Silver skates II International competitions, announcing information
«Silver skates» – tradition starting in childhood
The name of the competitions for youths was taken from the child book written in 1865 by Mary Mapes Dodge «Hans Brinker, or the silver skates», telling about the wondrous Netherlands, where people live below the sea level, grow tulips and skate on ice.
The book still remains very contemporary since children love skating and love to compete with each other like in good old days.
International youth competitions «Silver skates» become more and more popular and continue to engage new fans of speed skating. The very first competitions took place in Moscow in 2008. Now Kolomna is getting ready to meet the participants of the second competitions.
On 5th and 6th of December the Moscow Region Speed Skating Center «Kolomna» will gather 140 young sportsmen from the Netherlands, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. This time beside the speed skating competitions there will be the short track speed skating heats included in the program. Russia will be represented by the teams of the following cities: Moscow, Orenbourg, Tcheliabinsk, Kolomna (speed skating) and Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Rybinsk, Penza and Kolomna (short track speed skating).
The program of the speed skating competitions: 1 000 m, 500 m, 1 500 m and team pursuit.
The program of the short track speed skating competitions: 500 m, 800 m, 1 000 m, 1 500 m and relay races.
The Kolomna speed skating team includes: Daria Strelnikova, Anastacia Barinova, Irina Belko (girls aged 12-14); Rouslan Raphikov, Konstantin Kalinin (boys aged 12-14); Viktoria Malyugina, Rosa Vatankhan, Yelena Golovkina (girls aged 14-16); Dmitry Knindoukhov, Pavel Mozgolov, Ilyia Morozov (boys aged 14-16).
The Kolomna short track speed skating team includes: Daria Rybtchenko, Alexandra Rybtchenko, Maria Shoundeva, Christina Zvereva, Yekaterina Roumyantseva, Alexandra Philinkova (girls aged 14-16); Daniil Martynenko, Pavel Bitsoulya, Pavel Gavrilov (boys aged 16-18).
