Sports

Sports

Physical Training is considered to be an integral part of harmonious development of a person, that is why great attention is paid to sport at the university. There is a sport base at the disposal of the students to go in for 14 kinds of sport, which includes a stadium with 400 - metre race-track and sectors, the only athletic manage in Siberia, ski base, rifle range, where Republican and Russian championships are held, Sport Complex (wrestling, boxing, body-building halls with two rehabilitation centers), Sport Camping on shore of Lake Baikal. One can attend sport sections: archery, wrestling, football, volleyball, basketball, athletics, boxing, ski racing, shooting, chess, aerobics, athletic gymnastics, table tennis, shaping.

The instructors of the Department 'Physical Training and Sport' have trained:
• about 100 Masters of Sport and over 300 Candidates of Masters of Sport (wrestling) ;
• 2 Masters of Sport of Russia, 2 Candidates of Masters of Sport (track and field athletics);
• 1 International Master of Sport, 9 Masters of Sport of Russia, 6 Candidates of Masters of Sport (archery);
• 2 Masters of Sport of Russia, 5 Candidates of Masters of Sport (shooting);
• 1 FIDE Master, 2 Candidates of Masters of Sport (chess);
• 6 candidates in Masters of Sport (cross- country ski ing)
• and also hundreds of rated sportsmen and referees in various kinds of sport.

In 2001 sport school № 12 for children and young people was established on the basis of ESSTU. Sport Club of University became the winner of Republican Prize 'Golden Olympus' in the nomination The Best society of physical training-2006, 2010'.