Unofficial title "King Lyzh" was introduced to everyday life after the 1954 World Cup. When the Soviet athlete Vladimir Kuzin won the race for 30 and 50 kilometers, the Swedish king Gustav Vi handed him a cup with the inscription "King Ski from King Sweden." Since then, the skier, during one World Championship or Olympic Games, who won on these distances, is considered the "king of skis". Kuzin was born in 1930 in the village of the lamp near Archangelsky in a large family. Skiing rode from childhood, and the first set made himself under the leadership of the Father. In competitions for the first time won in 1943 - it was the district championship. Heated all rivals, Vladimir won a set of underwear. According to him, for wartime, this prize was just fantastic. After grade 8, school had to be thrown due to father's disease. Vladimir Kuzinvladimir Kuzin. Photo: Cska.Ru / At first, Vladimir headed in his native village with radio climber, then settled the sailor to the icebreaker "Sedov". When I entered the technical school of physical culture, it was necessary to study again - it was time to serve in the army. However, he did not forget about skis here. Becoming the Champion of the Arkhangelsk Military District, Sergeant Kuzin paid attention to the senior coach of the Armed Forces Dmitry Vasilyeva - the strongest skier of the pre-war years. Dmitry Maksimovich translated a promising athlete to Leningrad - to the School of Coaches of the Military Institute of Physical Education. There, Ivan Mokropulov and Vladimir Shaposhnikov took up the preparation of Vladimir. Her result is the Triumphal World Cup of 1954 in Falun and Olympiad Gold in Cortino d'Ampezzo in 1956. The victory of 30 km in Falun was unexpected, because in the rivals of Vladimir there were much more titled athletes, including the Olympic champions from Finland and Norway. After such success, coaches stated Kuzin and on the marathon, although it was originally planned. From the start, Vladimir rushed forward and increasing the advantage over competitors after each kilometer. Many specialists counted such tactics adventurous, but the mistake was in another. Although after 30 km, Kuzin won the Finna Waikko Hakulinen about two minutes, serious problems began closer to the finish. "Moved clothes," Vladimir Semenovich recalled later. - Competitions took place in a decent frost, and at the finish, when the main energy reserves are spent, my light sweater did not save from the cold. On long, protracted descents, the wind was covered with an ice compression, and the abdominal muscles began to reduce the convulsion. From acute pain wanted to scream. In order to though a droplet to learn pain, I beat myself with a fist on the stomach, I sat down, did some exercises on the go - nothing helped. There was one way out - to go, squeezing my teeth and trying not to pay attention to this wild pain. " Waikko Hakulinenveikko Hakulinen. 1960. Photo: mtv.fi Although Hakulinen reduced most of the backlog, he could not catch up the cousin - he lost 8 seconds. Then there was the very ceremony of awarding with the participation of King Gustav VI. In 1956, at the Kuzin Olympics became the fifth at a distance of 30 km, and gold won in the relay race in the company with Fedor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchini and Nikolai Anikyn. He was preparing for the next games, but fell ill, and the coaches on the race did not declare him. Vladimir Kuzinolmpic champions 1956 (from left to right): Fedor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolay Anikin and Vladimir Kuzin. Photo: Gazeta.ru At the end of the sports career, Vladimir Semenovich worked as a coach, including the main team of the country. Engaged in sports science - in 1971 he defended his thesis and became a candidate of biological sciences. He was a professor of the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture. Organized competitions at home and in Moscow. He died in 2007. On his grave it is written: "The world champion. Olympic champion. King skis. " After the cousin "kings skis" became Nikolay Winter, Gunde Svan, Mika Müllully and Petter Northug.
Today, June 28, the four-year-old Olympic champion celebrates its 60-year-old anniversary, the king skis Nikolai Winter. Nikolay Zimitsov won three gold medals at distances 30, 50 km and in the 4x10 km relay at the 1980 Olympic Games in American Lake Placid, and four years later added another gold at a distance of 30 km at the winter games in Sarajevo-84.
