07 June 2023
Welcome to Study at SPbFTU!
For more details please contact Directorate of International Cooperation
Head of the Directorate of International Cooperation:
Ph.D (Ec) Svetlana Tereshchenko
Phone: +7 (812) 670-92-60, +7 (931) 592-28-89
E-mail: mobilityftu@gmail.com

Sport

The Depart­ment of Phys­i­cal Edu­ca­tion and Sports at our Uni­ver­si­ty is one of the lead­ing in St. Peters­burg thanks to the high skill of lec­tures and coach­es. There are 20 full-time lec­tures  and 22 lead­ing train­ers-spe­cial­ists in var­i­ous sports. Most of them have aca­d­e­m­ic degrees or sports ranks.

  • There are 25 sports groups at Uni­ver­si­ty, such as ath­let­ics, foot­ball, bas­ket­ball, vol­ley­ball, hock­ey, hand­ball, rug­by, motor sport, ten­nis, ski­ing, all kinds of mar­tial arts, sports tourism and many oth­ers. They are attend­ed by more than 400 students.
  • The Ath­let­ics group is one of the strongest at Uni­ver­si­ty. There were trained 11 future cham­pi­ons of Rus­sia among the young sports­men. In 2012, N. Antykh won the Olympic Cham­pi­onship at 400 meter dis­tance race with barriers.
  • The Euro­pean box­ing cham­pi­on D. Tsaruk and World cham­pi­on in kick­box­ing A. Berd­nikov were trained at University.
  • The Uni­ver­si­ty stu­dent team is a 15-time cham­pi­on in sport car all-round events among the City uni­ver­si­ties; our grad­u­ates I. Boro­dulin and S. Mon­akhov won the Cham­pi­on title of Rus­sia in this kind of sport.
  • Hock­ey play­ers and foot­ball play­ers of the Uni­ver­si­ty are mul­ti­ple win­ners of the Cham­pi­onships of Uni­ver­si­ties in St. Peters­burg, oth­er stu­dents’ major com­pe­ti­tions, includ­ing the cham­pi­onships of the Sovi­et Union and Russia.
  • The team of rug­by ath­letes has repeat­ed­ly won the title of Cham­pi­on in St. Peters­burg among Uni­ver­si­ties, its play­ers are part of the Russ­ian Nation­al Rug­by Team.
  • The girls’ bas­ket­ball team won sil­ver medals in street­ball com­pe­ti­tions at the First All-Russ­ian Stu­dent Sport Festival.
  • The sports­men of Saint Peters­burg State For­est Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty have been win­ning prizes in com­plex interuni­ver­si­ty events for many years.