The athlete is a champion in cross-country skiing and biathlon. Records and heroes in the history of the Winter Olympic Games
© biatlon.com.ua. Vita (left) and Valya Semerenko
Excitement, fear of failure, self-doubt - all this has no place in the life of an athlete who dreams of reaching the highest point of his career. Olympic champions are stars of the world of sports, for whom awards are earned through hard work, and only those who are not afraid of failure and can rise even after a crushing fall can reach the end. Our selection contains 6 stories of women whose will to win turned out to be stronger than any fears.
France: Karine Ruby
The first woman in the world to win Olympic gold in snowboarding was the Frenchwoman Karine Ruby - Mumun, as her fans called her. Karine was born in 1978 in Bonneville and began snowboarding with her older brother Jéromie when she was 11 years old. By the age of 20, Ryubi had won the World Cup Parallel Slalom, the first ever Snowboard World Championships in giant slalom, and took first place in two consecutive seasons in the World Cup. Snowboarding was included in the list of Olympic disciplines for the first time at the Games in Nagano, Japan, where Karin won gold in the giant slalom by a huge margin.
In 2001, Ryubi received three world championship golds at once, and in 2002 at the Olympics in Salt Lake City she received silver in parallel giant slalom. In Turin, boardercross was included in the Games program for the first time, and Karin competed, but did not win any awards, but less than a month later she won gold in this particular discipline at the World Cup in France. Mumun ended her career as an Olympic champion, six-time world champion and winner of six overall World Cups. Karin Rüby died tragically in 2009 - while learning to become a mountain guide, she fell off a cliff on Mont Blanc. This was a tragedy for France and the world sports community; athletes from many countries expressed condolences to the Ruby family.
Canada: Hayley Wickenheiser
“Dear Canada, it was a great honor for you to play, but it’s time to hang up your skates. Thank you!” - legendary hockey player Haley Wickenheiser ended her career with this Twitter post. The forward of the Canadian national team was 38 years old at that time, and she left at the zenith of glory: Haley had four Olympic gold medals, seven victories at the World Championship and the title of the most titled hockey player in the history of the Winter Games, which Wickenheiser shared with her teammate and colleague. forward - Jayna Hefford.
Wickenheiser won her first victories in her teenage years - having started playing hockey at the age of five, in 1991 she won gold at the Canadian Winter Games as part of the Alberta team and at the age of 15 she joined the national team, which she did not leave until the end of her career. Hayley made history by competing in the Nagano Olympics, which introduced women's hockey for the first time. The Olympic silver in 1998 was the first and only one - at the Winter Games in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014, the Canadian team received only gold medals. Haley is considered the greatest female hockey player in the world: after completing her career, she did not leave the sport and was elected a member of the IOC in the winter of 2014. Haley organizes a global festival in Calgary where female athletes not only compete, but also learn from the best female hockey players of our time.
Germany: Claudia Pechstein
Claudia Pechstein became the owner of the largest collection of Olympic awards in the history of speed skating, the most successful German athlete in the history of the Olympic movement and the first in the history of her country to receive gold medals at five Winter Games in a row - in 1992 in Albertville, in 1994 in Lillehammer, in 1998 in Nagano, in 2002 in Salt Lake City and in 2006 in Turin. A five-time world record holder and the only athlete who managed to win gold medals at 4 Winter Games in a row, she achieved the title of world champion 6 times in various disciplines and remained the leader of world women's speed skating for almost 20 years.
The only one dark spot disqualification is considered in the German woman's career: in 2009, she was deprived of the right to speak for two years for possible doping, and Pechstein filed a claim for 4.4 million euros against International Union Speed Skaters (ISU). The speed skater reported spherocytosis, a hereditary abnormality that led to suspicion. Claudia was unconditionally supported by more than 100 colleagues from 14 countries, but after 6 years of proceedings, the decision remained in force. Returning to the track, Pechstein still celebrated her victory - she added about a dozen more medals to her existing achievements, successfully competing even with those who were born later than the Olympics at which Claudia received her first gold.
Ukraine: Semerenko sisters
Ukrainian biathletes Valentina and Vita Semerenko do not compete: in an interview, the twins admit that they always rejoice at each other’s successes. There is something to be proud of: the sisters began training in childhood with coach Svetlana Baida, and later coach Grigory Shamray noted both their talent for racing and shooting. The Semerenko sisters come to victory together, but achieve results in different ways: Vita shot better from the very beginning, and Valya showed less time on the way to the finish line, and now the sisters every now and then show good results in both speed and accuracy.