In 1978, Nikolai receives the first "baptism" at the World Cup 78 in Lahti (Finland). The first race is 30 km and is the first silver medal. His senior comrades were congratulated with the coach, and coach Alexei Khostov said: "We begin to prepare for the OI-80, which will be held in the US." And that day came. February 14 in Lake-Wellema 57 participants took the start. Nicholas has a 56th starting number. The weather is the perfect -4 ° C. The first 10 km passed. Wintering, quietly comes forward and not losing to the end of the leadership to anyone - 1: 27.02.80. When the athlete finally found out that he became an Olympic champion, the question of journalists, what he is thinking now, answered: "Now it's not a shame to return home."
On February 20, the USSR team as part of V.Orochov (senior), N. Bazhukov, S. Belyaev and our jubilee wins competitors in the relay. Two gold awards ours. February 23. Start 50 km. And again our jubilee is the best - 2: 27.24.60. Three Olympic gold at the guy who is not also 25 years old.
The participation of Nicholas in the Olympic Sarajevo (Yugoslavia) at the XIV Games in 1984 was unnoticed. February 10, 72 The best skiers of the world took the start at a 30-kilometer race. Lot foul language Nikolai. He has the last number - 72. And this, of course, if the athlete is good, a weighty argument in the fight for the victory. Nikolai took advantage of the chance, and again his time was the best - 1: 28.56.3. That was the first and so far the only four-fold Olympic champion in our country in our country is born. In the relay, we are the second for the Swedes (Sweden - 1: 55.06.5 and the USSR - 1: 55.16.5).
Winter - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1980), Honored Coach of the USSR. Awarded the Order of the "Labor Red Banner" (1980), "Friendship of Peoples" (1984), medals for sports achievements. Lives in der. Pervomayskoye Moscow region.
Nikolai Zimatov - "King Ski"
In 1954, at the World Championships in Falun, the Soviet Racer Vladimir Kuzin became the first Soviet world champion, winning the racing by 50 and 30 km. The Swedish king solemnly handed him for this a large silver cup, which was engraved: "King Ski from King Sweden." In addition to the cousin, the "ski kings" in different years were: Matti Ravio (Finland), Nikolay Zimatov (USSR), Gunda Svan (Sweden), Mika Müllululy (Finland), Petter Northug (Norway). It should be noted that in this list of "kings" Nikolai Zimatov is the only one who managed to win these two distances at the Olympic Games, the rest of the "kings" won their victories at the World Championships, which are twice as often.
Based on materials G.A. Smirnova and Wikipedia
Editorial "L.S." From the whole soul congratulates Nikolai Semenovich with the anniversary and wishes him good health !!!
Worldwide, skiing became one of the most popular types of winter sports. There is no more democratic, affordable, so closely associated with nature and so useful for a person sport. The appearance of skis was due to the need for a person to extract food on the hunt in winter and move around the area brought by snow.
: History of skiing The first written documents on the use of sliding skis refer to the VI-VII century. in. n. e. Gothic monk Zhordanes in 552, Greek historians of Jordan in the VI century. , Abel Deacon in 770 describe the use of Lampland and the Finns skis in everyday life and on the hunt. At the end of VIIV. Historian Verfried gave a detailed description of skis and their use of the nodes of the North on the hunt for the beast.
For the first time, interest in skiing as Norwegians were shown in 1733. Hans Emakhuzen issued the first instruction on the ski preparation of troops with a clearly sports bias. In 1767, first competitions were held in all types of skiing (according to modern concepts): biathlon, slalom, high-speed descent and races. The world's first exhibition of various types of ski and ski equipment was opened in Trondheim, in 1862-1863 G. In 1877, the first ski sports society was organized in Norway, soon in Finland opened a sports club. Then the ski clubs began to function in others. countries of Europe, Asia and America
At the end of the XIX century. Skiing competitions began to be held in all countries of the world. Ski specialization in different countries was different. In Norway, a large development race was obtained at rough terrain, jumping and two. In Sweden - Racing at rough terrain. In Finland and Russia - Racing on plain locality. In the US, the development of skiing was promoted by the Scandinavian settlers. In Japan, skiing under the influence of Austrian coaches received the ski direction.
