Rowers of the Volga region Academy of sports and tourism successfully performed at the Great Moscow regatta, and the second stage of the Student rowing League (SGL) which took place within the framework of these competitions.
The final arrival of the eight-balls on the channel in Krylatskoye, within the SGL stage at a distance of 2000 meters, ended with a confident victory of the crew of "academicians", which was almost three seconds ahead of the Military Academy of communications, and for more than five seconds – the" eight " of the Tomsk University of radio electronics control systems.
In our team the winners were freshmen Timur Angulata, Nikita Sazonov and Kirill Novoselov, second-year students of Daniil Savchenko Vladislav Karthik, Artem Sperow and Fariz Mukhametzyanov, as well as third-year Alexander Shtepenko. Coach of our crew Gorbunov M. A.
Well, the winners of the Great Moscow regatta (qualifying for the youth world championship) were students of the Volga region Academy Polina Smolenskaya and Elizabeth Starostina (two pair of light weight), Polina Mukhorcheva (two pair of main weight) in tandem with Tatiana Varshavskaya from St. Petersburg.
Starostin and Smolensk in company with Catherine Kostyuchenoc and Daria Cleanaway won the race four doubles. Another "academic" crew – women's doubles pair, composed of Catherine Kostyuchenoc and Daria Cleanaway - won "silver". Kira Yuvchenko became the winner of the regatta in the four of the swing, Alina Zavitnevich-the best in the competition of light weight singles.
Men brought three medals to the medal Treasury of the Volga region Academy. Sergei Cherepkov in the asset of the victory in the pair of two light weight pair and " bronze "in the race of eights with the steering, the winner of which was the" academician " George Semchikov.