The twins’ careers are like playing catch-up: Valentina went to the World Youth Championships in France alone, and in 2005 she went to the same competition in Kontiolahti with her sister. In Finland, both received silver in the relay, and Vita also received silver in the individual race. In 2006, only Valya went to the Turin Olympics, in the summer of the same year they competed together at the Summer World Championships in Ufa, and in 2007 at the World Universiade in Turin they simultaneously reached the finish line. Now the Semerenko sisters are one of the strongest biathletes in the world. Valentina is an Olympic champion, four-time world championship medalist, multiple European champion and World Cup medalist. Vita Semerenko is a silver medalist at the World Championships, the World Championships among girls and the World Junior Championships, an Olympic champion in the relay race and a silver medalist in the sprint, multiple champion of national tournaments.
Sweden: Magdalena Forsberg
Now Magdalena Forsberg works as a TV presenter and sports commentator - having completed her career, she remains one of the most famous and popular Swedish athletes. Her career developed in a very unusual way: Magdalena was born in 1967 in Örnsköldsvik and skied since childhood, dreaming of becoming a racer. The high point of Forsberg's skiing career was the Winter Olympics in Albertville - or rather, the selection for it, because Magdalena did not manage to get a single medal. Tired of failure, the skier decided to change her sport - as she herself admitted, “for fun.”
It turned out that it was the rifle that was missing from the skis: by 1997, the Swedish biathlete had become one of the most promising in the world, and throughout her career in sports she had achieved such records that no one could surpass them for years or have not been broken to this day. Forsberg won 2 bronze medals at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, the title of six-time world champion, 17 small Crystal Globes and 6 large ones in a row - in 1997-2002. After her, only men, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and Martin Fourcade, were able to do this, and among women, only the German Magdalena Neuner, who finished her career with three World Cups, achieved the best result. The secret of Magdalena Forsberg’s success will be revealed in the special project “Eurosport: My Olympic Confession”: the biathlon legend will tell you how to take aim to get into the history of world sports.
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2016 is a doubly significant year for the Olympians and their fans. In April they celebrated the 120th anniversary of the revival of the modern Olympics. And on August 5, the XXXI Summer Olympic Games will open in Brazil. Over the years, there have been many bright and memorable pages in the history of the competition. We have collected several interesting facts about Olympic champions who accomplished the impossible.
Olympians who accomplished the impossible
One of a kind
The Olympics in St. Louis, America was held in the 3rd century. new era Olympic movement. Gymnast George Acer became a real sensation of the competition. He showed unheard-of results: he won (in one day) 6 medals of different denominations: 3 gold (in the vault, in the uneven bars exercise and rope climbing), 2 silver (in the pommel horse exercise and the championship in the 7- mi shells) and 1 “bronze” (combination on the crossbar). But what is most surprising is that the American Eiser did not have a left leg - he was hit by a train as a young man. The owner of a wooden prosthesis became the most titled Olympian among people with disabilities. Now, as you know, the Paralympic Games are held for such athletes.
Runners who made history
The first Olympic champion to win the women's 100m was the American Elizabeth Robinson - this was at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. In 1931, a terrible thing happened to an athlete: she was flying on a biplane, which crashed to the ground. A motorist who saw the crash dug the girl out from under the smoldering wreckage - she was not breathing. He took Betty to the morgue, but it turned out that she was alive. After spending seven months in a coma and another six in wheelchair, she was able to walk only after two years. But Betty returned to training and took part in the 1936 Olympic Games, winning gold in the relay.
In 1984, at the Games in Los Angeles, the Olympic marathon for women was held for the first time. The winner was American Joan Samuelson, who showed a time of 2:24:52. She is still in action: in 2013, at the New York Marathon, Joan completed the distance in 2:57:13 - and this at the age of 56.
Worthy successors of D'Artagnan
Italian Nedo Nadi also accomplished the impossible: he was able to win five of the six Olympic medals in fencing competitions - a record no one could surpass. This happened at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp. In addition, together with his brother Aldo, Nedo shares another record: he became an Olympic gold medalist in all three events (saber, foil and epee).
In 1928, at the Amsterdam Olympics, the Hungarian saber fence team climbed to the top step of the podium for the first time. Since then, the saber team of this country has not given up its championship - six more Olympic Games in a row.
The youngest winners
At the same Olympics in Amsterdam, the youngest athlete-prize-winner in the history of the Games received a silver medal - it was the Italian Luigina Giavotti, who won the award in the team all-around artistic gymnastics. She was 11 years and 302 days old.
At the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936, American Marjorie Gestring distinguished herself - she won gold in springboard diving. The girl's final attempt brought her victory. Marjorie was then 13 years and 268 days old. She became the youngest champion in individual competitions.
But in team competitions, the “record for youth” belongs to South Korean speed skater Kim Yun Mi. In 1994, at the Lillihammer Olympics, she took part in short track competitions and earned a gold medal in the 3 thousand meter relay - along with her teammates. Kim was 13 years and 85 days old.
