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“X Memorial Competitions in Honour of Vitaliy Lonskiy”

06.09.2013

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