Karatists from Tula region took gold at the Eurasian Cup

Tula athletes won medals of international and all-Russian competitions in all-style karate “12 Cup of Eurasia”. The tournament was held from October 15 to 19 in Salavat in the Republic of Bashkortostan and gathered 3,206 participants from 47 regions of Russia and 24 countries of the world, the press service of the Tula Ministry of Sport specified.

It should be said that at international competitions Maxim Demichev took first place, and Alexander Demichev - second. Both performed in the discipline of OK-kata rengokai among men.

At the All-Russian competitions, gold was won by Timofey Petsevich in the OK-50 category among young men aged 14-15. Alexandra Savonova received silver and bronze medals in the OK-50 and OK-57 categories among juniors aged 16-17. The third were Alexander Dzyuba in the discipline OK-kata Rengokai and Pavel Modikh in the category OK-55 among boys 14-15 years old.

Tula karates also distinguished themselves in the festival programs. The first place in the team cata group mix 14+ was taken by Pavel Modykh, Timofey Petsevich and Alexander Dzyuba. Gold medals in individual performances were won by Semyon Lobanov and Dmitry Zheludkov. Prokhor Strekalov became a silver medalist.

The athletes were prepared by senior coach of the Russian national team and coach of the Tula region team Galina Kim, as well as the head of the regional Karate Federation Vugar Akhmedov.

In the near future, Tula athletes will go to training camps, where they will continue preparations for the championship and the world championship.

This is not the first success of Tulas in karate, which wrote "MK in Tula". Earlier, for example, the tula beat rivals from 41 countries and won the National Cup in this sport.