Amateurs ski racers from Moscow construction organizations gathered on January 19 in the Bitsa recreation area. The athletes took to the track to compete for the Season Opening Prize. The competition launched a large sports marathon - the construction sports festival, which this year became the thirtieth anniversary.
The competition program consisted of a three-kilometer distance for women and a five-kilometer distance for men. The route with ups and downs passed through the Bitsevsky forest park.
Women competed in two age categories: those born in 1975 and younger (group “W”) and those born in 1974 and older (group “W1”). The men were also divided by age: born in 1970 and younger (group “M”) and born in 1969 and older (group “M1”).
A total of 161 people took part in the competition. 23 employees from Mosmetrostroy JSC took to the ski track. The best among the company representatives in the younger age category was Nadezhda Starichenko, taking 13th place. In the “W1” group, Zoya Vasilyeva, a multiple participant in skiing competitions, distinguished herself and became sixth.
In the junior male team, the highest result of all metro builders was shown by Andrey Ryabchenko, who finished twenty-fourth. In the M1 group, the company won thanks to the first place of Andrey Zemtsov.
– For me this is an instant race, I’m a marathon runner, after all, I’m used to working for 2-3 hours. But even here we had to compete with strong opponents,” Zemtsov said after the race. – This is my first prize of the season. The Krasnogorsk Marathon is coming up in February, I’m preparing for it now.
In the overall team competition, the results were summed up in two categories. In the first group (teams with more than a thousand employees), skiers from Mosinzhproekt JSC took first place, DSK-1 employees took second place, and our team took third place. In the second (a company with less than a thousand employees), the championship was won by Mosgorekspertiza, followed by Moskomstroyinvest and the State Autonomous Institution "Institute of General Plan of Moscow". achievements