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16 February, 00:00

Mariupol's Metallurh Revenges Kyiv Dynamo The alumni of Mykola Pavlov, now on a training session in the Israeli city of Hemlon, held a control match with Moscow's Spartak, the champion of Russia, which recently beat Kyiv Dynamo in the Commonwealth Cup finals. As The Day correspondent Serhiy MAKHUN was told by the Mariupol Metallurh press service, the Muscovites in fact put out a first-string team; besides, they used as a substitute Dmitry Alenichev who plays for Italian Roma where he mostly sits on the bench. Spartak coaches Oleh Romantsev and Vyacheslav Grozny closely watched the performance of their players. As soon as Vitaly Pantilov opened the score in the seventh minute, the Russians rushed to equalize the score but, instead, conceded a second goal in the 73rd minute (Stepan Malokutsko). The Ukrainian top division's also-ran finally won the game 2:0. Meanwhile, in Zurich the second-string Kyiv Dynamo team finished third in a mini-soccer tournament. Our fellow countrymen lost the semifinals to the future winner, the Swiss Serviette, with a score 2:3,. In the consolation match Dynamo gave Marseilles, leader for the French championship, no chances and won 6:2. Handball Ukraine's clubs have completed their play in European cups. In a repeat match of the Champions' League quarterfinals, the Zaporizhzhia men's Motor club lost in Zagreb to Croatia's Badel-1862 with a score 22:26 (the Ukrainian team also lost the first match - 21:22). The Zaporizhzhia women's Motor drew the final sixth match in the D group of the Champions' League with the Polish club Montex - 23:23 - and finished fourth, the last, with three points.

Biathlon Ukrainian Oksana Khvostenko won a bronze medal in the women's 7.5-km sprint in the European championship in Izhevsk. Ukrainian under-19s finished third in the 4 x 7.5-km relay, although after the first stage (done by Oksana's brother Oleksandr) they were first.

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