INRTU Team Took the First Place at the GTO (Ready for Labour and Defence) competitions

INRTU’s students became leaders of the regional students’ competition “GTO Relay”. The event was organized as part of implementation of the grant project ‘Came, saw, did, won! GTO for all!’ of the Russian Physical Culture and Sports Complex "GTO (Ready for Labor and Defense)”.

Seven teams fr om the universities of the Irkutsk region showed interest in the competitions. As emphasized Larisa Kuznetsova, INRTU’s team coach, the goal of this event is to make the GTO movement widespread among student youth in our region.

“All the students showed physical fitness, cohesion and team spirit, and also received an energy boost, good mood and motivation for further development and regular sports activities,”

said Larisa Kuznetsova.

The program of competitions consisted of three relays. “GTO Classic” was held in a format wh ere each team member went through all the stages consecutively (standing long jump with a two-foot push, push-ups fr om the floor, raising the torso from the position on the back, squats on a ball).

The relay “One for All, All for One” included six stages, wh ere each team member performed only one separate challenge (step-ups onto a 40 cm high platform with an 8 kg kettlebell, burpees, 16 kg kettlebell snatch, etc.).

During the relay “Seamless whole” all the participants did an exercise at the same time, moving together from one stage to another step by step (team events – jump rope, sit-ups, squats etc.).

The time taken by teams to complete all relays was summed up taking into account the penalty time for violations committed. The winner was determined by the lower total time. 

The winning team included Valeria Berngard, Katerina Moskalyuk, Anna Konashkova, Ruslan Sinelnikov, Nikita Korenev and Zakhar Marchuk.

Second place was also taken by the INRTU team – Tatyana Petrova, Ulyana Strigina, Varvara Krasnova, Dmitry Zhdanov, Ilya Kuznetsov and Stavr Turchin.

Third place in the regional competitions went to the IrGUPS (Irkutsk State Transport University) team.