Finn Toni Nieminen remains the youngest Winter Olympics champion. The 16-year-old ski jumper distinguished himself at the Games in Albertville (1992). He managed to win two golds and one bronze.
Take gold at 60
Want to know who is the oldest Olympic gold medalist? The name of the Romanian Lia Manoliu is inscribed in the Guinness Book of Records - she became a triumphant Olympic Games in Mexico City (1968). The discus thrower was 36 years and 176 days old at the time.
The men's record is much better! Swedish shooter Oscar Swan participated in three Olympics (1908, 1912, 1920). Oscar won his first Olympic gold (out of three) at the age of 60. And then he became the oldest medalist of the Games, winning silver in the team championship (in shooting at the “running deer”): then Swan turned 72 years old.
Supergiant and fastest on Earth
No one could improve the result of Cuban boxer Teofilo Stevenson. The 201 cm tall giant competed in the super heavyweight division and took Olympic gold at three Olympics in a row: in 1972, 1976 and 1980.
Six-time Olympic champion Jamaican runner Usain Bolt became the first athlete to complete the sprint distances (100 m and 200 m) at two Olympic Games: Beijing 2008 and London 2012. Now an eleven-time world champion and six-time Olympic champion, he is considered the fastest man on the planet.
Not without funny things!
There were also funny victories at the Olympics - and this can also be classified as impossible. For example, Australian rower Henry Pierce took part in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, and in the quarterfinal round there was an embarrassment: a whole brood of ducks swam decorously in front of Pierce's boat. He did not crush the birds, but just like the hero of “Prisoner of the Caucasus,” he missed a family of ducks. He made it to the finals and won Olympic gold.
American Bob Beamon, who took part in the 1968 Olympics, probably did not really count on victory and before the important competition he invited his girlfriend and spent a very stormy night with tequila and the beautiful Gloria. The next day he broke the long jump record (8.9 m) and became an Olympic champion. It was not possible to reach this level for 23 years. Now that's preparation!
Two swimmers, two Tarzans
Swimmer Buster Crabbe took part in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932. He won gold in the 400-meter freestyle. After this, the American athlete decided to conquer Hollywood. And he became a star, playing Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon.
But the most famous performer of the role of Tarzan (who first performed this role in 1932) remains Johnny Weissmuller, a five-time Olympic champion in swimming. He won three medals at the games in Paris in 1924 and two more in Amsterdam in 1928. Weissmuller is a real hero! In July 1927, Johnny trained with his brother Peter on one of the Chicago lakes. But then a storm hit, capsizing the pleasure boat. As a result of the disaster, 27 people (out of 71 on board) were killed. But the Weissmuller brothers managed to save 11 passengers.
Ninefold
Only four athletes in the world managed to win nine Olympic gold medals. This is our artistic gymnast Larisa Latynina (she has 18 Olympic medals in total), Finnish track and field athlete Paavo Nurmi, who competed in 1920-1928, American swimmer Mark Spitz, whose victories occurred in 1968-1972, and another American , track and field athlete Carl Lewis, who competed at the Olympics in 1984-1996.
No one will outrun the “Bullet”!
However, no one can conquer the “Baltimore Bullet” record. It was he, the famous American swimmer Michael Fred Phelps II, who managed to climb to the top step of the Olympic podium 18 (!) times! He has a total of 22 Olympic medals, as well as 26 world titles. He is 31 years old, and after the 2012 Olympics in London, Michael said that he was retiring from the sport, but could not stand it and returned to the pool lane in 2014. This real “amphibious man” is brilliant at all types of swimming, but he is better at butterfly and freestyle.
