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The WFSU Yachtsmen of the Year are named

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On December 3, the «Yachtsman of the Year Award», established by the All-Russian Sailing Federation, was presented in Moscow. Anatoly Loginov, whose crew won the 2016 European Championship in the Dragon class, held in St. Petersburg, was named Yachtsman of the Year.

Stefania Elfutina was named Yachtswoman of the Year, bringing the Russian sailing team its first Olympic medal ever. At that moment Stefania was at the World Cup finals in Australia, that is why her mother got the prize for her.

The 2016 Russian Olympic Sailing Team was named Team of the Year.

The nomination «For Loyalty to Sail» was awarded to Valery Alekseev, the permanent port captain of the Sochi Yacht Club. For about twenty years Alekseev has been the captain of the port of FGBU «Yug Sport» - the main base for winter training of the sailing teams of the USSR and Russia. He is one of the founders of the Sochi sailing school which trained many strong athletes. In 1989-91 Valery Alekseev took part in the Whitbread round-the-world race on the legendary yacht representing the USSR - «Fazisi».

Earlier this year, Valeriy Alekseyev has had an amputation surgery on his leg. Russian Yachting Federation and magazine Yacht Russia addressed to yachtsmen with the request to help him to collect money for prosthetics.

More than half of the required amount of 800 thousand rubles has already been collected. You can transfer donations to the personal account of Valery Vasilievich.
The card number is «Sberbank of Russia»: 4276 3000 1769 2552.

In the nomination for best coverage «Golden Lens 2016» Alexey Zhirov won - for best coverage of sailing events as a video operator, commentator and presenter: National Sailing League, Russian Championship in Olympic Yacht Classes, International Youth Cup, Princess Sofia Cup, qualifying regattas of the Russian national team and much more.

The team of «Russian Media Group» - the largest media holding in Russia, uniting the most popular radio stations and music TV channels of the country - won the nomination for the best coverage «Golden Pen 2016».

Pavel Sobolev was recognized as the best organizer of the competition - since 2015 he has been the director of the International Junior Cup. In 2016 the stages of the Cup were successfully held in St. Petersburg (Strelna on the territory of Konstantinovsky Palace) and in French Cannes.

Coach of the year was Viktor Aivazyan - personal coach of Stefania Elfutina in RS:X class (since September 2013). Together with Victor the athlete became a multiple champion of Russia, world and Europe among juniors. She won the Olympic bronze medal in Rio.

In addition to the official nominations, Vladimir Silkin, President of VFSU, presented a challenge cup of the National Sailing League to the winners of the Sochi Grand Final and the overall standings of the 2016 season to the team «Lords of Sails - Europe», as well as noted the great contribution to the development of sailing and presented a memorable gift to Mikhail Dremov, Head of the FGBU «Yug Sport».

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