Silver medalists of the team championship of Russia in badminton, held in Gatchina (Leningrad region), was the team of Tatarstan, the colors of which were defended by 14 students and undergraduates of the Volga Academy of sports.
In the final Tatarstan lost to Moscow team with the score 3: 1. The only point for our team brought the student Academy Eugene Kosecka, who Anastasia Shapovalov with the score 21:14, 21:12. But another graduate student of the University Sergey Sirant in men's singles lost to George Karpov. Lost your final battle and the freshmen Timur Valiullin and Taymazov Gareev. Very persistent was the decisive meeting of the final of women's pairs. "Academician" Evgenia Kosetskaya and Olga Ivashchenko failed to reduce the gap in the score in the confrontation with the capital's badminton players Olga Morozova and Victoria Kozyreva, in the mast of three sets (22-20, 17-21, 21-14).
In addition to the participants of the final match in the national team of Tatarstan in this tournament was attended by "academics" Mikheil Gelashvili, Amir Khamidulin, Yegor Cherkassky, Alexander'kin, Anastasia Redkina, Darya Dzhedzhula, Viktoriya Vorobyova Alina Romanko, Maria Malygina Ekaterina Kadochnikova.
Today in Gatchina the personal championship of Russia on badminton started.