President of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBR) Viktor Maygurov reported that the amount of funding for regional biathlon federations is 55 million rubles.
Earlier, Maigurov said that this season the SBR budget will be lower than in the previous one, but the organization will try to maintain the level of prize money.
— When we explain that for one reason or another the SBR budget has decreased, but we are keeping the prize money at the same level, they say to us: “Let’s do more? We give priority to athletes. If you add it all up, it’s about 80 to 90 million. And 55 million – we help regional federations. Let’s ask the regional federations where to move this cup: towards the young people we raise, or towards the award-winning athletes? I think the choice will be obvious. So we try to maintain a certain parity.
We try to support our regional federations as much as possible, which take care of those who will come to us tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. For the first time, this program worth 55 million was implemented. Next year we also want to preserve the Regional Support Program and the Regional Athlete Support Program as much as possible. We also never had prize money for juniors. That year, 111 juniors received payments for winning prizes in competitions. For adults, it was 58 or 68 people. I think it is also a good support to motivate them in a difficult period when our international season is over. They understand where to go. This is an important element to encourage young people to get started with our sport,” reports the correspondent of , reporting Maygurov’s words.
The Alfa-Bank Russian Summer Biathlon Championship will take place in Tyumen from September 16 to 19. All races will be broadcast live on the channel and broadcasts will also be available on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites.
Source : MatchTV
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