Lyudmila Ivanovna Tourischeva (born , ) is a Soviet gymnast . Four - time Olympic champion , multiple world and European champion. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1970). President of the Gymnastics Federation of Ukraine (1991-2000).
| Lyudmila Ivanovna Tourischeva | |
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| Club | Dynamo |
| Date of Birth | |
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| Professional career | 1968-1976 |
| Coach (s) | Kim Wasserman ; Vladislav Rastorotsky |
| Growth | 160 cm |
| Weight | 52 kg |
| Awards and medals | |
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Biography
Lyudmila Turischeva was born on October 7, 1952 in Grozny. She started doing gymnastics at the age of 10 under the guidance of Kim Wasserman , who came to her parents home three times, persuading them and Lyudmila herself to have an able girl do this kind of sport. Even then, he was able to discern such features of the future champion as a strong-willed character, diligence, accuracy in the performance of exercises and perseverance in working out the combinations.
In 1964, Kim Wasserman handed over his group of girls, in which Lyudmila Turishcheva and Vladislav Rastorotsky also trained (Rastorotsky trained only girls, and Wasserman kept himself boys).
Lyudmila won her first Olympic gold medal at the age of 16, at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City . As part of the USSR national team, along with Zinaida Voronina , Natalia Kuchinsky , Larisa Petrik , Olga Karaseva and Lyubov Burda , Turischeva achieved a victory in the team championship. For the first time, Ludmila became the absolute world champion in Ljubljana in 1970 , in 1971 the title of absolute European champion was added. Soon the athlete moves from Grozny to Rostov-on-Don , enters the Rostov Pedagogical Institute , continuing to perform at the highest level.
At the XX Olympic Games in Munich, the athlete arrived as the leader of the Soviet national team and won two gold awards in team and individual all-around events. In 1973, she again became the absolute champion of Europe , a year later - the absolute champion of the world.
In 1974 she graduated from the Rostov Pedagogical Institute.
At her third Olympiad in Montreal, Turishchev, captain of the Soviet gymnastic team, won gold in the team championship, two silver awards for performing floor exercises and a vault and a bronze medal in personal all-around. Immediately after the completion of the Olympic Games, she left the big sport, retraining as a coach. In total, during her sports career, Lyudmila Turishcheva received awards of various tournaments and competitions 137 times.
Since 1977, married to an outstanding Soviet athlete Valery Borzov . After the wedding, she moved to Kiev . Daughter Tatiana (born 1978) is a fashion designer living with her husband in the Canadian city of Toronto .
Member of the CPSU since 1978. In 1986 she graduated from the post-graduate course of the State PF Lesgaft twice order-bearing Institute of Physical Culture (Department of Theory and Methodology of Gymnastics). In the same year she defended her thesis "Components of the performing skills of gymnasts and methods for their evaluation" for the degree of candidate of pedagogical sciences.
In 1980β1992 she worked as a member of the women's technical committee of the International Gymnastics Federation , from 1991 to 2000 she was the President of the Gymnastics Federation of Ukraine (1991β2000) [3] .
In 1998, Lyudmila Turishcheva was included in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame , located in the US city of Oklahoma City [4] .
Interesting Facts
In 1975, during the London World Cup competition, Lyudmila Turishcheva did her exercises on uneven bars. When the exercise was nearing its end, she felt that the projectile design was not holding. However, Lyudmila successfully completed the exercise, and right after the break, the construction of the bars behind her back fell apart. Lyudmila Turischeva, demonstrating complete self-control, greeted the judges and the audience and left the platform as if nothing had happened, without even looking back at the broken bars [5] [6] .
Awards
- 1972 - Order of the Red Banner of Labor
- 1976 - Order of Lenin
- 1978 - Olympic Order, Bronze Badge
- Order of Princess Olga III degree (01/16/2009) [7]
Notes
- β 1 2 3 4 Turischeva Lyudmila Ivanovna // Big Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 t.] / Ed. A.M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- β 1 2 EncyclopΓ¦dia Britannica
- β Lyudmila Ivanovna Tourischeva
- β International Gymnastics Hall of Fame Inductees Master List (English)
- β Tourischeva visiting Gordon
- β Speech by Lyudmila Turisheva at the World Cup
- β Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 26/2009 of 16 September 2009 to the Rock βOn the Occurrence of the State of Ukraineβ
Literature
- Tourischeva Lyudmila Ivanovna // Olympic encyclopedia / S. P. Pavlov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1980. - 415 p.
- Golubev V.L. Lyudmila Turischeva. - M .: Physical Culture and Sport, 1977. - 41 p. - (Heroes of the Olympic Games). - 50 000 copies
- Malov V.I. One hundred great Olympic champions. - M .: Veche, 2006. - p. 309-313. - 480 s. - (100 great). - 7000 copies - ISBN 5-9533-1078-1 .
- Samin D.K. The most famous athletes of Russia. - M .: Veche, 2001. - 512 p. - (Most famous). - 10 000 copies - ISBN 5-7838-0833-4 .
- Turischeva L. I. My life is gymnastics. - M .: Soviet Russia, 1986. - 160 p. - 50 000 copies
- SA M. Aslakhanov, Kh. Kh. Khizriev. Physical culture and sports of Chechnya: origins and modernity. - M .: "Feather", 2015. - p. 193-194. - 240 s. - ISBN 978-500086-997-0 .
Links
- Brief information
- Biography on peoples.ru
- Gymnast Lyudmila Turishcheva: biography, personal life, sporting achievements / Sheremetova Irina
Video
- A fragment of a biographical documentary film dedicated to Olga Korbut, with a video recording of the stand's collapse during a performance by Tourisheva, as well as commentaries about her as an athlete . (eng.)
- The documentary " Big gymnastics " (1975), dedicated to Lyudmila Turisheva
- Documentary film β Moments and Years β (1974)