Double Olympic diving champion Dmitry Sautin declared that the Sautin Cup could be held in Kazan permanently.
These competitions became part of the third stage of the complex tournament “Friendship Games”.
– A big thank you to the organizers, I’m still here as a guest, it’s very nice that the third stage of the Jeu de l’Amitié is the Sautin Cup. I recently held a competition here in Voronezh in memory of my coach – it’s been ten years since she died. But I can’t build a pool in Voronezh, and here in Kazan people call the Friendship Games scene after me. Doubly pleasant. In Voronezh, we may hold something else, but here we can do it permanently, let’s see what will happen next year, we won’t think. It’s good that more and more other teams come, respond, friendship is established.
Russian national team coach Svetlana Borisovna Moiseeva made sure the kids and top athletes compete at this stage. So that the best athletes can talk a little with them, there will also be a master class here, we will tell about our long and difficult career, ”Sautin told reporters, whose words are quoted by correspondent Alexander Pshenichny .
On the first day of competition, Evgeny Kuznetsov won the competition on the three-meter springboard.
– The performance was far from ideal, I was very lucky to have won, there is a very small gap. There is something to work on. The season has just started, actually, so we still have to settle in and get used to it,” Kuznetsov said.
Yulia Timoshinina won in the high jump.
– I passed all the jumps without blockages, but somewhere there were good attempts. I didn’t expect to get so many points. But this is still the start of the season, the first start, there were no preliminary competitions – the final was held the same evening,” she stressed.
Source : MatchTV
