At the world championship in rowing among young people under 23 years, a student of the Volga region Academy Kira Yuvchenko won the gold medal in the four (BW4) without a steering with the result of 6:31,49, which ended in Poznan (Poland). She, like her partner Elizaveta Kornienko, Valentina Plaksina and Anna Aksenova-will represent the country at the summer Olympics in Japan in 2020.
And in the Bulgarian Plovdiv at the world championship in rowing and Canoeing among young people up to 23 years, a student of the Volga region Academy Lyudmila Odintsova became a bronze medalist of the tournament in the four at a distance of 500 meters. Her companion Varvara Baranova, Kristina Kovnir and Olga Dubolazova.