Seversk sambo athlete brought region European Championship first medal

TOMSK, May 21 – RIA Tomsk. The native of Seversk Valeria Anisimova won a silver award at the European Sambo Championship in Greece, Athens, and became the first sambo wrestler in the Tomsk region who receive a medal of this level, the press service of the Seversk administration (the closed satellite town of Tomsk) said on Monday.

Earlier it was reported that a trainee of the Tomsk regional sports school of the Olympic reserve, a student of Tomsk State Pedagogical University Valeria Anisimova took the fifth line of the rating of the International Sambo Federation for 2017. This result was the best among 85 Russian athletes in the 64 kg weight category.

It is specified that the European Sambo Championship was held in the Greek city of Athens from 17 to 21 May. It was attended by more than 350 athletes from 29 countries.

"As a part of the Russian national team ... among women participated and won a silver award the master of sports of Russia of the international class ... the native of Seversk Valeria Anisimova ... This is another success in Valeria's sporting career. And for the Tomsk sport this is the first medal of the European championship in the history of Sambo of Tomsk region, our region did not have a similar result", – is said in the message.

It is added that Anisimova in the championship finals lost to the world leader in her weight category Tatiana Matsko from the Republic of Belarus.