Tuesday 18 February 2014

Sochi 2014 Days 9-10

Day Nine saw four medals awarded in the men's Super G with Kjetil Jansrud (NOR) claiming gold, Andrew Weibrecht (USA) sealing silver and a shared bronze between Bode Miller (USA) and Jan Hudec (CAN) both coming home in a time of 1:18.67.

The two-man bobsleigh saw gold go to the Russian pair of Alexander Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda with Switzerland's Beat Hefti and Alex Baumann secured silver with USA duo Steven Holcomf and Steven Langton taking the bronze.

Sweden sealed gold in the men's cross country relay with Russia taking silver and France the bronze while in curling, GB's men went down 7-6 to Norway

Over in the Ice Dancing competition, it was gold for the USA pair of Meryl Davis and Charlie White who were clear of Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir with the bronze collected by Russian's Elena Ilnykh and Nikita Katsalapov.

The ladies snowboard cross saw gold for Eva Samkovรก (CZE) with Dominique Maltais (CAN) taking solver with Chloe Trespeuch (FRA) while in the ladies speed skating 1500m, Netherlands had a clean sweep with Jorien ter Mors claiming gold ahead of Ireen Wust who took silver and Charlotte van Beek who sealed bronze.

Day Ten saw history for Belarus as Darya Domracheva claimed her third gold of the games ahead of Gabriela Soukalova (CZE) who took silver and Tiril Eckhoff (NOR) taking the bronze.

GB's curling teams had a mixed day with Eve Muirhead's girls securing a place in the semi finals with an early 9-6 victory over Russia that hinged on a stunning take out by Anna Sloan in the eight end but had to settle for fourth place in the group after comeback from Denmark from 7-4 down to win 7-8 in the afternoon after GB had blown several chances to win but qualify to face Canada on Wednesday. The men lost to China 6-5 meaning they had to play a tie-break against Norway on Tuesday.

 The final of the men's aerials saw Belarus continue their gold streak as Anton Kushnir scored 134.50 with Australian David Morris took silver with 110.41 and Zongyang Jia (CHN) took the bronze with 95.06.

Germany took gold in the men's team ski jumping with Austria claiming silver and Japan securing bronze and after 10 day the medal table is as follows...

Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Germany 8 3 2 13
2 Russian Fed. 5 7 6 18
3 Netherlands 5 5 7 17
4 United States 5 4 9 18
5 Norway 5 3 7 15
6 Switzerland 5 2 1 8
7 Belarus 5 0 1 6
8 Canada 4 7 4 15
9 Poland 4 0 0 4
10 China 3 2 1 6
11 Sweden 2 5 2 9
12 Austria 2 5 1 8
13 France 2 0 4 6
14 Japan 1 3 2 6
15 Czech Republic 1 3 1 5
16 Slovenia 1 1 3 5
17 Korea 1 1 1 3
18 Great Britain 1 0 1 2
19 Slovakia 1 0 0 1
20 Italy 0 2 3 5
21 Australia 0 2 1 3
22 Finland 0 2 0 2
23 Latvia 0 1 2 3
24 Croatia 0 1 0 1
=25 Kazakhstan 0 0 1 1
=25 Ukraine 0 0 1 1




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