The Bronze medal of European Youth Championships went to Russia’s Alexey Vasilenko (18.04.2007)
As it was last year, the Russian team came back from the European Youth Championships with the Bronze medal in Masters. Last year Russia’s Evgenia Smirnova won the bronze in the Girls Masters, this time Alexey Vasilenko from Saint-Petersburg did the same in the Boys Masters of EYC-2007 (Thessaloniki, Greece, April 6-15). It’s the first time when Alexey Vasilenko played for the national team of Russia.
Defending Benjamin Kubalek from Austria in the third round of the Boys Masters, 2:0, Alexey Vaselenko went to the semi-finals. But Israil’s Aviv Alfital swept Vasilenko, 2-0, firing big scores of 225 and 244. Alexey shared the bronze medal with Gyorgy Bodis from Hungary.
In the All Events Alexey Vasilenko is on the 12th position with 3768 pinfall total from the Doubles, Trios and Team events and an average of 209,33.
The Russian bowlers had already captured 5 medals at the international championships. They are:
- Bronze of European Gold Cup 1999 (Yuri Sekirkin);
- Silver of European Youth Championships 2002 (Alexandr Silnichenko);
- Bronze of European Youth Championships 2006 (Evgenia Smirnova);
- Bronze of European Gold Cup 2006 (Dmitry Arutyunov);
- Bronze of European Youth Championships 2007 (Alexey Vasilenko).
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