Cultural and Sports Life
Today all the parts of Krasnoyarsk scientific, intellectual, cultural and sports life are connected with Siberian Federal University. The University helps its students and staff to discover and develop talents. Special attention is paid to the development of various forms of recreational and student activities as a basis of keeping up and improving health, increasing efficiency and creativeness of students, professors and university staff. Material and human resources, financing and new management structure make it possible to run multi-stage competitions, ranging from group, class, faculty, institute and dormitory sporting events to campus-wide sports contests, interregional competitions and sports festivals, involving a large number of participants and spectators. Annually the University hosts over 250 different sporting events with the participation of over 15,000 students. There are 71 student sport sections for 33 different sports, also boxing, diving, football, basketball, hockey, and tourism clubs. Organized ski equipment, skates and bicycle free rental points have gained popularity among students, professors and university staff. Much attention is devoted to the student sports achievements as an effective way of promoting SibFU in Russia and abroad. SibFU is proud of achievements of the university’s students and staff:
- Olga Medvedtseva, Honoured Master of Sports, two-times Olympic champion and six-times world champion in biathlon;
- Nazyr Mankiev, Honoured Master of Sports, Beijing Olympic Champion, winner of Greco-Roman wrestling world cup;
- Kirill Veselov, Honoured Master of Sports, repeated champion and winner of Ski orienteering world cups and championships;
- Svetlana Boldykova, Master of Sports of International Level in snowboarding, silver champion of world cups, silver champion of the Universiade;
- Konstantin Zotov, Master of Sports of International Level, world champion in diving;
- Rafic Magerramov, Master of Sports of International Level, World and Europe champion in boxing in student competitions;
- Vladimir Barchukov, Master of Sports of International Level, silver winner of Ski Orienteering World Championship;
- Vladimir Goncharov, Master of Sports of International Level, Europe champion in mini-football in youth competitions;
- Alexey Petrov, Master of Sports of International Level, champion in mini-football in youth competitions;
- Olga Kapustina, Master of Sports of International Level, champion in futsal;
- Dmitry Sterkhov, Master of Sports of International Level in judo, silver and bronze winner of Summer Universiade, World Cup winner;
- Polina Malchikova, Master of Sports of International Level, silver winner of Ski Orienteering World Championship;
- Andrey Feller, Master of Sports, winner of Ski Racing Youth Championship;
- Anna Drozdova, Master of Sports, silver winner of Taekwondo World Cup.
SibFU combined rugby, mini-football, football and volleyball teams are repeated winners and prize takers of all-Russian student competitions. SibFU students publish the University newspaper and work on SibFU TV channel, which provides with news reports not only own broadcasting network, but also Krasnoyarsk region TV channel’s programmes. Aim of Siberian Federal University is to become a center of innovation and technological development, a world-class personnel-training center. Positive changes that has happened in the past three years make it possible to assert, that the University can achieve its aim.
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