Bulygin, Sergey Ivanovich

Sergei’s grandfather and grandmother, originally from Belarus, from the village of Ukhvala, Krupsky District, moved to Russia at one time.

Sergey was born in the Novosibirsk region in the village of Solovievka. Soon, parents moved from Solovyovka to the urban village of Tashara , since there was a secondary school. Bulygin himself clarifies that he owes the career of a biathlete to the occasion. Coach Valery Nikolayevich Polkhovsky once arrived in Tashara and opened a skiing section. There were a lot of people who wanted to study, including Sergey and his two brothers. A year later, a large group dropped out. Almost everyone did not like that the first training session began at 6 a.m. Sergey and his brothers stayed.

When Bulygin was in the 5th grade, drinking parents left him with two brothers in a boarding school ^[1] . Little help was only from the aunt and grandmother who lived in Tashar.

A little later, the coach suggested they go to biathlon. The elder brother immediately agreed, a year later the middle one joined him, when he graduated from high school, Sergey himself moved on. Soon he got into the junior team of the Union. In 1982, he won two medals: silver and bronze at the World Junior Championships in Raubichi.

After this success he was transferred to the main team of the country (it was only 19 years old). At competitions in Kirovo-Chepetsk, he ran with adults at a distance of 20 kilometers. Having made only one mistake during the race, he won by a huge margin. After that, the head coach officially announced that he was taking Bulygin to the team for the adult world championship in 1983.

At the World Championships in Anterselva, the team was generally young - Bulygin, Algimantas Shalna, Yuri Kashkarov and Petr Miloradov. However, the young biathletes won the gold in the relay, bringing the main sensation in the championship. In 1983 he moved to Minsk .

At the games in Sarajevo, the entire team unsuccessfully performed in individual races. The final start was the relay. Stage 1 was run by Dmitry Vasiliev. He broke away from his pursuers for a minute and seven seconds. Yuri Kashkarov ran the 2nd stage and, on the whole, ran successfully, still occupying a leading position. Algimantas Shalna, on the way to the 1st firing line, managed to increase the handicap to 40 seconds, and after firing while lying down, he left the GDR team in 47 seconds. However, in shooting while standing, he made 2 misses. Bulygin set off for the final stage, having a lag of 18 seconds from the German Frank Ulrich. Before the first firing line he overtook the German. At both lines he shot cleanly and went to the finish line, I have an advantage of 17 seconds. However, closer to the finish line, he saw that the rivals were close, but from the last forces he got the first.

Following the results of the Olympiad, the title of ZMS of the USSR was awarded and awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor .

In 1986, Sergey became the world champion in the relay. Then came the decline in results. In 1988, Bulygin went to his second Olympics in Calgary, where however he did not perform, remaining in reserve.

Recent successes were a victory in the team race at the 1989 World Championships and in 1990 won the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.

He graduated from the Military Sports Institute in Leningrad . Senior Lieutenant of the reserve.

In the 90s he was engaged in small business - he drove cars from Europe to Belarus. In 1993 he left for Switzerland to a friend, where he worked as an assistant in the biathlon team. Since 1996 he lives in Belarus, in 1998 he was elected deputy head of the Belarusian Biathlon Federation .

Founder and director of the SportUnion commercial company (selling sports shoes).

Wife Marina, raise a daughter (born 1986)

• Champion ZOI 1984 in the relay 4 × 7.5 km. In the race for 10 km he took 11th place, for 20 km 17th place.
• World Champion 1983, 1985, 1986 in the 4 × 7.5 km relay race, 1989 in the 20 km team race.
• Champion of the USSR 1983-1985.

• Sergey Bulygin on sib-sports.ru