Khorkina Svetlana Wikipedia Biography

Born on January 19 in Belgorod. Russian sports gymnast, two-time Olympic champion, 9-time world champion, multiple champion of Europe. Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation Deputy of the State Duma of the V convocation. Svetlana Khorkina was born on January 19 in Belgorod. By nationality - Mordovka. Father worked as a builder. Mother worked as a nurse in a kindergarten.

Parents come from Mordovia.

Sister - Julia Vasilievna Khorkina. The family lived modestly, Svetlana was not particularly spoiled, but she had everything necessary. As she herself wrote in her autobiographical book, the family knew the price of money and understood how difficult they were earned. I was especially attacked by the bugs of our meter room was divided by a chiffonier into two parts: in one there were a large parental bed and my chair -bed, and in the other a tiny dining table.

And on this table, dad managed to build a home sports corner: he hung a trapezoid with a rope to the ceiling so that I could climb on it like a monkey, to develop-tumble so that I just did not do it! I climbed the rope on the trapezoid, from there to the cabinet, jumped onto the bed from the closet. The restless was just a plague! A neighbor advised to sign up for a sports gymnastics section - to curb the girl’s energy.

And the next day, mother took her to the Spartak Sports Palace. She was only four years old. So from a year she began to engage in sports gymnastics. She trained under the leadership of Boris Pilkin. I quickly established itself not only as a capable gymnast, but also as a hardworking, purposeful, ready for self -sacrifice for the sake of a high result. And success did not make themselves wait long.

Since the year of Khorkina, a member of the Russian team in sports gymnastics. The first serious success came to her in the year - she won two silver medals at the World Cup in Brisben - in supporting and on bars. At the European Championship in the same year, she won silver in the all -around after Dina Kochetkova and gold on different high bars. Khorkina also participated in goodwill games and the world championship of this year.

The first victory in the all -around came to her in the year at the European Cup, where she also won the medal in the jump, bars and in free exercises. She was the main contender for gold in the all -around at the World Cup in the same year. Khorkina performed a double turn in free exercises instead of triple. This led to a low assessment of the program, but impeccable performance of exercises on a log and jumping and star performance on the bars helped her take second place behind the Ukrainian Lilia Podkopaeva.

In the finale of the exercises on the bars of Khorkina, she won a gold medal with an incredible assessment of 9.90, ahead of Mo Huiylan from China. In the year, Svetlana and the Russian team won silver at the European Championship, and also took bronze in a support jump. The fall from the log in the all -around prevented her from fighting for the medal, she took only sixth place.

Svetlana was considered a favorite at the Olympics in Atlanta. But the Olympic Games became disappointment for both Svetlana and for the Russian team. In the all -around, having perfectly performed free and exercises on a log, as well as a jump, Svetlana does not cope with the nerves and falls from her favorite shell - Brusyev, ending the exercises only in 15th place.

But she was able to win in individual competitions on the bars. Over the next 4 years, her performances were unstable. In the year, at the World Cup in Lausanne, changes in the assessment system were to negatively affect Svetlana, but she won her first title of absolute world champion after a star performance in the bars, having received the highest assessment. She pushed the Olympic champion Simon Amanar to second place, repeating the script of the European Championship of the year.

Over the next two years after the victory at the World Cup, she introduced new complex elements on all shells, especially on high -high beams and logs. Khorkina continued to dominate the bars and received the nickname "Queen of Brusiev." In the year, Khorkina won the all -around at the European Championship. The World Cup, she began in the status of a favorite in the all -around, but after a catastrophic performance on a log, she was left without a medal.

Nevertheless, she continued the winning series on the bars, winning the title of the world champion for the fourth time in a row. At the Olympic Games of the year in Sydney, she came in the status of a favorite in the all -around. In the team championship, Khorkin performed a very difficult jump that no one had seen before, later he was called Khorkin II. She also showed good results in free exercises and bars, having qualified in the final.

