More than 700 competitors representing 15 companies from the Energy Section gathered at the XIV-th National Worker Spartakiade of the Power Engineers, which this year received also international participants from the Republic of Macedonia and Serbia. The sport event organised by the Confederation of the Independent Syndicates in Bulgaria – National Federation of the Power Engineers (KNSB-NFE) took place from 7th to 10th September 2016 in Resort Complex Albena.
SERAW finished the competition on a second complex place, as by occurring tradition, the most interesting finals were between the sportsmen of SERAW and KNPP. The teams of the both companies collided in a struggle for the first place in the finals of some collective disciplines by demonstrating very attractive performance that brought a lot of excitement to both spectators and participants: volleyball, women football, tug of war. The volleyball players of SERAW became leaders in the discipline – both male and female teams won the gold medals in the volleyball and beach volleyball tournaments, while the teams in the tug of war gave the first place to their colleagues from the KNPP.
The achievement of SERAW in the big race was contributed by the gold medalists in two more sports: table tennis – women and men, and petanque – men and mixed team. The medal collection was completed also by 8 silver and 10 bronze medals as well as 8 plaques for qualifying from 5th to 3rd place. The total score of these achievements was 157 points which brought the second complex place to SERAW.
The performance summary for SERAW in this year edition of the Spartakiade is 26 cups (for first, second and third place), which according to the participants is a result of team spirit, will for victory, the readiness and the preparation of each athlete of the delegation to participate in several disciplines.
