Athletes of Metafrax Chemicals on the All-Russian awards stand
The company's basketball players helped the Perm region team enter the top five strongest sports teams in the country.
Last weekend the city of Kaluga saw the end of competitions of the VIII All-Russian Sports contest among workers, dedicated to the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the World War II. The large-scale sports festival brought together over 900 athletes from 30 regions of the country.
Over the course of three days, the participants of the Sports contest competed in ten types of programs, showing strength, agility and teamwork.
The Perm region team brought the strongest athletes to Kaluga - the leaders of the regional stage. Among them are the winners of 3x3 basketball competitions – athletes from Metafrax Chemicals: Natalya Fedorova, Natalya Ofitserova, Olga Zinovkina and Yuliya Vasilyeva.
At the competition, they had to defend the honour of both the company and the entire Perm region. Over the three days of competition, our basketball players held 5 games with rivals from Penza and Voronezh regions, St. Petersburg, Krasnodar region and Bashkortostan, three of which they ended in victory. As a result, our team became the bronze medallist of the sports contest and made a significant contribution within this sport to the overall team effort. For the first time, the Perm region team rose so high at the All-Russian Workers' Sports contest by taking 4th place. Athletes from the Krasnodar region achieved the victory in the overall team competition, the Penza region team took the second place, and the Tyumen region team took the third place.
- It was a very important competition for us, as we represented both Metafrax and, for the first time, the Perm region. Our colleagues on the team had high hopes for us, and we did not set any goals other than to get a prize-winning place. We prepared very thoroughly, - shared Natalya Fedorova, the captain of our women's basketball team. – We played 5 games at the All-Russian Workers' Sports contest. We managed to win difficult games against teams of St. Petersburg and Voronezh, and we confidently outplayed the basketball players from Bashkiriya. We showed a decent fight, and the bronze medal was a victory for us. Many thanks to the team for cohesion, willpower, thrill of the competition and all of the emotions!