Within the third day of the Winter Olympics in 2018 in Pyeongchang, the sportsmen of the Ukrainian national team started in cross-country skiing, luge, freestyle and biathlon.
Ukraine's main hope was the men's sprint in the biathlon, but Dmitriy Pidruchnyi showed the best result from Ukrainians, who finished 21st, Artem Prima showed the 39th result, Sergei Semenov - 45th, and Vladimir Semakov - 74th.
Cross-country skiing (skiathlon, 15 km + 15 km) 1. Simen Hegstad Krueger (Norway) 2. Martin Jonsrud Sundbu (Norway) 3. Hans Christer Holunn (Norway) Ukrainian Alexei Krasovsky did not finish the race. Leaders overtook him a second time.
Freestyle (Mogul) 1. Perrin Lafont (France) 2. Justine Dufour-Lepein (Canada) 3. Yulia Galysheva (Kazakhstan) Ukraine was represented by Tatiana Petrova, who fell at the first jump and took the last (20th) place, having failed to qualify.
Speed ??Skating (Men, 5000 m) 1. Sven Kramer (The Netherlands) 2. Ted-Yan Blumen (Canada) 3. Sverre Lunde Pedersen (Norway) Biathlon (Men, sprint, 10 km) 1. Arnd Peiffer (Germany) 2. Michal Krcmar (Czech Republic) 3. Dominic Windisch (Italy) ... 21. Dmitry Pidruchny (Ukraine) 39. Artem Prima (Ukraine) 45. Sergey Semenov (Ukraine) 74. Vladimir Semakov (Ukraine) Snowboard (Men, Sloupstyle) 1. Redmond Gerard (USA) 2. Maxans Parro (Canada) 3. Mark McMorris (Canada) Luge (single sledge, 3rd and 4th arrivals) 1. David Glejsher (Austria) 2. Chris Mazder (United States) 3. Johannes Ludwig (Germany) Ukrainian Andrei Mandziy took 19th place in the third attempt, and Anton Dukach was 24th. Both саночника have not got in top-20 on results of three arrivals and were not selected in a decisive attempt.
Note that today, February 11, also had to take place downhill in the skiing races, but the competition was postponed to February 15 because of weather conditions. Ukraine in this form will be represented by Ivan Kovbasnyuk.
Recall that in the national team of Ukraine in Pyeongchang arrived 33 athletes who will perform in 9 disciplines. A total of 102 sets of medals will be played in 7 sports, and the number of participants is about 2.5 thousand.
Source: Mirror of the Week.