One Hundred Medals of Winter Universiade 2019

15:53, March 11, 2019

UrFU sportsmen took gold, silver and bronze in short track, ball hockey and biathlon

Four students of Ural Federal University participated in the Winter Universiade in Krasnoyarsk. Evgenya Zakharova (short track) won gold in the relay for three kilometers, Tatyana Kuznetsova successfully performed in the ball hockey team competition, which resulted in silver. Two bronze biathlon medals were won by Tamara Voronina in 7.5 km sprint and 10 km pursuit. 10th place went to snowboarder Alexander Smelov. Today, the Russian team has a hundred medals in total: 35 gold, 35 silver and 30 bronze.

The World Winter Universiade will end on March 12.

UrFU also takes part in the preparation of Ekaterinburg application for the World Universiade 2023. The university is preparing proposals on the design of the Universiade village. According to the rector Victor Koksharov, the university plans to actively participate in the Universiade organization: the formation of sports teams, the training of volunteers; and in the further the university is ready to become the Universiade Development Center in Russia and abroad.

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.