Mykolaiv gymnast wins bronze at the World Championships

Valeriia Peremeta, a gymnast from Mykolaiv, won a bronze medal at the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

This was announced by the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Gymnastics Association Vitalii Kim.

In the team championship, the Ukrainian team took third place, behind the teams of Germany and Bulgaria.

Kim noted that this medal is the first for Ukraine in the team championship of the World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in the last ten years. It became the eleventh in the history of the national team.

The team included: Taisiya Onofriichuk and Polina Karika. The national team in group exercises: Yelyzaveta Azza, Diana Bayeva, Valeria Peremeta, Kira Shyrykina, Oleksandra Yushchak, Nadiia Yurina (in reserve).

A Mykolaiv resident became a European checkers champion. The Italian city of Chianciano Terme hosted the European Youth Checkers 100 Championship. In the blitz competition, Matvii Kolesnikov from Mykolaiv won the title of European Champion 2025 among cadets.

Having scored 16 out of 18 possible points, the boy was among the top five in the classic program (he shared 2-5 places), and took fourth place in the fast game (rapid). The tournament took place on August 1-9 and brought together athletes of different ages and from different countries to compete for the title of best in three disciplines: classic, rapid and lightning game.

In total, 186 draughtsmen from 12 European countries took part in the competition, namely: Azerbaijan, Belgium, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, France, and the Czech Republic. Ukraine was represented by 11 athletes from Dnipropetrovs'k, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Kharkiv regions and the city of Kyiv.

Катерина Глушко