Students of the Volga Region University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism will participate in the comprehensive international competition "Friendship Games" in water sports, which will be held in three stages – "World", "Sport" and "Legends" and will last until December this year. The total prize fund of the competition will be about 40 million rubles. The main venues of the Games will be the facilities of the University of Sports – the Palace of Water Sports and the swimming pool "Burevestnik".

The Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Oleg Matytsin noted that the "Friendship Games" in Kazan are a good model of competitions for other sports.

The first stage, which will include the finals of the Russian Swimming Cup, international diving competitions and international synchronized swimming competitions, will bring together athletes from Russia, Algeria, Belarus, Venezuela, Vietnam, Serbia, Syria, Sudan, Tajikistan, Ecuador, South Africa, as well as the DPR and LPR. The launches themselves will be held from July 20 to August 2. By the way, right now in the official account of the Games there is a drawing of tickets for competitions and swimming. According to Alexander Krasnykh, a graduate of the university, a silver medalist of the 2020 Olympic Games, the competition at the Friendship Games will be prohibitive:

– I would like to emphasize the distance of 200 meters, freestyle, after all, for me this is a profile distance. And the competition even at the Russian championship is very high. The final of the Russian 200-meter freestyle championship takes place almost without "infantrymen". All famous guys.

Synchronized swimming competitions will be no less exciting, in which students and applicants of the Volga Region University will perform as part of the team of the Republic of Tatarstan. And seven-time Olympic champion Svetlana Romashina added that the upcoming "Friendship Games" will be a wonderful celebration of sports, unity and new emotions.

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