Gold and two bronzes won rowers from Belarus at the U-23 European Championship in Poland
The Belarusian crews in the men’s and women’s four pairs took gold and bronze of the European Championship in Moscow.
Belarusian crews in the men's and women's four pairs took gold and bronze of the European Championship in academic rowing among athletes under 23 years old. The third was the crew of the women’s eight with a helmsman, reports the correspondent of the agency “Minsk-Novosti” with reference to the Belarusian Federation of rowing.
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The competition ends on September 6 in Kruszwitz, Poland. In the final in the race four doubles won Nikita Shershnev, Vladislav Khrushchev, Dmitry Serebro and Ivan Makarevich. They beat the Italian rowers. The Norwegians finished third. A year earlier in the Czech Republic, the Belarusian quartet had already become the best at the U23 continental championship. The crew included I. Makarevich.
The girls in this form of the program at the tournament in Poland bronze designed Anna Urbanovich, Anastasia Rusak, Victoria Vasilyeva and Dominika Butkiewicz. The victory was won by their rivals from Romania, the second were representatives of Switzerland.
Bronze awards were also provided by the Belarusian crew of the female eight with a steering wheel. It included Yana Kazak, Kira Kovalenko, Vladislav Kuzmenkova, Margarita Kuzmichenok, Antonina Lavnikevich, Diana Plisova, Tatiana Khramkova, Elizaveta Shestak and steering Hope Solovyova. First place is for Romanian women, second place for Italian women.