In skiing, new competitive exercises constantly appear, many of which, as they need to gain the official status of the type of skiing, up to inclusion in the Olympic program, they are referred to indicative: driving skier, skiing on deltalans, descent from mountain peaks, mini skiing; Skiing tricks: ski jump with a parachute, ski jump from an airplane without a parachute, descent on the speed of the skier and the race car driver
Olympic champion in ski racing and in a ski federal was the Norwegian skier Tarlif Haug. In ski jumps from the springboard ranked III. Tarlif Haug The first in the world was awarded the title of "King Ski". For 16 -st subsequent games to repeat and all the more surpass the record in the world "King Ski" could not be able to repeat. 10 Royal Cups were awarded for their victories on the ski shop. In the sign of extraordinary sports merit, harsh and laconic Norwegians for the first time in the world erected a Tarlife in his homeland a lifetime monument. The history of the Olympic movement of 60 -70 G. knows only 2 cases, when athletes were honored so honored. Both were heroes of the 1924 Olympics. This is the hero of the White Olympics Haug and the Hero of the Summer Olympics Finn Paavo Nurmi. Haug Tourlefe (1894-1934). Champion Zoya 1924 in races of 18 and 50 km and in a ski bustacle. . Bronze. Prize-winner Zoe 1924 in jumps from a springboard. Silver. The winner of the World Cup 1926 in the two-seat winner of the Kholmenklensky Games 1918 in the race by 50 km, 1919-1921 in the race 40 km and in the two-time, 1923 and 1924 in the race by 50 km.
In the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajev, the Swedish athlete Gunde Svan made a revolution in skiing. For the first time, he applied the skiing step - drove along the ski door as the skater, pushing out of the snow to the inner side of the skis. The Swedish skier showed stunning results: in different disciplines, Gunda received two gold medals, one silver and one bronze. The next Olympic Games, the skate step was mastered by the national teams of all countries. Gunde Svan became the national hero of Sweden and earned a lifelong nickname "King Ski". True, when the skate step began to apply all athletes, Gunde remained without. GU awards NDDA and Nerce Svan Sang Outstanding Swedish Skier, 4-Protect Olympic Champion (1984 - in the race 15 km and 4 × 10 km Racing, 1988 - in the race for 50 km and relay), 2-time winner of the 1984 Olympic Games in the race 50 km (silver) and 30 km (bronze), seventies and winner of the World Cup. The first applied the technique of the skate stroke at competitions.
Total for the period 1910-1995 G. G. was held 76 country championships at distances from 10 to 70 km in men, and from 3 to 50 km in women. Since 1963, the Country Championship program includes supermaraphon distance for men 70 km. In women since 1972, the longest was the distance of 30 km, and from 1994 - 50 km. A record long-length 4-day male race was held in 1938 - 232 km from Yaroslavl to Moscow. Dmitry Vasilyev won - 18 hours41 min 02 sec. The record of the first ski century in the number of victories at the championships of the country installed Galina Kulakova - 39 gold medals. Galina Kulakova sports achievements were rewarded by the International Olympic Committee of the Olympic Silver Order. According to the submission of the Olympic Committee of Russia, the first among our compatriots The Couter National Prize was awarded to Rais Smetanina - leader of the world elite skiers. The participant of the five Olympiads, the eight World Championships Rais Smetanin installed another unique record of sports longevity - on the 5th Olympiad, the gold medal was crowned in 40 years. Smetanin Raisa Petrovna
Raisa Petrovna Smetanin (born in 1952) five-time Olympic champion in skiing: in 1976 he won 10 kilometers in the race and 4 x 5 kilometers relay, in 1980 he first reviewed 5 kilometers, in 1988 and 1992 received a gold medal As part of the relay 4 x 5 kilometers. Silver medalist Olympiad: 1976 - 5 kilometers, 1980 - relay 4 x 5 kilometers, 1984 - 10 and 20 kilometers, 1988 - 10 kilometers. Bronze medalist of the Olympics-88 at a distance of 20 kilometers. World champion 1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1991. Won more than twenty gold medals at the USSR Championships (1974, 1976 -1977, 1983 -1986, 1989, 1991) at various distances. In 1993, the Smetanin's headquarters received a prize "FairPlei" at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris for a decent example of a sports career. And indeed, few people managed to maintain a magnificent physical shape for so many years and seek high results. She participated in five olympics and returned from all with medals!
