Culture and sport

Sports and recreation activities with students, faculty and staff of the University shall jointly chair of physical education, led by double Olympic champion, nine-world champion, eight-European champion, earned a master of sports, Ph.D., professor, academician of International Academy of creativity Starshinova Vyacheslav Ivanovich and sports clubs MEPHI. It includes a training, recreational and sports activities.
Work is done on a sports-based institution, where there is a games room, gym, two halls Sambo, table tennis room, two outdoor tennis courts with artificial turf grass, a gym and open planar structures.
Sportclub MEPHI - one of the oldest student sports clubs of Moscow. Since 1990, the sports club is a legal entity. His was the sole founder of the Joint Trade Union Committee for MEPHI.
In the 20 sports clubs involved in more than 650 people, and recreational groups 350. MEPHI is held annually in the Institute for the Games of 14-15 kinds of sports, as well as winter and summer soccer football for everybody. On sports-based institute conducted a series of traditional events: the International Tournament in Sambo for the Prix space empire, ski competition, "Race generations," cross country race Kolomenskoye Hills ", a festival of sports aerobics and universities of Moscow Olympics in basketball, volleyball, Sambo, rugby and urban children's competition in Sambo.
Teams of MEPHI annually participate in Moscow city Student Games (Olympics of Universities of Moscow), speaking in a different year in the 38-43 types of programs. Over the past 10 years in combined standings Spartakiads Sports Club held the MEPHI I - III places. In 1991, the Sports Committee of Moscow Engineering Physics Institute named the best UK sports clubs of the city.
National teams and individual athletes are involved in major Russian and international competitions. National Team of the Institute for Sports Aerobics - Party of the Russian Championship, Open Championship of Denmark, the competition "Grand Prix" in France and Germany. Mexico, Sweden, Germany, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland - this is an incomplete list of countries that participated in the competitions our athletes.
In the gym the last few years has opened new sections - is swimming, tennis, powerlifting, armwrestling. In these sections, as well as in mountaineering and rock climbing, to govern themselves.
Officer of the Department of Physical Education Sox VS 2003 in the Russian team won the bronze medal XXIV World Armwrestling Championship.
Student of the Faculty "K" Kurachenkova Svetlana - silver medalist I-th World championship among students (2005) on the armwrestling.
National Team of MEPHI's Chess in 2004, took third place in the championship of Moscow among the clubs. A student of "G" Grachev, NB in 2004. became the champion of the European Youth Chess blitz tournaments in the bronze medal in the overall standings. AN employee of a sports club Korotylev took third place in the Russian Chess Championship for men.
MEPHI team of fitness aerobics - members World Championships 2002. (France), 2003. (Czech), 2005. (Belgium); championship finalists Russia in 2001 and 2005. (2003 - 3rd place), champions of the Russian Student Union, 2004.