The second competitive day of 2016 Summer Olympics brought to the Russian athletes at once four awards. However, among them there are no medals of the highest advantage. Nevertheless, in an all-team competition Russians not strongly lag behind leaders.
The Russian sportswomen Dashidorzhieva Tuyana, Perova Xenia and Stepanova Inna, the won silver medals in competitions of team championship among women on archery. Photo: Sharifulin Valery / Information company "ITAR-TASS"
Our girls shooters stopped in a step from "gold" twice. In team competitions in archery the women's team Russian Federation won silver medals. In a final duel of the Russian ceded to the national team South Korea. Koreans thus continued the safe series at the Olympic Games which lasts 28 years. In this type of competitions Province of Taiwan, overcome in a match for the third place Italy.
The claims for medals of the Russian declared on Friday, having shown the second result in qualification. However their success all the same became the real sensation. So highly the Russian luchnitsa at the Olympic Games did not get never. Female archery is present at the program of the Olympic Games since 1988, and only time, in 1992, domestic sportswomen took "bronze". At the last games in London combined Russian Federation, being considered as the outsider, did not suffice very little to be hooked for a pedestal. As a result - the fourth place. In Rio luchnitsa Perova Xenia, Stepanova Inna and Dashidorzhieva Tuyana were wholly rehabilitated for that failure.
Second "silver" in our moneybox on Vitalina Batsarashkina's account. It competed in firing from an air gun from 10 meters. In the final the 19-year-old Russian gathered in the sum of 197,1 points. The Chinese woman got "gold" Zhang Mengxue. On its account 199,4 points are a new Olympic record. "Bronze" - at Greek woman Anna Korakaka (177,7). One more Russian Korshunova Catherina became the eighth (73,5).
Firing competitions consist in recent years of an air gun for our women's team unsuccessfully. The last time of the Russian won a gold award 12 years ago, the last time appeared on a pedestal eight years ago. If to take team of shooters as a whole, Batsarashkina's silver medal - a step forward in comparison with last games where Russians on all took only one "bronze".
The bronze medal was won on August 7 by the foil fencer Safin Timur. For the third place it won against the British a match Kruze Richard with the score 15:13. In a final duel the offender of the Russian in a semi-final Italian Daniele Garozzo overcame American Alexander Massialas and took "gold". Safin Timur received the first Olympic award in career. Earlier he became a champion Europe twice, and also won a bronze medal in the World Cup. The foil fencer will have still a chance to prove at the present Olympic Games.
"I am very glad to an award. Certainly, there was a wish gold but what to do, not destiny. Let's work, give all the best to the maximum in team. For me this tournament is more important, than personal. Let's try to win there a medal of higher advantage", - Safin Timur told journalists upon termination of tournament of foil fencers singles.
One more "bronze" in the Russian moneybox was added by the judoist Kuzyutina Natalia who acts in weight category to 52 kilograms. In a match for the third place Kuzyutina Natalia overcame Chinese woman Ma Yingnan. Bronze award Kuzyutina Natalia counted quite deserved. Whether "I agree what in a quarterfinal with the Japanese condemned me a little? Perhaps, I do not know. But time of the judge so arrived, so I was not so active not to allow similar decisions", - the sportswoman declared.
Maylinda Kelmendi representing partially recognized Respublika Kosovo became the winner in this type of competitions. For Kosovan athletes this medal became the first award won at the Olympic Games. In Kelmendi's final duel got the best of the Italian to Odetta Gviffridoy.
The Russian judoists already at the second Olympic Games in a row prove that not for nothing the main medal expectations connect with them. On Saturday Mudranov Beslan brought to our country first Olympic "gold", having become the champion in weight to 60 kilograms.
From other noticeable events of the second day of the Olympic Games It should be noted debut start of the quadruple world champion in swimming Yefimova Julia. It was successfully qualified in a hundred-meter race semi-final by a breast stroke, having shown the second result. The way Yefimova Julia to the Olympic Games was given the extremely thorny: she half a year did not act because of charges of the use a meldoniya and when the ban on participation in competitions was removed, executive committee International Olympic Committee decided to discharge it of games in Rio for doping sins in the past. It was necessary to appeal to sports arbitration court in Lausanne which cancelled disqualification.
Yefimova Julia, certainly, will be one of the main pretenders to an award. Good chances of a victory will be and at the Russian men's national team in relay of 4x100 meters by freestyle. In a qualification heat Russians were the best. Domestic tennis-players please also: Makarova Helena and Kuznetsova Svetlana overcame the competitors according to the single category and left in the following round.
Competitive day will come to the end when in Moscow will be early morning. On the intermediate finish Australians appeared leaders of medal offset quite unexpectedly. In their asset three gold awards. After them there are teams Italy, China, South Korea, Hungary and United States of America. Russians take the seventh place.
The numerous technical and organizational slips shown in the first two days of games became the unpleasant moment for all participants and guests of the Olympic tournament. Audience complains of the long turns connected with unreasoned throughput system on sporting venues. People should stand for hours under the scorching sun, some get on the places by the end of competitions (as a result important and interesting starts take place at empty tribunes), and many are simply developed and leave back home.
The official representative of the organizing committee of games apologized and promised that the situation will improve in the next few hours. In particular, to reduce a waiting time in turns, a framework metaldetectors was disconnected. Organizers increased number of security service specialists on control points.
Earlier many athletes and representatives of official delegations complained of awful living conditions in the Olympic village. So, the day before in the hotel elevator for the whole 40 minutes the known tennis player Martin Juan del Potro got stuck. Problems were eliminated hastily. But the inability of Brazilians properly to lodge guests and to organize the timely admission of fans on tribunes shows that the country was prepared for the Olympic Games not all that well.