Pankov, Vadim Anatolyevich

As a child, Vadim Pankov was fond of ice hockey , but at the insistence of his parents, who considered this sport too traumatic, he began to engage in table tennis . In tennis, he reached the first category, and then a physical education teacher advised him to try volleyball at the Dynamo Moscow sports school. “Of course, I was not adapted to this sport, and the coach Bogdanova drove me almost by force due to lack of data, but I already had a sporty character, came back and said every time that I would play anyway,” he recalled Pankov about the beginning of his volleyball biography ^{[1] [2]} . Subsequently, he studied at the CSKA sports school, after which he entered the SCOLIFK .

The first breakdown of the strength of Vadim Pankov as a coach was an internship in the women's team of the USSR with Vladimir Patkin in preparation for the 1985 European Championship ^[1] . In 1990, he received an invitation from Nikolai Karpol to enter the Uralochka coaching staff. At the same time, after the birth of his daughter , the wife of Vadim Pankov, Marina, returned to the Sverdlovsk team. From 1993-1995, when Marina Pankova played for the Spanish “Murcia”, Vadim Anatolyevich worked as the head coach of this team, twice led him to victories in the Spanish championships, and in the 1994/95 season also to the final of the European Cup in Bari , in which she lost all the same "Uralochka" ^[3] .

Since 1997, he worked as a trainer and teacher of the Moscow Sports School No. 65 and assisted Leonid Yuryevich Berezin in the MGFSO Super League team created on its basis ^[4] . In 2003, he was part of the headquarters of the Russian youth team, whose head coach was Pavel Matienko. After the World Cup in Thailand, where the Russian team took 8th place, Matienko and Pankov decided to continue working together at the Zarechye-Odintsovo club near Moscow ^[1] .

Due to the competent work of the coaching staff and attention from the leaders of the Moscow region, in the short term that had previously been lacking stars from the sky, Zarechye became one of the leading teams in the Super League and in 2006 became the prize-winner of the Russian championship for the first time. In the 2006/07 season, Pankov replaced the seriously ill Matienko, won the Russian Cup and the silver cup of the European Volleyball Confederation with the team, and in the summer of 2007, after the sudden death of Pavel Mikhailovich, he became head coach of Zarechye-Odintsovo. Under his leadership, the team twice won the championships of Russia, reached the finals of the Champions League 2008, won the Challenge Cup in 2014.

In September 2008, after the resignation of the head coach of the Russian women's national team Giovanni Kaprara , Vadim Pankov led the national team at the 2009 Grand Prix qualifying tournament in Omsk ^[5] . In January 2009, he proposed his candidacy for filling the vacant post of head coach of the Russian women's team ^[6] , but at a meeting a month later the presidium of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (WWF), experts supported Vladimir Kuzyutkin by a majority of votes.

Well-proven in working with young players at Zarechye-Odintsovo, Vadim Pankov was appointed head coach of the IEF for training in women's volleyball on June 1, 2014 ^{[7] [8]} . In January 2015, Pankov was entrusted with the leadership of the second women's national team of Russia ^[9] . During the season, his wards took 4th place at the Montreux Will Masters , 5th place at the European Games in Baku and became champions of the Universiade in Gwangju .

In July 2017, Vadim Pankov led the Russian youth team to the silver medals of the World Cup in Mexico ^[10] , and a month later he won the Universiade in Taipei with a student team.

On January 18, 2018, he was appointed head coach of the Russian women's team , replacing Konstantin Ushakov at the helm of the national team ^[11] . Under his leadership, the Russian team took 8th place at the 2018 World Cup , 8th and 14th places in the Nations League , won a ticket to the Olympic Games in Tokyo . September 10, 2019, shortly after the end of the European Championship , at which the Russian team became the 7th, Vadim Pankov resigned ^[12] .

As head coach

• Champion of Spain (1993/94, 1994/95).
• Champion of Russia ( 2007/08 , 2009/10 ), silver medalist of the championship of Russia ( 2008/09 ).
• Winner of the Russian Cup ( 2006 , 2007 ), silver ( 2009 ) and bronze ( 2008 , 2010 ) winner of the Russian Cup.
• Challenge Cup Winner ( 2013/14 ).
• Silver medalist of the Cup and Champions League ( 1994/95 , 2007/08 ).
• Finalist of the European Volleyball Confederation Cup (2006/07).
• With Russian national teams: winner of the Universiade ( 2015 , 2017 ), silver medalist of the Youth World Championship (2017) .

• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II degree (August 20, 1999) - for merits in the development of physical culture and sports, a great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between nations ^[13] .
• Honored Coach of Russia (May 11, 2011) ^[14] .
• Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation (August 9, 2019) - for his great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, many years of conscientious work ^[15] .
• Honored Worker of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Moscow Region (2008) ^[16] .

Vadim Anatolyevich was married to Marina Pankova (Nikulina) - champion of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul , 1990 world champion , two-time European champion in the USSR national volleyball team . Their children are also famous volleyball players: Ekaterina Pankova is a two-time European champion, and Pavel Pankov became the world and European champion with youthful and youth teams of Russia.

• Pankov Vadim Anatolyevich // Volleyball: Encyclopedia / Comp. V. L. Sviridov. - M .: Man, Sport, 2016 .-- S. 268. - ISBN 978-5-906131-79-9 .

• Profile on the site of the Volleyball Center of the Moscow Region