SPORT POLITICS. Marat Safin is the best Russian sportsman of December

The principals of the main Russian print mass media, radio and television channels, informational agencies, internet portals, press services and sportive organizations selected the Davis Cup-2006 winner, tennis player Marat Safin as the best Russian sportsman of December. These results were achieved after the traditional inquiry that the sport news agency “All Sport” and the magazine “Champion Club” held in association with “ALROSA” Corporation and Russian Jewelers’ Guild.

All Russian sportsmen as well as all other sportsmen regardless of their citizenship and nationality who are representing Russian teams today were under consideration as the nominees for this contest. They got 10 points for the first place and 1 point for the tenth. Marat Safin gained 122 points in this contest. There were 31 claimants mentioned in the journalists’ questionnaires.

About three dozens of major Russian sportive mass media principals took part in the inquiry in December. Among them there were the news agencies ITAR-TASS and “All Sport”, television channels “First Channel” and “NTV+”, radio stations “Moscow Echo” and “Mayak”, newspapers “Moskovsky Komsomolets”, “Novye Izvestiya”, “Novaya Gazeta”, “Moscow Sport”, “Olympic Russia”, “Sport Week-End” (Saint-Petersburg), “Region 16” (Kazan’), portals Lenta.ru, Sport-guide.ru, Newsinfo.ru, Yuga.ru, Russian editorial staff of Eurosport.ru, the press services of Russian Olympic Committee (OCR), sportsmen’ commissions of OCR, CSKA, Russian Wrestling Federation, Russian Fencing Federation, Russian Boxing Federation, Volgograd State Academy of Physical Culture, promo department of the main physical culture and sport authority of Krasnoyarsk city government, the magazine “Champion Club” and others.

Here we give the full results of the inquiry

1. Marat Safin (tennis) – 122 points.
2. Ekaterina Tudegesheva (snowboard) – 106.
3. Lyudmila Privivkova (curling) – 102.
4. Oleg Maskaev (professional boxing) – 86.
5. Yury Prilukov (swimming) – 78.
6. Arkady Vyatchanin (swimming) – 75.
7. Evgeny Popov (bobsleigh) – 72.
8. Dmitry Yaroshenko (biathlon) – 71.
9. Aleksandr Mikhajlin (judo) – 34.
10. Evgeny Dementiev (ski race) – 25.
11. Petr Schactlivy (ice hockey) – 20.
12. Vasily Koshechkin (ice hockey) – 17.
13. Victor Kozlov (ice hockey) – 15.
14. Roman Pavlyuchenko (football) – 14.
15-16. Ivan Skobrev (ice-skating) and Albert Demchenko (luge) – 12 each.
17. Aleksandr Tyukavin (bendy) – 10.
18. Aleksandr Tretiakov (skeleton) – 8.
19-20. Valery Brudov (professional boxing) and Irina Poltoratskaya (handball) – 7 each.
21-23. Lazaros Papandopulos (basketball), Aleksandr Legkov (cross country), Aleksandr Ovechkin (ice hockey) – 6 each.
24. Dmitry Tursunov (tennis) – 5.
25-26. Nikolai Khabibulin (ice hockey), Lyudmila Bodineva (handball) – 4 each.
27-29. Tea Donguzashvili (judo), Elena Zamolodchikova (artistic gymnastics), Oksana Domnina – Maksim Shabalin (figure skating) – 3 each.
30. Evgeny Malkin (ice hockey) – 2.