UrFU Athletes Secure Eight Medals at Arm-Wrestling Competitions

Eight UrFU athletes, seven students and one graduate, won five gold and three silver medals at the Golden Tiger Armwrestling Preliminaries and Championship in Ekaterinburg. First places were taken by Dmitry Luchinin, Anton Petrov, Konstantin Rogov, Alexander Klimov and Mikhail Poluyakhtov. Second places went to Anna Belenko, Kirill Gerasimenko and Alexandra Shchukina.

“All our athletes did well. They regularly and responsibly train, prepare for competitions. And this has an effect on their results: they constantly take prizes and go to the Russian preliminaries and championships, and earlier the also went to European and the worldwide ones. I’m sure they will show their skills at the next competitions as well”, says Valery Filin, UrFU arm-wrestling coach.

It should be noted that the preliminaries and championship of Ekaterinburg in arm-wrestling “Golden Tiger” took place on September 23-24 in “Ekaterinburg-Expo”. The competition is a qualifying stage for the preliminaries and championship of the Urals Federal District, which will be held at the end of November. All UrFU prize-winners will be included in the national team of the district. The arm-wrestling coach is sure that according to the results of the Ural Federal District competitions the athletes will be included in the Russian national team.