Nowadays they often criticize the USSR, saying that everything was bad. Although in fairness, it must be said that the sports school in the union was very good. Professional athletes had jobs related to their sport and received money for it and trained themselves. While all over the world, Olympic athletes do not always work according to their profile. Those. in the USSR, an athlete was a profession, just like a football player in the West. And as a result, our gymnast Larisa Latynina heads the top 10 with 18 medals, in addition, there are three more of our athletes on the list. 1. Larisa Latynina Medals: 9 Gold; 5 Silver; 4 Bronze
Soviet gymnast, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of the USSR. Has the largest number of Olympic medals. At the European Championships in 1957, Larisa won all the gold medals. Absolute Olympic champion 1956, 1960 Winner in the team championship 1956, 1960, 1964, floor exercise 1956, 1960, 1964, vault 1956. Silver medalist in the overall championship 1964 (lost to Vera Chaslavskaya), uneven bars 1956, 1960, balance beam 1960, vault nom vault 1964. Olympic bronze medalist in team apparatus exercises 1956, vault 1960, balance beam 1964 and uneven bars 1964. Absolute world champion 1958, 1962. World champion in the team championship 1954, 1958, 1962, vault 1958, uneven bars 1958 and floor exercise 1962. Absolute European champion 1957, 1961. European champion 1957 in floor exercise, vault, uneven bars and floor exercise balance beam, 1961 in floor exercise. 2. Bridget Schmidt-Fischer Medals: 8 Gold; 4 Silver
The German athlete (formerly East German) is considered the best canoeist of all time. She owns 37 medals (1979-2005). 27 gold medals (1979-1998) at world championships. 12 Olympic medals and eight gold medals. She won the Olympic competition K1 in 1980 (as Miss Fisher) and K2 and K4 in 1988. After a three-year break, during which she gave birth to her second child, she won K1 in 1992 as a member of the unified German team. In 1996 in Atlanta, she rode with the German K4 team to win her fifth gold medal, and in Sydney in 2000, she added two golds in both K2 and K4. Her husband was a world champion and Olympic silver medalist (in C1-1,000 in 1988). Schmidt-Fischer also won two medals at the 2005 World Championships. 3. Jenny Thomson Medals: 8 Gold; 3 Silver; 1 Bronze
A ten-time Olympic medalist, she has won more medals than any U.S. Olympic athlete. At the Short Course World Championships, Thompson won 5 medals (gold in the 50 and 100 meter butterfly, setting world and American records respectively; silver in the 100 meter freestyle and 800 meter freestyle style, setting an American record; bronze - for swimming 400 meters in the mixed style). She broke the world record in the 50-meter butterfly and the American record in the 100-meter butterfly. She also came fourth in the International Short Course Championships in the 400m freestyle. At the 2002 Pan Pacific Championships, Jenny Thompson won gold in the 50m freestyle, where she showed the best results of her entire career. In the 100m freestyle and butterfly, Jenny received a bronze medal. For 400 meters free and mixed style, the athlete received 2 silver medals. At the P66 Summer Nationals, Jenny took second place in the 100m butterfly and 50m freestyle. And after a two-year break from her sports career, she took 4th place in the 100-meter freestyle swim. 4. Vera Caslavska Medals: 7 Gold; 4 Silver
Outstanding Czechoslovakian gymnast, 7-time Olympic champion, 4-time world champion, multiple champion of Europe and Czechoslovakia. Winner of the largest number of Olympic gold medals in the history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. 5. Dara Torres Medals: 4 Gold; 4 Silver; 4 Bronze Outstanding American swimmer, four-time Olympic champion, four-time silver and four-time Olympic bronze medalist. Only Torres, Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina (9+5+4) and Japanese gymnast Takashi Ono (5+4+4) each have 4 full sets of Olympic medals. In addition, Torres shares seventh place with 6 athletes in the total number of Olympic awards (12). The only American swimmer to compete in 5 Olympics and the oldest swimmer and medalist in Olympic history. 6. Lyubov Egorova Medals: 6 Gold; 3 Silver Famous Soviet and Russian skier, six-time Olympic champion, multiple world champion, World Cup winner (1993), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1991), Honored Master of Sports of Russia, Hero Russian Federation(1994, “for outstanding achievements in sports, courage and heroism shown at the XVII Winter Olympic Games 1994”). 7. Agnes Keleti Medals: 5 Gold; 3 Silver; 2 Bronze
Famous Hungarian gymnast, five-time Olympic champion (1952, 1956), world champion (1954, parallel bars), champion of Hungary (1947-1954) in artistic gymnastics. 8. Polina Astakhova Medals: 5 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze
Soviet gymnast. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. Winner of 10 Olympic medals, including five gold. In addition, she is the world champion in the team championship (1956, 1962), silver medalist in the team championship (1966), in the uneven bars (1958); European champion in floor exercise (1959), uneven bars (1959, 1961), beam (1961), silver medalist in all-around (1961), floor exercise (1961). Absolute champion of the USSR (1959). Winner of the USSR Cup in all-around (1959, 1960, 1963, 1965). USSR champion in uneven bars (1959, 1960, 1963, 1965), beam (1961), floor exercise (1959, 1960, 1964, 1965), silver medalist in all-around (1965), uneven bars (1958, 1961) , 1962, 1964), balance beam (1959, 1960), floor exercise (1961, 1963), bronze medalist in all-around (1956, 1958, 1962, 1963), vault (1956), uneven bars (1956, 1957, 1967), beam (1965), floor exercise (1958, 1962). 9. Raisa Smetanina Medals: 4 Gold; 5 Silver; 1 Bronze
famous Soviet skier, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1976). 4-time Olympic champion (1976 - in the 10 km race and in the 4 x 5 km relay, 1980 - in the 5 km race, 1992 - in the relay), 5-time silver (1976 - in the 5 km race, 1980 - in the 4 x 5 km relay, 1984 - in the 10 and 20 km, 1988 - in the 10 km race) and 1 time (1988 - in the 20 km race) bronze medalist of the Olympic Games, 5-time world champion (1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1991), multiple champion of the USSR (1974, 1976-77, 1983-86, 1989, 1991). She took part in five consecutive Winter Olympics, and won her last award at the Games in Albertville a few days before her 40th birthday, which is a kind of record for skiers. 10. Natalie Coughlin Medals: 3 Gold; 4 Silver; 4 Bronze
Famous American swimmer, three-time Olympic champion, five-time world champion, multiple world record holder. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, 21-year-old Coughlin won 5 Olympic medals from August 14 to 21 - 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. At the same time, she set 1 Olympic record, 1 world record (as part of the 4x200 m freestyle relay team) and 1 US record. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she was elected co-captain of the US women's swimming team.
