28 December 2016

Karjakin Takes 4th Place in Russia's Best Sportsman of 2016

The contest was carried out by Sport-Express newspaper.

For the contest, mass media references and objective results in the departing year were taken into account. The fencer Yana Egoryan, hero of the summer Olympics, was declared the best Russian sportsman of the year. The wrestler Roman Vlasov took second place, the gymnast Aliya Mustafina was third. 

The Vice-World Champion grandmaster Sergey Karjakin took fourth place, surpassing two Olympic champions and many legendary sportmen: Alexander Lesun, Sofia Velikaya, Yulia Efimova, Fedor Smolov, Artyom Dzyuba, Igor Akinfeev, Evgeny Malkin, Sergey Mozyakin, Alexander Ovechkin, Timofey Mozgov, and Denis Lebedev.

The final results