22.12.2009 Congratulations to Vitaly Shkel and Anton Proschenko
Congratulations to international Elbrus Race 2009 participants Vitaly Shkel and Anton Proschenko with remarkable results shown during the 11 race at Amangeldy!
"Memorial" - so now is called the annual race on Amangeldy, which is held for 11 years, and was founded in honor and in memory of Anatoly Bukreev.
December 19 early in the morning to the headquarters tent team «MT sport» call for mass registration of participants and high-speed ascent on peak Amangeldy race, which was established 11 years ago and was dedicated to the memory of Anatoly Bukreeva. At the opening of the organizer Victor Klyuchnikov told the crowd that now this event is called "Memorial" and dedicated to the memory of those killed in the mountains. President of the Federation of Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Kazbek Valiev greeted the participants, which was about fifty, and recalled that in the tract Tuyuksu Memorial was built in 1999, that the Kazakhstani from mountaineering, there are traditions and one of them - to remember the people who did not return to climbing, race. Among the participants were Russian, Kyrgyz and Kazakh climbers, as well as older veterans of the sport from Almaty club marathon. For the fifth time in the race participated Vladimir Kovalchuk, who said he loved the mountains and enjoys such events, and Sergei Klimov, do not miss a single race, admitted that for him a meeting with nature.
The first to reach peak was Vitaly Shkel from Samara, his time is 1 hour 23 min. Record Denis Urubko - 1 hour 18 min. being not broken (2004). Rafael Faizullin was the second reached the finish , his time is 1h. 25 min. 44 sec. (Almaty). In third place was Anton Proschenko from Omsk, his time of 1h. 26 min. 37 sec. In women, the first was Anastasia Ehno
(1 hour and 59 minutes., Bishkek), followed by Maria Popova (Bishkek), the third Nina islands (Almaty).
Source: RussianClimb.com