on July 25, BELTA/Minsk/correspondent. The women's national team of Belarus on basketball went on the summer Olympic Games to Rio de Janeiro, reports BELTA.
the Team from Minsk headed for Frankfurt, from where will fly in Rio-de-Zhanyero. In exit structure of 12 players: defenders - Aleksandra Tarasova, Olga Zyuzkova, Tatyana Likhtarovich, Lindsey Harding; forwards - Ekaterina Snytina, Yulia Rytikova, Tatyana Troina, Natalya Trofimova, Maria Filonchik, Maria Popova; the center - Anastasia Veremeenko, Elena Levchenko.
At the building of NOC of Belarus team carried out the first vice-president of NOC, the chairman of the Belarusian federation of basketball Maxim Ryzhenkov, the minister of sports and tourism Alexander Shamko, the director of RTsOP of game sports Vladimir Rasseko.
the First match on basketball Olympic tournament Anatoly Buyalsky's wards will play p Rio on August 6 against team of Japan. So early departure, almost in two weeks prior to start, is caused by need to acclimatize in unusual for Belarusians climate of Brazil. Earlier, on July 23, on Games the archer Anton Prilepov who already passes adaptation in the capital of future Games went to Brazil.
the Belarusian basketball players for the second time will play p at the Olympic Games. In 2008 in Beijing Anatoly Buyalsky's team took the sixth place.