19 athletes from Tatarstan in Russia’s student team at Universiade
30 June 2009, Tuesday
Russian national student team takes part in the World Student Games in Belgrade, which starts on July 1. It includes 19 representatives from Tatarstan.
The team numbers 470 people – sportsmen, officials, coaches and medical staff.
The athletes will defend the honour of Tatarstan in Belgrade. These are basketball players Evgeny Voronov and Alexei Zhukanenko, water polo players Konstantin Stepanyuk, Pavel Katkov and Artyom Odintsov, swimmer Alexander Shimin, fencers Ramil Gaisin, Irina Radayeva and Kamilla Gafurzyanova (latter one in reserve), track-and-field athletes Nadezhda Sozntova (4x400 relay), Tatiana Shutova (10 kilometres), Olga Zainutdinova (overall), Aidar Gilyazov (110 metres), Yulia Borodovitsyna (long jump, in reserve), tennis player Ksenia Lykina and judoist Yekaterina Yelizarova.
The national team includes Zenit Kazan football club’s massage therapist Ramis Shiriyazdanov, fencing coach Irina Radayeva and the delegation staff member Alexander Kuznetsov.
Universiade in Belgrade will run from July 1 to 12.
On 17 March, speaking at a meeting of the State Council of the republic, where its Chairman Farid Mukhametshin declared his early termination of powers, Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaymiev said: “Mutual respect and deep understanding help to preserve high trust of our people.”
On 13 March the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev accompanied by the regional Mufti Kamil Samigullin took part in the XIV Iftar of the republic organized by the Spiritual Board of Muslims of Tatarstan, the administration of the Ak Bars Arena stadium and the national tourist complex Tugan Avylym (My Native Village) at the Kazan Expo Exhibition Center.
On 20 January in the evening Russian President Vladimir Putin called Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev and congratulated him with his birthday. During the conversation Vladimir Putin stated that he is happy to hear bright voice of Mintimer (Sharipovich) and wished him good health and all the best.
On 20 January, congratulating Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev with his birthday, the Chairman of the Russian Government Mikhail Mishustin wrote in his telegramme: “Being a famous and political leader, you have made a substantial contribution into modern development of Tatarstan and have earned the deep respect and gratitude of residents of the republic.
SUBSCRIBE FOR NEWS
All content on this site is licensed under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
If you see a mistake,
please select the word or sentence and press CTRL+ENTER