University Students Successfully Competed in Underwater Sport Competitions

09:59, July 6, 2022

They managed to win 19 medals at international and Russian level

International competition in underwater swimming (in the disciplines: finswimming, bi-fins swimming, apnoea finswimming, long diving) was held in St. Petersburg from 22 to 27 June. Athletes from Russia, Belarus, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan took part in the tournament. The swimmers fought for medals in 13 disciplines among men, women, juniors.

The members of the Ural Federal University underwater sport team also took part in the competition. They won nine medals. Merited Master of Sport Stepan Vorobyov took second place in the disciplines: apnoea diving (100 and 400 m), diving (50 m), and also third place in finswimming (100 m). International Master of Sports Aleksandr Khudyshkin took second place in the finswimming (400 and 800 m) and third place in the finswimming (200 m). Two more silver medals were brought by Master of Sports Daniil Vorobyov: in 100 m and 1,500 m fin swimming.

All-Russian competitions in men's, women's and juniors' underwater sports were held in parallel with international competitions. Here also Stepan Vorobyov, Aleksandr Khudyshkin and Daniil Vorobyov managed to win ten gold, silver and bronze medals.

The news article was translated by UrFU International Marketing Office
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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.