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Source: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University –
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The Polytechnic University's Reading Room hosted a celebration honoring its best athletes. It was an evening of intense emotion, the names of the best were celebrated, and sporting victories became the stuff of legend. Here, congratulations were given to those who raised their university's flags high above the podiums in 2025. 2025 was a truly golden year for the Polytechnic University. The university won 29 gold medals: 7 gold, 14 silver, and 8 bronze. The student competition brought together 68 universities, competing for leadership in 73 sports disciplines. The Polytechnic University confidently took second place overall and first in the team championship among universities with more than 10,000 students!
The voices from the stage weren't just words—they were filled with pride. University Rector Andrey Rudskoy addressed the athletes with a farewell speech: "I wish you all to never forget your core profession, the work to which you will dedicate your entire lives. You should always draw on your university experience, and that experience is very simple: to reach the top and be a winner! I wish you to achieve the same heights in your creative engineering career as you have in sports."
The best athletes were also greeted by Dmitry Tikhonov, Vice-Rector for Continuing and Pre-University Education, and Valery Sushchenko, Director of the Institute of Physical Culture, Sports, and Tourism.
At the end of 2025, the university held a competition to award the "Student-Athlete" status to identify the best athletes from its student teams. Following the competition, the "SPbPU Student-Athlete" status was awarded to thirty students who were winners of all-Russian and regional student competitions:
candidate for master of sports, winner of the All-Russian competitions in dance sports Daria Arbatskaya;
Master of Sports of Russia, winner of the Russian Billiard Championship Maria Balakan;
winner of the St. Petersburg student sports games in chess in the disciplines “blitz” and “classics” Ruslan Barseghyan;
candidate master of sports, winner of the Russian championship in all-style karate Oleg Gorshenev;
Master of Sports of Russia, winner of the St. Petersburg fencing championship Maya Delikamova;
candidate for master of sports, winner of the All-Russian competition among students in darts Valeria Elakova;
candidate for master of sports, winner of the All-Russian student festival “UniverLiga Fest” Artyom Makarov;
master of sports of Russia, winner of the Russian championship in orienteering Polina Morozova;
winner of the St. Petersburg University Games in kettlebell lifting and tug-of-war Olga Mochalova;
Master of Sports of Russia, winner of the Russian Championship in orienteering Mikhail Pashkov;
candidate master of sports, captain of the national team, winner of the St. Petersburg student games in tennis Arina Pivsaeva;
Master of Sports of Russia, winner of the Russian Swimming Championship and Cup Alexandra Khailova;
winner of the St. Petersburg University Games in athletics Marta Handina;
master of sports of Russia, winner of the championship, championship and cup of Russia in orienteering Olga Shmailova;
member of the water polo team, winner of the All-Russian competition among students Daniil Antonov;
member of the football team, winner of the All-Russian competition among students within the National Student Football League Nikita Bogomolov;
member of the football team, winner of the All-Russian competition among students within the framework of the National Student Football League Stepan Verbitsky;
captain of the futsal team, winner of the St. Petersburg football championship Valeria Gromozdova;
member of the volleyball team, candidate master of sports, winner of the St. Petersburg championship Ekaterina Kleptsova;
member of the mini-football team, winner of the St. Petersburg football championship Veronika Lavitskaya;
member of the national team for cheer sports, candidate for master of sports, winner of the All-Russian competition among students Daria Lunegova;
member of the innovative sports team, winner of the St. Petersburg computer sports championship Artyom Mironchik;
member of the basketball team, winner of the All-Russian competition among students Daria Podyanova;
member of the national hockey and floorball team, winner of the All-Russian championship final and the Student Hockey League Super Cup, Evgeniy Poltanov;
member of the national rowing team, candidate master of sports, winner of the All-Russian competition among students Georgy Sobolev;
member of the mini-football team, master of sports of Russia, winner of the championship, cup and super cup of Russia in beach soccer Inna Spirina;
member of the Ultimate team, winner of the All-Russian competition among students in flying disc Vladislava Staynovskaya.
The audience greeted the evening's distinguished guests with thunderous applause. True legends of world sport took the stage: Olympic champion and ten-time world record holder in speed skating, Polytechnic graduate Yevgeny Kulikov; four-time Olympic medalist and three-time world championship medalist in swimming Gennady Prigoda (father of the famous Polytechnic graduate Kirill Prigoda); and world championship winner and world cup silver medalist in karate, Polytechnic graduate Daniil Ufimtsev.
Evgeny Kulikov presented awards to the best of the best. He also expressed his wishes to our athletes: "I wish you all the best!"
Vyacheslav Fetisov, hockey player, Olympic champion, multiple world and European champion, and honorary doctor of SPbPU, also addressed the students with a congratulatory speech. He reminded them that Polytechnic University is more than just a university; it's a springboard into life: Polytechnic University is a place where you can grow in everything: education, science, and sports.
The athletes were also congratulated by four-time Olympic medalist and three-time World Swimming Championship medalist Gennady Prigoda.
To gain experience and win, you need a lot of components, but the main ones are to work, toil, and not stop, he noted.
Athletes frommore than 50 student teams.
Motorsport team.
Aikido team.
Ultimate team.
Arm wrestling team.
Badminton team.
Women’s basketball team.
Men’s basketball team.
Biathlon and cross-country skiing teams.
Billiards and darts team.
Combat Sambo and MMA teams.
Teams for boxing, kickboxing and chessboxing.
Women’s water polo team.
Men’s water polo team.
Women’s volleyball team.
Men’s volleyball team.
Women’s handball team.
Men’s handball team.
National team for kettlebell lifting and tug of war.
Go team.
National golf and mini-golf team.
Alpine skiing and snowboarding team.
Rowing team.
National team for jiu-jitsu and grappling.
Judo and sambo teams.
Teams in innovative sports and e-sports.
Karate and taekwondo national teams.
Equestrian team.
National speed skating team.
Athletics team.
Women’s futsal and futsal team.
Table tennis team.
Sailing team.
Powerlifting team.
Swimming team.
Rugby team.
Climbing team.
Speedsoft team.
Aerobics team.
National wrestling team.
Orienteering team.
Sports tourism team.
Archery team.
Muay Thai team.
Dance sports team.
Tennis team.
Fencing team.
Figure skating team.
Floorball team.
Football team.
Men’s futsal team.
Hockey team.
Rhythmic gymnastics team.
Cheer sports team.
Chess team.
National checkers team.
Congratulations from the Olympic champions, awards to Polytechnic University's sports leaders, and musical accompaniment from the vocal group "Ne spit!"—all of this made the "Olympus Polytechnic" evening unforgettable. It was a moment when sport and the university merged to prove: Polytechnic University is strength, speed, and victory.
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