A 13-year-old athlete told Komsomolskaya Pravda about what she dreams of becoming, why she competes with herself and what she wants to ask the president of the federation
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I rarely cry. Only when something doesn’t work out for me and I don’t know how to fix it. After competitions, there are times when I couldn’t do everything I could. And I don’t think it’s a shame to cry, these are the words of 13-year-old Sasha Trusova, a figure skater from Ryazan who made a real splash at the Junior Grand Prix in Brisbane this summer.
On August 26, on the final day of competition at the first stage of the Junior Grand Prix series in Australia, our compatriot won a gold medal. For her free program, Sasha received 132.12 points, a total of 197.69 points based on the sum of the two programs. Based on the results of this speech, experts stated that at the stages of the Junior Grand Prix, excluding the finals, no one had ever scored as many points as Trusova. Alexandra coped successfully with the skate, naturally winning the free program and the stage. The highlight of her free program was her performance quad salchow. On this moment Sasha is the only figure skater in the world who performs this difficult jump!
Most of all, I love learning new, more difficult jumps, because it’s interesting, it’s very nice when a more difficult jump or another element is finally achieved,” admitted Sasha.
And already at the end of September, Alexandra Trusova won the 4th stage of the Grand Prix in Minsk and was the first of the representatives of her country to receive a “ticket” to the final of the Junior Grand Prix in Japan.
Will he win the Olympics and no longer have to wake up early?
Sasha studies at best school figure skating in Russia, a whole team of professionals works with her. And in matters of figure skating and technique, we completely trust them. She was told that quadruple jumps were both within her strength and character. And now she proved that she really can,” Svetlana Trusova, Sasha’s mother, shared with Komsomolskaya Pravda.
It’s been four years since the family moved to Moscow, but both the parents and Sasha herself do not forget that the first confident steps towards success were taken in Ryazan, under the guidance of coaches Olga Shevtsova and Larisa Melkova.
Since childhood, Sasha was “for any kind of activity”: swimming, riding a bike, going through an obstacle course and sliding down the scariest slide in the water park, petting any animal, riding a horse - in general, for any kind of activity active rest, - recalls Svetlana. - At the age of 4 she started roller skating. She moved around the house on them, sat down at the table and tried to go to bed in them. Since we have a sports family, our dad is a master of sports in sambo, judo and hand-to-hand combat, there was no doubt that Sasha would go in for sports. The sport itself also suggested itself logically. Moreover, according to doctors, figure skating improves health. By this time, the Olympic Sports Palace had been opened in Ryazan. There Sasha started figure skating.
At that time, the family lived in Nedostoevo and had to get up very early to get to the Ice Palace. One day, on the way to training, Sasha asked her dad: “When I win the Olympic Games, will I be able to stop getting up so early?” Everyone laughed for a long time, and dad had no choice but to agree. According to her parents, little Sasha did not have to be forced to go to training. One word from her would be enough, and everyone would forget about figure skating.
My first coach Olga Mikhailovna said that I had to learn to love figure skating,” says Sasha. - And I fell in love with him.
Sasha studies with the coach of Olympic champion Lipnitskaya
After moving to Moscow, Sasha began studying at a sports school, and since last year, coach Eteri Tutberidze took the girl into her group. By the way, among Eteri Georgievna’s students are 2014 Olympic champion Yulia Lipnitskaya and 2016 world champion Evgenia Medvedeva.
The training has become completely different,” explains Vyacheslav, Sasha’s father. - Today it is no longer just a figure skating section, it is long hours of work every day. In addition to several hours on the ice, there is physical training and choreography. Sasha mastered triple jumps already in Moscow. The first triple was the Salchow. Nothing comes easy, of course. Any new jump means a lot of falls and frustration. But Sasha has a very stubborn character. She follows the coaches' instructions and tries again and again. A whole team of trainers works with Sasha - in addition to Eteri Georgievna, she is trained by Sergei Viktorovich Dudakov and Daniil Markovich Gleikhengauz.