The XV Winter Olympiad of 1988 in Calgary (USA) became the star hour for Alexei Prosecutor. The most valuable reward is the golden medal of the Olympic Games in Calgary, which the prosecutors won in the race for 30 km. In the same place, in Calgary, the prosecutors won the silver medal in the relay. At this Olympiad, Alexey has changed roles with his friend Vladimir Smirnov. Already Vladimir received "Silver" after Alexey. When Alexey was asked by the ubiquitous journalists on the prepancer: "And if Volodya defeated?" - Prosecutors answered: "I would be very happy for him. After all, we are friends." After a year, Smirnov took the revenge from Prosecutor's revenge on the same distance in the World Championships in Finland, the prosecutors then received "bronze". Both were satisfied and began to prepare together for the Olympics 92. And then together painfully worried mutual failure. At the World Cup in 1997, Alexey won a complete set of awards consisting of three types of precious metals. It happened in the Norwegian Trondheim, where he was only sixth on the junior world championship. At the Olympic Games of 1988, prosecutors were a banquenas of the USSR national team, and at the opening of the 2002 Olympiad in Salt Lake City, he carried the Russian national team. Prosecutors participated in five olympiads, but the highest achievements achieved in the first.
Records are not recorded in ski racing. This is done for quite understandable reasons. Each competition is similar to another length of the distance. And her profile is the number of rates and descents, the conditions in which the race passes (thaw or frost) - every time new. Since the conditions of competition are different, it means that the records cannot be recorded.
For the same reason, it is difficult to compare the forces of athletes if they performed in various competitions.
Our best riders until 1954 were very rarely met with foreign skiers, and determine who was stronger, it was, of course, difficult. We only knew that at the World Championships and Olympic Games, the palm of the championship was usually held the Scandinavian athletes - Finns, Norwegians and Swedes.
Finally, it was decided that in the 1954 World Championship, which should be held in the Swedish city of Falun, our athletes will take part.
They were very carefully prepared for first performances at such major international competitions. Dreamed of victories, but knew - they are not easily given. And there were almost no experience of the meeting with foreigners, and it was not necessary to perform at home, in a familiar setting, on familiar tracks, and in the distant city.
Nevertheless, the first pancake did not come out. Young Soviet Racer Vladimir Kuzin won two gold medals champion. Our skiers love Kozyrev, Valentina Tsarev and Margarita Maslennikov won there a ski relay. Love Kozyreva became the champion of the world among women in the race by 10 kilometers.
About these heroes of the World Cup I want to tell you.
Volodya Kuzin grew up in the village of the Arkhangelsk region lamp. Places here are harsh. Winter is long, cold. Parts of blizzards. And so entered the village of Snow, nor pass, nor pass.
In the spring, the river was poured, and drove through the streets it was necessary on the boat. Like all the kids, Volodya was fond of skis.
First ski! He did not forget them when he became famous champion when he spoke on skiing the best brands. He did not forget these skis because she made them with her own hands under the leadership of the Father. They brought him the first joy of victory at competitions with her classmates. And although they were not very beautiful (where they were before purchased!), Vladimir Kuzin recalls the first skis with great love. After all, they made friends with skiing.
Hellegal was the path of Volodya to the medals of the champion. He graduated from seven classes and went to work. His hands were familiar to both the messengers of a heavy fishing boat, and to a carpentry ax. And when in his native collective farm began to set the brigade of the Zverbets on the icebreaker "Sedov", Volodya, together with the exhaust poms, went to the north to extract the beast ...
With difficulty, the ocean ice shell is fulfilled, promoted "Sedov". But from the ship noticed dark dots on the distant ice field. Seals! Hunters come from the ship. Goes on ice and Volodya. He also would like to take part in a fascinating hunt, but his work is different. He squeezed to the ship of the carcass of the murdered beasts, and after all, one of them weighed to 100 kilograms. Pelo needed to possess great physical strength, huge endurance.
Difficult work and stern polar climate hardened Volodya. And this hardening has already affected when Kuzina called on the Soviet Army. Here is a skiing in a special honor. Volodya with his outstanding force and endurance soon became one of the strongest skiers of the Soviet Army. Here he began to train in a multiple champion of the country skiing Dmitry Maximovich Vasilyeva.
