OI-2008 MTB bronze medalist Kalenteva will miss the 2018 European Championship – Cycling News – Summer

Sunday in Cheboksary, the Russian mountain bike championships in the Olympic discipline "Cross Country" have ended, in which Kalentieva became the country's champion. The winner of the men's race was Ivan Seledkov, the silver medal was won by Artem Sintsov, participant in the Olympiad-2016, and the third place was won by Timofey Ivanov. In the women's race, Olga Terentyeva and Vera Medvedeva are respectively silver and bronze medalists. The European multi-profile cycling championship will be held in British Glasgow August 2-12 .

"The composition of the National ATV team for the Adult European Championships in Glasgow is determined: Anton Sintsov, Timofey Ivanov and Sergey Nikolaev, and in the women's team will be Olga Terentyeva and Guzel Ahmadullina, – said Krutilin – The decision on the World Cup will be taken after the European Championships, at the end of the adult championship we will be determined with the starting lineup for the world (the tournament will take place in Switzerland Lenzerheide from 4 September to 9 September – TASS) The European Championship is an event for Anton Sintsov, since last year he unfortunately suffered a trauma before this tournament , so he failed to come true Irina Kalentieva will not start at the European Championships, she will leave for Canada in preparation for the World Cup to prepare for the world championship. "

" Anastasia Sharabri na and Elvira Khairullina are likely to participate in the elimination race. In this discipline, the European Championship will run without age limit, that is to say between men and women, adds the head coach of the team. Russian national

Krutilin also informed the Russian national team of the European Mountain Bike Championship. of the tournament. The competitions will take place from 26 to 29 July in Graz, Austria. The championship will take place in two age categories: athletes aged 17 to 18 and riders aged 19 to 22.

"The team will be leaving for the European junior championship next week, among the girls Daria Alekseeva, Anna Mirolyubova, and by the juniors – Nikolay Ivanov, Maxim Artemyev, Vladimir Bykov, Mikhail Pilipchuk: According to the "ander" (age category from 19 to 22 years old), the winners of the Russian championship Ivan Filatov, Pavel Lunde, Arsenti Vavilov will start in women, the winner of the Russian championship this year, Christina Ilyina and Viktoria Kirsanova, will start the girls-underwriters.We are counting on young people, young people up to 23 years old, we have very strong, the same Kirsanov today in the race with the fourth adults was. Especially not yet, but we hope that we will be able to conquer something in Europe "concluded Krutilin.