Ippolitov, Platon Afanasyevich

Had four brothers; one of which, Vasily (1892-1957), is also a skater and cyclist, European champion in 1913; under his influence, Plato came to the sport ^{[a 2]} .

The participant of the First World War : mobilized in 1916, served at the headquarters of the 11th army, in 1917 demobilized for injury. ^{[a 2]}

Andrei Starostin in the book “Meetings in a football orbit” described Platon Ippolitov’s running style ^{[a 3]} :

... But nevertheless, it was Plato Ippolitov who, like no one, brought me into an enthusiastic state with his inconceivably easy jogging, I would say, musically adjusted rhythm of cornering movements, artistic plasticity during the passage of a straight line. Platon Afanasyevich Ippolitov ran so without apparent difficulty that his failures caused me to wonder: why did he lose, did he not seem tired at all?

In the 1920s – 1930s he was a sports journalist. In the 1930s - Head of Speed ​​Skating and Cycling Department of the All-Union Committee for Physical Culture and Sport . ^{[a 1]}

Died in 1951; buried at the Vagankovo ​​cemetery of Moscow. ^{[a 4]}

While in the World and European Championships, Platon Ippolitov lost his elder brother three times in 1913-1914, they did not meet in the Russian Championships: Nikita Naydyonov was the main rival of Plato; and since 1915, Yakov Melnikov , from whom Platon Ippolitov has not been able to win since that time (in 1916, Melnikov, who arrived at the championship directly from military service, did not finish the competition).

Country Records

  3000 m record of the USSR 5.15.0 1926 Moscow
   The 5000 m record of Russia is 8.44.2 [4] 02.27.1916 Moscow
 The 10,000 m record of Russia is 18.13.4 [4] 02.1913 Moscow

Notes

He is the author of several books on speed skating and cycling, as well as numerous brochures published for the popularization of skates and bicycles and published in the 1920s - early 1950s in print runs of tens and hundreds of thousands of copies. Among them:

Skates

• Table of speed skating points calculation. - M .: VSFC, 1927. - 80 p.
• Skater Handbook. - M. L .: "Physical Culture and Sport", 1930. - 96 p.
• Speed ​​skating / Ed. skating section VSFC. - M. L .: "Physical Culture and Tourism", 1931. - 124 p.
• Skater Handbook. - M. L .: “Physical Culture and Tourism”, 1932. - 120 p.
• Skates. - M .: "Physical Education and Tourism", 1934. - 316 p.
• Skating. - M .: "Physical Education and Sport", 1938. - 287 p.
• Skating. - M .: "Physical Education and Sport", 1941. - 167 p.
• Speed ​​skating: A Handbook / Ippolitov P. A., Kuchmenko V. N. - M .: “Physical Culture and Sport”, 1951. - 144 p.

Bicycle

• Bicycle and bike tours. - M .: The All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, 1925. - 78 p.
• Companion cyclist. What every cyclist needs to know. - Moscow : Higher and Moscow Councils of Physical Culture, 1925. - 112 p.
• Cycling. - M. L .: "Young Guard", 1927. - 126 p.
• Handbook of cycling / Ed. motorcycle bikes VSFC. - M. L .: "Physical Culture and Tourism", 1931. - 96 p.
• Bicycle. - M .: "Physical Education and Tourism", 1936. - 256 p.
• Bicycle for beginners. - M .: "Physical Education and Sport", 1938. - 100 p.
• Bicycle. - M .: "Physical Education and Sport", 1939. - 80 p.
• Tula track 50 years. - Tula: Obl. book publishing house, 1947. - 72 p.

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1937)

• Books by Platon Ippolitov in the Central Branch Library on Physical Culture and Sport of the Russian Federation

Sports Results

• Skating. Reference book / Compiled by G. A. Tinovitsky . - M .: "Physical Culture and Sport", 1974. - 344 p. (curriculum vitae - p. 222)
• Stainless Skate Society - Speed ​​Skating History and Statistics