Today, November 25th, on the final competition day of the 25th Summer Deaflympics in Tokyo, our athletes won five gold medals, as well as one silver and one bronze. An excellent finish! Let's take turns recounting the splendid victories of our athletes, who, despite all difficulties, achieved astonishing results! Let's start with news fr om the mountain bikers. Early in the morning at the cycling sports center, the mountain bikers faced their final and most challenging test in the XCO...

Monday morning continued to delight us with wonderful news fr om Japan — medal after medal! Today, tennis masters Dmitry Dolzhenkov and Vladislav Abramov, having gone through all stages undefeated, became champions of the 25th Summer Deaflympics in men's doubles! In the final match, they secured a confident victory over German opponents Niklas Koehler and Luca Steen with a score of 6:2, 6:1. By the way, the Games are not over for Dmitry yet — he still has another final match in singles...

This morning, the Komazawa Olympic Park, Tokyo, was once again the scene of intense athletic battles. Yugra's own Ardashir Mumindzhanov brought us joy again. Having already won his first Games gold in the decathlon on November 18th, today he became a champion once more, this time in the pole vault, solidifying his absolute leadership in this discipline for all to see! In the finals, our athlete competed against the world's strongest deaf track and field athletes, capable of clearing heights...

Today on the tartan tracks of the Komazawa Olympic Stadium, Victoriia Aksenova shone once again, winning a gold medal in the women's 400m hurdles! The athlete from Kolomna finished confidently with a time of 1:00.74, leaving her competitors behind by more than 4 seconds. This medal became the fifth gold for our track and field athletes at these 25th Summer Deaflympics and the second for Victoriia, while in her career, it's her third (2017, 2025). At the finish line, Victoriia was just...

The triumphant Deaflympic week continues! Today, our masters of rackets and shuttlecocks are in the spotlight! Hot final passions were boiling on the courts of the "Keio" arena, located in the Ariake Tennis Park. In the badminton singles final, two Russian athletes, Shokhzod Gulomzoda and Mikhail Efremov, competed against each other for the first time in the history of the Games. Both confidently passed through the qualification sieve and the playoff, all stages of...

On October 12, the Russian Cup in deaf sports for swimming opened in Penza. 111 of the strongest athletes fr om 22 constituent entities of the Russian Federation competed for three hot competition days on the water lanes of the "Sura" Water Sports Palace. The swimmers, among them 3 Honored Masters of Sport, 15 Masters of Sport International Class, 34 Masters of Sport, and 22 Candidate Masters of Sport, engaged in fierce rivalry in races for records in the water, wh...

On October 5th in Saransk, on the final fourth day, young track and field athletes participated in the most exciting and unpredictable 4x200m and 4x400m relays, where emotions ran high. There was a frenzy in the stands. It had everything: frustrating falls, dropped batons, the bitterness of defeat, and the thrill of victory! The whole spectrum of emotions was reflected on the participants' faces. Meanwhile, young swimmers competed in the longest events: the 400m freestyle, 200m...

The program of the third competition day of the 11th All-Russian Summer Spartakiad among students featured competitions in athletics disciplines — 200-meter races, long jump, final races for 800 and 200 meters, as well as swimming — 200m freestyle, 200m breaststroke, 50m butterfly, 100m backstroke, and the 4x100m medley relay. Once again, fierce passions flared on the tartan tracks and in the water lanes of the Mordovia sports complex in the fight for the coveted medals. Every race and...

On September 4th, the events of the second competition day of the 11th All-Russian Summer Spartakiad for Deaf Students continued on the tracks of the Mordovia sports complex's athletic arena. Young swimmers and track and field athletes once again clashed in heated contests vying for a place on the podium. The serious competition in shot put, high jump, and the 1500m runs left no one indifferent. Every participant gave their maximum. Meanwhile, in the pool of the same universal...

The 11th All-Russian Summer Spartakiad for the Deaf was officially opened this morning in Saransk. The opening ceremony was attended by distinguished guests: Minister of Sports of the Republic of Mordovia Nikita Larkov, Director of the Sports and Adaptive Center for Deaflympic and Paralympic Reserve Natalia Grishakova, Chairman of the Commission on Physical Culture and Sports of the Saransk and Mordovian Eparchy of the Mordovian Metropolitanate Priest Vitaly Shebanov, a veteran of the...

The Minister of Sport and President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Mikhail Degtyarev, addressed the young participants, organizers, and guests of the 11th All-Russian Summer Deaf Sports Spartakiad, which officially opened on October 2 in the capital of the Republic of Mordovia, Saransk. I am pleased to welcome the participants, organizers, and guests of the 11th All-Russian Summer Deaf Sports Spartakiad! President of Russia Vladimir Putin notes that it is important to open as...