Home and walls help, specifically the Novgorod rowers - the Kremlin

Novgorodians won 13 sets of awards at the 50th anniversary May Regatta on the Volkhov. At home, as they say, even the walls help, in our case — the Kremlin ones. The rowing competitions took place on the Myachino rowing canal and brought together more than 400 athletes from 13 regions .

Five sets of gold medals were won by students of the Novgorod rowing school (SShOR "Olimp"):

• Boys under 19: double sculls Nikita Ivanovsky, Vladislav Makarov
• Girls under 15: double sculls Alena Piltenko, Pelageya Babinich
• Boys under 15: double sculls Roman Fedorov, Nikita Stepanov
• Girls under 15: Four sculls Alena Piltenko, Sofia Kournikova, Anastasia Zinovkina, Yulia Nazarova
• Boys under 15: quadruple sculls Philipp Smirnov, Vladislav Mamaliga, Lavrenty Zhbanov, Alexander Kalyanov

Silver medalists:

• Girls under 17: Single Erika Biserová
• Girls under 17: Four sculls Polina Nesterova, Pelageya Babinich, Erika Biserova, Alexandra Dobryantseva
• Girls under 15: single Yulia Nazarova
• Boys under 15: singles Alexander Kalyanov

Bronze medalists:

• Boys under 19: quadruple sculls Vladimir Gerasimov, Matvey Telnov, Nikita Ivanovsky, Vladislav Makarov
• Girls under 17: double swing Varvara Reginskaya Varvara, Polina Novozhilova
• Boys under 17: Double sculls Damir Mavlyutov, Maxim Kurdyukov
• Girls under 15: double sculls Daria Rowe, Maria Saltykova

Trained athletes: Svetlana Yakunina, Nikita Karpov, Alexander Yakunin, Anastasia Yakunina, Yana Noskova, Yakov Grebnev.

Let us add that the phrase “At home, even the walls help” originally meant “they heal”, but later it was adopted by athletes.

Photo by the Ministry of Sports of the Novgorod Region