The winners of student competitions in weightlifting in the standings of the Games of universities of the Republic of Tatarstan was the team of the Volga sports Academy. The tournament was held at one of the facilities of the University, in the Center of rowing sports. It should be noted that weightlifters-academicians become the best among universities of Tatarstan for the second year in a row.
In the final team Protocol of competitions rather sure advantage in 61, 54 points of "academicians" over the main competitors in fight for a title, the national team of kspeu is recorded. It should be noted that the Volga region Academy delegated 8 students to the tournament. And "energy" made the team almost two times superior in number – of the 14 athletes. But only eight of the best results were taken into account when summing up the results. The national team of Academy as a whole having acted rather exactly, decisive advantage achieved in heavy weight categories 89 and 96 kilograms. Third-year student (specialization physical education) Sergey Lisichkin in total raised 288 kg (the best result of the competition and first place in the category of 89 kg), his classmate Sergey Fazlullin became the winner in the weight category up to 96 kg with a result of 244 kg in total.
As part of the Academy team, the winners of the Games were students of the faculty of sports (specialization – wrestling) Insaf Zakirov, Egor Gorshkov, Victor Perunov, Ilsur Lukmanov, Artem Nesterov and future specialist in physical rehabilitation Dmitry Ivanov.