While the adult, skilled and titled athletes competed in Budapest for championship of Europe awards, in Moscow, in Sodruzhestvo sports palace, young admirers of judo fought on the IV International youthful tournament "Spring Hopes".

More than six hundred athletes of 2000-2002 year of birth took part in competitions from fifteen countries and 31 regions of Russia. In total to a tatami there were representatives 94 (! ! ! ) teams. And to guests habitual already from neighboring countries – Armenia, Tajikistan, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Lithuania, this year participants from the states of the Old World were added: Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and even the transatlantic - representatives of the USA.

The competitions organized by Department of physical culture and sport of Moscow, Federation of judo of Moscow and GBOU TsO "Sambo-70", took place on seven tatamis. Final fights were watched by the numerous audience and guests of honor among whom were the silver prize-winner of the Olympic Games-2012 Alexander Mikhaylin, world champions in sambo Vladimir Prikazchikov and Victor Astakhov, and many others.
The best in Moscow steel: 30 kg Matvei Isakov (The Kirov Region), 32 kg. Ivan Petrov (Sambo-70), 35 kg Sergey Eroshenko (Stavropol Krai), 38 kg Eldar Tinchurin (Sambo-70), Karen Galstyan's (Bashkiria) 42 kg, 46 kg Danil Korablev (Stavropol Krai), 50 kg David Karapetyan (Stavropol Krai), 55 kg Vadim Zhukov (Ukraine), 60 kg Mikhail Strokan (Ukraine), over 60 kg Taras Osipyug (Sambo-70)
If the first day was given to individual fight, on Sunday to a tatami there were teams. 13 national teams took part in the "wall on a wall" tournament. As a result of uncompromising fight by the winner of tournament there were the judoists of Ukraine who have won in the ending the third Sambo-70 team. Representatives of Germany and "Sambo-70"-4 appeared bronze prize-winners. Five rewarding, instead of three of the strongest became a good tradition of organizers. Therefore the memorable awards were received by also young judoists of Lithuania and Kazakhstan, taken the fifth place. After final meetings children from the different countries exchanged gifts and took the general picture for memory of this holiday of judo.

Vladimir Bogomolov

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