The Belarusian Basketball Federation and Sport Format hosted an international basketball tournament Palova. Snowfall 3×3 in one of the shopping centers of Minsk. This sport will make part of the 2nd Second European Games 2019 program in the Belarusian capital. Minsk welcomed nine foreign professional teams, with the total of 16 teams competing in the event.
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On the last day of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup in Minsk the local public who filled the stands of the Minsk Arena velodrome was rewarded by a spectacular victory of Yauheni Karaliok in the men’s scratch concluding the program of the event.
Team KGF (Great Britain) claimed the gold medal in the men’s team pursuit. The British champions in the final overcame the challenge of the Russian Lokosphinx team, who ended as silver medalists. Russia national team rounded off the podium places beating France.
Dutch rider Matthijs Buchli of Beat Cycling Club won the men’s sprint competition after he triumphing in straight rides against Vasilijus Lendel of Lithuania in the final. The bronze medal was earned by Buchli’s compatriot and team-mate Theo Bos, who won both races against Poland’s Mateusz Rudyk.
There was further Dutch success in the men’s omnium competition with Jan-Willem van Schip claiming gold in the end of the four discipline event. Having won the scratch and tempo races, the 23-year-old topped the standings at the halfway stage. He remained in pole position by finishing third in the elimination race before sealing the victory by finishing the points race on a total of 134. Poland’s Szymon Sajnok finished five points behind to earn silver, with Loksoshpinx’s Russian rider Mamyr Stash completing the top-3 on 110 points.
Germain duo of Pauline Sophie Grabosch and Emma Hinze secured victory in the women’s team sprint competition. The pair was faster in the gold medal ride than Lithuania’s Migle Marozaite and Simona Krupeckaite earning silver. South Korea’s Kim Wongyeong and Lee Hye-jin won the bronze medals.
Lee also finished as the runner-up to Belgium’s Nicky Degrendele in the women’s keirin event as Ukraine’s Liubov Basova rounded off the podium.
Italy’s Letizia Paternoster and Maria Confalonieri dominated the women’s Madison after they achieved a total of 29 points in the 20km race. The Netherlands’ Kirsten Wild and Amy Pieters claimed the silver medals on 26 points and Russia’s Maria Novolodskaya and Olga Zabelinskaya won bronze with 25.
The final event of the World Cup saw Belarus’ Yauheni Karaliok triumph in front of a home crowd in the men’s 15 km scratch race. Portugal’s Ivo Oliveira finished second with Ukrainian Vitaliy Hryniv taking bronze.
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Dutch riders claimed two victories on the opening day of the TISSOT UCI Track World Cup in Minsk. Kirsten Wild was victorious in the women’s points race while her compatriot Jan Willem Van Schip dominated the similar men’s event.
The Minsk World Cup kicked off with the team pursuit qualification. Team KGF (Great Britain) went fastest of the men’s teams overcoming two Russian teams Lokosphinx (second) and Russia national team (third). And Team USA was dominant amongst the women, quickest by over 7 seconds than second Italy.
The night session was preceded by a spectacular opening ceremony.
Then the time for the team sprint qualification has come. No one men’s team managed to beat the Beat Cycling Club (Netherlands). The womens qualification saw Germany to prevail and qualify fastest for the first round.
First medals were contested in the points race. Kirsten Wild showed her class in the women’s event to claim gold. The Dutch rider scored points on seven of eight intermediate sprints and gained a lap finishing first with 12 points ahead of Maria Guilia Confalonieri from Italy as Norways Anita Yvonne Stenberg took third.
In the men’s race another Dutch rider led the way with Jan Willem Van Schip winning six from twelve sprints and gaining two laps to beat the closest opponent King Lok Cheung from Hong Kong by 25 points with Portugal’s Ivo Oliveira finishing third but claiming overall World Cup victory in the points race.
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