Biography. Latynina Larisa
There are many Olympic champions in the world. But only one woman won gold at Olympic Games ah - nine times! Gymnast, record holder Larisa Latynina, nee Diry (born December 27, 1934 in Kherson) held an absolute record for most of her life. Indeed, until 2012, she was the most titled Olympic athlete in history and still maintains leadership among athletes. And this amazing woman won all her victories only thanks to her work and talents.
Eight-year-old Larisa became an orphan when her father died during the Great Patriotic War. The mother worked two jobs as a stoker and a cleaner, but still managed to get money to study the girl in a choreographic studio. However, the studio (the only one in the city) closed: for Larisa, who dreamed of becoming a prima ballerina, it was a blow. I had to go to the gymnastics studio. The nine-time Olympic champion got into the sport almost by accident ...
At the age of fifteen, Larisa took part in the all-Union championship for schoolchildren - and lost these competitions miserably. But failure tempered the future champion.
In the ninth grade, the girl became a master of sports, the only master of sports in Kherson. And at the age of eighteen she won the first international awards (gold) at the youth festival in Bucharest. The next year, 1954, was Rome: Larisa Diriy (she would become Latynina only after her first marriage) became the world champion for the first time.
During performances, Larisa demonstrated not only technique, but also excellent artistry. The coaches even reproached the girl for "dragging ballet into gymnastics." One way or another, the failed ballerina defeated the rest of the gymnasts over and over again. From the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, Larisa took away a whole scattering of medals: four golds (in the absolute and team championships, in vault and floor exercises), silver (bars) and bronze (team exercises with an object). When the team returned on the liner to Vladivostok and traveled by train to Moscow (long-distance flights were still rare at that time), people greeted the gymnasts at every station and half-station.
In 1957, Larisa triumphantly completed the European Championship, winning gold medals in absolutely all categories. However, next year the girl could have left the sport: the fact is that Latynina was preparing to become a mother. Not being sure of her sporting future, Larisa hid her pregnancy, went to the World Championships and won first place there. Surprisingly, she did this on the advice of a doctor. Daughter was born healthy child, later became a dancer, fulfilling her mother's unfulfilled dream. Now Latynina already has two adult grandchildren.
Childbirth is a big test for a gymnast. Nevertheless, Larisa managed to fully recover and continued her career as a winner. She won gold, silver and bronze at both the 1960 Rome Olympics and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Latynina completed sports performances at the age of 31: a rare “longevity” for a gymnast.
However, Larisa was not used to sitting idle and immediately began a new, no less successful career. Latynina was the head coach of Soviet Olympic gymnasts in Mexico City (1968), Munich (1972), and Montreal (1976). The Soviet team during this period was the world leader.
However, despite all the merits, Larisa was dismissed from her post in 1977. Later, she was a member of the organizing committee of the Moscow Olympics, in the 80s she coached the Moscow national team, and in the 90s she was deputy director of the Physical Education and Health Foundation. Nine-time Olympic champion and now takes an active part in sports and public life countries. Looking at this woman, you can’t say that she is already over eighty!
Larisa Semyonovna Latynina is a world gymnastics star. During her life she won 18 Olympic medals, of which 9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze. Honored Master of Sports, Honored Coach of the USSR. Absolute champion of the Olympic Games in 1956 and 1960.
Brief biography of Larisa Latynina
Larisa was born on December 27, 1934 in Ukraine in the city of Kherson. When the war began, her father, Semyon Andreevich Diry, went to the front. Bogib in Battle of Stalingrad. The mother was a simple working woman, her name was Pelageya Anisimovna Barabanyuk.
Since childhood, Larisa Latynina dreamed of becoming a ballerina, and when the choreographic studio opened, her mother, for the last money, assigned her daughter to her. The fee for classes was very high - 150 rubles, this was half the earnings of Pelageya Anisimovna. In the ballet studio, the girl showed herself to be a very hardworking, artistic and talented student. But a few years later the studio closed and then Larisa chose the business of her life - gymnastics. In 1950, she completed the first category and, as part of the national team of Ukrainian schoolchildren, went to the All-Union Championship in Kazan, although Laura did not bring any medals from there. After that, she began to train with redoubled energy and already in the 9th grade she fulfilled the standard of a master of sports.
