Dmitry Chernyshenko at the RUSSIA EXPO: "You're in the Game" contest under the federal project "Sport is the Norm of Life" has attracted more than 5,000 applications

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Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko took part in the awards ceremony for the winners of the fourth season of the All-Russian contest of sports projects "You're in the Game" at the RUSSIA EXPO. The event was also attended by Oleg Matytsin, Minister of Sport of the Russian Federation, Sofia Malyavina, Director General of the ANO "National Priorities", and other contest experts and guests of honor. The contest is held with the support of the federal project "Sport is the Norm of Life" of the "Demography" national project.

"'You're in the Game' contest is held for the fourth year. The fact that this is a massive movement is evidenced by the number of nominees, because for the entire time of the competition more than 16 thousand applications were submitted, and this year alone the contest received more than 5 thousand applications. This is very important, because the winners are born in competition. And, of course, such role models as Olympic athletes are essential in order to make a decision to connect one's life with an active lifestyle. The federal project "Sport is the Norm of Life", under which the contest is held, is a great tool. But in order to engage in physical training, we need conditions, obviously. The state is doing a lot for this. President Vladimir Putin has set a goal that by 2030 70% of our citizens should regularly engage in physical culture and sports. New sports, unique formats of competitions, as well as infrastructure, equipment and creative ideas — all this is necessary to achieve the goal set by the head of state," said Dmitry Chernyshenko.

Together with Olympic silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva, he also awarded the winner of the Grand Prix of the competition - it was the project "Born in Russia: Sibike — a New Sport" from the Yaroslavl region.

"'You're in the Game' is not just a contest, it is an active educational process that involves new ideas, mutual enrichment and learning from the experience of others. More than 16 thousand projects have been presented over the years, more than 15 million citizens have been involved in sports thanks to your initiatives. This all has a positive impact on the implementation of the federal project "Sport is a Norm of Life" of the national project "Demography". I am glad that absolutely all age categories and social groups participate in the contest. The variety of projects is also inspiring: family sports, running movement, festival movement, television shows. All means are good for us to feel the joy of sports, the joy of communication, in which there are no losers," said Oleg Matytsin.

The minister wished the movement to become even more popular, to rejoice at each other's victories and the fact that our country is developing, and sport is an important factor in its stable development.

The authors of 5060 projects became participants of the fourth season. The leaders in terms of the number of participants were Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Moscow, Sverdlovsk and Nizhny Novgorod regions, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Novosibirsk region, as well as the Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk regions.

The most popular of the contest's main nominations was "Children in Sport", with "Starting Point" coming second, followed by "Unlimited Possibilities", "Scale" and "Transformation in Sport". In the nominations from the contest partners, the leader was "Sports Tourism", followed by "Media" and "Corporate Sports". Football became the absolute leader in terms of the number of projects. Swimming, athletics, basketball, running, boxing, volleyball, sports tourism, adaptive sports and fitness were also in the top 10 in terms of popularity.

Thirty-five projects from 19 regions of Russia made it to the finals of the fourth season of the All-Russian contest of sports projects "You're in the Game". The winners in each of the five main nominations received 300 thousand rubles each, while the grand prize amounted to 1 million rubles.

The winners in the main nominations were:

- Scale — Russian Professional Disc Golf Tour from the Sverdlovsk region;

- Starting Point — Rugby Behind the Fence from the Arkhangelsk region;

- Boundless Possibilities — Step2Wake from St. Petersburg;

- Children in Sport — Inclusive Project: Adaptive Twirling. Celebration of Opportunities from the Moscow region;

- Transformation in Sport — Born in Russia: Sibike — a New Sport from the Yaroslavl region.

Winners of special nominations:

- Corporate Sports — I All-Russian Spartakiade of Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK) employees "Games of Titans" from the Krasnoyarsk region;

- Sports Tourism — Crocodiliada Sports and Tourism Festival from the Moscow region;

- Media — Dream Team from Yekaterinburg.

Winners in partner nominations:

- Boundless Possibilities (Iron King) — No Borders. There are Possibilities from Udmurtia;

- #OurSportHere (Tricolor) — Olotau Yiyyny project from the Republic of Bashkortostan;

- Children in Sport (Mantera Charitable Foundation) — Hockey Star International Children's Hockey Camp from the Krasnodar region.

The contest also included a People's Vote, in which 255 semifinalists of "You're in the Game" participated. The winner with 5,549 votes was the Regional Tourism Festival named after Yuri Belousov from Tatarstan. Second place went to the Multisport Children's League from the Lipetsk region, which got 3,562 votes. The third prize winner was the Fonkod Multifunctional Platform for Sports Programming Competitions (1,963 votes).

The "You're in the Game" contest is aimed at identifying and supporting creative sports initiatives that meet the goals of the federal project "Sport is the Norm of Life" of the national project "Demography", popularizing mass sports and healthy lifestyles, and engaging as many people as possible in regular physical training and sports.