Sasha chose Zhenya Medvedeva as an example for herself, Svetlana adds, and this, we think, is good. Zhenya is a hard worker and an excellent example of a true sportsman and champion character. These are the people you should look up to.
Today Sasha is completely absorbed in figure skating, but her schedule is structured in such a way as to combine training and school activities. She has no problems with studies; she does best in mathematics. Despite all her workload, Sasha leads the life of an ordinary teenager - she spends time with her brothers, friends in her group, she has gadgets and her own accounts on social networks, where she communicates with other guys.
Communication with family and support for Sasha, according to her, is a very important part of her life.
My parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters support me in everything. I have big family and I often travel to Ryazan to visit my relatives.
- If you met with the President of the International Figure Skating Federation, what would you ask him?- I asked the young athlete.
I would ask him at his performances, in addition to the short and free program, to do the third part - the elements.
As part of this competition, athletes make two attempts at a solo jump and two attempts at a cascade, and then perform a special track and spin. For each attempt, points are given and the sum of the best solo, best cascade and track with rotation is calculated.
A little earlier, Sasha admitted that competition is certainly important to her, but, above all, she competes with herself, trying to improve and beat her own result every time. And the more difficult the task, the better. In this light, Sasha’s request is quite understandable.
“In terms of the technical complexity of the program, Sasha is the leader among all women in the world”
Usually parents want for their child better life than they had. And for this they are ready to make any sacrifices, such as moving to another city or taking classes from the best teachers. But the Trusovs do not believe that they sacrificed their lives to Sasha.
- Does what is happening now with your daughter justify your hopes?
We did not pin our hopes on any sporting success. Therefore, it is impossible to say that what is happening justifies our hopes,” says Svetlana. - But we, of course, really like the fact that Sasha was so keen on figure skating, and she’s doing well. The fact that a child found the meaning of life in such at a young age, setting goals and working to achieve them is certainly what any parent wants to see. This builds a strong character that will be useful to her in any aspect. adult life. We are doing everything in our power to help her.
Vyacheslav, your fatherly joy for your daughter’s success is obvious. As an athlete, can you evaluate Sasha’s results to date? Just too objective.
Of course, for her age this is an excellent result, this is the maximum that can be achieved. But there are even more serious competitions ahead. The transition from juniors to adults lies ahead - a very important stage, and you need to be prepared for it. The level of her preparation, in my opinion, is very high: in terms of the technical complexity of the program, she is a leader among all women in the world.
For readers far from sports, let us explain: Sasha’s programs have the strongest set of elements among all female figure skaters in the world. Including the quadruple Salchow, which none of the athletes currently jumps.
Unlike many parents who try to program their children’s lives in advance, Svetlana and Vyacheslav do not make far-reaching plans:
Figure skating is a young sport, and after the end of a sports career, there is time to master a profession off the ice. When the time comes, Sasha herself will choose what to become and what university to enter.
Sasha already has his own ideas on this matter. In the conversation, she admitted that she loves animals very much and wants to bond her future profession with them. Once in Brisbane, for example, she happily spent her day off in Koala Park and, according to her parents, stroked and held in her arms all the animals that were allowed: kangaroos, koalas, parrots, platypuses. By the way, on all trips Sasha is accompanied by her friend and living mascot - a four-year-old Chihuahua named Tina. With her, a girl can talk secretly about her most intimate experiences.
“You have to do what you love, and then everything will work out”
Despite the fact that Sasha’s successes are largely the merit of her parents, who adjusted their life as much as possible to her interests and schedule, neither Svetlana nor Vyacheslav believe that when a child grows up, he should thank his mom and dad for something.
This is the normal order of things. The task of parents is the happiness of their children. We help Sasha to the best of our ability. It is enough for us to see that she is happy.
This large family, whose members are scattered across different cities of the world, makes an amazing impression. Wherever they are, wherever they leave, wherever they return from, they are constantly in touch, I would even say in conjunction with each other. They always know who has what going on, who has what news, joys and difficulties and are always ready to help. And it is not at all surprising that in such a friendly and close-knit family a real little star was born - her talent was not only noticed and supported, but also helped in every possible way to develop.
Svetlana, for you, is Sasha still your little girl or do you treat her as an adult with her own responsibility?
Sasha is an adult, she can make her own decisions. And we always take her opinion into account. She is a very responsible girl and, despite being very busy, looks after her brothers and, naturally, raises them. But... remains my little and only daughter,” my mother admitted.
Before saying goodbye, I asked the young athlete to give advice to those guys who want to develop a strong-willed character and achieve great success in life. Sasha smiled broadly and shrugged her thin shoulders:
You have to do what you love, and then everything will work out!
And we hope that Sasha, by his example, will continue to prove that what he loves allows a person to discover limitless possibilities in himself. And, of course, we wish Sasha the fulfillment of her dream - to represent our country at the Olympic Games.