Now Volodya learned that success in ski racing is brought not only power and endurance. The coach taught him to walk quickly, but economically. He introduced him to the art of slip, taught without braking to turn on steep slopes, showed how to properly use various varieties of ski ointment. Now and in the summer of Volodya was engaged in sports. Athletics, crosses in the forest, playing basketball made it more agile, movable.
Soon, Kuzina was enrolled in the national team of the country skiing, and he became one of the best in it. But Vladimir achieved the greatest success in 1954, when, as already mentioned, the Soviet skiers first performed at the world championship.
From many countries, the best athletes came to Falun.
The title of world champions was played in men at three distances.
Already in the first race by 30 kilometers unexpectedly, a young Soviet skier Vladimir Kuzin won the victory. Scandinavian riders, among whom were Olympic champions Finn Waikko Hacquinien and Norwegian Helgayr Brenden, lost to a simple Soviet guy. At first they decided that the cousin was just lucky. Moreover, in the next race by 15 kilometers, Vladimir spoke less successfully.
And now the last competition is the race for the longest distance - 50 kilometers. Cousin did not prepare her. But the coaches decided: let him go. Once he won the race by 30 kilometers, should go well and 50.
And the race began.
Before the skiers, a 50-kilometer trail with steep shutters and protracted lifts. Snake skis rushed between trees, demanding emergency attention from athletes. War down for a second - you will fall, otherwise you will break the flame. This difficult was the race for all skiers, but Vladimir Kuzina had to be especially difficult.
Competition participants started with an interval of 30 seconds. The announcer, who reported to the audience about the course of the distance at the distance, announced that Vladimir Kuzin was faster all. Indeed, after 30 kilometers of Volodya won from the most dangerous opponent - Finna Waikko Hakkulinien - more than a minute. Victory seemed very close. But here it happened that the coaches and the cousin himself could not predict. As usual, Volodya for the race put on a thin woolen sweater. This was quite enough - because in motion the athlete is not cold. Did not feel the cold cousin and at the beginning of the race. But by the end, when the sweater is a wet from sweat, and the oncoming wind on long descents seemed to pierced the tired body, the trouble happened. The muscles of the abdomen from the cold reduced the convulsion, and now the slightest movement caused unbearable pain. What only did the cousin did to get rid of her. On the descent, he massaged his chest and stomach with his hands, beat his fists on them, but the pain did not pass.
And yet the cousin was walking.
True, slower than from the start, but still walked.
Meanwhile, Waikko Hakkulinien, learning that the Soviet skier reduced the speed, took the spirit. He always went well to the end of the distance, and now, feeling that the victory is close, flew to it as if on the wings. So he won half a minute, a minute. It seemed nothing to stop him. But the cousin did not give up. Forceing pain, he ran to the finish. Not in vain, he worked on Sedov in the Polar Stuzh. There was also hard, but Volodya got used to overcome difficulties.
This habit helped him and in the race.
He rested to the finish.
And when the judges counted the time, it turned out that this time Vladimir Kuzin passed the distance faster than everyone. So he won the second gold medal of the world champion. Two distances from three won Vladimir Kuzin in Falun, and Swedish journalists dubbed him "King Ski."
At the end of the ski season in the city of Mezeni Arkhangelsk region, a traditional race was held on the prize champion of the Olympic Games in the 4x10 km of Vladimir Kuzina. The culprit of the celebration stated the correspondent of "Soviet Sports" that the difficulties that he overcame made it the most happy person.
In the 9th grade stopped playing sports
In our very remote places, and I was born in the northeast of the Arkhangelsk region, there was no sport, nor children's sports schools, but there were always very snowy and long winter, and therefore skiing were almost the only means of movement. As entertainment competitions among residents of the village were held regularly. And at these competitions, I won the winner with enviable constancy, winning even in adults.
- What development received local championship?
- A real at that time, sports life was boiling 18 kilometers from our village in the district center of Mezeni. There were regular competitions regularly. Sports paid attention even to war, despite the most difficult living conditions. So in 1943, we, kids 12-13 years old, skiing, as there were more and nothing, the first time they went to compete. Then I won the longest distance at a time at 3 kilometers. This first victory, albeit a district scale, and the first award - a set of underwear was very important to me.
