Thursday 13 March 2014

Sochi Paralympics Day Five

 Day Five began with the 1st run in the Women's Slalom -Visually Impaired with GB's Jade Etherington and her guide Caroline Powell sitting in first with fellow Brits, Millie Knight and her guide Rachael Ferrier in sixth but with an outside chance of a medal .In the 2nd run, Etherington and Powell slipped back but claimed a superb silver while gold went to the Russian pair of Aleksandra Frantceva and her guide Pavel Zubotin with bronze going to Herieta Farkasova and her guide Natalia Subrtova (SVK).

The Standing discipline saw Andrea Rothfuss (GER) with the fastest time in both runs with Russia's Inga Medvedeva taking the silver and Slovakia's Petra Smarzova collecting the bronze while in the Sitting discipline, Germany secured a 1-2 with Anna Schaffelhuber taking the gold and compatriot Anna-Lena Forster sealing the silver with Canada's Kimberly Joines collecting the bronze with GB's Anna Turney in sixth.

The Cross Country eventing had a major focus with the qualifiying, semi finals and final of six different disciplines and the medal events began with the Men's 1km Sprint -Sitting with a Russian 1-2 with Roman Petushkov taking old and Grigory Murygin sealing the bromze while Ukranian skier Maksym Yarovyi collected the bronze.

The Men's 1km Sprint Free-Standing saw a clean sweep for Russianwith Kirill Mikhaylov claiming the gold, Rushan Minnegulov sealing the silver and Vladislav Lekomtcev collecting the bronze while in the Visually Impaired race, Brian McKeever (CAN) took the gold with Zebastian Modin (UKR) securing the silver and Russia's Oleg Ponomarev collecting the bronze.

The Women's 1km Sprint-Sitting saw gold for Mariann Marthinsen (NOR) with America's Tatyana McFadden sealing the silver and Marta Zaynullina (RUS) collecting the bronze while in the Standing discipline, Russia took gold and bronze with Anna Milenina securing first place and her compatriot Alena Kaufman taking third behind Iuliia Batenkova (UKR) who collected the silver medal.

The focus on the slopes ended with Women;s 1km Sprint Free - Visually Impaired that saw Russia secure a 1-2 with Mikhalina Lysova sealing her third gold of the games with her guide Alexey Ivanov with fellow Russian's Elene Remizova and her guide Natalia Yakimova taking silver and the Ukranian duo of Oksana Shyshkova and her guide Lada Nesterenko collecting the bronze.

The GB Wheelchair Curling team faced the heavily favoured host nation Russia and lost 11-2  with the Russians sealing the in with a five in the final end but GB are still in contention for the semi finals and should qualify on day six.


Rank Country
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1RussiaRussia16181347
2GermanyGermany6006
3UkraineUkraine34714
4CanadaCanada2349
5AustriaAustria2204
6JapanJapan2125
7SlovakiaSlovakia2125
8FranceFrance2114
9Great BritainGreat Britain1214
10SwedenSweden1113
11NorwayNorway1102
12SpainSpain1001
13United StatesUnited States0459
14FinlandFinland0101
15BelarusBelarus0033

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