Team Army Wins the USSR Cup in Donetsk (1981)
History in Color:
December 23, 1981, Donetsk, Ukraine – Members of Team Army receives the main award of the tournament after winning the first place at the 1981 USSR Cup in Donetsk (left to right):
Yevgeny Penkovsky (Head coach, Team Army), Alexander Pervy (82.5kg, SKA, Donetsk), Gennady Markin (110+kg, SKA, Lvov), Igor Shumeyko (110+kg, CSKA, Moscow)
There were 178 athletes representing 15 clubs at the 1981 USSR Cup in Donetsk. The winners of the team tournament were:
- Team Soviet Army
- Team Farming United
- Team Dynamo