Lidiya Pavlovna Skoblikova ( March 8, 1939 , Zlatoust , Chelyabinsk Region , RSFSR ) - Soviet speed skater , the only 6-time Olympic champion in the history of speed skating, the absolute champion of the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck .
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| Full name | Lidia Pavlovna Skoblikova | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Specialization | 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m, 3000 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic champion | 6 - 1960 , 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sports nickname - "Ural lightning."
Lydia Pavlovna - holder of two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Order of the Badge of Honor and Order for Services to the Fatherland, III degree.
- Two - time Olympic champion in 1960 (1500 and 3000 m).
- 4-time Olympic champion 1964.
- Took 4th place in 1960 at a distance of 1000 m, and in 1968 - 6th by 3000 m and 11th by 1500 m.
- Two-time absolute world champion (1963, 1964).
- The world record holder at distances of 1000 m (1963-1968), 1500 m (1960-1962) and 3000 m (1967).
Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1960), candidate of historical sciences (1982), professor .
She played for the Chelyabinsk Petrel, and at the end of her career, for Moscow's Lokomotiv.
She became the team coach of the sports and entertainment show " Great Race ".
Biography
Lida grew up in a large family (father, mother, three sisters, younger brother). The school physical education teacher B. N. Mishin , who promoted the upbringing of the hard character of the gambling girl, who always wanted to be a leader among her peers, instilled her love for sport . She enthusiastically engaged in volleyball , athletics , gymnastics , skiing . At the age of 14, she won at the athletics championships of Zlatoust and the Chelyabinsk region (800 m run). At the age of 15, Skoblikov under the direction of Evdokimova Olga Vasilievna (Zlatoust coach) came to speed skating. At the first competition, she fulfilled the rate of the second category. In 1956, she became the champion of her native city. In the same year she entered the Chelyabinsk Pedagogical Institute and studied there until 1960 . She was trained by BA Kochkin , Honored Coach of the USSR [3] .
The first serious success Skoblikova achieved in 1958 , becoming a master of sports and winner of the Games of the Peoples of the RSFSR in the race for 1500 m; entered the top ten skaters of the country. In 1959, she took a general third place in the World Championships, held in Sverdlovsk , and the USSR Championships . Brilliantly capturing the stayer (3000 m) and average (1500 m) distances, she was still much inferior in the sprint (500 and 1000 m). Therefore, her performance at the World Championships in Sweden (1960) became a sensation, where she won gold medals in the 500 and 3000 m. women's speed skating competition. Having won the race for 1500 meters, she was the first of all participants in the Olympiad to set a world record (2 minutes 25.2 seconds), and then won her favorite distance of 3000 meters. For high sporting achievements she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor . At the World Championships in Japan ( 1963 ) for the first time became the absolute world champion, proving that she became a universal speed skater: she won all four distances (1000 m with a world record of 1 min 31.8 seconds).
Unique achievement
At the Olympic Games in ( 1964 , Austria ), Skoblikova established a unique achievement in the history of speed skating, winning all four distances and at the same time setting three Olympic records (500, 1000 and 1500 m). Specialists, noting the lightness, beauty, and the refined technique of her running, called her the “Queen of skates”. A member of the CPSU since 1964, was admitted to the party N. S. Khrushchev on the phone after the triumph in Innsbruck. Vice-President of the International Skating Union (ISU) S. Lofman said that Skoblikova’s loud triumph contributes to the development of the popularity of women's speed skating. Also in 1964, Skoblikova convincingly won the World Speed Skating Championships (Sweden), once again winning all four distances. Such an achievement (8 gold medals from 8) cannot be surpassed, it can only be repeated. In 1964 she was awarded the second order of the Red Banner of Labor.
She has a sports family: her husband, A. Polozkov , was a member of the USSR national athletics team, was the world record holder in race walking , the son, G. Polozkov , was in the early 1990s . Senior coach of the Russian speed skating team .
The Ice Palace of Sports in Chelyabinsk is named after Lydia Skoblikova.
Results
| Year | USSR Championship | World Championship | Olympic Games |
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| 1957 | 15th | ||
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| 1959 | (/, , 4, ) | ( , 4,5, ) | |
| 1960 | (4.4, , ) | ( , , 22, ) | 4th 1000 m 1500 m 3000 m |
| 1961 | (/, 4, , ) | ( 4.4, ) | |
| 1962 | ( , , , ) | (5, , 5, ) | |
| 1963 | (/ , /, ) | ( , , , ) | |
| 1964 | ( , , , ) | ( , , , ) | 500 m 1000 m 1500 m 3000 m |
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| 1967 | (/, , , ) | 4th (6, , 8.7) | |
| 1968 | 5th (16.4, , ) | 7th (8,12,9,4) | 11th 1500 m 6th 3000 m |
| 1969 | 4th (10, , , 6) |
- Places in individual brackets are shown in brackets, in order of races (500, 1500, 1000 and 3000)
State awards
- Order "For Services to the Fatherland" III degree ( 1999 ) [4]
- Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (09/16/1960; 03/30/1965)
- Order "Badge of Honor"
- Honorary title “ Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the RSFSR ” ( September 28, 1989 ) - for merits in the development of physical culture and sports [5]
Honors
- Freeman of the Chelyabinsk Region (2004) [6]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Skoblikova Lidia Pavlovna // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 t.] / Ed. A.M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
- Um www.um74.ru Ural lightning . um74.ru. The appeal date is August 12, 2017.
- ↑ President Boris Yeltsin awarded Lydia Skoblikova (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of September 28, 1989 "On awarding the honorary title" Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the RSFSR "to employees of physical culture and sports"
- ↑ Honorary Citizens of the Chelyabinsk Region
Literature
- Zhukova R. M. Ice, steel, character. - M. , 1965.
- Borchenko A.G. Nasha Lida. - Chelyabinsk, 1964.
Links
- Lidia Skoblikova on the IOC website (English)
- Interview in the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" on April 14, 2006
- Skoblikova Lidia Pavlovna / V.I. Linder // The Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 t.] / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov . - M .: The Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.
- Lidia Pavlovna (b. March 8, 1939, city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Region) - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .