of of GRENHEN (Switzerland), 15 Oct - R-sports. the Russian cycle racers guaranteed themselves a medal in team race on the cycling European championship on a track and will be overcome for gold in this type of the program.
On tournament in Grenkhena Evgenia Romanyuta , Aleksandra Goncharova, Gulnaz Badykova and Tamara Balabolina in the arrival bypassed Italians with result of 4 minutes 28,451 seconds and reached the "big" final.
the Finals in team race will take place on Thursday evening. In the "big" final of the Russian will meet British, for bronze teams of Poland and Belarus will be overcome.
In team race at men Russians Alexander Serov, Sergey Shilov, Dmitry Sokolov and Kirill Sveshnikov following the results of the arrival in morning session with British with result of 4 minutes 0,380 seconds did not manage to reach the final and remained out of fight for medals. Now for 5-6 places Russians will be overcome from German national team.
For gold teams of Great Britain and Switzerland, for bronze - French and Danes will battle. In morning session owners of a track Swisses (3 minutes 56,791 seconds) showed the best result.