Russia win in style at the SPAR European Team Championships
20.06.2010
Russia won the 2010 SPAR European Team Championships in Bergen, Norway, and were crowned as Europe’s top athletics nation on Sunday.
The new champions scored 379.5 points across the two days, winning by a massive 62.5 points.
Great Britain finished second with 317 points while, in a close race for third place, defending champions Germany got the final place on the podium, bouncing back after a dismal first day to total 304.5 points.
Building on their eight victories on Saturday, Russia added another five wins on Sunday.
Tatyana Dektyareva sped down the track in the 100m hurdles in a European-leading time of 12.68 while 2004 Olympic Games 800m gold medallist Yuriy Borzakovskiy had delayed his 2010 outdoor debut over two laps of the track until he arrived in Bergen but showed that he had prepared well with a confident and composed victory in 1:45.41.
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