SPORT The Minsk Times Thursday, June 5, 2014 11 Summing up results of the season By Igor Leshin

Moscow hosts closing ceremony of KHL’s sixth season, honouring best hockey players and coaches — including Alexey Kalyuzhny: of HC Dinamo Minsk and Belarus’ national team captain at IIHF World Championship The KHL President, Alexander Medvedev, presented the Conti- nental Cup to the regular champi- onship winner: Dinamo . Meanwhile, the KHL First Vice President, Vladimir Torzhkov, awarded Lev Prague with the West Conference Winner Cup, and State BELTA Duma member Pavel Krashennikov In Minsk, gymnasts gave their best programmes before World Championship presented Metallurg with the East Conference winner trophy. The top KHL sniper and scorer awards went to Metallurg Magni- Silver on home stage togorsk Sergey Mozyakin, and the team also claimed the Vs- Leader of Belarusian national rhythmic team, Melitina evolod Bobrov prize, having en- joyed the greatest number of goals Stanyuta, takes 2nd place in Olympic discipline — individual all-round in the regular championship and in the . — on stage of World Cup, hosted by Minsk Sports Palace The highest scoring defenseman By Yegor Glebov earned 74,583 Following the all-round group place (34,300) and Japan and Israel of the season is Kirill Koltsov, from points across all four events, to exercises, the Belarusian squad sharing bronze (34,150). Salavat Yulayev (Ufa) while the best Melitina Stanyuta stood in take gold, while Russian Marga- finished 6th (34,000 points), after The Minsk stage of the World goalkeeper is Vasily Koshechkin, of second position after the first two rita Mamun and Maria Titova a tough battle. The top three posi- Cup ended with a traditional gala . The prize all-round events (hoop and ball). battled for third place, with Ma- tions were separated by less than performance, entitled Show of for ‘Dedication to Hockey’ was Having introduced her composi- mun (72,250 points) eventually one point each. In the absence of Stars of World Gymnastics. It was worthily presented to the Dinamo tions with Indian clubs and rib- triumphing. Belarusian Yekaterina the Russian national team, due to the final stage before the launch of Minsk veteran Alexey Kalyuzhny. bons, she managed to clinch sil- Galkina came a respectable 6th, injury, Bulgaria (34,800 points) the Championship of Europe-2014 ver, with 72,866 points. Russian with 68,700 points. claimed gold, with Spain in second in Baku. Echoes Reaching final stage of of Minsk Championship European Championship Finnish national team goalkeeper Pekka Rinne second time in a row recognised as most valuable player in World Championship By Igor Grishin ish İzmir. In the last match, Victor in Minsk Goncharov’s team lost to Turkey 0:3, Russian goalkeeper Sergey Bo- Men’s national volleyball team leaving the positions as: Turkey — 19 brovsky showed the best statisti- reaches final of Championship points, Belarus — 9, Finland — 9, and cal indicators, having defended of Europe-2015 Denmark — 0. In matches between excellently in the final. Third place Belarus’ national futsal team: champions of Europe In the final match of Group F, at the European top-16, Belarus will among the goalkeepers went to Chizhovka-Arena, Victor Sidelnikov’s twice meet Ukraine. Kevin Lalande, of the national team Belarus is to receive the squad defeated Turkey 3:1, taking first The final tournament of the Men’s of Belarus. The valuable Finn came place in their group. The defeat de- European Championship is taking sixth in this hierarchy. World Futsal Championship prived the Turkish team of the chance place between October 9th and 18th, According to the Directorate of for second place, being pushed back 2015, in Bulgaria and Italy, while the the World Championship, the best By Dmitry Komashko antly surprised on visiting Minsk. by the Swedes who claimed victory women’s national teams will play from players in the tournament were The Chairman of the Belarusian over Denmark. The group appears as: September 25th until October 4th, in goalkeeper Sergey Bobrovsky (Rus- Belarus is used to receiving Futsal Federation, Sergey Buinovsky, Belarus — 15 points, Sweden — 10, Belgium and the Netherlands. sia), defender Seth Jones (the USA) the world’s best teams and notes that the visiting delegation was Turkey — 9, and Denmark — 2. The last continental champion- and forward Victor Tikhonov (Rus- footballers are now picking up impressed not only by our infrastruc- The women’s national team of Be- ship, which was held in 2013, saw the sia). However, journalists chose the baton from the ture and sports sites, but by the fact larus failed to reach the final stage of men’s national team of Belarus finish goalkeeper Pekka Rinne (Finland), national teams who recently that the national Belarusian futsal the continental championship, taking 15th, while the women’s squad took defenders Seth Jones (the USA) and departed Minsk! Within a year, team is now European Champion. second place in Group A, in Turk- 12th position. (), and forwards Belarusian fans may be enjoying During the ice-hockey event, our fut- Sergey Plotnikov, Victor Tikhonov watching the world’s leading sal players defeated the Belgians in the (both from Russia) and Antoine junior futsal players. Czech Republic, with a score of 2:1 in Roussel (France). For the first time in 20 years, the the final. The organising committee Our trainers recognised Sergey championship will be held outside of plans to make the forthcoming cham- Kostitsyn, Mikhail Grabovsky as Latin America: a circumstance to have pionship an extension of the recently our team’s best players. aroused much protest among South finished ice-hockey festival in Minsk. The most effective players in the Americans, where Futsal is second Mr. Buinovsky tells us, “In spite championship, according to the ‘plus- only to football in popularity. Accord- of the fact that futsal is not often dis- minus’ system, were Russians Anton ing to the President of the European cussed in Belarus, it has popularity. Belov and Victor Tikhonov (both Union of Futsal, Valery Akhumyan, We want to host matches not only in ‘+10’). Meanwhile, Roman Graboren- such protests have become quite dra- Minsk but at the Brest Victoria Sports ko (‘+6’) was the most effective player matic at times, with some representa- and, probably, in Borisov or on the Belarusian squad. tives of Latin American countries Molodechno. While in the capital, the Andrey Gavrilin (Kazakh- accusing Belarus of being insanitary teams will play at Chizhovka-Arena, stan), Ladislav Nagy (Slovakia) and and having a gangster culture. As we while the final will probably be held Mikhail Grabovski (Belarus) won might expect, a delegation from the in the main national sports centre of face-offs more frequently than the International Federation was pleas- Minsk-Arena. Victor Sidelnikov’s wards celebrate victory over Turks other players.