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Ukrainian athletes Angelina Khmil and Tatiana Lazarenko won gold at the World Youth Beach Volleyball Championship.
Competitions were held in Phuket, Thailand.
Ukrainians performed in two age categories - U-19 and U-21. At the U-19 level, the duo won bronze, and in the U-21 category they managed to become the best.
Khmil and Lazarenko reached the final, where they confronted the Spaniards and managed to win with a score of 2: 1 (21:17, 18:21, 17:15).
Final match video.
This is the second victory of Ukraine in the U-21 Beach Volleyball Championship. In 2011, Sergey Popov and Valery Samodai won gold. This is the first medal in the history of Ukraine in the women's tournament..
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Earlier it was reported that the men's national team of Ukraine could not make it to the quarter finals of the European Volleyball Championship.