Sportspersons of Yamal became the winners in the competition of Russia on northern all-round

The championship and the competition of Russia on northern all-round took place in the town Khanty-Mansiysk.

By the results of the competitions in the team ranking the youth team of Yamal became the winner in the competition of Russia. In the championship of the country the team of Yamal took the third place, as the press-service of the governor of Yamal informs.

180 sportspersons from 10 regions of Russia participated in the competitions: Magadan and Tyumen regions, Krasnoyarsk Krai, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Republic of Komi, Evenk Autonomous Okrug, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and Chukotka. Yamal was represented by the sportspersons from the town Salekhard, Tazovskiy, Shuryshkarskiy, Priuralskiy and Purovskiy districts.
As we should remind, the team of Yamal was formed by the results of the regional competitions that had taken place in November in Salekhard. Northern all-round traditionally includes 5 national kinds of sport: a triple leap, jumping over narty (northern nomadic sledge), running with a stick, throwing of a sports axe, throwing of a tynzyan on a khorey (a lasso for catching reindeer on a long pole for driving a reindeer team).