Evgenia Kosetskaya, a graduate of the Volga Region University of Sports, started the Olympic badminton tournament with a victory. In the first match of the group stage, the Russian defeated Yvonne Lee from Germany with a score 2-0 (22:20, 21:15).
Kosetskaya's next opponent in Group E at the tournament in Tokyo will be the third number of the world ranking Nozomi Okuhara from Japan. The fight will take place on July 28. According to the rules of the tournament, all badminton players are divided into 14 groups, only the winners go to the playoffs.
Another Russian badminton player representing the Volga Region University in Tokyo – Sergey Sirant (he completed his studies at the university this summer) will hold his first match at the Olympics tomorrow. His opponent will be Gergei Kraus from Hungary.
Recall that in total, the Volga Region University is represented by 14 athletes in Tokyo. Some of them, like Kosetskaya, have already competed for medals at the 2020 Olympics.
The Russian women's national volleyball team, for which University graduate Irina Voronkova plays, lost to the Italians in the opening match of the Olympic tournament (0:3).
The men's volleyball team, which included Viktor Poletaev, a graduate of the Volga Region University, went to Japan, has already held two matches in Tokyo. And she won both of them. In the opening match, we defeated the Argentines with a score 3:1 (21:25, 25:23, 25:17, 25:21). And in the next match - the US national team, and again in four sets– 3:1 (25:23, 27:25, 21:25, 25:23).
But the cyclist Ilnur Zakarin in Tokyo failed to show a decent result. In the group 234-kilometer race for men, the University graduate did not reach the finish line.
It should be noted that Zakarin and several other competitors did not receive food during the race due to the fault of the organizers. This was stated in an interview with the RIA Novosti news agency by the head coach of the Russian national cycling team on the highway Irakli Abrahamyan.
Another graduate of our university, Anastasia Lebedeva, in the rowing competitions as part of the pair deuce together with Maria Batalova, reached the semifinals, which will be held on July 27. To do this, the Russians had to participate in a consolation qualifying race, in which they showed the second result.
Swimmer Anna Egorova, who completed her studies at the Volga Region University this year, failed to reach the final in the 400-meter crawl. In the qualifying heat, she finished sixth. Anna has another distance ahead of her – 800 meters.
Did not make it to the final of the competition in bench shooting (in the skit discipline) Another graduate of the University is Zilya Batyrshina.
