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The president of the Ukrainian federation of biathlon, Volodymir Brynzak, anticipated the head xsport.ua the composition of the main working groups in view of the Olympic season in 2017 - '' 18.
Sunday 16 April 2017 4 minutes reading time
Unlike other countries, where it was decided to expand the national teams, in Ukraine it was decided to follow the opposite direction. In fact last summer the nation Eastern European team A had many, with 10 athletes per gender. So, despite the contraction, the teams are still very dense.
Brynzak motivated following the reduction policy: "The girls were asked to work in a more personalized, so we decided to have 7 men and 7 women in the national team. In this way the work will be less dispersive and coaches can focus more on requests of each. "
In the women's new team you can be summed up in the expression "forward whole experience." There are junior and were cut Zhuravok Yuliya (23 years) and Iana Bondar (26). On the other hand we find Olga Abramova (29) and both twins Semerenko (31). One wonders if we shall find them both at a high level.
Life in fact has not competed after the Olympic Games in Sochi, making his return to competition all''attività only in March with a ninth place in Ibu Cup. Valj instead turned in a sensational season in 2014 - '' 15 (closed to third place in the overall World Cup, complete with a gold ranking champion), but nell''ultimo two years has been basically an appearance.
In the men instead all competitive dell''ultimo winter men were selected. The 'only novelty is the' absence of Vitaliy Kilchytskyy, back however from un''annata anonymous.
As for the technical, there is no change in the head coach. The Slovenian Uros Velepec follow women and Slovak Juraj Sanitra (recently who he married the 'former biathlete Natalya Burdyga) men. It was made a few adjustments in their servers. For example, Oleg Merkushyn, father of Anastasia Merkusyhna, was included in the staff of the women's team. Clear the 'intent to avoid friction with the federation as in the past.
A TEAM FEMMINILEABRAMOVA Olga (1988) DZHYMA Juliya (1990) MERKUSHYNA Anastasiya (1995) PIDHRUSHNA Olena (1987) Semerenko Valj (1986) Vita Semerenko (1986) VARVYNETS Iryna (1992)
A TEAM MASCHILEKILCHYTSKYY Vitaliy (1988) PIDRUCHNYI Dmytro (1991) PRYMA Artem (1987) SEMAKOV Aleksander (1985) SEMENOV Serhiy (1988) Tyshchenko Artem (1993) TKALENKO Ruslan (1992) ZHIRNYY Aleksander (1987)
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