{"id":43756,"date":"2010-08-09T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/08\/09\/russian-competitor-dies-in-world-sauna-championships\/"},"modified":"2010-08-09T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T10:21:00","slug":"russian-competitor-dies-in-world-sauna-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/08\/09\/russian-competitor-dies-in-world-sauna-championships.html","title":{"rendered":"Russian Competitor Dies in World Sauna Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The two finalists in Finland’s annual World Sauna Championships were rushed to hospital before the competition ended Saturday evening and the Russian contestant died, organisers said, AFP reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The “Russian competitor has died in (the) Sauna World Championships,” the head of the competition Ossi Arvela said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He added that the Finnish finalist had been taken from the competition location in Heinola, 138 kilometres (86 miles) north of Helsinki, further south to a hospital in the larger city of Lahti for treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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He told AFP that the two finalists were Russian Vladimir Ladyzhensky and Timo Kaukonen of Finland.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kaukonen won last year’s championships and Ladyzhensky had also figured among the favorites ahead of Saturday’s meet, in which participants were asked to withstand a sweltering 110 degrees Celsius (230 degrees Fahrenheit) for as long as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n

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