The World Chess Boxing Championship was held in Antalya

The World Chess Boxing Championship was held in Antalya (Turkey). This sport combines the game of chess and boxing. The overall winner was the Russian team with 10 medals, 4 of which were gold.

The president of the Russian Chess Boxing Federation, Pyotr Zhukov, assessed the performance of the national team as “very successful”.

— According to the results of the qualifying starts and summer training camps, the team included athletes from Moscow, Ryazan, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Ufa and Sochi,— Zhukov noted. — I must say that the guys showed their best side. The author of perhaps the loudest sensation of the tournament was Ilsur Iskhakov. In the status of a debutant of the World Cup, he reached the final, where he defeated the formidable Frenchman, a two-time world champion, who had not suffered a single defeat before. Another hero can be called Daniil Solovyov — in In Antalya, he became the strongest chess boxer of the planet for the second time. 10 national teams took part in the World Championship. The most numerous teams were brought by India and Turkey, but I would still single out the French in terms of skill level. Germany and Italy had their own leaders, but from the point of view of the struggle for victory in the overall standings, they could not compete. As a result, we became the first in terms of gold medals and the total number of awards,” – Zhukov said.