Olympics. Day 14

By the start of the Olympic competitions on August 11, the Russian team had 65 medals, of which 16 were gold, 21 silver and 28 bronze. Thus, Russia ranks 4th in the overall table. The US team firmly occupies first place in the medal table with 94 medals. Experts are confident that the US team will become the leader of these games. Next comes China with 82 medals. The hosts of the games are in third place, which came as a complete surprise to everyone. For 108 years, Team GB has never finished in the top three teams at the Olympics.

The current world champion in hammer throw, athlete Natalya Lysenko became an Olympic champion, setting two Olympic records. In the first attempt, Lysenko sent the projectile to 77 m 56 cm, thereby surpassing the previous record (Belarusian athlete Oksana Menkova - 76 m 34 cm at the Beijing Olympics - editor's note), and in the fifth attempt Lysenko's throw of 78 m 18 cm brought her gold.

Natalya Lysenko. Photo: Reuters

Russian synchronized swimmers won another gold. The girls' program was rated at 98.930 points, which made one of the team members, Anastasia Davydova, a five-time Olympic champion. This achievement is a record for synchronized swimmers.

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On the first day of their tournament, the freestyle wrestlers took gold. Wrestler Jamal Ortasultanov won a medal in the up to 55 kg category.

Jamal Ortasultanov. Photo: Reuters

Denis Tsargush took bronze in freestyle wrestling in the weight category up to 74 kg.

Denis Tsargush (right). Photo: Reuters

Two more bronze medals were won by Russian boxers on the 14th day of the Olympic Games - David Airapetyan, in the up to 49 kg category, and Misha Aloyan, in the up to 52 kg category.

David Hayrapetyan. Photo: Reuters

Misha Aloyan (right). Photo: Reuters

In addition, the Russian volleyball team reached the final, but the basketball players lost in the semifinals and will now compete for bronze.

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Today, the 15th day of the Summer Olympic Games, the Russian team won two more gold medals: Sergey Kirdyapkin - in one of the most difficult disciplines, race walking, setting a new Olympic record - 50 km, and the pair Alexander Dyachenko and Yuriy Postrigay - in the kayaking race - doubles at a distance of 200 m.

Alexander Dyachenko and Yuri Postrigay. Photo: Reuters

In the 200m single canoe competition, Russian Ivan Shtyl won bronze.