Kolesnikov Team will take part in the qualifying round of Crossfit Open!

Kolesnikov Team – 14 people who share the ideas and values of the team: an active lifestyle, optimism, desire to help people and change the world for the better. It is also a socio-sports project aimed at popularizing functional sports among everyday people. That’s why members of Kolesnikov Team not only set for themselves goals and successfully execute them, but also cooperate with various charities and organizations.

Open Cup In Functional All-Around Among Firemen And Rescuers is a socially significant project that just passed.

On February 22, 2022 there was held an “Open Cup of St. Petersburg Chapter of the Russian Union of Rescuers on functional multiathlon among firemen and rescuers”, devoted to the memory of firemen who lost their lives performing their duties.

50 firefighters and rescuers from 15 regions of Russia took part in the competition.

Participants competed in fireman’s overalls, which made the process much more difficult because they had to perform the exercises with weights.
Participants performed three competitive complexes, and the judges were 12 professional Crossfit athletes.

Kolesnikov Team were the partners and sponsors of the event.

The team supports all sports initiatives of the guys from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and in the near future plans to form Kolesnikov Rescue Service Team.
Among the participants of the Kolesnikov Team are the strongest Crossfit athletes in the country. This year they will take part in the qualifying round of Crossfit Open, which will be held from February 24 to March 14 this year. It is noteworthy that anyone can take part in the qualifying round. Each week, one set is posted online and given 4 days to perform it, after which the result is entered on the official website, where the world leaderboard is formed. The best 10% move on to the next stage – the quarterfinals, which are also held online. For Kolesnikov Team athletes it’s a chance to get to the world’s largest competition CF Games and show a decent performance.

Professional coaches of the team also work with the Special Forces, helping them to improve their sports training and passing departmental sports standards. For this purpose the Kolesnikov Special Force Team was formed, from which athletes will take part in competitions among Special Forces units. It is planned to hold them this year for the first time. Despite the fact that such competitions are not uncommon, Crossfit techniques and the use of a wider range of functional movements in general – an innovative approach of coaches Kolesnikov Team. The competition will be a great opportunity to demonstrate how, thanks to this approach, the level of physical fitness of the fighters has increased.

Special Force team will also take part in CF Open, and the best of the guys will go to the finals of Occupational Games in April. This is an online Crossfit competition among various specialties – military, doctors, rescue workers – a successful performance in which the title of, for example, the best-trained police officer in the world.

The year 2022 promises to be full of events. In addition to the mass of charitable projects, Kolesnikov Team athletes will take part in the GTO March on Red Square in March, organize a new M.E.R.F and visit the Lowlands Throwdown in May, go to Busan in Korea for the Far East Throwdown and French in June and Dubai CF in November. At the same time they will make online training programs for different purposes, open an online store of branded clothes, equip free areas for functional sports under the guidance of their own trainers, and much more.

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