Key
priorities of the Company’s sports promotion:
Promotion of sports in Russia has
always been on the top priority list of OAO LUKOIL’s social policy for a number
of years. Today, the following areas in an active lifestyle and sports promotion
are considered to be of key importance to the
Company:
ü
Support
of Russian professional sports teams, national sports federations and the
national Olympic movement;
ü
Health
promotion among the Company’s employees and their family members, promotion of
popular sports;
ü
Promotion
of children’s sports in Russia .
In
the market environment, LUKOIL plays a role of primary importance in
the patronship and sponsorship of promoting sports, and provides
material support to sports teams of different levels: from local teams to
national ones.
1998
witnessed the establishment of the “LUKOIL Sports Club”, whose task is to
promote a physically active lifestyle and sports in
Russia
. For 10
years the organization has been participating in large-scale events aimed at the
creation and advancement of sports programs. At present, cooperation
with professional sports teams and federations in the sphere of promotion of
children’s sports in the regions of the Company’s presence is one of the main
priorities for the Club.
Sports
Contest
LUKOIL
pays special attention to the health of its employees. For this reason,
different winter and summer sports competitions are held in all regions of
the Company’s presence.
LUKOIL
International Sports Contests can be considered one of the most large-scale
events aimed at promoting an active lifestyle and sports. The first Sports
Contest was held in 2001 in Astrakhan, the
following ones – in 2003, in Perm and in 2005, in
Kaliningrad.
Thus
far, about twenty-five thousand employees from the regions of the
Company’s presence have participated in qualifying rounds of the third
summer Sports Contest. Teams were established along territorial lines. The
program of the Sports Contest included football, futsal, volleyball, swimming,
track-and-field events, chess, billiards, arm wrestling, tennis, table tennis,
weightlifting and tug-of-war.
The
fourth winter International Sports Contest dedicated to the 15th anniversary
of
LUKOIL took place in 2007 in Kogalym. About 350 athletes from nine teams
established along territorial lines of LUKOIL's presence. Those were Western
Siberia, Center, Volga Region, North, North-West,
Perm, Urals, South and Overseas participated in
the final round.
The
sportsmen battled for sixty-five sets of medals in seven sports (futsal,
volleyball, weightlifting, arm wrestling, table tennis, tug-of-war and skiing).
The team from
Perm
captured the first place
in the general rating of teams; Western
Siberia took second place, and the North, third place.
The
Company’s initiative in the sphere of sports has been supported by the
Russian Olympic Committee and the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports
of the Russian
Federation.
"Spartak" Football Club, Moscow
LUKOIL acts as the primary sponsor of one of the leaders in
Russian soccer, the Moscow Football Club “Spartak”.
This team is twelve times champion of the former Soviet Union and nine times
champion of Russia and has won the Russian
Cup and silver medals from Russian football championships three times.
Spartak
is the only club of the former
Soviet Union
which succeeded in qualifying for the semi-final of three European cups: the
Champions League (1991), the Cup Winners’ Cup (now non-existent) (1993) and the
UEFA Cup (1998).
The
official site of the club:
http://rus.spartak.com/
"Zarya Kaspiya",
Astrakhan, Team Handball
The Astrakhan team handball club “Zarya Kaspiya”
(LUKOIL-Dynamo before 2007) is one of the strongest squads in Russian team
handball with a strong history of victories, which has gone from the debut
of the first league to the champion of the USSR
.
LUKOIL
has been acting as the official sponsor of this team since 1997.
During its history,
the team was the bronze winner of the USSR and Russian championships four
times, has won silver medals nine times and in 1990, the athletes became
the gold winners of the national championship. “Zarya Kaspiya” was the
gold-medal winner of the championship organized by the professional team
handball league in 2002 and 2006, the silver-medal winner of the European
Team Handball Federation Cup in 2003 and the Vice champion of the
Russian championship in 2006.
In 2007 the
team qualified for the Team Handball Champions League for the first time.
The
official site of the club:
http://handball.astrobl.ru/
"SPARTAK",
Volgograd, Water Polo
Professional
water polo club “Spartak” (LUKOIL-Spartak
before 2007) is one of the leaders of the Russian Superleague.
The club
was established in January 1994 with OAO LUKOIL support.
The
team was the champion of
Russia in 2004, a repeat winner of the
Russian Cup and the winner of the Goodwill Games of 1998 in
New York
. Nine team
players became bronze winners of the summer Olympic Games in
Athens
in 2004 as part of
the Russian national team.
“Spartak”
successfully participates on a regular basis in European cups.
The
official site of the club:
http://www.lukoil-spartak.ru/
"LUKOIL
Racing Team", Moscow, Auto Racing
The auto
racing team “LUKOIL Racing Team” is the leader of Russian auto racing.
Participation in ten auto racing seasons brought over 60
Russian and European titles to the team. No other auto racing team
has gained such success in the history of theUSSR and Russia.
At
present, “LUKOIL Racing” deserves to be called the leading racing team in
Russia, implying highly efficient management, a school and racers’ career
support, an engineering complex designed for engineering works, construction,
testing and preparation of racing cars for competitions.
Racers
achieve great success during international competitions as well. Mikhail
Aleshin's and Sergey Afanasiev's second place victory in the championship
of Germany and
Switzerland in
the class “Formula Renault
2.0” is considered a great success.
The
official site of the team: http://racing.lukoil.ru/
Sports
club “SURA”, Penza, Motocross
The sports club and professional team “Sura” were established in 1996 in the
city of Penza. Annually, the team participates in over 40 competitions of
different levels and deserves to be called one of the strongest teams inRussia, a
fact which has been proved by its latest results. For example, the sports
club “Sura” is the fivefold champion (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005) and the
threefold silver winner of the Russian championship among juniors (1998, 2004
and 2006) and the 2007 champion among the masters' teams of the
Superleague (the primary motocross competition in Russia).
Children’s Football League
LUKOIL
provides support to one of
Russia
’s greatest children’s sports
organizations, the “Children’s Football League”. About two hundred and
fifty teams and over five thousand young football players from almost
all Russian regions annually participate in the competitions organized by the
League. Since 2002 the Children’s Football League has been organizing the
traditional tournament “Children’s International League of LUKOIL Champions”.
Children’s teams from the CIS,
Poland,
Bulgaria,
Romania and
China regularly participate in the international
finals, which have gained recognition in
Russia
and
abroad. The final tournament hosted by the “Children’s Champion League – 2007”
in
Moscow
was
highly praised by FIFA representatives, who spoke highly of the idea and the
high organizational standards of the competitions.
The
official site of the league: http://dfl.org.ru/
Ski
Racing