I won the next serious victory in the eighth grade at the district championship among senior schoolchildren and adults at a distance of ten kilometers. Only twenty-eight people participated in the competition. I started the last, and finished first. This victory, no matter how they said, said that I was a promising skier. So it was probably, but it was, but in the ninth grade I had to leave the school and go to work. We had a big family in which I was older, and it was necessary to help parents.
Champion in boots
First, on the summer vacation, I worked as a shepherise in the collective farm. Then in the fishing collective farm caught fish in the river Mezheny and on the Peninsula Kanin, and then there was a seal on the icebreaker "Sedov". He graduated from special short-term courses on electrical engineering in Arkhangelsk and became the head of the radio jelly, the secretary of the Komsomol organization. In general, I did not do sports for three years.
And in 1950 a call rang from the Area: "We must go to Arkhangelsk to participate in the championship area in ski racing." Problem. Who will remain on the radio. The electricity was then in the area, the batteries worked from the wind, and besides me, no one ends the courses and did not know how to handle them. But since the competitions in those times were passing quickly and I had to return soon, the manual instructed a sufficiently dangerous battery charging procedure to explain to the local shoeforeer. I left the championship of the region with a restless soul, because then there was work in the first place for me.
You could only get to Arkhangelsk by the plane, and because of the storm on the first day of the competition we were late. We arrived, and we are told that tomorrow they run eighteen kilometers. Not only did I first hit the major competition that I knew nothing about my rivals, so I had never run such a distance.
I also did not know that no one speaks in the boots. And I have improved everything, I came up with the straps, and not the rope, I wanted to look more visible. But my school friend who studied in Arkhangelsk in a technical school and who, having learned that I came to perform, I came to cheat for me, said that special boots with fasteners were invented. He was given to the student and skiing, and shoes, and he suggested that they compete on them. Of course, I agreed. So, the day before the start, I first saw metal fasteners.
The shoes were not enough, but the desire to flee was so great that I did not think about eighteen fertile frost, neither about the wind, or about an unfamiliar distance. Something squeezed my legs in shoes.
I started the race very quickly. It was fantastic. If you fall, the ski does not go anywhere - you get up and run on. In the boots, it is not so, there it should be born there again. And now fifteen kilometers behind. My gap is more than three minutes. True, somewhere in the eighth kilometer, I realized that I do not feel the feet. I'm going to endure, but for two kilometers to the finish, I'm incredibly tired and, not believe it, culled. Yes, so that only Ski socks see, and then - no. Almost hungry faint. Closer to the finish line seemed our mesen girls, also skiers. I scream them: "Girls, give a piece of bread." Has stopped. Competitions go, and I stand it. Finished the third.
Previously, there was no, as now, the day of rest between the starts. The next day the race is thirty kilometers, and I have frozen fingers. In shoes no longer climb, and the boots are not even suitable for their size. I found three sizes more, wrapped the fingers more rags and seems to be ready. The weather spoiled, Burent began. Competitions decided not to spend on the same ski that yesterday, but on the river Kuznechikha. A completely straight track. No raises and descents. Right at the start, an elderly man is suitable for me and says: "I saw you came yesterday. Today I will run ahead you. When you catch up - do not do it right away. Come back and see how you need to run right. " It was not clear to me that it means "to run right." I did not have a special school, nor a coach. I knew nothing about the technique. It was clear that it was necessary to run forward, I kind of running. Competitions began. I caught up with him. I'm going, I look, it seems to do everything right, and then I took note that he was repelled by a ski stick. For me, it was a kind of discovery that a stick can not only hold myself, but also repel.
That race, despite the boots and frostbitten legs, I won with a two-minute advantage. I immediately say: "You, cousin, go to Ufa to the championship of the republic, to defend the honor of the Arkhangelsk region." I say: "I can not. I have a radio jelly there. I am working". - "Everyone work, you do not understand?" "I understand," I say, there is no inventory. " - "Inventory we give you. Best".
