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Double podium: Ukrainian gymnasts won medals at the World Cup in Cottbus

 Double podium: Ukrainian gymnasts won medals at the World Cup in Cottbus

Ilya Kovtun won gold, and Oleg Vernyaev became a silver medalist.

p>Ukrainian national teamin artistic gymnastics won two awards at the World Cup in Cottbus, Germany.

In parallel bars exercises Ilya Kovtun strong> won gold, and Oleg Vernyaev became the silver medalist.

For his performance, Kovtun scored 15.266 points, one tenth ahead of Vernyaev (15.166).

Companying the Ukrainians on the podium was bronze winner Rasuljon Abdurakhimov from Uzbekistan (14,766).

We would like to add that Kovtun and Vernyaev took medals at the second consecutive tournament of the new season. Last week, at the World Cup in Cairo, Egypt, they alsowonaward: on parallel bars, Ilya won gold, Oleg finished the competition with silver.

It was previously reported that 21-year-old Ukrainian Vladislav Bukhovbecame world champion in swimming. This is the eighth gold medal in the history of Ukraine at the planetary swimming championships and the first since 2007.

tsn.ua

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