On the
6th of September in Berdichev, under the support of National Olympic
Committee of Ukraine, the XXth International competition in track and field
athletics called “X Memorial Competitions in Honour of Vitaliy Lonskiy” took
place. The sportsmen of 3 countries participated: Ukraine (30 participants),
Belorussia (1), and Russia (3). Two world champions competed for the victory
Bogdan Bondarenko and Yuriy Krymarenko. The finalist of European Championship
2011 Dmytro Demyaniuk, European champion Alexander Shustov, the silver winner
of Universiade 2013 Andriy Protsenko also took part.
Some personal
records were broken in the competitions: Krymarenko (Ukraine, Zhytomyr)- 2,34
m, Protsenko ( Ukraine, Kherson) – 2,32m. But these results were not enough to
gain the victory: Bogdan Bondarenko was the best (Ukraine, Kharkov), 2,34m, but
with the least number of attempts. This victory was the fifteenth victory in
row in this season for the sportsman.
Our Ukrainian women also obtained the prizes.
Katerina Tabashnik from Kharkiv (personal coach – Bogdan Bondarenko) with the
result of 1,89m. The silver medal went to Oksana Okuneva from Nikolayev 1,89m),
and the bronze one to Nataliya Gapchuk from Zhitomir (1,86m).
This year
the exhibition performance of veterans in track and field athletics took place.
The followers of Vitaliy Lonskiy performed. This part of competitions is
planned to constitute the core tournament part in future.
Vitaliy
Lonskiy is the honoured coach of USSR and Ukraine, the founder of training
strategy of elite sportsmen in jumping. Since 1959 till 1972 he coached 18
Masters of Sports and 4 Masters on the international level. Every third school graduate
passed the qualifying standards for receiving the qualification of Master of Sports.
The school became one of the first in ex USSR to have particular specialization-
high jumping.
For EKTA
company it has been a great honour to become the technical partner of this
international sports event, because some company personnel are actually the
school graduates. The screen of higher resolution was provided to broadcast the
competitions. For the first time a video banner displaying participants and
their scores was installed.
To see the project “X Memorial
Competitions in Honour of Vitaliy Lonskiy” in Portfolio