St. Petersburg sportsmen won two out of four medals in the first day of the Russian championship, which took place in Novocheboksarsk (Chuvashia), SE-Internet correspondent Boris TITOV reports.

Europe-2001 club champion (in Javara-Neve) Evgeny Stanev, who is standing in the extra lightweight group (below 60 kg) showed his best as well as the debutante of the women's championship 18-year old Ludmila Bogdanova - below 52 kg. Stanev's clubmate from Javara-Neve Universiada-2001 champion Magomed Jaffarov from Makhachkala (below 66 kg) and vice-champion of Olympic games-2000 Lubov Bruletova (below 48 kg) confirmed their high rank.