MEN’S INDIVIDUAL GYMNASTICS

Last Wednesday the Ukrainian Olympic participants won three bronze medals. Leader of the Ukrainian gymnastics team, Oleksandr Beresh, came off third in the men’s individual all- round event, scoring 58.212 points, after the Russian Aleksei Nemov (58.474) and the Chinese Yang Wei (58.361). The top five also includes Oleksandr Svitlychny with 57.950. Our cyclists continue to reap a bounteous harvest of medals. Then Iryna Yanovych took the bronze in the women’s sprint. And we have good news from the mat. Ukrainian judoist Ruslan Mashurenko won the bronze medal in the 90 kilogram category. In the so-called medals table, the Ukrainian athletes are so far thirteenth with 8 medals (2 gold, 3 silver, and 3 bronze).