Olympic short track champion, 2022 Games silver medalist in speed skating Ruslan Zakharov said that he and the audience liked the 5000m race at the Russian Championship in pairs with Yegor Yunin.
Zakharov won this distance as part of the Russian All-around Classic Championship, which takes place in Irkutsk. The athlete won the “five” with an ice rink record (6 minutes 31.35 seconds) and leads according to the results of the first day of competition in the sum of two distances – 500 and 5000 m (76.555 points) .
— No matter how far I get to the finish line this season, I’m proud. I’m proud to be able to motivate myself, connect and pull myself together, because I had to get up from 1,500m and shoot from 10,000m. But today I managed to show a great race in tandem with Yegor Yunin. The audience liked it, it was great,” Zakharov told .
– Are you aiming for the first Russian all-around title of your career?
– In general, this is the first time for me to participate in the All-around Russian Championship and now there is really such an opportunity to compete for victory, but tomorrow there are two more distances, which are even more difficult than so everything can change.
– You have a lot of patients in your team. Epidemic?
– Now, in general, there are a lot of sick people – and Sasha Podolsky, Danya Aldoshkin and Liza Golubeva miss the competition. All this did not escape us either, we were addicted, there is some kind of infection. I hope your immune system is working.
Source : MatchTV
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