Today, in the concert hall of the Volga Region University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism, the award ceremony "Athlete of the Year-2021" took place. The hosts of the event were represented in the list of winners by an impressive cohort of athletes, coaches and heads of structural divisions.
The ceremony was attended by Acting Rector of the Volga Region University Rafis Burganov. He greeted the audience in the hall:
- Deserved words of gratitude to our president, the government of the republic have already sounded from this stage this evening. I would like to join these words and say a huge thank you to the heads of municipalities. I am very pleased that the top officials of the municipalities are here today. This suggests that only thanks to their support and our joint work, we can have such results. For my part, I want to note that our university will create all conditions for the training of coaches, physical education teachers. To create appropriate conditions for student athletes who study at our university – a magnificent legacy of the Universiade-2013. And of course, all the sports facilities and playgrounds of our city will be prepared in the best way so that our athletes achieve the best results on them.
Winged Leopards were recognized as the best student sports club of the Republic of Tatarstan. That is how the sports club of the Volga Region University has been called recently. Maxim Burkin, the head of the club, took the stage for the award.
In the nomination "Sports hopes of Tatarstan", the University was represented by a first-year student Ksenia Demidova, the winner of the world championship in belt wrestling.
Volga Region University was awarded several diplomas in the nomination "Special Awards". Leonid Savosin, senior lecturer of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Skiing, Chairman of the Coaching Council of the Federation of Cross-country Skiing and Biathlon of the Republic of Tatarstan, was honored this evening "For service to sport".
"Figure of the Year" - with this wording, the Palace of Water Sports, recognized in the outgoing 2021 as the "Object of the Year" and the Diving Federation of Russia, was included among the winners. The award was presented to the Director of the DVVS Albert Bagautdinov by the President of the Russian Federation of Diving Stanislav Druzhinin. In 2021, the facility hosted 34 sports events, 64 records (including five world records) were set during swimming competitions in the walls of the DVVS.
Weightlifter, European champion Daria Akhmerova and chess player, winner of the Chess Olympiad Vladislav Artemyev were among the winners as athletes of the republic who have made the most impressive progress. Together with the champions of Russia in wheelchair basketball-2021 "Wings of the Leopard", the mentor of the University basketball team Natalia Kuleshova took the stage this evening.
Among the athletes whose performances are recognized as the "Breakthrough of the Year" is tennis player Polina Kudermetova. "The best athletes of the Republic of Tatarstan in non-Olympic sports" were belt wrestlers, world and Russian champion-2021 Alexey Abramov and senior lecturer of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Martial Arts, 8-time world champion Gabdyzhalil Suleymanov.
In a separate nomination in the outgoing year, the organizers of the ceremony singled out the participants of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. They included graduates and students of our university, swimmers Grigory Tarasevich and Alexander Krasnykh, cyclist Ilnur Zakarin, badminton players Evgenia Kosetskaya and Sergey Sirant, Nikita Schleicher (diving).
At the end of the evening, the main characters of the outgoing sports year were named. The awards were presented to them by Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Leyla Fazleeva.
Igor Nazarov, the head coach of the national team of the Republic of Tatarstan, the youth national team of Russia and the team of the Volga Region University in badminton, and Ekaterina Luzganova, the coach in bench and bullet shooting, were recognized as the best coaches.
The best athletes of Tatarstan-2021 were fencer Marta Martinova and volleyball player Maxim Mikhailov.
Team of the Year - KAMAZ-master, winners of the Dakar rally-2021.
