Our team won ten gold, two silver and one bronze award that allowed big Russian national team to take priority in the general offset with total 62 awards (37-16-9) and to outstrip Italians (20-19-16) and Brazilians (19-28-22).

Winners of competitions in the capital of the country of future Olympic Games became: Kelekhsayev David (55 kg) from Ossetia, Suleymanov Ahmed (66 kg) from Kursk, Stryuk Mikhail (73 kg) from Irkutsk, Lepyokh Alexey (90 kg) from Novocherkassk, the Rostov region, Begmetov Alexander (over 90 kg) from Kursk, Bikbova Aida (40 kg) from Tatarstan, Matatova Sofia (44 kg) from Moscow, Shilova Christina (52 kg) from Perm, Gimaletdinova Alexandra (70 kg) from Tatarstan and Bukreeva Marina (over 70 kg) from Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai. Got silver Pichkalyova Darya (48 kg) from Perm and Nikiforova Nuyurguyana (63 kg) from Yakutia, and bronze - Kulikovskyh Alexandra (60 kg) from Chelyabinsk and to Voropayev Igor (81 kg).

The world Gymnasiade – the multisports meet which is carried out once in four years by the International school sports federation (International School Sport Federation - ISF) among school students aged from 14 till 17 years. 

The first Gymnasiade was carried out in 1974 in Wiesbaden, Germany and included competitions on gymnastics and swimming. Tournament on track and field athletics was added in the program of the following Gymnasiade in the Orleans in 1976. In 1990 it was decided to transfer the school Olympic Games to the four-year schedule. In the previous Gymnasiade, in Qatar in 2009, took part more than 1200 school students representing 42 countries.

For such competitions four sports became traditional: track and field athletics, art both gymnastics and swimming. As demonstration sports in Brazil chess, rhythmics were presented, to judo and karate.

On competitions-2013 to Brazil sent the combined 33 countries among which were: Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Great Britain, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, etc.

Opening of the World School Games took place on a platform Nilson Nelson of a gymnasium in the city of Brasilia. Popular singer Michel Telo became a star of the show program, whose songs "Bara Baire" and "Nose Nose" are familiar to all. The nice small animal of the coati, the typical inhabitant of northern part of South America became a talisman of the Gymnasiade. Venues of competitions in the city were decorated in colors of games.

According to the winner of tournament of judoists Aleksandra Gimaletdinova (70 kg), for participants of the Gymnasiade excursion on sights of the capital of Brazil was organized. "We lived in hotel, trained in a small hall with one tatami. And around the city took a walk even before excursion. Few times appeared near absolutely poor areas where people live in tents from cardboard boxes. As for competitions, children and girls acted fine. We supported the friend the friend, shouted on tribunes as could. Especially rejoiced when Marina Bukreeva won against the champion of Europe among cadets, vice-world champions of the Frenchwoman. For achievement of gold needed to win in Brazil two meetings – against the representative of Surinam and against the Brazilian – in the ending. The people in my category was a little. But I finished both fights by ippons, deduction won. Still we with children went on athletics and gymnastics. There Russians too perfectly acted".

Marina Mayorova