Her assessment on the log also allowed her to reach the final, but Russia had stronger gymnasts on the Lobazyuk and Produnov log, and only two athletes can be in the final by the rules from one country in the final. In the final, Khorkina fell from her favorite bars. The Russian team completed the performances in second place - after the Romanian national team.When the all -around began, it turned out that the jump for jumping is set 5 centimeters lower than necessary.

A number of gymnasts made uncharacteristic mistakes because of this when performing their jumps. Khorkina complained about this to the judges, but her words were ignored. Leading after the first jump, she fell on the second due to the wrong height of the horse. Next, Khorkin tore off the performances on the bars. Finally, having discovered their mistake, the judges allow the victims to repeat their jumps, but it was already impossible to fix the grades on other shells.

Khorkina refused to repeat the jump, took 10th place and left the platform in tears. Svetlana managed to maintain the title of Olympic champion on the bars. At the World Cup, she won the title of absolute champion, as well as gold in jump and bars. With 5 titles of the world champion and 2 titles of the Olympic champion, Khorkin became the most titled gymnast in one shell.

In the year, Svetlana at the World Championship in Anaheim became the absolute champion for the third time, which was not a single woman before that. In the year, Khorkina was again the favorite of the Olympics. But she entered the finals only in the all -around and on the bars. In team competitions, her confident performances helped Russia win bronze. I won a silver medal in the all -around.

At a press conference, after the speech, Khorkin said that the victory was given to the American before the start of the competition, essentially accusing the judges of addiction. In the fall of the year, she completed her sports career. Svetlana Khorkina is the author of many gymnastic elements: - Rondat on the bridge - flask with turning on a horse - a somersault bent a supporting jump back; - Rondate on the bridge - flask with turning on a horse - a somersault forward in a group with a turn to a support jump; - from the rack on the hands on the lower poles, the turnover back without touching the breakdown and turning on the upper pole of the bars with a flight; - analogue of Markelov’s flight of the legs apart on the male crossbar of the bars; - Stalder's legs apart with a turn to the mixed grip of the bars.

In addition to her, only the American athlete Emmy Chow was able to repeat this element; - From the position standing across, flask from one leg with a turn to the standing position; - The jump in a swing one somersault ago with a turn on a log. Vice President of the Russian sports gymnastics Federation. There was a leading television project "Dom-1" on the TNT channel.

Since July 26 - a member of the Patriarchal Council for Culture, the Russian Orthodox Church. Svetlana Khorkina in the State Duma has a military rank of stock lieutenant colonel. By order of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, S. critically spoke about the investigation of WADA regarding doping in Russian sports. Khorkina believes that the decision to disqualify the All -Russian Athletics Federation was unfair.

She said about her experience with doping controls: “The appearance before my eyes of a doping officer always acted on me, just like a red rag on a bull! Doping test is always stress because you are forced to stand in front of an outsider of a completely naked woman and take tests with it. After all, in everyday life, the procedure for visiting the toilet is quite intimate-not there crowds not there as crowds Walking.

And here there is a person and he looks at you purposefully, I remember, we were at the gathering in Adelaide, preparing for the Olympics in Sydney I open: on the threshold of a doping officer. She signed in her report, and she stuck to me like a tail, because immediately to take the analysis I just had nothing to go for a massage, she sat nearby and watched everything that was happening.

Then there was a procedure in the hydraulic, and she also sat nearby. That evening I managed to sit with the girls in the lobby of the TV - she was sitting next to us all the time and recorded everything that I did that evening in the end I was tired of this tail, I called her to my room and took out a long -haired jar of non -alcoholic beer from the tan. She suggested that she compose a company for me.

She recorded my jar in her protocol, I drank it and finally called the necessary impulse for the test. "It contains athletes who completed her career, as well as the current Olympic champions. Khorkin in this show performed a program of free exercises. In the fall of the year, Svetlana Khorkina’s book was published by the name" The Magic of Victories. " It says not only about the sports part of the career of Khorkina, but also quite frankly tells about her personal life.

Svetlana Khorkina Growth Svetlana Khorkina: centimeters. The personal life of Svetlana Khorkina: was in a relationship with Kirill Shubsky, a businessman and a sports functionary.