At the end of August, the Russian championship in rowing and Canoeing took place at the facility of the Volga Academy in the center of rowing sports. The Academy was represented at this tournament by seven athletes-students of the faculty of physical culture . On account of the "academicians" at the end of the competition three gold and four silver medals.
Muscovite Danil Karpov, a 3rd year student of the Academy finished first in the final race at a distance of 200 meters canoe-fours, and 500-meter in the crew of canoe-four became a silver medalist.
Another gold medal went to Karpov in the relay race 4X200 single canoes, and the team of the Rostov region, for which stands the 2nd year student Murad Chubanov, completed the second relay.
Chubanov, in addition, was the second in the race for 500 meters canoe-twos and the fifth in the 200-meter crew canoe-four.
Freshman Aleksander Lebedev (younger sister graduate Anastasiya Lebedeva) won the race for 200 meters kayak-fours, and in the relay 4X200 single kayak team of Moscow, for which she stands, won silver medals.
The rest of our students, alas, were not among the winners. Including, and pupils of the Tatarstan rowing school the first-year student Artur Valeev (the best place - the 13th) and the student of the 4th course Alena Zhigalina (the best result-the 8th). Both participated in competitions of kayaks-singles on 200-meter.
In Quartet strongest on 200-metre made it entered the Academy of this summer Vladislav Gerasimov (kayak-deuce) and Anna Panfilova (kayak-Quartet). Both are in favor of the Moscow region.
- Could perform better, said the teacher of the Department of cyclic sports Aleksander Vasiliev, recently supervising rowers on kayaks and canoes in the Volga Academy. - This is especially true of elite athletes. In particular, Karpov racing canoe singles was only the seventh.
It is worth noting that another student of the Academy, which is part of the Russian national team, Kirill Shamshurin, did not take part in the championship of Russia, as he moved into the adult age category.
But in General, according to Vasilyev, the University can not yet put in front of its rowers on kayaks and canoes some serious sports tasks. After all, student competitions in this rowing discipline in Russia are not held for two years. Rowing" academic " League exists thanks to the patronage of the Minister of justice of the Russian Federation Aleksander Konovalov, candidate master of sports in rowing.
-We can only hope for the sporting success of students - collections, preparing for the starts mainly in their regions under the guidance of personal trainers, - says Vasiliev. - And on progress in training of rowers, with dreams of the national team said goodbye. After all, before they open the championship prospects in the coaching profession. Perhaps they will be able to create a closed cycle in the Republic, in which the Volga region Academy from year to year would replenish their student ranks with talented pupils of the local school, providing them with excellent conditions for training. The current six coaches for the whole country - it is too little to talk about working on the sport of the highest achievements and training of high-class athletes. The local school is mainly focused on mass sports. And given that the favorites of parental sympathies in Kazan in recent years are team sports, talk about some selection of promising children in rowing school is not necessary. Just the kit.