The Boxing World Championship, which gathered 300 students from 24 countries, was held in Thailand. They gave out 13 sets of medals – 10 among men and 3 among women. Two awards were won by Chelyabinsk boxers. Among them, SUSU master’s student Artem Garashuk, who won silver in the 75 kilogram weight class. The student of coach Sergey Novikov defeated an athlete from the host country and a boxer from Kazakhstan, but lost in the final round to Ukrainian athlete Valeriy Kharlamov.
On October 15th, SUSU rector Aleksandr Shestakov congratulated the silver medalist in boxing among students, Artem Garashuk, on his successful performance in the ring in Thailand. President of the sport club Ural, Evgeniy Vainshtein, and coach Sergey Novikov participated in the meeting.