5 gold medals! Fr om the point of view of quality, the rowers today show the best Belarusian result at the 2nd European Games. The President congratulated the athletes on the excellent performance.
The head of state personally visited the rowing canal and watched the competitions from the stands. Despite the disappointing weather forecasts, the fans did not regret. There were a lot of medals and positive emotions.
The fact that Belarusians are strong in rowing has long been clear to everyone. Doubts vanished from the first race, when Olga Khudenko rode through the center of the canal and won her second gold medal, now in a canoe in 500m distance. Then Margarita Makhneva, Nadezhda Popok, Marina Litvinchuk and Olga Khudenko were again on the pedestal with a silver medal.
The third Belarusian award was taken by Nadezhda Makarchenko and Olga Klimova, a silver in a canoe at a distance of 500 m was the fifth medal at the games. Thus, the rowers fulfilled the promised minimum task.
In memory of this bright day, Alexander Lukashenko presented gifts to athletes.
There are still 3 days of competition ahead and we very much look forward to our guys! Of course, for any team it is a huge support and inspiration for the next victories, when the Head of State himself comes to support. But do not forget: the success of any athlete is not individual, it is a well-coordinated teamwork, wh ere a great number of people are involved! Everyone is important from a volunteer to the coach!
Artem Kozyr also won silver at C1, 200m.
Bronze of Khudenko and Litvinchuk in the sprint, as well as Dmitry Tretyakov’s bronze medal were not the final Belarusian awards. Marina Litvinchuk somewhere found strength and won the rowing marathon of 5 thousand meters. it was just an awesome victory, the fourth medal out of four disciplines. Marina and Olga Khudenko have a full set of European Games awards: two gold, one silver and one bronze medals.
Belarusian rowers show brilliant performance at 2nd European Games
27 июня 2019












