Skier Ekaterina Smirnova after winning the 10km time trial at the Russian Championships in Tyumen, she said she realized she could fight for victory when she found out the Olympic champion wasn’t going Natalia Nepryaeva .
On Tuesday, Smirnova won the gold medal in the skating “cup”, showing a result of 26 minutes 9.9 seconds. The second was a 17 year old Alina Pekletsova (+2.1 seconds), third place goes to Elizabeth Pantrina (+11.5). Nepryaeva missed the race due to a cold.
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– After the skiathlon, I had a sediment. There was a problem that did not allow me to compete. Today the track is not icy, my legs did not hurt, from the start I gave myself the installation that I need to be recharged from the start. Sometimes I don’t believe in myself and right from the start I relax and lose. Today I realized that my time, all mine, coincided so much that day.
– Today, no matter if (Veronika) Stepanova and Nepryaeva started or not, did you come out to win?
– When I saw that Nepryaeva was not leaving, I thought that I could absolutely fight for victory, because there was no strongest opponent in the distance.
– Did you expect such a fight from junior Pekletsova?
– I noticed that she was very lucky with the starting number. She was the first in her group, started behind (Anastasia) Prokofieva. I think it was easier for her, because she saw a strong opponent in front, often that gives her motivation.
– Can you say that you are happy today?
– I’m only unhappy with the last segment, I lost a lot for everyone. There appeared problems with the periosteum, in the end she crumpled her right leg, ran to morale-volunteer.
– What kind of problems with the periosteum?
– I haven’t bothered myself all season, but on the ice skiathlon with a lot of turns, this part of the leg was very tense. I work on it, pump up my leg, give a massage. Today I was only disturbed at the end of the distance, I’m sure it was due to the large number of turns, ” correspondent reports to Smirnova.
shows Alfa-Bank Russian Ski Championship (March 18-26, Tyumen region). Watch live broadcasts of the tournament on the federal channel and thematic channels of the holding, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru. At 10:20 a.m. Moscow time, the men’s race with a separate start for 15 km will begin.
Source : MatchTV
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