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Russia biathlete earned more than all the prize money up to the Olympics

Russia biathlete Olga Zaitseva earned more than all the prize on the basis of the Olympic Games in Vancouver. For gold in the relay and silver in the mass start, she will receive 305 thousand euros. Zaitsev also receive the prize from the President of Biathlon Union (RRF), Mikhail Prokhorov. The amount of premium is still under discussion and will be released in the near future.

The current program of encouraging Russian Olympian considered the best in the world. Besides the size of payments is growing. For example, if the winner of the Games in Turin, received 50 thousand euros, four years later in Vancouver, this amount has doubled. Tradition pay premiums to their athletes to continue and regional authorities.

“Recently, Yuri Luzhkov signed a document under which the Olympic champion will receive 80 thousand euros, the silver medalist – 65, and bronze & ndash of 55 thousand, coaches of these athletes will receive 50% of the articulated amount. Such a generous bonus in no region of the country “, – reported in the press service Moskomsporta.

Skiers Nikita Kryukov, Alexander Panzhinsky, which became a sprint gold and silver winners, respectively, double earned the same 305 thousand euros: 180 at Kryukov and 125 – in Panzhinskogo.

In St. Petersburg premiums paid not only medalists, but also athletes, ranked fourth to sixth.

“So, skaters Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexander Smirnov, who took fourth place in Vancouver in pairs, will earn three hundred thousand rubles,” – told us in City Committee for Physical Culture and Sport.

Best of the representatives of the city on the Neva, silver medalist in the men’s figure skating Evgeni Plushenko will receive 700 thousand rubles, the “Izvestia”.