FONBET The Russian Cup in artistic gymnastics ended the other day in Novosibirsk. Six students from Volga Region University were among the participants.
First-year student Daniel Marinov won the all-around, floor exercise and parallel bars, as well as bronze in vault and horizontal bar.
‘Ranel Safiullin's gold medal in the floor exercise was his first victory at the federal level. He also took fifth place in parallel bars exercises.
Yulia Nikolaeva also took part in the competition and took sixth place in the balance beam exercises and fourteenth place in the all-around.
Ivan Antonikhin took eighth place in the parallel bars and seventh on the horizontal bar, and was tenth in the all-around. Graduate Stanislav Isaev and student Nikita Andronov also participated in the Russian Cup, but did not qualify for the finals.
‘The Cup is attended by 24 best gymnasts who performed in the finals of the Russian Championship: it is a competition among the best athletes of the country. Since Olympic champions could not take part in the tournament, the participants are young athletes,’ said Lyubov Botova, international category judge, head of the Department of Gymnastics Theory and Methodology. - The young gymnast Ranel Safiullin can be realised on the big platform in the future. Daniel Marinov came to the competition as a favourite and is the leader of the national team for the third year. Drawing parallels with the Games in Paris, students of Volga Region University show high results worthy of the Olympic final’.
Text: Adelina Khramova
