November 10, 2015Archive 2007–2013

Athletes from Tikhvin win the 9th Festival of Physical Culture and Sports of Leningrad Region Workplace Teams

Athletes from Tikhvin win the 9th Festival of Physical Culture and Sports of Leningrad Region Workplace Teams
The 9th Festival of Physical Culture and Sports of Leningrad Region teams was held in Kirovsk (Leningrad Region) on October 24. The tournament was organized by the Russian Tug of War Federation with the support of the Leningrad Region Committee for Physical Culture and Sports and the "Rossiya" Physical Culture and Sports Society of the Trade Unions of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region (FSO profsoyuzov "Rossiya"). A total of 46 athletes from six workplace teams of Leningrad Region competed for victory. Chief referee: Vladimir Ivanovich Gerasimov.

The winner was the team representing the Railcar Building Plant (Tikhvin) (Maxim Prokhorov, Alexei Vyshegorodtsev, Pyotr Zakharov, Ruslan Tagirov, Yuri Tulintsev, Stepan Razin, Yevgeny Kondar, Maxim Kivaev). In the final, the Tikhvin athletes beat Okeanpribor from Kirovsk (Vadim Golubev, Yevgeny Ilyin, Vladimir Lobanov, Sergei Mitronov, Anton Bashkarev, Alexander Yakovlev, Vladimir Tikhonov, Pavel Zakharov) 2:0. Third place went to the team of the Alexandrov Research Institute of Technology (NITI) from Sosnovy Bor (Ivan Kuznetsov, Valery Trigubov, Nikita Ivanov, Vadim Gabidulin, Vladimir Isakov, Mikhail Shleinikov, Igor Kuznetsov, Yevgeny Kolpakov).