MAI rugby team won the first round of the XXXV Moscow Student Sports Games

On October 1 and 2, the first round of the Moscow Rugby-7 Championship among students took place. Nine universities took part in the competition: MAI, Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov, MGSU, MEPhI, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, MEI, MSU, RUDN, Moscow State University of Railway Engineering — RUT (MIIT).

In the first game, our rugby players met with students of the Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov and beat them with a score of 48:0. The second opponent was the MGSU team. Our team finished this meeting with a score of 75:0, thanks to which it reached the final, where it had to fight for 1-3 places.

The first game of the final was with the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering RUT (MIIT) team, and ended with a score of 36:5 in favor of our team. And in the last game of the final, our rugby players once again beat their old rivals from MEPhI with the score 39:0! The next round of the MSSI will be held on October 16.

– The game left us with positive emotions and impressions only, — says Alexey Markin, the captain of the MAI rugby team, the student of the MAI Institute No. 5 "Economics and Management of the High-tech Industry" – The level of the teams has significantly increased if compared to the previous year, new rivals with strong, competing squads have appeared, and this indicates good progress of the student rugby league. Since this season, there has also been a noticeable strengthening in our team by young players, freshmen, with a lot of experience in the game. Therefore, the tournament was quite easy for us, as it is possible to see from the score of each match. I am also grateful to our coach, Valery Petrovich Khromenkov, whose training does not give us a slightest chance to lose.

Senior professors of MAI department 519 "Physical Education" Valery Khromenkov and Andrey Zhigulsky train MAI rugby team.