European Athletics Championships: Russia Rules!

Two more Gold medals for Russia in the last day of the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona. The 4x400 relays, Women and Men, both yielded top spot for Russia’s heroes, who finish top of the table with 24 medals.

The Women’s 4x400 relay team won gold in 3:21:26. Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Antonina Krivoshapka, Kseniya Ustalova and Tatyana Firova won the medal, ahead of Germany and Great Britain.

In the Men’s 4x400 metres relay, the Gold medallists were Maksim Dyldin, Aleksei Aksenov, Pavel Trenikhin and Vladimir Krasnov

Gold medals (10)

Stanislav Emelyanov - Men's 20 km Walk

Olga Kaniskina - Women's 20 km Walk

Aleksandr Shustov – Men’s High Jump

Svetlana Feofanova – Women’s Pole Vault

Tatyana Firova - Women’s 400 metres

Yuliya Zarudneva - Women’s 3,000 metre Steeplechase

Natalya Antyukh - Women’s 400m. Hurdles

Mariya Savinova - Women’s 800 metres

Women’s 4x400 metres

Men’s 4x400 metres

Silver Medals (6)

Anisya Kirdyapkina - Women's 20 km Walk

Inga Abitova - Women’s 10,000 metres

Ivan Ukhov - Men’s High Jump

Kseniya Ustalova - Women’s 400 metres

Tatyana Lysenko - Women’s Hammer Throw

Nailya Yulamanova - Women’s Marathon

Bronze Medals (7)

Anna Avdeeva - Women’s shot-put

Vera Sokolova - Women's 20 km Walk

Olga Kucherenko - Women’s Long Jump

Sergey Bakulin - Men’s 50 km Walk

Antonina Krivoshapka - Women’s 400 metres

Lyubov Kharlamanova - Women’s 3,000 metre Steeplechase

Aleksandra Fedoriva - Women’s 200 metres

Aleksei FEDEROV