3rd CISM World Cadet Games 2022 – Saint-Petersburg (RUS) - Competition Day 2
The first medals awarded at the 3rd CISM World Cadet Games!
SAINT-PETERSBURG (RUS) - The shooting competition of the 3rd World Cadet Games started yesterday at the garrison shooting range in the town of Sertolovo and the Russian National Team Cadets achieved a superb performance by winning all four gold medals at stake.
In the men's 200m Rifle Team Match Relay event, Ivan Bakulin, Nikita Sokhrin and Andrey Zakharov scored 753 points and took the first place ahead of Belarus and Iran. In the women's category, Anastasia Rusakova, Victoria Tikhonova and Anastasia Kudryavtseva won the title with 732 points, ahead of Belarus and Venezuela.
In the men's Pistol Team Match relay Rapid Fire, Russian shooters Maxim Andreev, Alexander Bitiukov and Vladimir Kolyada managed to win with a score of 779 ahead of Belarus and Myanmar. Russia won the last title of the day with the victory of Aliona Domonosova, Maria Naumovets and Tamara Zakharova (716 points) in front of Venezuela and Belarus.
The athletics competition also started yesterday and six gold medals were at stake in the Primorets stadium.
In the women's 100m, Daugnou Tamboura from Mali won in 12'69'' and was followed by Andrey Shikarev from Russia who won gold in the men's 100m in 10'75''.
The women's 5000m race was won by Yolanda Gudinho of Venezuela in a time of 19:10'13'' while Vladislav Zhulikov of Russia took the gold medal in the men's 5000m in 15:57'39''.
The other two gold medals of the day were won by Russian Cadets Dmitry Zemskov, winner of the high jump competition after clearing the 1.80m bar on his first attempt, and Yana Verveina, easy winner of the women's 400m in 1:00'63''.
The Cadets also took advantage of this day to start the summer biathlon and orienteering competitions in the facilities of the training center of Kavgolovo with the program of the 7 km race for men and 6 km for women. In the men's race, Russian biathletes Maxim Nikiforov, Sava Tosenko and Egor Razumayev were on the podium. In the girls' race, the first two places were taken by Russian armed forces cadets Marina Ogar and Irina Kruglova, respectively, while Ksenia Mikhno from Belarus completed the top three.
In orienteering, Russians Pavel Fomichev, Ivan Vakhitov and Leonid Chestnikov took the podium in the men's middle distance competition while their compatriots Anastasia Kovalenko, Nadezhda Sobyanina and Sofia Kopylova did the same in the women's middle distance.
The second day of swimming competition was also very interesting with 7 finals on the program! This day of the Games was marked by the rise in power of the swimming competition. The athletes from different countries showed a growing perseverance and will to win. In the 100m freestyle, the Iranian athlete Hadi Jalali lost by a fraction of a second to the winner, the Russian Cadet Dmitry Mysin, after an exciting race. In the women's 200m individual medley event, Belarusian Yelizaveta Zapolskaya took first place.
Russia also won the other five gold medals of the day thanks to the superb performances of Ilya Zhukov (Men's 50m Backstroke), Anna Chastikhina (Women's 200m Breasstroke), Igor Birin (Men's 200m Butterfly), Alina Egorova (Women's 100m Backstroke) and the Russian relay composed of Dmitry Mysin, Mikhail Bondar, Anastasiya Sapronova and Ekaterina Nomerovkina (Mixed Relay 4x100m Freestyle).
See you today for the third day of competition of the 3rd CISM World Cadet Games!
Find all the information concerning this event on the official website of the Organizing Committee.
(Source: cska.ru/cadetgames/ru/)
