ODESA, NOVEMBER 30th, 2010, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE — Sportsmen of Odesa Oblast won 6 silver awards at Olympic Weightlifting European Youth Championships in Cyprus, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.

Valentina Kolchak, deputy chief of the Odesa Regional State Administration Department for Physical Training and Sports has informed about it today, 30 November.

According to Mrs Kolchak, 3 sportsmen of Odesa Oblast brought 6 silver awards from the Olympic Weightlifting European Youth Championships that ended 27 November in Limassol, Cyprus. Oleksandr Tkachenko won three medals (one in each nomination) becoming one of the top-ten sportsmen.

“This was a rather decent set of medals. The lads’ coach was Honourable Coach of Ukraine Yuriy Kuchinov”, informed the official.