Governor Jugry Alexander Filipenko has started to the third round of the Championship of Russia on billiards "Pyramid" which has begun on October, 22nd in hanty-mansijskom the Center of development of tennis sports.

"It is convinced that fine conditions, mood, structure of participants will provide successful carrying out of competitions. I am glad that Khanty-Mansiysk consistently and confidently increases the presence at billiard sports, – the head of region has told at opening ceremony. – today's competitions, in my opinion, one of occasions to be proud of that Jugra confidently walks in this direction. Not less pleasantly and that the big group югорских sportsmen takes in their part. All of us we wait from them for serious results".

In the Championship take part more than 60 billiard-players who have arrived from Moscow, St.-Petersburg, the Altay, Penza, Tyumen, Orenburg, Omsk, Tomsk, Rostov areas. Struggle in a thriathlon – three kinds of game – will go to Russian billiards within five days, have informed the correspondent REGIONS.RU in the press-service of governor ХМАО.

After opening ceremony governor Alexander Filipenko and the vice-president of Federation of billiard sports of Russia Vladimir Nikiforov have discussed prospects of development of this kind of sports in region. Vladimir Nikiforov has noted high level of the organisation of tournament, having underlined that it is simultaneously and a selection stage on the World championship.

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