CASABLANCA (Morocco), 13 Nov - R-Sport, Oleg Bogatov. National teams of Russia at the start of the last working day of the week in Morocco, the world championship of sport and combat Sambo aims to win in the team event and again to assure the reputation of the strongest in the world.

international competition for the first time will be held in Africa - in Morocco 13-15 November. Athletes will compete for 27 sets of medals - nine in sport Sambo among men and women, and nine in combat Sambo among men.

the head of the Russian Sambo Federation Sergey Eliseev said that the Russian team are in good form approached the tournament." All ready to act respectably, and I think the Athletes at the world Championships will have a good result. Without a doubt, it is important for us to win the team standings in all kinds of competitions ", - he said.


The coaches of the teams included in structure of participants of superiority of the world 27 athletes from 14 regions of the country. The largest representation at the capital of Russia - 6 wrestlers. 3 athletes represent the Sverdlovsk region, and two in St. Petersburg, Buryatia, Perm Krai, Nizhny Novgorod, Bryansk and Belgorod regions, one - Karelia, the Stavropol and the Altai territory, the Moscow, Kaliningrad and Tyumen region.

the team on sport Sambo included:

men - Valery Soronokov (weight category up to 52 kg), Aymergen Atkunov (57), Ruslan Baghdasaryan (62), Nikita Kletskov (68), Azamat Sidakov (74), Ilya Kokovich (82), Alsim Chernoskulov (90), Dmitry Eliseev (100), Artem Osipenko (over 100)

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