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Three wrestlers from Kuznetsk to perform at junior championship of Russia

11:51 | 06.03.2014 | Sport

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Penza, 6 March 2014. PenzaNews. Three wrestlers from Kuznetsk, the Penza region — Alexei Shpak, Nikolai Izmaylov and Ruslan Bibarsov — will participate in the junior championship of Russia as a part of the Volga Federal District team.

Competitions will be held in Novosibirsk on March 27.

According to the senior coach of the Penza region in wrestling Pavel Lopatinskiy, the athletes won tournament trips in the district competitions in Saransk.

“The championship of the Volga Federal District among juniors of up to 20 years old was held in the capital of Mordovia. Our athletes were good. Master of sports Alexei Shpak yielded to Kirov wrestler in 74 kg category and took third place. Although last year he became the winner. In the group of 120 kg Nikolai Izmaylov and Ruslan Bibarsov won silver and bronze, respectively. Both lost to the representative of the Nizhny Novgorod region. It was the first official competition in this age group for them. Almost all participants were older than the wrestlers from,” the Internet service “Penza-Sport” quotes Pavel Lopatinskiy.

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