The loudest incident that happened at the Universiade in Kazan was associated with medals. Two athletes at once - Russian champion Azamat Laipanov and bronze medalist from China Tian Qin - dropped their awards, breaking them. Although the organizers quickly brought equivalent duplicates, the residue, as they say, remained. After all, Laipanov and Tian Qin broke not just medals, but part of the Universiade budget of 9038 rubles for two.
How many countries are there in the world?
Many record figures were recorded at the Games in Kazan. For example, by the number of participants, types of sports programs and medals played in them.
According to the statistics of the tournament, 117,759 athletes from 162 countries took part in it. And 351 sets of medals for excellent performances in 27 types eventually went to representatives of 70 of them. More precisely, all these athletes won 1218 medals with the inscription in English "You are the world" out of 3014 prepared. Including 353 gold, 351 silver and 514 bronze.
gold reserve
Medals awarded to athletes who, alas, accidentally smashed them, it is quite acceptable to call them precious. Indeed, in St. Petersburg, they were not only cast from a rather expensive alloy of copper and nickel, but each was covered with six grams of gold, silver or bronze. So the cost of each award, made almost by hand, really turned out to be quite high.
The head of the Executive Directorate of the Games, Vladimir Leonov, named the total cost of 228 billion rubles. Which turned out to be 72 billion more than previously announced by the President of the International University Sports Federation Claude-Louis Gallien.
By the way, to the question "How much can it cost?" experts answered to the nearest ruble. According to them, one gold medal cost the organizing committee 5,793 rubles, a silver one - 4,649 rubles and a bronze one - 3,245 rubles. I wonder what it is like to stand on a pedestal with almost six thousand around your neck?
And not only a medal
As you know, the total cost of a medal won at the stadium by a professional (and at the Universiade there were quite a lot of professional sportsmen-students, especially Russian ones), it is quite possible to include a bonus. More precisely, those monetary and other rewards that, after the end of the tournament, begin to pour in on the champion and the rest of the winners.
And it's hard to say how many winners of the same student competitions got such pleasant bonuses. After all, this also includes awards from the region and the city where the athlete lives, from the sports society and the club for which he stands, from sponsors and simply influential people who love wide gestures and the so-called PR.
Most of the Universiade awards - six - were won by Russian swimmer Vladimir Morozov. And four of them turned out to be gold. Also, two Russians won four gold medals - swimmer Yulia Efimova and gymnast Margarita Mamun.
For example, for successful starts and finishes in Kazan, the Russian champions, the same Azamat Laipanov, were entitled not only to gold medals, but also to 168 thousand rubles from the country's budget alone. For the second place, the Russians were awarded 84 thousand. For the third - 50 thousand. About the same amount of money was added by the leadership of Tatarstan, which is represented by the wrestler Laipanov. The total amount of the prize money reached 500 thousand rubles. In short, the medals really turned out to be worth their weight in gold!
