The director of the New Heights tournament, Mikhail Butov, said that the athlete who sets a world record at the competition will receive one million rubles from the organizers.
As part of the international tournament “New Height”, the 12 best jumpers (6 women and 6 men each) will perform on August 3 in Moscow at the amphitheater of the Salyut Heraklion sports complex, and on August 31 the competition will take place in Prokhladny (Kabardino-Balkarian Republic).
The series will bring together Olympic champion Maria Lasitskene, indoor world champion Danil Lysenko, junior world champion Natalya Spiridonova, world and European championship medalists, national championship winners Maria Kochanova, Ilya Ivanyuk, Kristina Koroleva, Karina Demidik.
— The prize money for the tournament is significant: 300,000 rubles for the first place, 200 for the second, 100 for the first. Additional bonuses for the results. From 100,000 rubles for the best result of the season in the country and up to 1 million rubles for a world record. “I am sure that among the athletes of the current generation there are those who are capable of encroaching on the world record,” the correspondent reports, quoting Butov.
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