The first round of the round-robin mixed pairs curling tournament as part of the Spartakiad of the Strongest ended in Krasnoyarsk.
Ezekh Nkeiruka and Oleg Krasikov, representing St. Petersburg, defeated the Krasnodar region team of Ekaterina Glebova and Nikita Ignatkov with a score of 7:1. The Moscow team (Sofya Orazalina, Georgy Yepremyan) defeated the Republic of Tatarstan team (Yana Averyanova, Vladislav Gafiyatullin) in time.
Results of other matches in the first round of the mixed doubles tournament:
— Samara region (Polina Bogatova, Danila Sazonov) — Irkutsk region (Victoria Desova, Nikolay Lysakov) — 3:9;
— Krasnoyarsk region (Anna Samoilik, Danil Dmitriev) — Yaroslavl region (Anastasia Zhukina, Vasily Telezhkin) — 3:6;
— Moscow region (Anastasia Moskaleva, Kirill Surovov) — Novosibirsk region (Alexandra Stoyarosova, Ivan Kazachkov) — 6:5.
On Saturday at 05:00 (Moscow time), the matches of the second round of the men’s round robin will begin.
Source : MatchTV

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