We are the CHAMPIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go, Russia, Go!!

Russia, a hosting country of 2014 Winter Olympic Games (in Sochi) proved its status of world-best figure skating leader at 2012 Europe Championship.
Russians skaters gained all medals:
 GOLD - Tatjana Volosozhar and Maxim Tran'kov

 SILVER - Vera Bazarova and Yurii Larionov

 BRONZE - Ksenia Stolbova and Fyodor Klimov

Photo: RIA NEWS Vladimir Pesnya

Proud for them!!~

It's not the first time when all pedestal is Russian~~  11 times world could see 3 Russian flags rising under accompaniment of Russian anthem during awarding ceremony!!!

In dances Russian team got 2 medals - silver Ekatherina Bobrova and Dmitriy Solov'yov

and bronze - Elena Il'inykh and Nikita Katchalapov

+ one Russian citizen

A day before, on December, 26 Prime-minister of the Russian Federation signed a decree on granting An Hyeon Soo Russian citizenship.

An Hyeon Soo in Russian Olympic uniform

An Hyeon Soo is a Korean skater.

Now he join Russian skate team and takes part in Russian Championship holding now in Kolomna city. He ranked 14th in 500 m race and  9th in 1500 m race.

According to Russian law everyone who was naturalized should choose a Russian name. An Hyeon Soo got his Russian passport as An Victor, what means "winner". I hope his new name will help him to get gold medal on Sochi Olympic Games!!!~

Daegu passed the baton to Moscow

2011 IAAF World Championship is over.....

final results

It was bright exciting sport event that was watched by millions of sport fans from all over the world.

Next IAAF World Championship will be hold in 2 years in Russia (Moscow) - a silver winner of the championship!! Welcome~~

IAAF-2011, Sept.3 Triumph of Russian walking~

Today in a contest on 50 km race walk men Russian won 2 medals - gold went to Sergey Bakulin

and silver - to Denis Nizhegorodov!!!

Saransk School of race walking proved once again its status as the world best school~

One more Russian athlete from Saransk  - Olga Kaniskina, a queen of walk race won GOLD in 20 km race, women!!
Sergey Kirdyapkin's wife Anisia Kirdyapkina won bronze in 20 km race walk~ Unfortunately, S. Kirdyapkin got injured and couldn't finish(

Maria Abakumova won gold medal in Javelin Throw, women

Tatiana Chernova won gold in Heptathlon~~

2011 Daegu IAAF World Championship has started!

This year World Championship on the Queen of sport - Athletics -  is hold in Daegu!!))

My congratulations to Korea and Koreans for such a great sport success~~


Unfortunately due to some tragic reasons I can not attend this event as a staff((((((

So what's the first results?)
Let's see:

Position Bib Athlete Country Mark
1 578 Edna Ngeringwony Kiplagat KEN 2:28:43
2 575 Priscah Jeptoo KEN 2:29:00
3 572 Sharon Jemutai Cherop KEN 2:29:14 (SB)
4 340 Bezunesh Bekele ETH 2:29:21
5 534 Yukiko Akaba JPN 2:29:35
6 250 Xiaolin Zhu CHN 2:29:58
7 829 Isabellah Andersson SWE 2:30:13
8 240 Jiali Wang CHN 2:30:25
9 718 Marisa Barros POR 2:30:29
10 547 Remi Nakazato JPN 2:30:52
11 218 Rong Chen CHN 2:31:11
12 349 Aberu Kebede ETH 2:31:22
13 581 Irene Jerotich Kosgei KEN 2:31:29 (SB)
14 339 Atsede Baysa ETH 2:31:37
15 880 Tetyana Gamera-Shmyrko UKR 2:31:58
16 223 Chaofeng Jia CHN 2:31:58
17 963 Tera Moody USA 2:32:04 (SB)
18 552 Yoshimi Ozaki JPN 2:32:31
19 549 Azusa Nojiri JPN 2:33:42
20 182 Lishan Dula BRN 2:33:47
21 876 Olena Burkovska UKR 2:34:21
22 542 Mai Ito JPN 2:35:16
23 778 Margarita Plaksina RUS 2:35:39
24 403 Susan Partridge GBR 2:35:57
25 634 Diana Lobacevske LTU 2:36:05 (SB)
26 241 Xuequin Wang CHN 2:36:10
27 271 Lisa Christina Stublic CRO 2:36:41
28 608 Sung-eun Kim KOR 2:37:05 (SB)
29 587 Caroline Rotich KEN 2:37:07 (SB)
30 966 Kathy Newberry USA 2:37:28 (SB)
31 737 René Kalmer RSA 2:38:16
32 960 Alisa McKaig USA 2:38:23 (SB)
33 881 Tetyana Holovchenko UKR 2:39:25 (SB)
34 611 Sook-Jung Lee KOR 2:40:23
35 594 Yun-hee Chung KOR 2:42:28
36 859 Bahar Dogan TUR 2:42:56
37 742 Annerien van Schalkwyk RSA 2:43:59 (SB)
38 932 Colleen De Reuck USA 2:44:35 (SB)
39 653 Luvsanlundeg Otgonbayar MGL 2:45:58
40 943 Zoila Gómez USA 2:46:44 (SB)
41 697 Judith Toribio PER 2:47:21
42 385 Alyson Dixon GBR 2:50:51
43 614 Jun-Sook Park KOR 3:03:34
44 592 Bo-ra Choi KOR 3:10:06
45 630 Moleboheng Mafata LES 3:28:30 (SB)
46 107 Shariska Winterdal ARU 3:49:48 (SB)
355 Dire Tune ETH DQ
142 Lucia Kimani BIH DNF
311 Alessandra Aguilar ESP DNF
353 Aselefech Mergia ETH DNF
696 Jemena Misayauri PER DNF
793 Epiphanie Nyirabarame RWA DNF
895 Yuliya Ruban UKR DNF
902 Kateryna Stetsenko UKR DNF
738 Tanith Maxwell RSA DNS


All the medals go to Kenia!~