Our golden

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2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

For the first time, women won more gold medals for Russia at the Olympics than men.

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro ended on Sunday. Athletes from 206 countries of the world took part in them. Russia finished fourth overall with 56 medals. At the summer games, this is the lowest result for all 20 years of participation for Russian athletes, largely due to the massive denial of our athletes due to the doping scandal.

Russian Olympians will bring home 19 gold medals. Of these, 10 belong to women athletes. For the entire 20-year history of Russia's participation in the Olympic Games, for the first time, women have won more medals than men!

In this gallery there are photographs of our athletes, gold medalists of the 2016 Olympics.

Yana Yegoryan - "twice gold"
Aliya Mustafina made a splash at the Olympics and won gold, silver and bronze
According to the coach, Margarita Mamun is incredibly patient
The Russian national rhythmic gymnastics team won the gold medal in the team competition
Fantastic Four
It will go down in history!
Inna Deriglazova at the Olympics won gold in foil fencing in the individual championship
The synchronized swimmers performed the Prayer program, with many technically complex elements
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina have been performing as a harmonious duet for a long time
Synchronized swimmers Natalya Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, famous "Russian mermaids"

In total, at the 2016 Olympics, Russia won 19 gold medals, 18 silver and 19 bronze.

Trousers are our everything

This clothing originates in the patriarchal hot East, and was, of course, popularized by an American woman. In honor of her feat, the first salwar were called Bloomers. So the female half of humanity thanked the benefactress for an eccentric and bold step: put on trousers under knee-length skirts and ride a horse into the holy of holies of the male world - sport! Amelia Jenks was married to the publisher of the weekly New York magazine, and he supported her in this revolutionary endeavor. So already