17.07.2013

Sportsmen from Krasnoyarsk won few medals in different sports on Universiade in Kazan.
 
Russian men and women teams won golden medals on Universiaed in Rugby-7. A great contribution in a final result was made the players of Krasnoyarsk rugby teams "Krasniy Yar" and "Yenisey-STM". 11 players of our city clubs were the members of national teams on Universiade.
 
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Krasnoyarsk Greek-Roman style wrestler Nikita Melnikov became a winner of Universiade in weight category – before 96 kg. Our athlete confidently won a final fight against sportsman from Armenia-bronze medalist of Olympiad. Nikita Melnikov is a winner of World Cup-2013, winner of Ivan Poddubnyy championship-2013 and champion of Russia-2013. 
 
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The player of Krasnoyarsk basketball team “Enisey” Nadezhda Mayorova became a silver medalist as a part of Russian basketball women team. Our team lose final game versus opponents from the USA. Universiade became a first international competition in career of Krasnoyarsk athlete.
 
A sportsman from Krasnoyarsk region academy of summer sport Alexey Menkov became a silver medalist of Universiade in length-jump competition with a new personal record. Yuliya Kashina from the same academy ranked the fourth place in team running.
  
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A member of Russian football team, player of Krasnoyarsk club “Enisey” Alexey Nikitin ranked a fourth place in football competition.
 
 
It is also necessary to mark, that President of Russia Vladimir Putin visited Kazan and had a meeting with the representatives of executive committee of The International University Sports Federation (FISU). Governor of Krasnoyarsk region Lev Kuznetsov also took part in a meeting. The representatives of FISU highly marked organization of Universiade and sportsmen’s achievements. The sided also discussed the plans of future development of student sport and cooperation of Russia and FISU.
 
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President of Russia assured that Government of Russia will support Krasnoyarsk in its request campaign for Universiade-2019 holding.