A productive weekend turned out for track and field athletes of the Volga Region University of Sport and Tourism. Ulyanovsk welcomed the strongest athletes at the championship and championship of the Volga Federal District among juniors and juniors under 23.
Ulyana Serova (60m hurdles), Danil Kornev (length) and Nikita Ivanov (height) became winners in their events. "Silver" in the pentathlon was brought by Yulia Sokhatskaya. Ilya Latypov took third place in the heptathlon. Guys performed in the individual event at the PFD championship.
The winners in the district championship were Gleb Neustroev in the 60m dash, Dinislav Zakirov in the 800m dash, Eva Mendeleeva in the high jump and Maksim Fedotov in the pole vault. Silver medals went to Anton Bolshakov in the longest distance (3,000m), Darya Andryakova in the pentathlon, Diana Nikonova in the shot put and Adel Zarifullin in the 200m dash. "Maria Batalova won the bronze medal in the long jump.
Based on the results of the three competition days, Team Tatarstan finished second in the overall standings.
The women's 4x400m relay team of Karina Pershakova, Evgeniya Vaganova, Polina Sabitova and Anastasia Ogneva placed third.
In addition, university students were distinguished in other teams. So, for the Chuvash Republic the students of the Volga Region University won "three gold medals" - two of them were won by Andrey Nikitin in the 60 metres hurdles and high jump. Danil Egorov got the third gold in the 3,000m dash and a bronze in the 1,500m.
As a member of the Udmurt national team Alyona Nigmatullina became the third runner-up in the 1,500 metres.
