Moscow Domodedovo Airport Welkomes Sportsmen – Participants of the 26th World Summer Universiade
On August 24, Russian athletes - participants of the 26th Summer Universiade, which had been held in Shenzhen from 12 to 23 of August - returned to Moscow Domodedovo Airport. More than 10 thousand athletes from 150 countries took part in the competition. 306 sets of medals in total were won. The Russian national team has taken the second place in the team standings, winning 42 gold, 45 silver and 45 bronze medals.
Moscow Domodedovo Airport and the Ministry of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation organized a grand welcome to the athletes, as well as a press conference on the results of the competition.
Participants of the Universiade were met by the Deputy Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation, Pavel Kolobkov, representatives of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation and the Russian Student Sports Union.
Having thanked the athletes for high awards and achievements, Pavel Kolobkov also thanked Moscow Domodedovo Airport, a longstanding partner of the ministry, which organizes events for the meeting and seeing off different sports delegations at the highest level and a fast and comfortable passage of the necessary pre-and post-flight procedures for large groups of athletes.
Recall that the next Summer Universiade will be held in Kazan in 2013. More than 300 sets of medals will be played at the Universiade.
Moscow Domodedovo Airport congratulates the athletes with the deserved victories and wishes them success and brilliant victories.
Moscow Domodedovo Airport is one of the fastest growing airports in Russia and Eastern Europe. Over 10 years, the airline's passenger traffic has increased almost 10-fold, from 2.8 million people in 2000 to 22.3 million people in 2010. More than 80 Russian and foreign airlines are the partners of the airport. Members of the leading global airline alliances, such as Star Alliance, oneworld and SkyTeam, have chosen Moscow Domodedovo Airport for their flights to Moscow.