Ukrainian National Championships - CN

AR Crimea/Sevastopol, Ukraine, June 26-28, 2008

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Day 2 - June 28: Road Races

Photography

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Images by Oleg Kotov

The first storm up Mountain Sapun is completed, with Vladimir Diudia (Milram) leading
200 more kilometres to the finish...
Second time up the Mountain Sapun and an excursion on the Diopama.
300 more metres and this mountain will end...
ICD put the pressure on when two groups with a total of five riders went away.
Ruslan Podgorny leads as the last lap is entered.
Grabovsky heads the pursuit
Gonchar and Chuzhda at the finish
Grivko tried to attack the break. attempt to come off
Milram's Grivko (87) continued his attacks
Grivko and Diudia (Milram) are followed by Grabovskiy of Quick Step.
Grivko after the race
Kostiuk and Zagorodniy at the finish
Podgornyy crosses the finishing line and becomes the new champion of the Ukraine
Podgornyy gave it all!!!
Ruslan Podgorny signs his first autograph as the 2008 Ukrainian champion.
Podgorny (LPR Brakes) gives the first post race interview.
...followed by the next
Podgorny was overcome with joy and happily answered questions.
Ruslan Podgorny, the first interview_04 Gimme that mike!
Shchedov, Grivko, Surutkovich, Prishchepa and Matveev finishing.
After some 10 kilometres the mood was not aggressive yet.
Time to look at the scenery!
Vitaliy Kondrut hydrates after the finish!!!
Yuriy Krivtsov (AG2R) heads home
Yuriy Krivtsov (Ag2R) injured his right hand during the race.
Zagorodniy got the medal even though there was no podium.
Vladimir Zagorodniy (NGC Medical\Simferopol) smiles as he was very happy with his race.
Vladimir Zagorodniy (NGC Medical\Simferopol) won bronze today.
Zagorodniy with the 'podium' girls
Andrey Prishepa & Vladimir Zagorodniy.
Denis Kostiuk, Ruslan Podgorny and Vladimir Zagorodniy with the management of the federation.
Denis Kostiuk, Ruslan Podgorny and Vladimir Zagorodniy celebrate with the officials of the federation.
Denis Kostiuk and Ruslan Podgorny congratulate each other.
Jersey has found the champion!
The new proud champion!.
Lubomir Polotaiko talks to Ruslan Podgorny.
Ruslan Podgorny shares his joy.
Before starting the road race.
Viktor Klimov ahead before the start.
Klimov anxious before the start
Sergey Grechin, Yuriy Metlushenko (Amore & Vita - McDonald's) and Andrey Kutalo after one lap.
The break two laps from the finish with Grechin, Metlushenko and Kutalo.
Tatiana Stiajkina on her way to victory.

Results

Elite men - 213 km
 
1 Ruslan Podgorny (LPR Brakes\Kiev)                  5.32.43 (38.41km/h)
2 Denis Kostiuk (ICD-Sport\Donetzk)                     1.28
3 Vladimir Zagorodniy (Simferopol\NGC Medical)          1.29
4 Sergey Gonchar (Preti Mangimi\Rovno)                  1.31
5 Oleg Chujda (Rovno)                                       
6 Alexandr Kvachuk (Kharkov)                            1.34
7 Dmitry Grabovsky (Simferopol\Quick Step\ICD-Sport)    2.29
8 Vitaliy Shedov (Simferopol)                           3.43
9 Andriy Grivko (Simferopol\Milram)                         
10 Alexandr Surutkovich (Odessa)                        3.44
11 Andrey Prishepa (Cherkassy)                              
12 Sergey Matveev (Kiev/Cinelli - OPD)                  3.45
13 Anatoliy Pahtusov (Simferopol)                           
14 Alexandr Sheydik (Nikolaev)                          3.52
15 Valery Kobzarenko (Odessa)                           3.53
16 Vladimir Starchik (Nikolaev)                         3.57
17 Vitaliy Kondrut (Simferopol\ICD-Sport)               6.29
18 Dmitriy Krivtsov (ICD-Sport\Donetzk)                 9.47
DNF: 23
 
Elite women - 105km
 
1 Tatiana Stiajkina (Simferopol\Usc Chirio Forno d'Asolo)    3.11.50 (33.31km/h)
2 Kaschishina (Dnepr/Khmelnitzkiy)                              1.30
3 Evgenia Vysotskaya (Odessa)                                   1.32
4 Lesya Kalitovskaya (Lugansk)                                  3.28
5 Nina Ovcharenko (Khmelnitzkiy)                                3.54
6 Elizaveta Bochkariova (Nikolaev)                              4.05
7 Aliona Andruk (Kiev/Usc Chirio Forno d'Asolo)                 4.23
8 Elena Sharga (Khmelnitzkiy)                                   4.54
9 Svetlana Galyuk (Lugansk)                                     5.14
10 Oksana Lesnik (Kirovograd)                                   5.24
11 Svetlana Semchuk (Vinnitza)                                  7.33
12 Ekaterina Krasova (Donetzk)                                  7.38
 
U23 Men - 142km
 
1 Oleg Oprishko (Nikolaev)                3.42.25 (38.30km/h)
2 Alexandr Polivoda (Kharkov)                0.30
3 Anatoliy Kashtan (Kiev)                    0.37
4 Mihail Kononenko (Kiev)                    1.06
5 Alexander Nikolenko (Kharkov)                  
6 Sergey Sedov (Kharkov)                         
7 Artiom Topchanyuk (ICD-Sport\Donetzk)      1.13
8 Vyacheslav Zabava (Odessa)                     
9 Vitaliy Shedov (AR Crimea)                 1.27
10 Yuriy Leontenko (Cherkassy)               2.05
11 Egor Dement'ev (Poltava)                  3.11
12 Yuriy Agarkov (ICD-Sport\Donetzk)             
13 Anatoliy Yugov (ICD-Sport\Donetzk)        6.46
14 Dmiriy Chujda (Rovno)                     7.07
15 Igor Kovalenko (Kirovograd)               7.49
16 Anton Pustovit (Poltava)                 10.48
17 Zahar Nebaba (Nikolaev)                       
18 Dmitriy Arhinos (Odessa)                      
19 Jaroslav Boiko (Cherkassy)               10.53
20 Andrey Vasilyuk (Kiev)                   10.56
21 Yuriy Golovchenko (ICD-Sport\Donetzk)    10.58
22 Vitaliy Brichak (Odessa)                 10.59
DNF: 47