On 29 January, Saransk held the Trans-Regional Taekwondo tournament (ITF) named after Ravil Khalikov, the hero of the People’s Republic of Donetsk who was born in the village Belozorye, Romanovsky district, the Republic of Mordovia.
Nearly 200 athletes of all age-groups from five RF districts: Penza, Ryazan, Nizhegorodskaya Oblasts, Tatasrtan and Mordovia took part in the competitions. The program of the competitions included 7 disciplines; the strongest athletes were determined:
Fights – sparring
Technical complexes – techniques
Measuring the striking
Maria Eliseeva, a student of the NCSPU Industrial-Pedagogical College, won all the three prize-winning places. The sparring brought her the gold medal, the striking – silver, and in the last discipline she won the bronze medal.