Tuesday 11 March 2014

Sochi Paralympics Day Four

Day Four saw the GB skiers aim for more medals with two going in the Women's Super Combined -Visually Impaired Slalom with Jade Etherington and her guide Caroline Powell guaranteed a medal after second place finish. Fellow Brits, Kelly Gallagher and her guide Charlotte Evans failed to finish after missing a gate with Russian's Aleksandra Frantceva and her guide Pavel Zubotin currently leading with American's Danelle Umstead and her guide Robert Umstead in third.

The standing discipline sees Marie Bochet (FRA) on course for her third gold of the games with Germany's Andrea Rothfuss in second and America's Stephanie Jallen in third while in the sitting discipline Germany's Anna Schaffelhuber is in first place with fellow German Anna-Lena Forster in second and Austrian Claudia Loesch sits third with GB's Anna Turney back in fifth.

The Men's Super Combined - Visually Impaired-Slalom sees Russia's Valerii Redkozubov and his guide Evgeny Geroev sit in first with Spain's Gabriel Gorce Yepes and his guide Josep Ferrer Ventura in second and Polish duo Maciej Krezel and his guide Anna Ogaraynska in third.

The standing discipline sees Russia's Alexey Bugaev sit in first place with Braydon Luscombe (CAN) in second and Matthias Lanzinger (AUT) in third while in the sitting event, Austria's Roman Rabl sits in first with Thomas Nolte (GER) and Taiki Mori (JAP) in third with GB's Mick Brennan in ninth.

The Biathlon eventing resumed with the Women's 10km -Sitting with Anja Wicker (GER) taking the gold with Svetlana Konovalova (RUS) collecting the silver and Lyudmyla Pavlenko (UKR) sealing the bronze while in the Standing event, Russia took gold and bronze with Alena Kaufman and Natalia Bratiuk in first and third with Ukraine's Oleksandra Kononova taking the silver.

The Visually Impaired discipline saw a Russian 1-2 with Mikhalina Lysova and her guide Alexey Ivanov taking the gold with compatriots Iuliia Budaleeva and her guide Tatiana Maltseva collecting the bronze with Oksana Shyshkova and her guide Lada Nesterenko (UKR) sealing the bronze.

The Men's 12.5km - Sitting saw a Russian clean sweep with Roman Petushkov taking gold, Alexey Bychenok collecting the silver and Grigory Murygin sealing the bronze while in the Standing discipline, Azat Karachurin took gold for Russia with Nils-Erik Ulset (NOR) collecting the silver and Mark Arendz (CAN) sealing the bronze.

The Visually Impaired event saw Vitaliy Lukyanenko and his guide Borys Babar (UKR) taking the gold with Nikolay Polukhin and his guide Andrey Tokarev (RUS) collecting the silver and Vasili Shaptsiaboi and his guide Mikhail Lebedzeu (BLR) sealing the bronze.

GB's Wheelchair Curlers were stunned by a strong Finnish side who earned their first win of the games with a 13-4 demolition of the Brits who conceded after seven ends,  Finland led 13-1 before GB made it 13-4 in end six but they conceded and needed to bounce back quickly with a game against Norway a few hours later. The bounce back came as defeated Norway 7-3 to go clear in third place and did so with a three in the seventh end that saw Norway concede.

Rank Country
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1RussiaRussia1114934
2GermanyGermany4004
3UkraineUkraine33511
4AustriaAustria2204
5JapanJapan2125
6FranceFrance2114
7SlovakiaSlovakia2103
8CanadaCanada1247
9Great BritainGreat Britain1113
10SwedenSweden1012
11SpainSpain1001
12United StatesUnited States0347
13FinlandFinland0101
14NorwayNorway0101
15BelarusBelarus0033



  








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