Friday 26 June 2015

26-6-15 Britain and Ireland at Baku

BOXING

 Nicola Adams won another gold medal in the flyweight 48-51 kg weight. She does look to be a strong contender for GB as she has won both Olympic gold and world championship medals. She beat Pole  Sandra Drabik in the final and she got silver the bronze medals went to   Elif Coskun from Turkey and Saiana Sagataeva from  Russia

Qais Ashfaq from GB got a bronze medal in the bantam -56 kg along with  Tayfur Aliyev  from Azerbyjan. The gold medal went to Bakhtovar Nazirov from Russia and silver went to Dzmitry Asanau  from Bulgaria
SWIMMING        
   
Layla Black from GB managed to win a bronze in the women’s 200 metre breaststroke final she is still very young so coukld be one to watch out for in Rio. In second was Giulia Verona from  Italy  and the gold medal went to Maria Astashkina  from  Russia
Duncan Scott won a very important gold for team GB in the men’s 100 metre  freestyle. In second place was  Alessandro Miressi from  Italy and Vladislav Kozlov from  Russia got bronze. It does look like Russians are picking up a lot of medals at this European championships but it is a huge country.









Martyn Walton from GB picked up bronze in the men's 200 metre individual medley ahead of him was fellow brit Jarvis Parkinson and in gold position was Austrian Sebastian Steffan who was better in this race the brits or the winner of the race

GB won silver in the men’s 4x200 metre freestyle in first place was Russia and in third place was Germany.

GB won bronze in the women’s 4X100 metre individual medley ahead of them was Russia in gold and Netherlands in silver
IRELAND











Ireland finally won a medal at this European championships but sadly it was a silver as Brendan Irvine lost to  Bator Sagaluev from  Russia in the final.  The bronze medals went to  Muhammed Unlu Turkey and   Dmytro Zamotayev Ukrane

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