DETAILS
The Salchow jump in figure skating is named after the athlete who first performed it - this was done by the Swede Ulrich Salchow in 1909. Since then, the jump has become increasingly more difficult, becoming double, triple and finally quadruple. The first woman to perform a 4-revolution Salchow was Japanese athlete Miki Ando. She performed her quadruple jump as a junior at the 2003 Grand Prix Final. At the time of performing the element, she was 16 years old. The second figure skater who managed to repeat such a difficult jump was 13-year-old Russian and our compatriot Alexandra Trusova.
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Moscow Moscow team 2017/18
Club: TsSO "Sambo-70", branch "Khrustalny" (Moscow)
Coach: Eteri Tutberidze, Sergei Dudakov. Choreographer: Daniil Gleikhengauz
results
Season 2017/18
SGP in Belarus 2017 - 1 (196.32)
UGP in Australia 2017 - 1 (197.69)
Season 2016/17
Competitions for prizes of the President of the FFKK Moscow 2017 - 2 (190.79)
Championship in Russia (old time) 2017 - 2 (195.65)
Russian Championship (Jr.) 2017 - 3rd senior. (240.67)
Moscow Championship (older age) 2017 - 4 kms (178.34)
Russian Cup Final 2017 - 3 kms (190.89)
Russian Championship 2017 - 4 (194.60)
Moscow Championship (Jr.) 2017 - 2nd senior. (245.56)
V stage of the Russian Cup 2016 - 2 kms (186.24)
Memorial S. Volkov 2016 - 1, 1sp. (184.06)
II stage of the Russian Cup 2016 - 3 kms (184.54)
Moscow Open Championship 2016 - 3 kms (172.86)
Season 2015/16
Russian Championship (Jr.) 2016 - 5th senior. (221.24)
Moscow Championship (older age) 2016 - 9 kms (166.38)
Moscow Championship (Jr.) 2016 - 1st senior. (228.19)
Memorial S. Volkov 2015 - 5, 1sp. (159.42)
FFKKM Open Cup 2015 - 4 kms (156.56)
Season 2014/15
Russian Championship (youngest age) 2015 - 3 youngest age. (173.51)
Moscow Championship (old age) 2015 - 21 kms (129.77)
Moscow Championship (junior) 2015 - 2 juniors. (182.67)
Memorial S. Volkov 2014 - 1, 2sp. (122.96)
Season 2013/14
Moscow Championship (junior age) 2014 - 28 junior age. (25.66)
The Winter Olympics are 90 years old. During this time, about 29 thousand athletes took part in the competition, six of them managed to win a record number of awards. These athletes will be discussed in our material.
The first Winter Olympic Games took place in 1924 from January 25 to February 4 in the French town of Chamonix. 293 athletes from 16 countries took part in the first White Olympics. Athletes competed in 14 sports disciplines. 90 years have passed since then. The geography of Games participants has increased to 88 countries. At the 2014 Sochi Olympics, 2,800 athletes competed for medals in 98 disciplines. In total, over the 90-year history, about 29 thousand athletes took part in the Winter Games, and only six of them were able to win more than five medals of the highest standard. To date, the most titled champions of the White Games are Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Bjorn Daly, Marit Bjoergen, Lyubov Egorova, Viktor An and Lidiya Skoblikova.
Ole Einar Bjoerndalen - biathlon
Country: Norway
Olympics: 1994 - 2014
13 medals: 8 gold
4 silver, 1 bronze
The most decorated athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics is Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. He took part in six Olympics and won eight highest awards.
Bjoerndalen made his debut in 1994 at the home Games in Lillehammer, but then the 20-year-old biathlete failed to reach the podium. The Norwegian won his first gold at the main competition of the four years only in 1998 at the Nagano Games - he was the first to finish in the 10-kilometer sprint race. At the same time, Bjoerndalen added the “silver” of the relay to his piggy bank. The next Olympics was a triumph for the Norwegian. In Salt Lake City, Ole Einar won four out of four possible victories and became the world's only absolute Olympic champion in biathlon. In 2006, before Turin, the “king of biathlon” suffered from a cold and failed to prepare properly, as a result of which the Norwegian was left without gold, but still managed to win two silvers and a bronze. For the next four years, Bjoerndalen diligently prepared for the Olympic start and his efforts were not in vain - from Vancouver the Norwegian took home a gold medal in the relay and a silver medal in the 20-kilometer individual race. 
40-year-old Ole Einar prepared for the Olympic Games in Sochi with special diligence; all the Norwegian’s training was carried out according to an individual plan. And the very first Sochi race, a 10-kilometer sprint, brought Bjoerndalen his first personal Olympic gold in 12 years. The “king of biathlon” won the second gold medal of the 2014 Games in the mixed relay, after which Ole Einar became an eight-time Olympic champion - only skier Bjorn Daly had previously achieved such success. After the Olympics in Sochi, Bjoerndalen became the most titled athlete in the history of the White Games - he has 13 medals of various denominations.
