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VyatSU students were successful on prestigious competitions in wrestling

  • 26 September 2016, 20:36
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The Championships of Sport society of trade unions "Russia" and "Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin Cup" in Greco-Roman wrestling finished in Nizhny Novgorod on September 25th .

About 150 athletes from 20 regions of Russia participated in these competitions. Kirov region team included four students from VyatSU. They all won medals of different value.

Sergey Mashanov (the Faculty of physical culture and sports, correspondence department) took the third place in weight category up to 66 kg. Two more students: Andrey Shikhov (80 kg, part-time study) and Yaroslav Kochergin (98 kg, full-time study) came back also with bronze medals. The best result of Kirov region team was achieved by Evgeny Vysotin, the full-time student of the Faculty of physical culture and sports: he took the 2nd place in wrestlers fights (weight category up to 71 kg).

Our wrestlers are expecting the following competitions at coming week-end. They will go to the town of Tchaikovsky for the traditional cross-regional tournament in memory of honored Russian coach G.Sarsatskikh, one of the founders of wrestling in Perm Krai.

 

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