The biggest victory of his career: I. Serapinaitė – European Champion! (additional)



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At the European Modern Pentathlon Championships in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, the women shared the medals on Friday. There was no qualifying match here as only 24 pentathletes competed in the championship.

The 200m freestyle was won by the Russian on Friday Gulnaz Gubaydullina (2: 09.88 min., 291 pp.). The second was Lithuanian Ieva Serapinaitė (2: 15.41, 280), the third is Hungarian Blanka guzi (2: 17.78, 275). Gintarė Venčkauskaitė was tenth (2: 23.93, 263), and Aurelija Tamašauskaitė – 23-he (2: 36.58, 237).

The first place in fencing was shared by three athletes: I. Serapinaitė, Belarusian Violeta Gurejeva and italian Aurora tognetti. They won after 16 fights and scored 250 points each. It is true that the Italian still got 3 points in the extra fencing stage. A.Tamašauskaitė (9-14, 195 points) shared 19-20 places, and G.Venčkauskaitė (9-14, 194 points) was 21st.

After two games I.Serapinaitė with 530 points. became the leader of the championship. Behind her were A. Tognetti (526), ​​V. Gurejeva (506) and another Italian Francesca Tognetti (506). G.Venčkauskaitė (457) fell to 19th place and A.Tamašauskaitė (432) fell to 23rd place.

In the equestrian match, the best among the Lithuanians was 293 points. compiled by A.Tamašauskaitė. I.Serapinaitė did slightly worse (286), and G.Venčkauskaitė did not win a point and gave up hope of reaching the top 20.

Before the last game I.Serapinaitė with 816 points. He was the leader of the European Championship and further increased his lead over A. Tognetti (802). The Ukrainian climbed to third place Irina Choclova (794). A.Tamašauskaitė rose to 17th place (725), and G.Venčkauskaitė was 24th (457).

I.Serapinaitė started the combined match successfully, in 11 seconds. He made 5 accurate shots. Meanwhile, A. Tognetti had problems and lost a lot to Lithuania. I.Serapinaitė increased their lead over Italy to almost 25 seconds. The Lithuanian woman was not as fast on the track and her competitors started chasing her. After the second section of shooting, B.Guzi took second place, which was separated from I.Serapinaitė for about 10 seconds. The Hungarian canceled out all this deficit on the track, but I. Serapinaitė performed much better on the third section of shooting. He hit 5 times in just 9 seconds and B.Guzi lost 19 seconds.

In the last round of shooting, the athletes ran together again and B.Guzi lost precious seconds, without reaching his place. I. Serapinaitė shot fantastically and ran first until the last lap, taking the traditional one: about 10 seconds. advantage – against Hungary. Although Guzi had previously eliminated such a deficit in a circle, this time the Hungarians did not have enough speed. I.Serapinaitė perfectly distributed her forces throughout the distance, confidently ran the fourth lap and became the European champion. The bronze went to another Hungarian Simon Saroltai.

Gold finish by Ieva Serapinaitė:

I.Serapinaitė finished the final with 1376 points. B.Guzi scored 1369 points and S.Simon – 1361 points. A.Tamašauskaitė achieved the third result in the combined match and rose to tenth place in the overall ranking (1306). G.Venčkauskaitė was second in the combined match, but in the final standings after the failed horsemanship match she was only 22 (1045).

I.Serapinaitė, 26, previously dominated the World and European Youth and Youth Championships. In the adult competition, she in 2015. became the women’s relay world runner-up, and in 2019. she won the bronze of the European Championship in the team classification. In a singles match, he still had no medals of this rank.

2020 The European Championship did not take place, and in 2019 I won it Laura Asadauskaitė. It is true that he did not defend the title in Russia.

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