REGIONAL SAMBO STUDENT GAMES IN TOMSK

The sports complex "Jupiter" hosted the regional Universiade 2020 in Sambo. Students of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University took part in the event and showed great resutls.

The Student Gamest is a comprehensive physical education event aimed to development and popularization of physical education and sports in the Tomsk Region, as well as the improvement of the level of physical fitness and sportsmanship. This year, 80 students from Tomsk region universities gathered to test their skills : “Of course, the number of people who wanted to take part in the competition was much greater, and we decided to limit the number of teams to represent the participants with better physical training”, - said the executive secretary of Tomsk Regional Central Branch "All-Russian Sambo Federation", the chief judge of the competition Denis Evgenievich Vyshegorodtsev.

In the team championship, the female team of the TSPU took the second place. Anastasia Gorbunova (56 kg) and Valeria Anisimova (64 kg) won in the individual events.

The main objectives of the Universiade are:

• promotion of a healthy lifestyle, civic and patriotic education of student youth;
• popularization of sports, increasing the level of physical culture and sports in educational institutions of higher education;
• scouting of the strongest athletes among the universities of the Tomsk region.