Table Tennis Tournament ended in Orenburg
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On March 15 to 17, Orenburg’s Gazovik Cultural and Sports Palace hosted the 16th National Youth Table Tennis Tournament for the prizes of Vladimir Maltsev, Hero of Socialist Labor, former employee of the Orenburg Gas Processing Plant. As usual, the Tournament was organized and sponsored by Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg.
Taking part in the Tournament were more than 130 young sportsmen from Orenburg, Ufa, Yekaterinburg, Orsk, Mednogorsk, Kuvandyk, Buzuluk, Gai, as well as Sorochinsk, Orenburg, Perevolotsk, Akbulak, Belyaevka and Novosergievka Districts.
The first prizes in the older age group (years of birth: 1992 to 1993) were won by Ilmir Kilmetov and Rufina Mavlyutova, the Gazovik children’s and youth sports school apprentices (Orenburg), in the middle age group (years of birth: 1994 to 1997) – by Pavel Khripunenko (Yekaterinburg), in the younger group (years of birth: 1998 and later) – by Irina Yurmasheva (Orsk) and Ilya Berezin, the Gazovik children’s and youth sports school apprentice (Orenburg). Most of the prizes were won by the Gazovik children’s and youth sports school apprentices. The company allotted more than RUB 240 thousand for organizing and staging the Tournament.
Background
Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gazprom. The company is focused on hydrocarbon feedstock production, processing and transmission.
Vladimir Maltsev is the Hero of Social Labor, honored worker of Orenburggazprom, former process gas compressor operator at the gas processing plant. The first tournament in his honor took place in 1996. Over the past years it was granted the national status and was included into the Calendar of the Table Tennis Federation of Russia.
There are three tournaments for the prizes of Heroes of Social Labor in the sports calendar of Gazprom Dobycha Orenburg. The International Judo Tournament for the prizes of Yury Vysheslavtsev, former Director General of Orenburggazprom and the Ice Hockey Tournament named after Anatoly Zibarev, honored worker of the gas industry take place every year. In 2008, the first Football Tournament among children’s teams was organized in the memory of Vasily Nikolaev, former Director General of the company.