The man's national team of Ukraine on judo will take part in the next Continental Cup which in the first output spring will be accepted by the capital of Poland Warsaw. To a tatami of the sports Arena complex there are 20 representatives of a blue and yellow team.

For the first time in new year the leader of the Ukrainian national team, the world champion-2009 and the champion of Europe-2011 in weight category to 60 kg 25-year-old George Zantaraya will act on the international scene. After unsuccessful performance on Olympic Games in London, Vitaly Dubrova's ward replaced weight category with heavier. At the beginning of October Zantaraya won a sure victory in the championship of Ukraine in Sevastopol in weight category to 66 kg, and then unsuccessfully acted in a team championship of the world in Brazil, having lost "ippony" to Russian Mikhail Pulyaev.

On a tatami in the Polish capital there are two more participants of OG-2012 - львовянин Sergey Drebot (73 kg) and Artem Bloshenko (100 kg) Donetsk.

In the demand of the Ukrainian national team also two debutants of competitions of such rank. For the first time the bronze prize-winner of ChU-2012, 21-year-old Sergey Malyan (66 kg) from Sevastopol will test the strength at so high level. The second debutant as a part of our team 22-year-old Andrey Spiridonov from Lviv which conceded in duels for "bronze" on ChU-2012 in Sevastopol and on youth ChU-2012 in Cherkassy.

Structure of delegation of Ukraine on the World Cup in Warsaw:

60 kg - Denis Bilichenko (Dnepropetrovsk - the Lvov Region), Artem Vorona (Dnepropetrovsk), Sergey Bobyr (Chernigov)

66 kg - George Zantaraya (Kiev - Zaporozhye), Sergey Malyan (Sevastopol), Vladimir Rogalsky (Dnepropetrovsk), Kirill Melnichenko (Kharkov)

73 kg - Sergey Drebot (Lviv), Sergey Pliyev (Dnepropetrovsk - the Lugansk Region)

81 kg - Vitaly Popovic (Kremenchug, the Poltava Region - the Lugansk Region), Zaur Musakhanov (The Kiev Region - the Cherkassk Region), Sergey Gonchuk (Lviv)

90 kg - Vadim Sinyavsky (Zaporozhye), Kedzhau Nyabali (Kiev - Kirovograd), Andrey Spiridonov (Lviv)

100 kg - Artem Bloshenko (Donetsk), Dmitry Berezhnaya (Sumy - the Kiev Region)

+ 100 kg - Anton Brachev (Dnepropetrovsk - Sevastopol), Razmik Tonoyan (The Kiev Region - the Cherkassk Region), Kirill Beletsky (Slavyansk, Donetsk Region).

Trainer's staff:

Senior trainer: Vitaly Dubrova (Kiev)

Trainers: Vasily Voloshin (Kremenchug, Poltava Region), Vladimir Kononov (Slavyansk, Donetsk Region)

Judge: Vitaly Sulima (Krasnoarmeysk, Donetsk Region).

Program of competitions:

On March 2, Saturday: - 60 kg, - 66 kg, - 73 kg;

On March 3, Sunday: - 81 kg, - 90 kg, - 100 kg, + 100 kg.

Daily the beginning of competitions at 11.00 on the Kiev time. Start of the final block on Saturday at 16.00, on Sunday duels for medals will begin in 15 minutes after end of preliminary part of competitions.

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