Fr om September 10 to September 13, the Russian Badminton Championship for athletes under 22 was held in the village of Zeleny Gorod, Nizhny Novgorod region.
The tournament featured 27 athletes from seven regions: Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Moscow region, the Nizhny Novgorod region, the Yaroslavl region, the Republic of Tatarstan, and the Republic of Bashkortostan.
Badminton is a sport wh ere players stand on opposite sides of a court divided by a net, using rackets to hit a shuttlecock over it. The objective is to land the shuttlecock on the opponent's side while preventing it from falling on your own.
Over two days of competition at the Lesnoy Kvartal sports complex, the masters of the flying shuttlecock competed in men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles.
The top contenders confirmed their status as leaders, but the tournament also revealed unexpected new talents.
TEAM COMPETITION:
1st place – Moscow
2nd place – Republic of Tatarstan
3rd place – Republic of Bashkortostan
3rd place – St. Petersburg
Artemy Karpov, Senior Coach of the Russian National Badminton Team:
Thank you to everyone for organizing and holding the competition! Everything went perfectly! We have new champions in men's singles, Maxim Lutsenko from Bashkiria, and in women's singles, Ekaterina Matviiva from the Moscow region. The men's doubles pair from Moscow, Anton Kurkov and Denis Rengarten, managed to dethrone last year's champions, the Kudashkin brothers. Congratulations to all the coaches on their winners and runners-up!
Text: Nurlan Tazhigulov
Photo: Elena Tochilina
Translation: Daria Kudelina
