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NEWS IN BRIEF

13 November, 2012 - 00:00

Target Shooting

Ukrainian team won first in the summary in Barcelona, where the world championship in target shooting is taking place. In small caliber rifle shooting they scored 3478 points. Joseph Gonchi of the Slovak Republic with 1271.6 points was first among men.

Wrestling

16 year old Iryna Miroshnyk from Khmelnytsky brought home a gold medal from a world wrestling tournament, held in Manchester. The girl is coached by her father, Oleksiy Miroshnyk. Before going to England, Iryna participated in the Ukrainian Cup and won a bronze medal, reports Mykhailo Vasylevsky, The Day.

Goodwill Games

In the team summary Ukraine has fifth place after the USA, Russia, Kenya and China. The Ukrainian team has won one gold, six silver, and three bronze medals, according to Oleksandr Honcharuk, The Day.

Table Tennis

Ukrainian athletes were victorious in the junior female European Cup, which took place in a small town of Nortia, 190 kilometers from Rome. 15 year old schoolgirl from Kharkiv Tetiana Sorochynska won the gold medal in the singles competition. Also, paired with her 13 year old friend Anna Haponova they won the silver. Both girls are coached in a Kharkiv’s Vilna tennis club by Anna’a mother Liudmyla Haponova.

Ice Dancing

Ukrainian figure skaters won the last official award for Ukraine. Olena Hrushyna and Ruslan Honcharov won the bronze medals in ice dancing. Two Russian duets, Anzhelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsiannikov and Iryna Lobachova and Illya Averbukh, won first and second places respectively.

 

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