Veterans from Serpukhov won medals of the Courage Cup in Kaluga

The sports program included three official disciplines - chess, sports knife throwing and powerlifting, as well as two demonstrations - adaptive-gire sports and functional digital double-athlon (boxing). Participants could also undergo a medical examination and visit Marshal Zhukov Museum.

The organizers were the Heroes of the Fatherland OSAOVBD, the Zhukovsky municipal district and the All-Russian Federation of Sports Knife Throwing with the support of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation, the government of the Kaluga region, the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation and the Association of Veterans of the SVO.

On behalf of the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Mikhail Degtyarev, the participants were welcomed by Deputy Director for Innovative Sports of the Federal Center for Training of the Sports Reserve of Russia, Chairman of the Heroes of the Fatherland OSAOVBD, Head of the Serpukhov Branch of the Association of Veterans of the SVO, Cavalier of the Order of Courage Igor Starovoit. The athletes also came to support the Chairman of the Moscow regional organization “Heroes of the Fatherland”, the President of the Federation of MMA Serpukhov Maxim Guzovsky and world boxing champion Mark Petrovsky.

As a result of the festival, the team of the Moscow region became the absolute champion. Among the winners and prize-winners are veterans of hostilities from Serpukhov. In adaptive-gire sports, Ivan Redler took first place in class O, Z, Ivan Montz - third in the same class, Alexander Petropavlovsky became second in class H1, H2, S. In sports knife throwing, Andrei Fomin won in class 3, Igor Zhuravlev took bronze in class 3, Ivan Redler became second in class O, Andrei Parfyonov - third in class N, Leonid Sobolev - third in class C.

In chess, Alexei Starovoitov has the first place, Vyacheslav Anokhin (both from Serpukhov) has the third. In powerlifting Ivan Redler won in the weight category up to 65 kg, Vyacheslav Grafkin became the third in the same category. Alexander Petropavlovsky won in the category up to 80 kg, Roman Gomylyaev - up to 97 kg. In the category over 97 kg, Arakel Sanosyan was the first, and Boris Shevchenko was the third.

The organizers note that such competitions help veterans return to active life, socialize and strengthen their spirit.