The First CIS Winter Sports Games for Children with Disabilities are in full swing — two eventful competition days are already behind us, with winners and medalists determined in many disciplines. And two more intense days of starts awaited all participants, bringing new bright emotions and the struggle for the title of the strongest. Young skiers, who battled on the ski track the day before using the freestyle technique, this time demonstrated their mastery of the classic glide. The lineup...

On December 16, the day following the mega-colorful opening ceremony, the competitions of the First CIS Winter Sports Games for Children with Disabilities in Deaf Sports, Blind Sports, and Sports for Persons with Physical Impairments officially began. Young athletes representing five Commonwealth of Independent States countries (Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and the Russian Federation) entered the competition for coveted medals, competing in five disciplines: cross-country...

Fr om 23 to 30 March, the Russian Snowboard Championship took place in Miass (Chelyabinsk Region). Hosted at the Sun Valley Alpine Ski Centre, the competition featured 37 athletes from seven regions of the Russian Federation: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug-Yugra, Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, and Novosibirsk regions. On the first day, riders competed in parallel giant slalom, with victories going to Milena Safina (Moscow) and Alexey Kazantsev (Sverdlovsk). These athletes...

Today, on December 27, in Miass, the Chelyabinsk region, the All-Russian children's and youth snowboarding competitions came to an end. During two intense days of competition, 35 athletes from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions, Krasnodar Krai and the Republic of Bashkortostan demonstrated their real snowboarding skills on the slopes of the Ryder Ski Centre. Young participants, simultaneously starting on two courses located next to each other, raced to the finish...

The competition days of the Cup of Russia in snowboarding (deaf sports) were held on the 12th and 13th of December in Miass (Chelyabinsk Oblast). Seventeen athletes from four regions of the Russian Federation – the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, St. Petersburg, and Moscow – participated at the Rider Ski Centre. Snowboarders competed in the parallel giant slalom discipline on 12 December. Despite a snowless winter this year, which posed an additional challenge for the...