Penza, 31 March 2016. PenzaNews. The Volga Federal District gymnastics team of Denis Ablyazin (Penza), Valentin Starikov, Ivan Tikhonov, Andrei Makolov, Vladislav Polyashov and David Belyavsky has won the team competition of the Russian artistic gymnastics championship.

Photo by Elena Mikhaylova, Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia

The team earned a total of 430.7 points by the end of the event that concluded in the evening of Wednesday, March 30.

The runners-up, with 424.366 points, are gymnasts of the Siberian Federal District – Kirill Potapov, Grigory Zyryanov, Andrei Lagutov, Nikita Ignatyev, Daniil Kazachkov and Ivan Stretovich.

The second runners-up are athletes from Moscow – Emin Garibov, Artur Dalaloyan, Alexei Kosyanov, Dmitry Lankin, Nikita Nagorny and Alexander Sychugov – with 422.068 points.