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News in Brief 

17 November, 1998 - 00:00

Pole Vault

World champion Anzhela Balakhonova will participate in the tenth traditional
Pole Stars tournament to be held in Donetsk on February 21, 1999. 12 of
the strongest jumpers from the USA, France, Germany, Belarus, and Russia
have agreed to take part in this tournament, organized by Olympic champion,
world champion and world record-holder Serhiy Bubka. The fans will be pleasantly
surprised: Anzhela Balakhonova of Ukraine will compete for gold medals
among women.

 


 

Dmytro Khrystych Beats Arthur Irbe, Making It to Top Ten NHL
Scorers

 

Ukrainian legionnaire of the Boston Bruins went over the top while playing
against October's best NHL goalie, Arthur Irbe from the Carolina Hurricanes
(allows 1.23 goal per game). He participated in all five goals (the game
ended 5:2 in favor of the Boston Bruins) - he scored two of them and delivered
three assists. Last week Dmytro scored his 200th goal in his NHL career
and made it to the NHL top ten scorers in its entire history.

If Boston fails to advance to the playoffs, Ukraine will have a chance
to sign up Khrystych for its national team. More than once Dmytro has said
he was ready to accept such an invitation. With this dangerous forward,
the Ukrainian team would be a dangerous force in the oncoming world championship,
which will be held in May 1999 in Norway. Our team will play in Group D.

 


 

Ukraine Advances to World Hockey Finals

 

For the first time in history the Ukrainian national hockey team has made
it to the summit of world hockey. In the preliminary tournament in Ljubljana,
Slovenia, they won the right to advance to the A Group. The success of
Bohdanov and Seukandi's team was a complete surprise to rivals. In the
opening game the Ukrainian team convincingly defeated France by four goals
to one. The skills of 42 year-old goalie Yuri Shundrov  have not faded
with time.

German hockey players went out to play the Ukrainian team already aware
of what it could do. This, however, failed to save them from going down
to defeat 1:2. The finals against the tournament hosts, Slovenia, turned
out to be nothing but simple formality. However, Ukrainians did not want
to surrender and managed to tie the game 2:2. Later on, in Norway, our
boys will compete against Canadians, Russians, Czechs and other grand masters
of world hockey, reports Oleksandr HONCHARUK, The Day.

 

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