The Universiade will
be held in Krasnoyarsk on March 2-12, 2019.
YEKATERINBURG,
November 17. /TASS/. The Russian Ural city of Yekaterinburg hosted the Flame of
the 2019 Winter Universiade on Saturday when torchbearers started the relay
from Ural Federal University and ran along the city main road, TASS reported
from the scene.
"Impressions
cannot be compared to anything else. Each city gives absolutely new emotions
and new people who we meet there. We learn what is going on in Yekaterinburg
and elsewhere: how students study, what they are into, while we, in our turn,
tell you about a distant and cold Krasnoyarsk where the Universiade will be
held," Deputy Executive Director of the Universiade Directorate Stella
Alekseeva told TASS.
"It was just
great in spite of a slight frost. Exactly in a week, we will be working in
Vladivostok," she added.
The flame was carried
by 25 torchbearers along a distance of five kilometers. Among them were
two-time Olympic biathlon champion Sergei Chepikov, cross-country skiing bronze
medalist Ivan Alypov, Regional Sports Minister Leonid Rapoport, UFU Rector
Victor Koksharov, and Head of The TASS Ural Regional Information Center (RIC)
Maria Kartuz.
After Yekaterinburg,
the 2019 Winter Universiade Flame will head for the Far Eastern city of
Vladivostok that will host the next stage of the torch relay on November 24.
The Winter
Universiade torch relay started in Turin on September 20. As part of the
international stage, torchbearers ran through the streets of Almaty and Harbin.
As for Russia, the flame has already been carried through Moscow, Kaliningrad,
Simferopol, Rostov-on-don, Stavropol, Grozny, St. Petersburg, Arkhangelsk, and
Kazan. The relay will wrap up its final destination in Krasnoyarsk on March 1.
The Winter
Universiade will be held in Krasnoyarsk on March 2-12, 2019. Athletes will
compete for 76 sets of medals. There will be eight mandatory sports, namely
skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, hockey, short track, snowboarding,
figure skating, and curling. Athletes will also compete in three freestyle,
orienteering and ball hockey.
Source: ITAR-TASS
17-11-2018
