Belarusian archer Gleb Akunevich completed his performance at the Youth Olympics in Senegal
On November 8, Belarusian Gleb Akunevich completed his performances at the archery competitions at the IV Summer Youth Games.
On November 8, Belarusian Gleb Akunevich completed his performances at the archery competitions at the IV Summer Youth Olympic Games, which are held in Senegal, the correspondent of the Minsk-News agency reports with reference to the Telegram channel TEAM BY.
In the 1/8 finals, the Belarusian fought with the Egyptian Ismail Ezzeldin. Both opening sets ended in a draw with the same score 29:29. However, in the third and fourth games, the representative of Egypt led - 29:28 and 29:27. As a result, Akunevich lost with a result of 2:6. Earlier in the tournament, the Belarusian took 15th place in qualifying among 32 participants, and in the first round of the playoffs defeated Slovak Oliver Sotak (7: 3).
Now the Belarusian delegation has two bronze medals of YOI-2026, which were brought to the treasury of the country by swimmers Maxim Mashlyakevich and Polina Belyavskaya. In turn, judoka Alexander Knyazev finished the competition in the category up to 44 kg in the seventh position. Tomorrow, rapier Denis Maslov will join the fight, taekwondist Bogdan Aliyev will compete for the medal on November 11, and breakdancing representative Georgy Solovey will speak on November 12.
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