The Volga Region University athletics team became the winner of the "Stars of Student Sports" competition that ended today in Moscow. Our students have won three gold, seven silver and three bronze medals.
Anastasia Sekretareva won two awards of the highest standard at the Olympic Center named after the Znamensky Brothers in Moscow in the 600-meter and 1000-meter races. The 2000-meter race ended with the victory of Gennady Egorov.
Danil Kornev (long jump), Niyaz Sadikov (running 3000 meters), Maxim Lyubovnikov (running 600 meters), Kirill Dyatlov (running 2000 meters), Nikita Ivanov (high jump) are taking silver medals to Kazan.
Also, our men's (Gleb Plotnikov, Alexey Nikitin, Gleb Neustroev and Pavel Timryakov) and women's (Ulyana Serova, Ralina Askarova, Daria Semenova and Karina Galieva) teams rose to the second step of the podium.
According to the results of the competition, Daria Andryakova (long jump), Gennady Egorov and Pavel Timryakov (running 3000 meters) won the bronze medal.
It should be noted that at these competitions the university team (under the leadership of the coaching tandem of the senior lecturer of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Athletics and Rowing Sports Sergey Borovik and teacher Dmitry Mostyakov) performed for the first time. And immediately - team gold!
Sergey Borovik commented on the success of the national team:
- The tournament is serious, part of the unified calendar plan of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, and therefore traditionally gathers a strong composition of participants. However, for various reasons (injuries, participation in the training camps of national teams), we could not declare several leaders. And our rivals faced the same problems. Nevertheless, I think that we performed well in competition with such serious opponents as last year's winners from MGAFK.
