Sportsman from Adygeya won gold at Para-Olympic games in Peking 

The first gold medal in the first day of the XXIII Para-Olympic games in Peking for the Russian team was won in the pneumatic pistol shooting by the inhabitant of Adygeya capital Valery Ponomarenko. Thus the pupil of the deserved trainer of Russian Federation George Gulyajchenko had not only won, but also made a world record.

As the main expert of the republican sports committee Dmitry Shcherbanev noted in the interview to “Caucasian unit” correspondent, George Gulyajchenko also trains Olympic champion Sergey Alifirenko who could not have taken part in the Olympiad in Peking. We remind, the declared in the team of Russia, he was compelled to refuse to participate because of a sudden problem with his eyes.

Darya Pishchalnikova, the silver prize-winner of the world championship on disk throwing, Maykop citizen, could not have taken part in the Olympiad, too. She was not allowed to the competitions by the doping control committee. Her brother, Bogdan Pishchalnikov in disk throwing became the sixth in Peking.

Silver on this Olympiad was won by three sportswomen from Adygeya. They are handballers Yana Uskova, Anna Kareeva and Inna Suslina. All of them, pupils of the Maykop handball school play now for the commands of the other regions of Russia.

NatPress