Tatarstan representative Aleksandr Shibayev has completed the fight in the singles table tennis tournament at Olympics in Rio.
The Tatarstan athlete provided decent resistance to ex-first world racket Timo Boll from Germany in the 1/16 finals. In the third round, the Russian conceded 3:4 (14:12, 4:11, 11: 7, 7:11, 12:10, 10:12, 6:11).
Shibayev is the only male representative of the Russian Olympic team in table tennis. Earlier, women's Olympic table tennis tournament was dropped out by Polina Mikhaylova.