UFC title defense, access to Euro 2020 and the US Open final: what did Russian athletes achieve in 2019

12/31/2019, 1:13:17 PM

In the calendar of 2019, there were no such major tournaments as the Olympic Games and the world and European football championships, but he was rich in the successes of the Russians. The current UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov defended his belt in a duel with American Dustin Porye, one of the country's best football players helped the Russian team qualify for Euro 2020, and tennis player Daniil Medvedev took four ATP titles and almost beat the first racket of the world by Rafael Nadal in the final of US Open. About these and other triumphs of the past year, see RT.

---