Gold medalist crew (L-R) Yulia Stupak, Natalia Nepryaeva, Tatiana Sorina, Veronika Stepanova celebrate in some unspecified time in the future of the medal ceremony for the Ladies’s 4x5km Relay lag on the Zhangjiakou Nationwide Tainted-Country Skiing Centre on the Beijing 2022 Olympic Video games Saturday. Checklist by Diego Azubel/EPA-EFE
Feb. 12 (UPI) — The Russian Olympic Committee took the gold medal Saturday in the ladies’s inappropriate-country 4×5 kilometer relay on the Zhangjiakou Nationwide Tainted-Country Skiing Centre.
Germany positioned 2d, 18.2 seconds off the accelerate, while Sweden captured the bronze medal, 20.7 seconds in the abet of the leaders in the 20-kilometer lag. The lag had a complete climb of 88 meters.
Yulia Stupek, Natalia Nepryaeva, Tatiana Sorina and Veronika Stepanova acquired gold for the ROC in 53 minutes and 41 seconds. Stepanova secured the lead for the ROC in some unspecified time in the future of a abet-and-forth battle with Germany. She grew to became the 2d-youngest athlete to prefer a gold medal in the historical previous of the tournament, at 21 years and 39 days.
“I became as soon as warming up and I became as soon as already calculating that the major leg will most certainly be well-liked after which we would must solve the self-discipline,” Stepanova suggested Interior The Video games.
“We decided to note the coach’s notion and the full lot worked out.”
Finland finished in fourth space, a half 2d in the abet of Sweden.
The United States finished in sixth space, 1 minute and 28.2 seconds in the abet of the ROC ladies.
Priska Nufer of Switzerland skis to the sigh time in the major ladies’s downhill training on the Iciness Olympics in Beijing on February 12, 2022. Checklist by Rick T. Wilking/UPI | License Checklist
