Sport
The main goal in the field of sports is to ensure conditions for improving the health of all segments of the population and to promote a healthy lifestyle among the city's population.The city has 11 children's and youth sports schools, a tourism, sports and excursions center, and the chess and draughts club "Bila Tura". More than 50,000 Lutsk residents regularly engage in sports and recreational physical education, but their demand is not always met.
More than 7,000 children, adolescents and young people engage in 23 sports, namely: football, basketball, volleyball, handball, Greco-Roman wrestling, judo, fencing, field hockey, athletics, swimming, boxing, artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, rowing, shooting, cycling, table tennis, orienteering, sports tourism, chess, draughts.
The city has 4 teams participating in Ukrainian championships: the top-league volleyball club "Pidshypnyk" (men); the first-league volleyball club "Osvita" (women); the second-league basketball club "Basket" (men), the first-league handball club "Rukh" (men), and the top-league football club "Volyn".
About 400 people work in sports organizations.
Several mass sports events were held, in which more than 7,000 people took part. Among the largest, it is worth noting "Starts of Hope", the festival of physical culture and sports, the relay race through the city streets to Victory Day, "Leather Ball", "Starts for All", and the Spartakiad of pre-conscription youth.
At the "Avanhard" stadium, work has been carried out to install plastic seats for spectators, three tennis courts have been built, and repairs to the swimming pool are being completed.
In the summer periods of 2002-2003, 770 schoolchildren received health and recreation services in a day camp that operated on the basis of community clubs at their place of residence.
The main problems in the field of sports are:
- ensuring the preservation of the infrastructure of physical culture, health and sports work at the place of residence of the population, and the network of children's and adolescents' physical culture and sports clubs;
- ensuring the preparation and participation of athletes in the 2002-2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games and other international sports competitions.
The main goals and objectives in the field of sports in 2004:
- ensuring the preparation and participation of athletes in the 2002-2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games and other international sports competitions;
- stabilizing and increasing the professional employment of persons with physical disabilities;
- expanding access to physical culture and sports for all segments of the population;
- increasing the number of people who lead a healthy lifestyle, primarily by involving them in physical culture and sports and reducing the use of tobacco, drugs, alcohol, etc.;
- completing the major repairs of the central swimming pool;
- constructing an open 50-meter swimming pool in the Zavokzalnyi district of the city;
- constructing a beach volleyball court in L. Ukrainka Park;
- holding mass sports events, festivals of physical culture and sports, relay races, etc.
- holding mass sports events, festivals of physical culture and sports, relay races, etc.
Achievement criteria:
- expanding access to physical culture and sports activities for all segments of the population;
- establishing one comprehensive children's and youth sports school in each administrative district;
- implementation of practical measures to introduce a third physical education lesson per week in secondary and vocational-technical institutions and four hours in higher educational institutions throughout the entire period of study.