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Award-winning masterpieces of the “Sports Russia” photo contest

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The winners of the All-Russian Sports Russia photo contest were announced on Tuesday, April 19. The best photos are included here. 20.04.2011, Sputnik International

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Award-winning masterpieces of the “Sports Russia” photo contest

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The winners of the All-Russian Sports Russia photo contest were announced on Tuesday, April 19. The best photos are included here.

© Photo : Dmitriy AzarovThe photo “Yevgeny Plushenko” by Dmitry Azarov was rated a professional photo in the category “Winter Olympic and Paralympic Competition” and also won the Grand Prix of the National “Sports Russia” Photo Contest.

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The photo “Yevgeny Plushenko” by Dmitry Azarov was rated a professional photo in the category “Winter Olympic and Paralympic Competition” and also won the Grand Prix of the National “Sports Russia” Photo Contest.

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The “Continental Hockey League” series by Yury Kuzmin from Moscow won first place in the category “Winter Olympic and Paralympic Competition.”

© Photo : Sergei PonomarevThe photo “The Fall” by Sergei Ponomaryov showing Italian skier Peter Fill falling during the super-giant slalom event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games won first place among single photos in the category “Winter Olympic and Paralympic Competition.”

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The photo “The Fall” by Sergei Ponomaryov showing Italian skier Peter Fill falling during the super-giant slalom event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games won first place among single photos in the category “Winter Olympic and Paralympic Competition.”

© Photo : Grigoriy DukorThis photo by Grigory Dukor shows Yevgeny Malkin scoring a mid-air goal against Roman Medvedev during a Hockey World Cup Championships qualifier in Riga. “The Malkin Goal” won third place in the category “Winter Olympic and Paralympic Competition.”

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This photo by Grigory Dukor shows Yevgeny Malkin scoring a mid-air goal against Roman Medvedev during a Hockey World Cup Championships qualifier in Riga. “The Malkin Goal” won third place in the category “Winter Olympic and Paralympic Competition.”

© Photo : Vladimir PesnyaThis photo by Vladimir Pesnya taken during a match between Spartak Moscow and Krylya Sovetov Samara at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium won first place among single photos in the category “Summer Olympic and Paralympic Competition.”

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This photo by Vladimir Pesnya taken during a match between Spartak Moscow and Krylya Sovetov Samara at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium won first place among single photos in the category “Summer Olympic and Paralympic Competition.”

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“Pole Jumping” by Maria Plotnikova took second place.

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First place in the category “Non-Olympic, extreme and other sports competition.”

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The jury awarded a special prize for the photo “Free Rider” by Yevgeny Vasenev from Krasnodar.

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The photo “The Plunge” by Dmitry Lovetsky from St. Petersburg showing a winter swimmer diving into an ice-hole won first place in the category “Sports in everyday life.”

© Photo : Mikhail MordasovThe jury awarded a special prize in this category for the photo “Physical Exercise” by Mikhail Mordasov of Sochi showing a theological academy student doing pull-ups near St. George Cathedral.

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The jury awarded a special prize in this category for the photo “Physical Exercise” by Mikhail Mordasov of Sochi showing a theological academy student doing pull-ups near St. George Cathedral.

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“They will become world champions” by Vyacheslav Bukharev from St. Petersburg won in one of the two amateur-photo categories “All sports competition.”