Denis Pasler opened all-Russian tournaments in taekwondo ITF

The Governor of the Sverdlovsk region Denis Pasler took part in the opening ceremony of the All-Russian competitions in taekwondo ITF – “Cup of Russia” for adults and “Cup of Demidov” for youth. According to the Department of information policy of the Sverdlovsk region, the ceremony was held in the Palace of gaming sports, where in the coming days will play 78 sets of medals and 58 cups. As a result of the competitions, the composition of the Russian Taekwondo ITF team will be formed next year.

Recently, we hosted figure skating competitions, and now the Middle Urals meets all fans of taekwondo ITF at the Russian Cup for adults and the Demidov Cup for youth. All-Russian tournaments gathered in Yekaterinburg more than a thousand athletes from 29 regions of Russia. The Russian Cup has been held for the 30th time in a row. And this is true: the Ural school of taekwondo is one of the strongest in Russia, our athletes are part of the national team, Denis Pasler said.

At the ceremony, the Governor, together with the President of the Taekwondo Federation of the ITF of Russia Sergey Seyranov, presented the certificate and the badge of the master of sports of international class Yegor Gribanov - captain of the men's team of the Russian team from Kamensk Uralsky. Egor has been involved in sports for 15 years and has an impressive collection of awards: he has gold medals of the Russian Championship, Russian Cups, Asian Championship and World Cup, as well as silver awards of European and World Championships. On the first day of the competition, he confidently defeated an opponent from the Samara region with a score of 4: 0.

Taekwondo ITF has been systematically developing in the Middle Urals since 1989. The starting point was the creation of the first taekwondo federation under the leadership of Alexander Systsov and the appearance in Kamensk-Urals of the Association of Taekwondo Sports Clubs led by Vladimir Wagenleitner. Today, the results of the Ural athletes confirm the high level of training: last year alone, they won 17 international medals and 138 all-Russian medals.

Holding large-scale tournaments in the region meets the goals of the state program "Sport of Russia" and contributes to the popularization of martial arts and the development of sports reserve.

Earlier, MK-Ural wrote that the stage of the Russian Grand Prix in figure skating was completed in Yekaterinburg. Medals were played in men's and women's singles, as well as in pairs skating. In men’s singles, the champion was Muscovite Mark Kondratyuk – he scored 279.91 points on the sum of the programs. Silver was won by Gleb Lutfullin from St. Petersburg (272.16 points), bronze by Makar Ignatov (256.99 points).