topics.
