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At the European Open Water Championships, which started on Monday in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Russian Evgeniy Dratsev became the silver medalist. Showing a time of 1:52.50.6, Drattsev lost 1.7 seconds to the winner of the swim - multiple world champion German Thomas Lurz. Another German athlete, Toni Franz, finished third (1:52.53.0). Russian Daniil Serebrennikov came fourth, only by 0.3 seconds. lagging behind Franz. Veteran of the Russian team Yuri Kudinov took ninth place.
In the women's Olympic 5 km swim, the European champion was Italian Rachel Bruni (58.50.7), ahead of German Britta Kamrau-Koreshstein (59.16.1) and her compatriot Alicia Franco (59.39.0). Russians Ekaterina Seliverstova and Maria Bulakhova took 6th and 12th places, respectively.
Baranova transferred to UMMC
Forward Elena Baranova (36 years old, 192 cm), previously a member of the Russian national team, who played last season in the Spanish Valencia, moved to UMMC (Ekaterinburg), where she became the winner of the national championship in the 2001/02 and 2002/03 seasons. championship.
Baranova was the first European representative in the WNBA, as well as the only Russian woman to take part in the All-Star Game. The best basketball player in Europe in 1998 has won gold at the 1992 Olympics, two victories at the European Championships and two silver medals at the World Championships.
The European Union will help in the preparation of Euro 2012 football
The European Union will help prepare the 2012 European Football Championship, which will be held in Ukraine and Poland. This is stated in the joint declaration adopted at the Ukraine-EU summit on Tuesday in Paris, RIA Novosti reports. The reason for this decision was fears, voiced more than once recently, that due to unsatisfactory preparations for the championship, Ukraine could lose the right to be one of the hosts of Euro 2012. At the end of September, UEFA representatives plan to conduct inspection trips to Kyiv and Warsaw.
Veteran Chelios has extended his contract with Detroit.
Defender of the NHL Detroit team, 46-year-old Chris Chelios, signed an agreement with his club for another year, AP reports. For the team veteran, the upcoming season will be the 25th in his career and the tenth as a member of the Red Wings. Last year, Chelios became the oldest player in NHL history since Gordie Howe. During his career, the defender scored 948 points in 1,616 regular season games.
Essien will miss six months due to injury
Chelsea's main midfielder Mikael Essien will miss six months due to cruciate ligament damage. Let us recall that the injured Essien was carried off the field in a qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup, in which the footballer played for the Ghana national team against the Liberian team (1:0). The footballer himself did not hide his disappointment with the doctors’ decision. “I have nothing to say,” he admitted, “it’s a shame, but such things happen in football. At first I didn’t feel anything, but after the fall a sharp pain pierced my leg. “I’m disappointed that I’ll have to miss the start of the championship, which is very important for Chelsea and the Ghanaian national team, but I hope for a speedy recovery,” The Sun quotes the footballer as saying.
The Boxing Hall of Fame will be replenished with new names
The World Boxing Hall of Fame has announced the names of the candidates who will be inducted into the list at its annual ceremony scheduled for November 15th. These include former heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis, former four-division world champion Pernell Whitaker, three-time light heavyweight champion Marvin Johnson and former lightweight and junior welterweight world champion Greg Haugen. Boxers whose career ended at least five years ago can enter the boxing hall of fame.
The scandalous Romanchuk was discharged from the Vladivostok clinic
Russian boxer Roman Romanchuk, accused of murdering a resident of Primorye, was recently discharged from a Vladivostok clinic, where he was hospitalized after a street fight, RIA Novosti reports.
Let us recall that the conflict between the silver medalist of the World Championship, two-time European boxing champion Roman Romanchuk and 22-year-old Oleg Meshkov occurred on the morning of July 28 in the central square of the city. At the height of the quarrel, Meshkov shot Romanchuk with an Osa pistol. The boxer took the weapon from the attacker and shot him in the head. Meshkov was hospitalized in serious condition and died two days later. Romanchuk was charged with committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Murder”. The sanction of this article provides for a punishment of six to 15 years in prison. The boxer's trainer Mark Meltzer believes that Romanchuk is innocent and his actions were dictated by self-defense.
On August 19, a mobile court hearing was held at the city clinical hospital where Romanchuk was treated. Due to the gravity of the charges, a petition was filed with the court to impose a preventive measure against the accused in the form of detention. However, the court, taking into account Romanchuk’s state of health, refused such satisfaction and replaced it with a written undertaking not to leave the place with a cash bail of 1 million rubles. But on September 2, the Primorsky Regional Court overturned the decision of the Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok as unfounded.
“After the Primorsky Regional Court overturned the decision on financial bail, in the near future the Frunzensky District Court of Vladivostok should consider a new request from the investigation to take Romanchuk into custody,” said Aurora Rimskaya, senior assistant to the head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee at the Primorsky Territory prosecutor’s office. She did not give an exact date. However, be that as it may, the boxer’s trainers believe that this case draws a line under the athlete’s sports career.
Our athletes won six medals at the Grand Prix in Croatia
The 13th stage of the Athletics Grand Prix series took place in Zagreb, Croatia. Russian athletes won six medals of various denominations. Tatyana Firova won the 400 m race, and Svetlana Klyuka won the 1000 m race. In the 200 m race, Anastasia Kapachinskaya finished second, and Yulia Chermoshanskaya finished third. Tatyana Veshkurova was third in the 400-meter dash. Anna Chicherova showed her best result of the season in the high jump (2.04), but in her attempts she lost to the Olympic silver medalist, Croatian Blanka Vlasic.