Despite the sudden change of the 2018 World Championship date, FRMS and Noosphere managed to hold two major Ukrainian rocketry events at the same time. June 19-25, 2018 was the date for the Yangel Cup (rocket modelling world cup) and Ukrainian Rocket Modelling Championship.
11 senior teams and 7 junior teams took part in the Ukrainian championships. Teams came from Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Cherkassy and Kherson districts.
The winners in Ukrainian Cup were:
Juniors:
1 st place — Young Technicians Station team from Nyzhin
2nd place — Dnipropetrovsk district team
3rd place — Local Young Technicians station from Khristinovka
Seniors:
1 st place — Nyzhin team
2nd place — Dnipropetrovsk district team
3rd place — Kherson city team
For the Yangel cup, which is an amateur rocketry world championship, holding it in Dnipro has become a tradition. The Yangel Cup is the 22nd rocketry competition this year. The cup brought together 46 athletes from Ukraine and Belarus.
Yangel Cup Results:
S4A category:
1st place — Sidorenko Vitaly
2nd place — Trush Serhii
3rd place — Ivchenko Stepan
S6A category:
1st place — Bakerenkov Andrew
2nd place — Litvinenko Viktor
3rd place — Krupitsky Yuriy
S9A category:
1st place — Babikov Serhii
2nd place — Lavrinenko Maksym
3rd place — Melejik Veronica
S7 category:
1st place — Trush Serhii
2nd place — Pridannikov Denis
3rd place — Juravlev Vladislav
S8E/P category:
1st place — Sinelitsky Alexander
2nd place — Gahov Oleg
3rd place — Protsenko Kirill
S1A category:
1st place — Melejik Veronica
2nd place — Hladky Ihor
3rd place — Bidovsky Valerii
S1B category:
1st place — Babikov Serhii
2nd place — Pushkar Nikolai
3rd place — Melejik Veronica
Babikov Serhii from Kherson district became the absolute champion of Yangel Cup 2018. Association Noosphere prepared a special prize for him, as well as medals, cups and diplomas for the other winners.
The results of these and other rocketry events are available on the CupNavigator website.
Check out the previous rocketry event by Noosphere and FRMS.