SOCHI, April 2, Andrey Simonenko. The winner of the Russian marathon championship Alina Prokopyeva said that she did not plan to show a high result in competitions, complaining that last year after the third place she was deprived of her salary. Prokopyeva on Saturday became the winner of the Russian marathon championship in Sochi, showing a result of 2 hours 32 minutes 38 seconds. to be faster, but I didn’t even think about it, I just fought for the victory. Last year I became third, ran much faster, eight seconds were not enough for me to reach the standard for the Olympics, and I was taken off my salary. There are simply no words. Therefore, where should I run faster if they don’t put on a salary? Now I talked with (acting president of the All-Russian Federation of Athletics) Irina Privalova, maybe they will do something, «Prokopyeva said. «The run was not easy, the first half started quickly, I did not expect that this would happen, I thought: “Are the girls really ready to run like this for the second half?” And in the second half, everyone, as we say, “ate”. At first I endured, endured, and in the end I had more strength left, «said the athlete.
