MOSCOW, 21 sen - R-Sport. Two-time bronze medalist of the European Championships in decathlon citizen of Russia Ilya Korenev placed third at the international tournament decathlon, held in Talence (France).

in games that took place this weekend, Scorenew won a total 7973 points, which allowed him to ascend to the third step of the podium. The victory was won by the Commissioner of the Republic of South Africa, Willem Kortsen (8187 glasses). Second place went to the Ukrainian Oleksiy Kasyanov (8043).

citizens of Russia Sergey Timshyn (7875) and Eugene Sarantsev (7715) were fifth and seventh respectively.

Thus in the series of the IAAF Combined Events Challenge 24-year-old Scorenew to become the fourth in the decathlon at the last In this year's world Championships in Beijing, took over.

in the competition of semiblock Russian Citizen Love the weaver was ninth (5666). 1st place took Dlorde Zhivotski-Farkas from Hungary (6306).

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