PetrSU graduate – Olympic champion in taekwondo!

Vladislav Larin is the new Olympic champion of our country, Honored Master of Sports of Russia in taekwondo, world champion in 2019. While still a student at the Institute of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism of PetrSU, he received a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics. Now a PetrSU graduate Larin Vladislav is a three-time European taekwondo champion, a member of the Russian national taekwondo team, at the highest Olympic level he represented his native university, and the Republic of Karelia and Russia as a whole at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Vladislav Larin won Olympic gold Vladislav Larin won Olympic gold

Vladislav Larin defeated Macedonian Dejan Georgievski in the final of the tournament in the category over 80 kg. with a score of 15: 9. The gold medal of a Petrozavodsk University graduate became the seventh for Russia at the Games in Japan and the second in taekwondo both at these competitions and in the history of the Olympics.