The first stage of the “Battle of the Cities”, an international project of the Russian Judo Federation (FDR) and the Cradle of the Fatherland charitable foundation with the support of the general sponsor Fonbet, ended on May 27. Teams of judokas under the age of 18 from 73 regions of all eight federal districts of the country took part in it.
16 teams competed in each of the first stage tournaments. Eight of them received the right to continue the fight.
The second season of the series started in Rostov-on-Don on April 3-6. The tournament was attended by squads from 11 regions of Russia in the Southern Federal District - Krasnodar Territory, Volgograd, Rostov, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, LPR, DPR, Sevastopol, the Republics of Adygea, Crimea and Kalmykia.
Teams from Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, Maykop, Volgograd, Ust-Labinsk, Volzhsky, Simferopol and Kerch advanced to the second stage. The leaders of the tournament were Rostovite Artem Sahakyan and Ice Petyaev from Kalmykia, who won eight bouts each.
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 results - he won eight fights, all by ippon.
Then the first stage of the “Battle of the Cities” continued on April 16-19 in Krasnoyarsk, where teams from nine regions of the Siberian Federal District - the Krasnoyarsk and Altai Territories, the Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Kemerovo Regions, the Republics of Tyva, Khakassia and Altai - were sorting things out.
Teams from Krasnoyarsk and Achinsk, Irkutsk and Angarsk, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Omsk and Chernogorsk qualified for the next round. The leader in personal statistics was Danil Balykchin from the Turbostroitel team (Altai Republic), who won seven victories in eight meetings.
Teams from the Far Eastern Federal District met on April 27-30 in Khabarovsk. Judoists from seven regions competed for spots in the second round - the Republic of Buryatia, Primorsky, Transbaikal 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 rest. 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 name, with Davletaliev winning all of them by 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, Oryol, Tver, Tula, Kursk, Ryazan, Kaluga, Vladimir, Belgorod and Bryansk regions.
Two teams from Moscow advanced to the second round, as well as athletes from the Moscow region of Khimki and Fryazin, Tver, Lipetsk, Yelets and Kovrov. In the top three individual rankings, the first two places were taken by representatives of the Fryazino “Olympus” Albert Sadoyan and Konstantin Reznikov, who won, respectively, seven and six victories (all “ipponom”).
Representatives of the Northwestern Federal District gathered on May 12-15 in Vyritsa. Teams from ten regions competed for spots in the second round - St. Petersburg, Pskov, Leningrad, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Novgorod and Kaliningrad regions, the Republics of Karelia and Komi.
In the end, the best were three teams from St. Petersburg, as well as Pskov, Kaliningrad, Cherepovets and Gatchina. The best according to individual statistics was Matvey Romanyuk from Cherepovets, who won eight victories.
Teams from 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 the Cities” on May 16-19 in Chelyabinsk.
Based on the results of this tournament, teams from Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Yekaterinburg, Tobolsk, Tyumen, Nyagan, Severouralsk and Trekhgorny won tickets to the next round. The top three in the personal ranking are Ekaterinburg residents Alexey Shevelev, Vladislav Khlashchev and Alexander Burkart from Chelyabinsk, who each have six wins out of six possible (all by ippon).
The final tournament of the first stage of the “Battle of the Cities” was held in Saratov on May 24-27. It revealed the strongest teams from 11 regions of the Volga Federal District - Perm Territory, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Saratov, Samara, Penza and Nizhny Novgorod regions, the Republics of Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Bashkortostan and Mordovia.
Based on the results of the competition, teams from Perm, Kazan, Saratov, Orenburg, Orsk, Izhevsk, Ufa and Nizhny Novgorod advanced to the second stage. The leaders in the individual rankings were Parvez Ashuraliev from the Orenburg team, Samaran Sergei Dogadin and tatami owner Artem Kostogryzov, who each won seven victories in seven bouts.
Thus, judoists from 44 regions of Russia will perform in the second stage of the “Battle of the Cities”. First, tournaments in federal districts will be held again, in September they will be hosted by Krasnoyarsk (Siberian Federal District), Rostov-on-Don (Southern Federal District), Stavropol (Northwestern Federal District) and Chelyabinsk (Ural Federal District), and in October - Saratov (Volga Federal District), Khabarovsk (Federal Federal District), Vyborg (Northwestern Federal District) and Moscow (Central Federal District). These competitions will determine the participants in 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 fund.
Source: Russian Judo Federation
