Russian gymnasts, synchronized swimmers win more golds at European Championships
Russia saw more gold medal success at the European Championships in Glasgow on Saturday as the women’s teams claimed victory in gymnastics and synchronized swimming.
In the team gymnastics final at the SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow, Russia finished comfortably ahead of France in second and the Netherlands in third.
The team of Lilia Akhaimova, Irina Alekseeva, Angelina Melnikova, Uliana Perebinosova and Angelina Simakova topped the podium on 165.195 points, with the French on 161.131 points and the Dutch on 159.563.
The 2018 European Team medallists! #EC2018pic.twitter.com/IXhKKMYSQd
— UEG (@UEGymnastics) August 4, 2018
Women's gymnastics team final - results🥇🇷🇺 Russia - 165.195🥈🇫🇷 France - 161.131🥉🇳🇱 Netherlands - 159.563#EC2018
— Euro Champs (@Euro_Champs) August 4, 2018
The Russian women’s synchronized swimming team then added further gold in the pool as they won the final of the free routine event, ahead of Ukraine in second and Italy in third.
The team of Anastasia Arkhipovskaya, Anastasia Bayandina, Daria Bayandina, Marina Golyadkina, Veronika Kalinina, Polina Komar, Maria Shurochkina, Darina Valitova and Mikhaela Kalancha ran out winners on 97,0333 points – ahead of Ukraine on 94,6000 and Italy on 92,2333.
It is Russia’s third gold from three events in synchronized swimming at the championships after victories in the women’s and mixed duet technical routine events.
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Russia currently top the medals table at the event as of Saturday afternoon with seven golds, having also seen success in the women’s four rowing, team sprint cycling, and 4 x 100m freestyle relay men’s swimming events.
The top 10 nations as it stands of the European Championships 🙌This will change today as there are 8 medal events this afternoon 👀 pic.twitter.com/gqIRQpTkdX
— Euro Champs (@Euro_Champs) August 4, 2018
The inaugural multi-sport European Championships – which will be held once every four years – includes seven sports: athletics, aquatics, cycling, golf, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon.
The events are being co-hosted by Glasgow and Berlin, with the athletics events taking place at the latter venue.
Rather than having separate European tournaments for each, as previously, they will now all be held as part of the same event.
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Russian athletes will compete as neutrals for the athletics events as the country has still not been readmitted by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) following the fall-out over doping allegations.