"Teach an athlete to fight to the end for any place, and he will be able to fight for the first." L.Latynina
In 1953, Larisa graduated from school with a gold medal and almost simultaneously from Moscow she was sent a challenge to the All-Union sports camp. She passed the decisive control qualifying competitions with dignity and soon received the coveted blue woolen suit with the letters "USSR". Then came the big victories. In 1954, at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rome, the USSR women's team won first place, and Larisa Latynina received the first gold medal of the world champion as part of it.
to this day, Larisa remains the only gymnast who managed to win gold medals in floor exercise at three Olympics in a row - in Melbourne (1956), in Rome (1960) and in Tokyo
(1964), - and the only winner in the history of the Olympic Games of 18 Olympic medals, of which 9 are gold.
In 2000, at the Olympic Ball in the nomination "The Best Athletes of Russia of the 20th Century," Latynina was included in this magnificent ten, and according to a survey of the world's leading sports journalists, she was named among the 25 outstanding athletes centuries.
Interesting facts from the life of Larisa Semyonovna Latynina
- In 1958, at the World Championships in the fifth month of pregnancy, she won 5 gold medals
- the most titled athlete in the world until 2012
- at the 1957 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships she won all the gold medals
- nine-time Olympic champion
- after a sports career, she became a coach and under her leadership the team became the gold medalist of the Olympic Games three times (1968, 1972, 1976)
- returning from the Olympics in Melbourne, where she managed to win 4 gold medals, she immediately presented one of them to her first coach Mikhail Afanasyevich Sotnichenko. Latynina believed that if it were not for him, she would not have had any medals at all. And the coach kept it all his life. And after his death, his wife returned the award to Larisa.
“Well, can an actor ignite the viewer if, during a monologue, he repeats to himself: “Do not forget, do not forget.” He won’t forget, but he will be quickly forgotten” L. Latynina
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Biography, life story of Latynina Larisa Semenovna
Latynina Larisa Semyonovna - national gymnast, nine-time Olympic champion, multiple world and European champion in gymnastics.
Childhood and youth
She was born on December 27, 1934 in the city of Kherson in Ukraine. Father - Diry Semyon Andreevich (1906-1943), a participant in the Great Patriotic War, died in the Battle of Stalingrad. Mother - Barabanyuk Pelageya Anisimovna (1902-1975).
Larisa's childhood was difficult - postwar period, hungry, poor ... Larisa's mother, a brave and hardworking woman, did not spare herself - she worked two jobs at once to feed her family, while Pelageya Anisimovna did not forget about raising her daughter, about instilling good manners in her.
From the very early years the girl dreamed of ballet. Until the fifth grade, Larisa was engaged in dancing, after which she enrolled in a gymnastics circle. Larisa's successes were amazing - already in the 9th grade she fulfilled the standard of a master of sports.
In 1953, Larisa graduated from school (by the way, with a gold medal) and moved from her small town to Kyiv. At first she entered the Polytechnic Institute, while continuing to train, but then she realized that gymnastics had become for her not just a hobby, but a matter of her whole life. Having thought carefully, Larisa left the Polytechnic University and transferred to the Institute physical education.
Career
As a student, Larisa got to the World Festival of Youth and Students (Bucharest), where she received her first well-deserved gold medals. In 1954, Larisa, as part of the USSR national gymnastics team, performed at the World Championships and, naturally, won first place.
After such a bright breakthrough, Larisa continued her Star Trek. She twice became the absolute Olympic champion, twice - the champion of Europe and twice - the world champion. She won the team championship many times, received awards in a variety of competitions - competitions on a balance beam, on uneven bars, and so on.
Three times (in 1968, 1972 and 1976) she worked as a coach of the USSR Olympic team.
CONTINUED BELOW
Peru L.S. Latynina owns the books "Sunny Youth" (in Ukrainian, 1958), "Equilibrium" (1970, 1975), "What is the name of this girl" (1974), "Gymnastics through the years" (1977), "Team" (1977). She was published in the magazines "Ogonyok", "Znamya", "Theater", "Physical Culture and Sports", "Sports Life in Russia", took part in television programs.
In the fall of 2004, Latynina opened her gymnastics school in Obninsk.
In 2012 (immediately after the end of the Olympic Games), Larisa Latynina, in the company of an American swimmer, took part in a photo shoot of a French fashion house Louis Vuitton. The theme of the photo shoot is the most titled athletes in the history of mankind.
Personal life
The first husband is Latynin Ivan Ilyich.
Son - Andrei (the boy died).
Daughter - Tatyana Ivanovna Latynina (born in 1958), danced for 15 years in the choreographic ensemble "Birch".
