Tamara Nikolayevna Popova (nee Shimanskaya ; February 27, 1948 , Minsk , Byelorussian SSR , USSR ) - Soviet kayak racer , played for the USSR team in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Two-time world champion, three-time European champion, five-time champion of the All-Union championship, winner of regattas of national and international importance. At the competition she represented the sports society " Labor Reserves ", Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1969). Also known as coach of the Paralympic champion Lyudmila Volchok , Honored Trainer of the Republic of Belarus (2008).
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| Specialization | kayak , 500 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of Birth | February 27, 1948 (71 years old) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | Minsk , Belorussian SSR , USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
Tamara Shimanskaya was born on February 27, 1948 in Minsk . She began to actively engage in rowing in early childhood, she was a member of the local team of the voluntary sports society “ Labor Reserves ”. She achieved her first serious success in 1969, when she immediately won two gold medals of the All-Union Championship, at a half-kilometer distance among single kayaks and among doubles.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, she became a member of the national team and won the right to defend the country's honor at the European Championships in Moscow - she took first place in all three women's disciplines: singles, deuces and fours. For this achievement, according to the results of the season, she was recognized by journalists as the best athlete of the year in Belarus (along with fencer Elena Novikova and wrestler Alexander Medved ), and was awarded the honorary title “ Honored Master of Sports of the USSR ”. A year later, with a double crew, she defended the All-Union championship title and went to the World Cup in Copenhagen, where she took silver with a two and gold with a four.
In 1971, she married rower Alexander Popov, also a member of the USSR national team, and since then has acted under the name Popov. This season, she won a bronze medal at the world championship in Yugoslav Belgrade. A year later, at the championship of the Soviet Union, she was the best among four-seater crews and in the relay race 4 × 500 m. She represented the country at the World Championships in the Finnish city of Tampere, their crew, which also included kayakers Lyudmila Pinaeva , Nina Gopova and Larisa Kabakova , beat all rivals and finished first. Soon after these competitions, Tamara Popova decided to end the career of an athlete and switched to coaching.
Currently, together with her husband, she works as a rowing and cross-country skiing coach, has prepared three-time Paralympic Games champion Lyudmila Volchok [1] , and has been awarded the honorary title “Honored Trainer of the Republic of Belarus” [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Evgeny Viktorov. Tamara and I walk in a pair (inaccessible link) . SP-Online (March 26, 2010). Date of treatment June 30, 2014. Archived on April 3, 2014.
- ↑ Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus of November 24, 2008 No. 639 “Ab recognizing the right of the Republic of Belarus”
Links
- Tamara Shimanskaya - medals at major international competitions
- Tamara Popova - medals at major international competitions
- Shimanskaya (Popova) Tamara Nikolaevna (inaccessible link from 06/14/2016 [1196 days]) - a brief biographical information on the Yandex.Dictionaries website
- List of USSR Kayaking and Canoeing Champions (unavailable link from 06/14/2016 [1196 days])
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )