SPORT The Minsk Times Thursday, June 12, 2014 11 Among Busy season on tatami top three By Yegor Glebov

Belarusian judo wrestlers claim gold and silver at prestigious After her recent successful performance at the 2014 European competitions in Spanish capital of Madrid FIG World Cup in Minsk, By Igor Leshin national team leader Melitina Stanyuta enters world’s top On his way to gold, Belarusian three in Olympic discipline of Dmitry Shershan (up to 66kg) defeat- individual all-round ed Hungarian Májer Tibor in the 1/16 Ms. Stanyuta came 2nd in the finals, before claiming victory over World Cup stage in Minsk in the France’s Hugo Fonetti in the 1/8 fi- individual all-round, earning 25 nals, and Russian Armen Avagyan in points. She now has 99 points, tak- the 1/2 finals. In the final, he smashed ing her to third ranking worldwide Polish Paweł Zagrodnik. In the 1/8 in the Olympic discipline. finals, Shershan beat ’s wrestler (135 points) and Gar Uriarte (by Yuko advantage). Margarita Mamun (130 points) oc- The Belarusian tatami masters cupy the top two places. Ninth place continue a confident season, hav- is shared by Israel’s and ing taken European Championship Belarus’ Yekaterina Galkina (both bronze in French Montpellier in with 52 points) while Belarusian April. Arina Sharapa is ranked 17th (32 Marina Slutskaya (under 78kg) points), and Yelena Bolotina is in defeated Ukrainian Yelizaveta Kalani- 47th position (1.5 points). na and French Rebecca Ramani, In the individual events, Ms. in her quarterfinal and semi-final Stanyuta is among the top three in matches respectively, before losing four events and occupies second out on gold to China’s Sisi Ma in the place in the hoop and ribbon and final; Sisi captured Marina in a hook, third place in the ball and clubs. giving her a clear victory. Training now begins for the World Championship, being hosted Football by Russian Chelyabinsk from August 25th-31st. Dmitry Shershan (second from the left) reaches top of pedestal broadcasting on its way Three steps Belarusian TV channels Surplus of desire and to show World Football from the Championship matches from Brazil between final… shortage of composure June 12th and By Igor Grishin July 13th Belarusian foot- FC BATE from Borisov fails The men’s national team of Belarus continues to produce ball fans will enjoy to reach quarterfinal of steady results, reaching the finals of two top tournaments in direct transmissions European Beach Football of all 64 matches, (Euro Winners Cup) — held in succession. It is now just two steps from entering the finals of a via Belarus-1, Italian third tournament, despite having lost 28:27 to Montenegro. Belarus-2 and Belarus-5 chan- By Igor Leshin nels, with the latter showing live and recorded matches. Time of Football: The squad’s match defeat by a Rio-2014 will feature a month of spe- single goal was a terrible shock, with cial programmes aired on Belarus-1 the final goal scored just one minute and Belarus-2, and commentary pro- before the end whistle, at their recent vided by Vladimir Novitsky, Pavel European Championship match. Baranov, Sergey Novikov, Alexander Afterwards, head coach Yury Tsvechkovsky, Nikolay Khodasevich, Shevtsov commented, “We antici- Alexander Dmitriev, Sergey Matsk- pated the game being very difficult. evich and Vladislav Tatur. In the first half, we defended suc- The Belarusian Television and cessfully, with Cherepenko reli- Radio Broadcasting Company has able in goal, having only allowed ten announced that it is the owner of ex- goals to slip past, and the opposing clusive rights to television transmis- team was four goals behind by half- sion of the World Championship in time. The second half began poorly Belarus, and will provide broad cov- for the Belarusian defence, allowing erage of the major event. their opponent to equalise.” It may be that the Belarusian Sergey Rutenko: the leader of the Belarusian national team team’s extreme desire to win actu- pionship in Qatar and have a fair to divorce emotion from sport and Crew comes On hot sands of ally hindered their concentration chance. keep a clear head. In order to reach In the last 16, Belarusian and composure in the final seconds, The defeat in Podgorica needs the World Championship, our guys first champion BATE faced Hungar- causing them to act rashly. The team analysis over the next week, to iden- need to keep their heads and show Belarusian sportswomen return ian FC Goldwin, eventually los- now need to reach the World Cham- tify errors. Of course, it’s always hard their best game. with top prize from European ing 4:5, with goals scored for the Rowing Championship in Borisov team by Ruslan Pernay, Belgrade Mikhail Kovalenko, Alexander In the Serbian capital, Yekaterina Karpov and Ruslan Zhechko. High speed brings victory Karsten, Yulia Bichek, Tatiana Kukhta FC BATE had previously and Yekaterina Shlyupskaya have be- led preliminary group D, with 6 By Igor Grishin IAAF Diamond League result in 7th, while Andrey Churilo took come the champions of the continent, points, having gained two victo- Rome, where she took only 7th 8th place in the high jump. with the German crew taking silver ries: over ’s top squad FC Marina Arzamasova wins place. Four Belarusians took part and the Poles bronze. Seferihisar, 3:2; and over Kazakh- 800m at World Athletics Shot-putters Yelena Kopets in the 10,000m in Stanislav Shcherbachenya ended stan’s FC Ushkyn-Iskra, 3:1. In Challenge, hosted by and Yulia Leontyuk (who also Skopje, Macedonia, but also failed in 4th position, being the highest all, 25 teams from 22 European Marrakesh (Morocco) attended the Rome tournament) to bring home medals. Sergey placed among the men, while Czech countries have been taking part, failed to claim medals in Moroc- Platonov took 11th place, while oarsman Ondřej Synek became Eu- including the winner of the first Marina Arzamasova’s victori- co, with Kopets finishing 4th and Ilya Slavinsky was 22nd, Maxim ropean champion, German Marcel tournament, FC Loko- ous time of 2:00.71 was a whole Leontyuk 5th. In the 3,000m stee- Pankratov 26th, and Stepan Ro- Hacker claimed silver, and Lithuanian motiv. centi-second better than her plechase, Svetlana Kudelich came govtsev 34th, among 45 athletes. Mindaugas Griškonis earned bronze.