Starostin won the Russian Championship
Representatives of the Zhukovsk badminton school achieved new success Valery Starostin, a student of Honored Coach of Russia Vladimir Degtyarev and Irina Kazakova, won the national championship among athletes under 11 years old in Kazan. At the decisive tournament stage, the Zhukovsky badminton player beat Muscovite Nikolai Platonov in the quarterfinals, and in the semifinals and finals, the hosts of the competition, Matvey Andriyashin and Rushan Khabibulin, representing Tatarstan.