OAR clinch ice hockey gold

Pyeongchang : The Olympic athletes from Russia team scored a winner in overtime to beat Germany 4-3 and take the Winter Olympics men’s ice hockey gold medal.

Kirill Kaprizov, 20, scored the golden goal winner with just over 10 minutes of overtime remaining.

The match had finished 3-3 in normal time, OAR forcing the extra period via an equaliser with 56 seconds left.

The win gives OAR their second gold of the Pyeongchang Games and 17th medal overall.

The scores were level going into the final period after Germany’s Felix Schutz cancelled out Vyacheslav Voinov’s first period opener.

But in the thrilling closing stages, Nikita Gusev put OAR 2-1 in front with seven minutes left, only for Germany to equalise through Dominik Kahun 10 seconds later.