Getting this or that category is a serious step from amateur sports to professional. And the assignment of the title is already a well-deserved recognition of the achievements of an eminent athlete. But many are confused in the categories and titles existing in Russian sports, their order. We will try to clarify this article.
Sports titles and ranks
Athletes are assigned ranks at the beginning of their careers, and upon reaching all the latter - titles. The ascent to the podium begins with youth sports categories:
- 3rd junior;
- 2nd junior;
- 1st youth;
- 4th rank (applicable only in chess - you need to play at least 10 games and score at least 50% of the points in a group game);
- 3rd rank;
- 2nd digit;
- 1st rank.
Note that youth ranks are assigned only in those sports where age is a decisive factor in competitions where strength, endurance, reaction speed, speed of the participant are important. Where it is not an important advantage or disadvantage(for example, in mind sports), the youth category is not assigned.
Those who have the 1st sports category can already be awarded titles. Let's list them in ascending order:
- master of sports;
- international master of sports/grandmaster;
- Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation.
A long-standing custom prescribes to call masters of sports of international level in intellectual games (checkers, chess, etc.) grandmasters.
ABOUT EVSK
In the Russian Federation, the confirmation and assignment of sports categories and titles is determined by a document called the Unified All-Russian Sports Classification (EVSK). He indicates the norms in each sport that must be met in order to receive a certain of the ranks and titles. The first such document was approved in 1994; EVSK is accepted for four years. Today, the 2015-2018 version is valid for winter sports, and 2014-2017 for summer sports
The document is based on the All-Russian Register of Sports and the list of sports games recognized by the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation. The document dictates both the standards that must be met in order to obtain a particular sports category or title, and the conditions under which all this must occur: the level of the opponent, the importance of the competition, the qualifications of the judging staff.
Why do we need a sports category?
Ranking in sports has several clearly defined purposes:
- Bulkpromoting sports.
- An incentive to improve the level of sports training and skills.
- Moral encouragement of athletes.
- Unification of achievement marks, mastery.
- Approval of a single procedure for conferring sports ranks and titles for all.
- Development and continuous improvement of the sphere of physical culture and sports.
Order of assignment
Let's touch on the general important points of conferring titles and ranks:
- Athletes must be divided into age groups: juniors, young people, adults.
- A young athlete who took part in a planned competition and fulfilled the necessary norms for a certain category receives the last one. This will be evidenced by a badge and a special qualification book.
- The athlete's record book must be registered with the organization where he received this document. In the future, at all competitions in which the athlete will participate, the panel of judges will enter into this qualification book all information about his results in competitions, assigned and confirmed categories, won prizes. Each entry is made based on a specific protocol, certified by the signature of the responsible person and the seal of the sports organization that organized the competition.
- Assigning a sports title is the prerogative of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation. In confirmation of his athlete receives a certificate and an honorary badge.
Requirements forassignment of ranks and titles
Now consider the requirements that an athlete must fulfill and what he must meet in order to receive a certain category:
- The basis for assigning a category is only a certain measurable result of sports activity: taking a specific place in official games or competitions, achieving a certain number of victories over opponents of a specific level over the past year, fulfilling a number of quantitative standards in sports where they are possible.
- Each rank or title means that the athlete has reached a certain age.
- If ranks and titles are awarded to athletes within the framework of the competition, then it must comply with a whole set of strict rules: the composition and level of participants, a certain number of judges and athletes, the number of performances, fights and games in the qualifying and main stages.
- At international competitions, the smallest number of participating countries is additionally determined. To get the title of international master of sports or grandmaster, you need to participate in competitions of this level.
- The highest ranks are awarded only to citizens of the Russian Federation and only by the Federal Agency for Physical Education and Sports.
- Ranks are authorized to assign regional executive bodies in the field of physical culture and sports.
- Athlete must confirm his sports category at least once every two years.
All categories and titles of sports in the Russian Federation are regulated by EVSK. After receiving thator another category in the order and within the current requirements, the athlete must also periodically confirm it.
