Trends and potential for the development of technological sports in student environment

The development of modern technologies leads to transformation of all the spheres of society, including sports. One of the key trends of recent years is emergence and fast spread of high-tech (innovative) sports, where digital technologies are embedded directly into the process of competition, such as phygital (combined functional and digital) sport, drone (unmanned aircraft) racing, sports programming and others. These sports are now bringing together people of different ages and interests. The article is aimed to analyse the current state of hi-tech sports in Russia in the period of the key sporting event for their development – the multisport tournament “Games of the Future” (Phygital Games), held in 2024 in Kazan, Russia. The article also considers the current state and prospects of high-tech sports within the framework of student sports and other students’ and youth activities. Student sports are open to change and flexible which makes them one of the most promising areas for the spread of new sports disciplines.