UrFU Student Alexander Smelov Competed in Europe Slopestyle Cup

13:11, April 8, 2019

The snowboarder placed third

UrFU snowboarder, student of the Institute of New Materials and Technologies Alexander Smelov represented Russia at the Europe Snowboard Cup. He took third place in the discipline "slopestyle".

Competitions were held in Sochi on March 24–29. Riders from Switzerland, Belarus and Georgia participated in the competition.

Ural athlete was bypassed only by Mikhail Matveyev from Moscow and snowboarder from Switzerland Huber Nicholas.

Earlier in March Alexander took part in the XXIX World Winter Universiade, where he took 10th place.

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.