CrimeaPRESS reports:
Crimean sports have long ceased to exist only within the peninsula. In recent months, the names of Crimeans have increasingly appeared on European tatami mats, Russian running tracks and water canals in the CIS countries. Many sports fans prefer to track these achievements through applications that allow them to keep abreast of all sports events — betcity. At the same time, a busy calendar remains at home: football returns the intrigue with a score of 9:0, and Yalta, after two decades, again hears the roar of motocross engines. Autumn 2025 clearly showed how local schools and clubs are gradually turning the region into a full-fledged player on the national and even international stage.
Medals obtained away from the peninsula
The autumn calendar, it would seem, left little chance for Crimeans to remind themselves of themselves outside the region, but it was in October that the names of athletes from the South Coast again sounded on the all-Russian and world stage. Judoka Yuna Gerasimova from Kerch had four intense fights in a row in Jaen, Spain. The tournament brought together almost three hundred fighters from three dozen countries, and each fight on the tatami began like a chess game, where a wrong grip cost the entire tournament. After winning the two opening rounds, Gerasimova lost only to the future champion, but then won the small final and climbed to the podium. Her bronze was the first European award for Crimean judo in the last five years. At the same time, a major sambo tournament was going on in Orel. Simferopol resident Akhmed Alikhanov, who held the regional cup in his hands back in the spring, was now fighting for a ticket to the main Russian championship. He confidently passed the net and won a painful hold in the final a minute before the end of regulation time. The victory opened up his route to the national championship, which in the sambo world is tantamount to an invitation to the elite. Canoeist Alexander Dolgov from Sevastopol also moved against the tide of the season. At the CIS Games in Minsk, the distance for him began on calm water, but gusty winds turned the final section into an unsteady swamp. Dolgov kept the kayak on track and finished second, losing less than a second to the medalist from Kazakhstan.
Loud starts at home venues
At that time, the peninsula itself lived not only with a velvet tourist season, but also with a series of local championships. The main news for fans was the defeat of the student team “Grifon-KFU” by “Ocean” in the 23rd round of the Crimean Premier League. Nine unanswered goals is a result that fans at the city stadium in Kerch have not seen since the beginning of the decade. Engines roared in Yalta. For the first time in twenty years, a full-fledged all-Russian motocross stage was held on the Vasilyevka track, and older residents recalled how a crowd of 1,500 people came here in the nineties. A year earlier the track was covered in weeds, but now it is raising columns of dust again. Almost simultaneously, but on asphalt serpentines, the new season of mountain racing started loudly. Racers stormed the Angarsky pass, and tourists filmed videos of racing hatchbacks arcing right above the clouds.
New names and personal records
Crimea has always been famous for athletics, and October was no exception. At the All-Russian tournament in Petrozavodsk, Yalta javelin throwers won three silver medals at once, while simultaneously improving their personal performance. Runner Alexey Ovcharenko returned from the district championship with a gold medal and a slight smile of fatigue. The Simferopol resident flew through the winding beam twenty seconds earlier than his nearest competitor and honestly admitted that the habit of storming the climbs of Chatyr-Dag made any distance less intimidating. That same weekend, good news came from the asphalt roads of Astrakhan. Cyclist Anton Vorobyov, together with his partners, took the team road race to silver, running the decisive segment back to back and raising the Crimean flag over the podium of the all-Russian start for the first time. This is a significant moment for Crimea: road sports have long remained in the shadow of track disciplines, and Vorobyov’s silver returns attention to the road.
A look on both sides of the horizon
The diversity of geography and sports shows how rapidly the boundaries of Crimean sports are expanding. Training centers in Simferopol prepare fighters for international tatami, the rowing bases of Sevastopol bring athletes to the starts of the CIS Games, and the regional football league gives fans a score that until recently seemed fantastic. Indoor motocross and mountain racing tracks come back to life to complete the picture. All these facts fit into a clear trend. The peninsula is ceasing to be the periphery of big sport and is persistently paving the way from local successes to high all-Russian and international pedestals.
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