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11:38, July 31, 2018

UrFU sportsmen showed high results and got medals

World championships in swimming, Muay Thai, as well as the Cup of Russia on underwater sport brought prizes to university students. Ekaterina Nalimova and Yevgeny Smirnov showed high results in swimming, Vladimir Kuzmin – in Muay Thai.

‘Yevgeny Smirnov got the 7th place at the World Championships in Belgrade at a distance of 400 meters in finswimming; in international student competitions he won the 1st place in relay race 4 by 100 meters, and the 2nd place in finswimming for 400 meters’, commented the head of UrFU team for underwater sport Tatiana Myasnikova.

Ekaterina Nalimova won silver of the national championship in in the discipline "Marathon swim in fins 6 km".

In Thailand, during the Students’ World Championship in Thai Boxing, UrFU student Vladimir Kuzmin received a bronze medal.

Ural Federal University is one of the leading universities in Russia founded in 1920. UrFU is located in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural region, an economic, industrial, scientific and cultural center of Russia. The university is the project office of the Ural Interregional Research and Education Center "Advanced Industrial Technologies and Materials" designed for solving tasks of "Science" National Project.