The centre of rowing sports Povolzhskaya Academy in January became the site of training camps just three teams - the Junior national team in rowing and Canoeing, as well as youth and Junior national team of Russia on rowing. Only 70 people from 15 to 23 years.
As noted by the head coach of the national team of Russia on rowing Nicholas Spines, the Kazan rowing base meets international requirements. "Over the past five years since the construction of the centre, he became one of the permanent seats for the preparations of our athletes. Winter and summer here, but in the spring, based on last year's experience, rating the competition was moved to Rostov. Since a year ago, in April, wild Boar in some places there was still ice," he says.
The advantage of the Kazan Center of rowing sports, according to coaches, is a complex of specialized structures located in the same place. The guys train and live in the same place. Moreover, the hotel "Regatta" is connected with sports and rehabilitation complex with a passage. This allows you to keep the training process continuously. In addition, the restaurant "Regatta" special sports menu - balanced and fortified.
Training in rowing sports intensive - 3 times a day for 2 hours. It's running, classes at the rowing basin, a complex of exercises on special training apparatus, swimming, and skiing. On the University bus rowers-collections went to ski training in Derbyshki and Gorkinskaya-Matievskiy forest.
"Like to see on our collecting was more representatives of Tatarstan", - trainers speak. While they are almost there. Of the 70 athletes from different regions of Russia, visited at the January training camp, only one of Kazan national Junior team in rowing. "With this database, a sin not to raise their Champions," say the coaches. Today in the payroll of national teams of Russia consists of 33 athletes from Tatarstan. Among them Artyom Kosov and Anton Kuranov, Nazar Lifshits. The guys became Champions and are the pride of Tatarstan and the Russian sports.
Lira Sahapov