Sports NewsOpen Water Swimming Sergey Bolshakov, Izhevsk, won Bronze medal in 2011 European Open Water Swimming Cup in Eliat (Israel) and will take part in World Championships in Shanghai this July . Chess The 7th World Chess Championship Among Schoolchildren took place in Krakow, Poland. Kirill Kozionov, Izhevsk, won gold in the competition among boys below 13. Sumo Anna Zhigalova won three Gold medals at European Sumo Championships that took place in Varna, Bulgaria, on 6 through 8 May, 2011. The Izhevsk sumotori won the over 95 kg weight category, absolute and team championships (in a competition between all-Russian and all-European symbolic teams). |