Grandchildren - Konstantin (born in 1981), Vadim (born in 1994).
The second spouse is Yuri Izrailovich Feldman (born in 1938), Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian and International Academy of Electrotechnical Sciences, in the past - President, General Director of Dynamo Joint-Stock Electrotechnical Company, then - Advisor to the General Director of OJSC AEK Dynamo.
Honorary titles and awards
Honored Master of Sports (1957).
Honored Coach of the USSR (1969).
Honored Worker of Physical Culture Russian Federation (1997).
She was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1980).
She was awarded three Orders of the Badge of Honor (1960, 1969, 1972).
Awarded the Order of Honor (2001).
Awarded with several medals.
For outstanding services, the President of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, presented L.S. Latynina in 1991 the Silver Order of the International Olympic Committee.
"Children's" branch of UNESCO - UNICEF - awarded Latynina "Golden Tuning Fork".
The name of Larisa Latynina is included in the unique list of athletes in New York "Olympic Hall of Fame".
In 2000, at the Olympic Ball in the nomination "The Best Russian Athletes of the 20th Century", she was included in this magnificent ten, and according to a survey of the world's leading sports journalists, Latynina, along with Alexander Karelin, was named among the 25 outstanding athletes of the century.
She dreamed of ballet, studied at the choreographic studio in the Kherson House of Folk Art. Due to the circumstances, Latynina had to give up dancing, and in the fifth grade she enrolled in the school gymnastics section. Mikhail Sotnichenko became her first coach. In the ninth grade, she fulfilled the standard of a master of sports.
In 1953, after graduating from school with a gold medal, Larisa Latynina moved to Kyiv, entered the Polytechnic Institute and continued training under the guidance of the Honored Trainer of the USSR Alexander Mishakov. After the second year, she moved from the Polytechnic Institute to the Institute of Physical Culture. She combined her studies with performances at competitions. different levels, and soon the first major success came to her: as part of the USSR national team in 1954 in Rome, she became the world champion.
In 1956, the athlete made her debut at the Olympic Games in Melbourne. The debut was successful - the Soviet gymnast became the absolute Olympic champion, opening an account with her unique collection of Olympic awards.
Larisa Latynina - Soviet gymnast, nine-time Olympic champion. The record she set for the number of Olympic medals (18, half of them gold) lasted almost half a century. They say about this woman that the thirst to win is in her blood.
Childhood and youth
Larisa was born in December 1934 in Kherson. Father Semyon Diriy left the family when the girl was not yet a year old, died in the Battle of Stalingrad. His name is engraved among thousands of other names on a monument in Volgograd. In memory of the daughter, a collage assembled from two photographs was left. On the first - Larisa with her mother, her father sent his photograph shortly before the war, along with a letter in which he asked for forgiveness.
Mother Pelageya Anisimovna, an illiterate village woman, worked two jobs (a cleaner and a stoker) so that her daughter could live no worse than other children. And she studied perfectly at school, showed a strong-willed character in order to meet expectations and be the first in both games and hobbies.
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Larisa Latynina in her youth
At first, Latynina dreamed of a career as a prima of the Bolshoi Theater, she worked in a studio, which paid for half of her mother's earnings. A year later, the studio closed, but the gymnastics section that existed at the school smoothed over the feeling of loss.
The basics of ballet gave Larisa plasticity, expressiveness and the ability to improvise, putting her soul into her movements. The girl quickly outstripped her friends, even though they were older and more experienced. Coach Mikhail Sotnichenko was afraid that she would become conceited, and tried to put her in her place, giving impossible orders. He inspired the future champion with a desire to lead not only in training and competitions, but also in Everyday life to help, to do something on an equal footing with others.
Personal life
At the dawn of her career, Larisa's personal life developed successfully. She met her first husband Ivan Latynin at school. The young man studied at the nautical school. Mom, having learned that her daughter had a boyfriend, demanded to bring him home. She, after a few years, insisted on marriage.
Larisa Latynina with her husband Yuri FeldmanBy that time, Larisa had achieved success in sports, her colleagues looked after her. Pelageya Anisimovna was afraid that one of them would take away her beloved child, and the young man who liked the first time would be left with nothing.
In 1958, Larisa and Ivan had a daughter, Tatyana. By the way, the gymnast performed at the world championship, being in her fifth month of pregnancy, and no one even knew about it. The marriage broke up when the woman realized that they were strangers to each other. For competitions and training, this was somehow not noticed. The couple parted calmly, without scandals, and continued to communicate, even when they got new families.
