Russian Team Takes First Place in Overall European Games Team Standings

Russian team won 16 gold medals during first 5 days of the tournament.

18.Jun.15 8:36 PM
By Irina Klyachina
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Russian Team Takes First Place in Overall European Games Team Standings

5 days of European Games in Baku are over. Russian team seems to have no rivals in this prestigious championship showing great results. It helped the team to take the first position in overall team standings with the biggest collection of gold medals.

Russian sportsmen have already won 16 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 8 bronze medals. Hosts of the tournament take the second place with 11 gold medals. Hungary is third with 7 golden medals.

Yesterday 11 sets of medals have been divided between all participants. Russian sportsmen won 5 gold medals. They include wrestlers Victor Lebedev (under 57 kg weight category) and Aniuar Geduyev (under 47 kg weight category), shooter Alexey Alipov and gymnasts team including which won in group exercise program.

At the same time Russia won three bronze medals in wrestling (Ilyas Beskbulatov and Abdusalam Gadisov) and Taekwondo (Alexey Denisenko).

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