The first stage of the Battle of Cities, an international project of the Russian Judo Federation (RJF) and the Колыбель Отечества Charitable Foundation, with the support of the general sponsor Fonbet, ended on May 27. It was attended by teams of judo players under the age of 18 from 73 regions of all eight federal districts of the country.
In each of the first-stage tournaments, 16 teams participated. Eight of them were qualified to continue the competition.
The second season of the series began in Rostov-on-Don on April 3-6. The tournament featured teams from 11 regions of Russia in the Southern Federal District, including the Krasnodar Territory, Volgograd Region, Rostov Region, Kherson Region, Zaporizhzhia Region, Luhansk People's Republic, Donetsk People's Republic, Sevastopol, the Republic of Adygea, the Republic of Crimea, and the Republic of Kalmykia.
Teams from Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Maykop, Volgograd, Ust-Labinsk, Volzhsky, Simferopol, and Kerch advanced to the second stage. The tournament's leaders were Artem Sahakyan from Rostov-on-Don and Ais Petyaev from Kalmykia, who each won eight matches.
The competitions in Stavropol on April 9-12 brought together representatives of seven regions of the North Caucasus Federal District - Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan, Karachay-Cherkessia, the Chechen Republic, Ingushetia, the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania and the Stavropol Territory.
The strongest teams in this company were from Nalchik, Cherkessk, Stavropol, Grozny, Akhmat-Yurt, Makhachkala, Nazran and Vladikavkaz. Abdusalam Huseynov from the capital of Dagestan has the best individual performance - he won eight fights, and all with "ippon".
The strongest teams in this company were from Nalchik, Cherkessk, Stavropol, Grozny, Akhmat-Yurt, Makhachkala, Nazran and Vladikavkaz. Abdusalam Huseynov from the capital of Dagestan has the best individual performance - he won eight fights, and all with "ippon".
Further, the first stage of the "Battle of Cities" continued on April 16-19 in Krasnoyarsk, where teams from nine regions of the Siberian Federal District - Krasnoyarsk and Altai Territories, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Kemerovo regions, the Republics of Tyva, Khakassia and Altai - clarified their relations.
In the next round, the teams from Krasnoyarsk and .insk, Irkutsk and Angarsk, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Omsk and Chernogorsk. The leader of personal statistics turned out to be Danil Balykchin from the Turbostroitel team (Altai Republic), who won seven victories in eight meetings.
The teams of the Far Eastern Federal District met on April 27-30 in Khabarovsk. Judoka from seven regions competed for tickets to the second round - the Republic of Buryatia, Primorsky, Zabaikalsky and Khabarovsk Territories, Amur, Sakhalin and Magadan regions.
As a result, three squads from the cities of Buryatia - Ulan-Ude, Gusinoozersk and Selenginsk, as well as one team each from Ussuriysk, Chita, Blagoveshchensk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Vladivostok - turned out to be stronger than the others. According to individual indicators, Sakhalin resident Amirkhan Davletaliev, Islam Gurbanov from Buryatia and Khabarovsk resident Maxim Khramov are ahead. They have seven victories to their credit, and Davletaliev won all of them with ippon.
On May 1-4, the Russian capital hosted a tournament of teams from 13 regions of the Central Federal District - Moscow, Moscow, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Orel, Tver, Tula, Kursk, Ryazan, Kaluga, Vladimir, Belgorod and Bryansk regions.
Two teams from Moscow advanced to the second round, as well as athletes from Khimki and Fryazin, Tver, Lipetsk, Yelets and Kovrov. In the top three individual rankings, the first two places were taken by representatives of the Fryazinsky Olympus Albert Sadoyan and Konstantin Reznikov, who won seven and six victories, respectively (all by ippon).
Representatives of the North-Western Federal District gathered in Vyritsa on May 12-15. Teams from ten regions competed for tickets to the second round - St. Petersburg, Pskov, Leningrad, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Novgorod and Kaliningrad regions, the Republics of Karelia and Komi.
The best teams in the end were three teams from St. Petersburg, as well as Pskov, Kaliningrad, Cherepovets and Gatchina. The best individual statistician was Matvey Romanyuk from Cherepovets, who won eight victories.
The teams of five regions of the Ural Federal District -Sverdlovsk, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan regions, as well as the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug met in the first stage of the "Battle of Cities" on May 16-19 in Chelyabinsk.
Squads from Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Yekaterinburg, Tobolsk, Tyumen, Nyagan, Severouralsk and Trekhgorny won tickets to the next round following the results of this tournament. The top three in the personal ranking are Yekaterinburg's Alexey Shevelev, Vladislav Khlashchev and Alexander Burkart from Chelyabinsk, who have six wins out of six possible (all by ippon).
The final tournament of the first stage of the "Battle of Cities" was held in Saratov on May 24-27. It featured the strongest teams from 11 regions of the Volga Federal District - Perm Krai, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Saratov, Samara, Penza and Nizhny Novgorod regions, the Republics of Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Bashkortostan and Mordovia.
Following the results of the competition, teams from Perm, Kazan, Saratov, Orenburg, Orsk, Izhevsk, Ufa and Nizhny Novgorod reached the second stage. The leaders in the individual ranking were Parvez Ashuraliev from the Orenburg Region team, Sergey Gadadin from Samara and Artem Kostogryzov, the owner of the tatami, who won seven victories in seven fights each.
Thus, judoka from 44 regions of Russia are competing in the second stage of the "Battle of Cities". First, tournaments will be held in the federal districts again, in September they will be hosted by Krasnoyarsk (SFD), Rostov-on-Don (SFD), Stavropol (NCFD) and Chelyabinsk (Ural Federal District), and in October - Saratov (PFD), Khabarovsk (Far Eastern Federal District), Vyborg (NWFD) and Moscow (CFD). These competitions determine the participants of the All-Russian final tournament, which will be held in November in the capital.
And in December, the capital will host the grand international final of the Battle of the Cities, where 16 Russian teams and 16 teams from abroad invited by the organizers will compete for a substantial prize pool.
Source: Russian Judo Federation