Ivan, who lives in Moscow, has a daughter, but the man did not marry her mother Nina, who remained in Kyiv.
For Larisa, the house was in second place after sports, but she was selflessly raising her daughter. Tatyana Latynina did not follow in her mother's footsteps, she danced in the Beryozka ensemble, went on tour abroad, where she met her future husband Rostislav.
The son-in-law of the athlete is half Spaniard, originally from Venezuela, a descendant of the governor of Tobolsk, founder of the Federation of Restaurateurs and Hoteliers of Russia. Together with Tatyana, the businessman raised the sons of Konstantin and Vadim. Now Larisa Semyonovna is nursing her great-grandchildren Daniil and Michel, Kostya's children.
Latynina also had a son, his name was Andrei. He died, the cause of death was not called, and his mother prefers not to advertise the details.
The same mystery surrounds the second husband of Larisa Semyonovna, whose name she does not mention either in her memoirs or in any interview. It is only known that the athlete lived with this man for 10 years, deceived by the illusion of love and receiving only grief and suffering in return.
I don't wish that on any woman. For myself, I crossed out these years from my life and never return to them. Thank God, gymnastics saved me at that time. I devoted myself entirely to coaching, preparing our national team.With her third husband, then the chief engineer of the Dynamo plant, Yuri Feldman, Larisa met on vacation. The novel lasted 3 years. Yuri grew up career ladder, was a member of the CPSU and the party committee, and when he announced a divorce, problems began at work. Then he came to Latynina with one suitcase. The couple later got married.
Larisa Latynina and Michael PhelpsFor Feldman, the gymnast is also the third wife. From his first marriage, he has a son, Sergei, who gave his father a grandson, Yura Jr. Larisa Semyonovna considers the boy to be her grandson.
Sport
In the 9th grade, Larisa Diriy passed the standard for the 1st category, and in 1953 she graduated from school with a gold medal. The sports biography of the gymnast from the very beginning was not perfect, there were also unfortunate failures. So, at the 1950 All-Union Championship in Kazan, she performed unsuccessfully and cried alone for several hours.
The loss only inspired the strong-willed girl to new exploits. Soon she became not only the first master of sports in hometown, but also took 4th place in the championship in gymnastics among adult athletes.
From the Polytechnic Institute, where Larisa entered, having moved to Kyiv, she had to move to the Institute of Physical Education. And at the World Championships in Rome in 1954, for her, as for the winner, the anthem of the USSR sounded for the first time - Diriy won a gold medal in floor exercises.
Larisa Latynina on uneven barsThe athlete became the champion of the Olympic Games in 1956 and 1960, won the title in the national team in 1956, 1960 and 1964. The girl received four bronze medals for floor exercises, vaults, bars and beam. Silver Latynina brought exercises on the uneven bars (twice), balance beam, vaults and all-around, but the brightest performances took place in the free programs: here the gymnast had no equal.
In 1963, in Tokyo, Larisa acted for the last time as the captain of the Soviet gymnastic team, then for a couple of years she participated in international competitions, gradually receding into the background.
From 1966 to 1976, the gymnast worked as a coach. Thanks to her mentorship, the USSR women's team won gold medals at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics. She brought up outstanding gymnasts, including Lyudmila Turishcheva, Olga Karaseva, Larisa Petrik, Lyubov Burda, Tamara Lazakovich, Nelly Kim. In 1972, Latynina was awarded the title of Honored Coach of the USSR.
Larisa Latynina and her medals
Larisa Semyonovna's record for the number of awards and titles was broken by swimmer Michael Phelps. The American has 23 Olympic gold medals.
Latynina stood out against the general background and appearance. She was always dressed latest fashion. A miniature beauty (height 161 cm, weight in her youth did not exceed 52 kg) attracted the eyes of others - a leather jacket, a corrugated skirt and a beret. Later, the gymnast admitted that this beauty was not easy to get. On trips abroad, the athlete saved on food in order to buy a stylish thing, because then there was nothing in Soviet stores.
Larisa Latynina now
From an apartment on Stary Arbat, Larisa and Yuri moved to the Moscow region. Small country cottage area, received by Feldman as the general director of Dynamo, has grown to the size of a farm. Latynina's main hobby is gardening. She takes great pleasure in housekeeping, raising cattle and poultry, finding happiness in simple family joys, which she lacked so much in her sports life painted to the minute.
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