The students of the Lisichansk sports school won the tournament in freestyle wrestling in Luhansk.

      A year has passed since the start of full-fledged training at the restored sports school No. 1 in the city of Lysychansk, supported by Tatarstan. During this time, sports groups have been formed here, and they have already shown results: the students of coach Vasily Kornev took two first places at the tournament in freestyle wrestling for the Cup of the USSR sports master Viktor Shkodyuk in Luhansk. The Menzelinsk district of the Republic of Tatarstan assisted the organizers in providing award attributes. Vasily Kornev himself has been in the profession for 45 years and remains calm about the results achieved by his students. "We started working at the end of February last year; in fact, a little over a year has passed, but there are already results, and they are quite good," he noted. Before the trip to Luhansk, the coach selected five boys and conducted additional training sessions with them. "I first looked at how each one wrestles and worked more with those guys, paying more attention to them. Then we went to Luhansk and performed successfully: one took first place in the weight category up to 52 kilograms; he is fourteen years old, and a girl, who is ten, also came in first," Kornev shared. Another student of the coach took third place. For most of the boys, these were their first competitions. "There was a lot of nervousness; they were confused because there were many people, about ninety participants. At first, they were tense, but I explained that these were their first competitions, nothing to be afraid of; they need to learn to lose in order to learn to win later," the coach shared. According to him, the opponents were noticeably more experienced—many have been training for several years, while the Lysychansk wrestlers have only a few months of training behind them. Kornev leads two directions—freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, and he started teaching freestyle relatively recently. He is already transitioning some students from one type to another: after the tournament, he began preparing the winner in the weight category up to 52 kilograms for Greco-Roman wrestling. Currently, the coach has about thirty students—approximately evenly split between each discipline. Their ages range from 6 to 44 years. Classes are structured in a circuit system: barbell, pull-up bar, jump rope, resistance bands, abs—35-40 seconds are allocated for each station. Lysychansk is located in a frontline zone, so there are occasional shellings. "I conduct a safety briefing every time, warning them to be attentive," says the coach. He noted the conditions created with the support of Tatarstan in the sports school. "The school is well done, clean, bright, warm, there is equipment, everything is in order," he said. According to the coach, previously two of his students went to competitions in Moscow. "They were confused there, but it was an experience for them—they saw the level, looked at strong athletes, and after that, they started training more consistently. Now we are preparing for the next tournament; we will take six people. I want to say a big thank you for the gym and for the help—with uniforms and equipment; this is very important for us," emphasized Vasily Kornev.

      Photo: Office of the Vice Prime Minister of Tatarstan Rinat Sadykov

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