Bjorn Daly - cross-country skiing
Country: Norway
Olympics: 1992 - 1998
12 medals: 8 gold
4 silver
Skier Bjorn Daly is in second place in the total number of Olympic medals, and in the number of highest-quality awards he shares first place with biathlete Ole Einar Bjorndalen.
Daly made his first appearance as part of the Norwegian Olympic team at the 1988 Games in Calgary, but he did not compete then. The skier won his first Olympic gold in Albertville, France. In total, the 1992 games brought the Norwegian three gold and one silver medals. The next Winter Olympics took place two years later, as the IOC decided to hold the Winter and Summer Games two years apart. In Lillehammer, Daly stood on the podium four times, two of them on the top step.
The Nagano Olympics brought Bjorn another silver and three gold medals; at that time he was the most titled skier. Moreover, only Daly and Swedish skier Sixten Jernberg managed to win the most prestigious race - 50 kilometers - twice at the Olympic Games. In 2001, due to injury, the eight-time Olympic champion announced his retirement from his sports career.
Marit Bjorgen - cross-country skiing
Country: Norway
Olympics: 2002 - 2014
10 medals: 6 gold
3 silver, 1 bronze
Norwegian Marit Bjørgen is the most decorated athlete in the Olympic history of women's cross-country skiing. She competed in four Olympics and won six gold medals.
Bjørgen won her first Olympic gold in 2010 at the Games in Vancouver. Before that, in Salt Lake City and Turin, she only took silver. The Vancouver Olympics for Marit became the most successful in her career - the skier climbed to the podium five times, three of them on the top step. In 2009, the World Anti-Doping Agency allowed a Norwegian woman who suffers from asthma to use a powerful medication for the disease. The drug contains prohibited substances, because of this, the skier was accused of doping after her triumph in Vancouver.
Despite the scandals in 2014, at the Sochi Olympics, Marit Bjørgen repeated the Vancouver triumph and won three gold medals.
Lyubov Egorova - cross-country skiing
Country Russia
Olympics: 1992 - 1994
9 medals: 6 gold
3 silver
Russian skier Lyubov Egorova participated in the Olympic Games twice, and both times brought her three gold medals. She, along with Marit Bjørgen and Lydia Skoblikova, holds the women's record for the most Olympic victories.
At the 1992 Games in Albertville, France, Egorova, finishing first in the 15-kilometer race, won her first gold medal. There, the Russian woman won four more awards, two of them of the highest standard. At the next games in Lillehammer, Lyubov climbed to the top step of the podium three times - the relay race, as well as the five and ten kilometer races, were triumphant.
In total, during her sports career, the skier won nine Olympic medals. In 1994, Egorova was awarded the title Hero of the Russian Federation.
Viktor An - short track speed skating
Country: South Korea/Russia
Olympics: 2002 - 2006, 2014
8 medals: 6 gold
2 bronze
Six-time Olympic champion Viktor An is the most titled short track speed skater in the history of this sport. In addition, he is the only man to win three gold medals at the Winter Olympics as part of the Russian team.
An first went to the Olympiad in 2002 as part of the national team South Korea. However, in Salt Lake City, the 16-year-old short track speed skater was never able to reach the podium, then his best result was fourth place at a distance of 1000 meters. At the next Games in Turin, Victor, whose name at that time was Hyun Soo, already won four medals: three gold and one bronze. He showed best time at distances of 1500 and 1000 meters, and also distinguished himself in the 5000 meter relay.
In 2008, An was injured during training and was later diagnosed with a fracture. knee joint"After eight months, the athlete returned to training, but he was never able to fully recover. In 2010, Ahn did not make it to the Olympics in Vancouver, as he could not qualify for the national selection. In 2011, the Russian Skating Union invited Ahn Hyun-soo to Moscow, by the end of the year the short speed skater received Russian citizenship. In 2014, Viktor An came to Sochi as part of the Russian national team. He brought his new country four medals: three gold and one bronze.
Lidia Skoblikova -
skating
Country: USSR
Olympics: 1960 - 1964
6 medals: all gold
Lidiya Skoblikova is still the only six-time Olympic champion in the history of speed skating. At the 1964 Games in Innsbruck she received the title of absolute champion.
Women's speed skating competitions were first included in the Olympic Games program in 1960, at which time Skoblikova made her debut. The Squaw Valley Games brought the Russian woman two gold medals. Four years later, in Innsbruck, Lidiya Skoblikova set a speed skating record - she won all four distances.
After the Olympics, the speed skater decided to take a break. In 1965, the six-time Olympic champion became a mother.
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