02.03.2017.
Military National Team of Serbia Concluded its Participation at 3rd Winter World Military Games
The military national ski team of the Republic of Serbia concluded its participation in 3rd Winter World Military Games that took place in Sochi, Russian Federation from 22nd to 28th February 2017.
The competition gathered the teams from China, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey, Armenia, Russia, Finland, Belgium, France, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland, Greece, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, South Korea, Macedonia, Belarus and Serbia.
Military athletes competed in seven sports: biathlon, “cross-country” skiing, Alpine skiing, ski-orienteering, sport climbing (indoors), short track speed skating and ski mountaineering, and the competing was organised in the arenas “Ice Cube” , “Bolshoy Ice Dome”, “Iceberg” and ski centres “Laura” and “Rosa Khutor”, which had also been the venues of competition during 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
The official opening ceremony for 3rd Winter World Military Games was held in the Ice Cube Centre on 24th February 2017. On that occasion the President of the Government of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, Minister of Defence, General of the Army Sergey Shoygu and the President of the International Military Sports Council (CISM), Colonel Abdulhakeem Alshino addressed the participants of this competition and a great number of viewers. A day before, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin hosted a reception for the heads of delegations from the countries participating in the Games and for the Board of Directors of the International Military Sports Council on the occasion of observing the Defender of the Fatherland Day, a great national holiday of the Russian Federation.
According to agenda, the first day of the competition male individual “cross-country” skiing race took place on a 15km long track. The best result in the race, among our competitors, was achieved by soldier Dejan Krsmanović, who was ranked 28th. Also, on the first day of the competition 10km female individual freestyle cross-country race was held which our soldier Anja Ilić finished in 14th place.
On the second day of the competition male individual slalom race took place. Among our competitors, Lieutenant Miloš Šumarac achieved the best result, taking 24th place. On the following day female individual slalom race was held, in which the Second Lieutenant Olja Jerkić took 13th place, Staff Sergeant Radmila Đurić took 17th place and Second Lieutenant Miljana Mitrović took 20th place. Female military national team of the Republic of Serbia in slalom took excellent 5th place. On the last day of the competition, a “team sprint” event was held where our competitors took 10th place in the B semi-final.
The Winter World Military Games are organised once every four years for the athletes in the armed forces of the CISM member states. After Aosta (Italian Republic) in 2010 and Annecy (French Republic) 2013, Sochi hosted this year’s Winter World Military Games. The initiative for the competition came from the International Military Sports Council, which is the largest sport organisation after the International Olympic Committee and the International University Sport Federation, and the organiser of the Games was the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.
The delegation of the Republic of Serbia was led by the Head of Delegation of the Republic of Serbia to CISM, Brigadier General Siniša Radović.
The achieved results are significant having in mind a fact that a dozen national teams included professional athletes who are on the list of the International Ski Federation (FIS), who are at the same time members of armed forces, as well as the fact that our national team appeared in rejuvenated composition, with majority of athletes without experience in international competitions.
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