SYKTYVKAR, April 1 The first team of the Komi Republic won the men's 4×10 relay km at the Russian cross-country skiing championship in Syktyvkar. The team of the Republic of Komi, which was represented by Ilya Semikov, Ermil Vokuev, Ilya Poroshkin, Alexei Vitsenko, covered the distance in 1 hour 35 minutes 4 seconds. The second place was taken by skiers from the first team of Tatarstan (Andrey Feller, Andrey Larkov, Artem Nikolaev, Yaroslav Rybochkin), losing 56.3 seconds. The team of the Arkhangelsk region (lag +1.01.6), for which the three-time Olympic champion in Beijing Alexander Bolshunov, the two-time bronze medalist of the Beijing Games Alexander Terentyev, as well as Alexei Shemyakin and Dmitry Goroshnikov, ran, won bronze medals. The Russian Ski Championship is held in Syktyvkar from March 26 to April 3.
