Center Khrunichev takes part in fifth industry sports department

Sunday, September 19, 2021, started the fifth sectoral Olympics of the employees of the state corporation “Roskosmos” and its organizations. Seven days of more than a thousand athletes from 23 teams will fight for the rank of strongest in 11 sports disciplines: chess, mini-football, handball, basketball, volleyball, swimming, table tennis, badminton, tennis, darts and “Space Race”.

In the large-scale sporting event for employees of the Russian missile and space industry of the GKNPC named after M.V. Khrunichev (part of the state corporation “Roscosmos”) will be introduced 75 athletes. Six people came from the Kovrov branch of the design bureau “Armature” and 15 from the Omsk Production Association “Flight”.

On the first day of the Olympics after the opening ceremony, which was held in the Sports and Health Complex “Star”, handball team, mini-football and table tennis met on sports grounds.

With a score of 4: 2 Our athletes won the team of the Scientific and Production Association “Tehnomash” named after S.A. Afanasyev (included in Roscosmos) on table tennis, confident victory in 22 points vs. 2 won at a meeting with a team of rocket-space corporation. Energy named S.P. Korolev (enters Roscosmos) by handball. The defeat with a small gap ended the game of mini-football with the company “Information satellite Systems named after Academician M.F. Reshetnyova” (ISS, is included in Roscosmos), account 1: 2.

Monday without a victory for the Khrunichev Center, a meeting with the ISS on basketball was over. Our athletes cast 9 goals to the basket, skipping 15. Two successful matches The Khrunichev Center team held on table tennis, beat 4: 2 RKK “Energy” and 4: 0 Center for the training of cosmonauts named Yu.A. Gagarin, but leaving the team of the Rocket and Space Center “Progress” (enters Roscosmos): 3: 4.

The second day of the Olympics of the victory of athletes of the enterprise in large tennis in the match with the SA Science and Production Association Lavochka with a score of 2: 1.

/Media reports.