The dazzling start of the Olympic Games-88 in Seoul overshadowed all other competitions of the year, both international and domestic. But this does not mean at all that they "burned" to the fullest: the struggle was intense and uncompromising. This was recalled at the final competitions of the first All-Union Workers' Spartakiad of sea and river ports in Kiev. They took place almost immediately after the Olympics, and the impressions of record points, goals and seconds were still very fresh. And although the sporting achievements of the workers of the berths turned out to be much more modest, passions boiled here, too, on stadiums and playgrounds lavishly decorated with the sun and colorful foliage — gifts of the Kiev autumn. The participants noisily rejoiced at their victories and silently suffered defeats...

Competitions of this scale have never existed in the sports chronicle of the Vodnik club. For the first time, as they say, the dockers came face to face to face off, to determine who of them were the strongest and most agile. And the set of competitive disciplines itself bore a clear professional imprint: cross-country, light weight throwing, kettlebell lifting, swimming, tug of war and table tennis.

39 teams from all over the Soviet Union came to the finals, and the first type of program, the nautical mile track and field cross—country, was won by the Leningrad Seaport sports team. The Cherepovets rivermen are in second place, and the Petropavlovsk—Kamchatsky port team is in third. In the men's individual competition, all the prizes went to Leningrad residents: N. Orlov, a mechanic, and A. Laptev and A. Mironov, dockworkers.

In the next discipline, the light throw, the athletes from the Komsomolsk River Port were successful. Their colleagues from the Arkhangelsk Seaport were 2 points behind them. However, a member of this team, a docker mechanic V. Sergeev showed the best result in the individual competition — 63rd. By the way, not all participants managed to cope with such a seemingly simple projectile as lightness — 34 people earned "steering wheels". What's the matter? After all, in this purely professional type of competition, the teams fielded 3 people each, presumably their best masters.

It is surprising that, for example, the Murmansk port workers did not receive a single point at all. Moreover, according to one of the judges, the executive secretary of the MMF Board, V. Godunov, it was sometimes simply unsafe to be in the throwing area: shells launched by an inept hand flew in any direction except the right one.

However, the losers later justified themselves by saying that they had left their weaknesses at home, but were not used to others. There is some truth in this, but... Obviously, in many ports, this discipline, which is so necessary in the work of dockworkers, has not been adequately developed. Perhaps it is worth noting the successful performance of the port workers of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, who took fifth place, and a member of the team, the port manager AND. Snytko rose to the third step of the podium based on the results of individual throws.

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