From rural skiers - to the military
Those competitions in Ufa were carried out among rural skiers. I won them. Then he won the championship of the Union racing for thirty kilometers. He performed, however, no longer for the area, but for the Russian Republic. Then again a break. In the fall of the fiftieth year, he decided to enter the nautical school, but since there the entrance exams were already over, went to file documents into physical scientific school. I did not have time to start study, as a formidable agenda comes from the military registration and enlistment office. Leaving mezzani, I did not starred in the military registration and enlistment office, and it turns out, I already wanted almost like a deserter. My service began. In 1952, the Championship of the country's armed forces was held among military districts. Me from the Military District - to Sverdlovsk. There I spoke well, and I was sent to represent the Armed Forces for the Union Championship. There, of course, all the strongest performed, all the champions. Such responsibility was unusual for me, because I am a newcomer at the stadium, not yet running back, but on that championship of the USSR I fulfilled the regulatory master of sports. To do this, it was necessary to be in a dozen strongest. I was. It was also a certain stage in life. In the late 1952, he became the champion of the RSFSR at distances eighteen and thirty kilometers.
- And how did you get into the national team?
- In 1953, speaking for the armed forces, won the Union Championship, bypassing all the strongest at eighteen farmel distances. Once the champion means already in the national team.
King skis
In 1954 in Falun, in Sweden, the World Championship was held. The first race was spent at a distance of thirty kilometers. Through three days before the start of the competition, we were shown the highway, which, in our opinion, was very difficult, too much was on the descents of sharp turns. To pass them, it was necessary to have ski skills. And in my own country we competed on lighter routes.
The race began not bad. The first ten kilometers I walked the second. Leadership captured Swedish skier Zigster Ernberg. So, I walked behind him and understood that while I control the situation, which is more or less good turns, as well as the most difficult of them in front. When I approached him, I saw the Yugoslav skier did not fit into the turn and, having fallen, hit the huge boulder on the side of the sidelines. The stone, of course, was covered with something, but the poor fellowship was worn onto stretchers. I fled at the limit, realizing that only here it could seriously tear off the Swede prepared for such conditions, but this turn was very successful. The result was the best - first place in the race by thirty kilometers.
But the most important then there was a race at fifty kilometers, because to the one who made a double and fifty kilometers, the title and the Cup "King Ski" are assigned.
In the evening, I asked Vitu Baranova to make a skis to her carefully and, so as not to think about tomorrow's race, went to the dance.
In the morning I knew for sure that I was going for the cup. Guys, I constantly told me about him and convinced that half of the cup was already mine, which seemed to just calmly get to the finish to my strength. I started very quickly. The first ten kilometers passed even faster than in the relay race. Later the Swedes, this tempo was called adventuristic. But then there was an unexpected ...
Podlaka.
Previously, to bring the skier in order to finish, it was enough to throw on the ski powder. Then the snow shovel - and the next skier goes calmly. Defectured everything is in order, and you run - one ski slides, and the other is not. This dental powder sticks into the ointment as sand.
At first I thought that this bump got, but it could not stick and strangle it. I run somehow: where sideways, where on one skid, where I put the rib on the edge. Need to do something. Large mugs are large, metal - food and through a step skiing about the handle wipe. I had a gap for about three minutes, I knew it and it seemed to afford it to run. But it didn't get better. Then he thought to put the left ski on the edge and the right to wipe it. So I'm doing this business and do, and you need to run! Okay, I think, one leg will be jerking, and the other for sliding.
For a few kilometers to the finish line, my abdominal muscles begin to reduce. I also never had such sensations. He knew, of course, that if there is a needle-pin, you need to pierce the muscle and everything, but there is nothing. Pin with a ski stick thick with a finger, do not specifically pierce. It became terrible: the stomach is okay, and suddenly will go to the legs, how to run something? I adapted again, after a step to beat myself with a ski stick in the stomach. An unpleasant later picture. I finished all in bruises and scratches. From a three-minute advantage there were insignificant eight seconds, but the title and the Cup "King Ski", I still deserve. On the same day, the telegram came to assign me the title of Honored Master of Sports.
Olympiad will not?
1955 year. Preparation began for the first for us of the 1956 Olympiad. In January, international competitions with the participation of the strongest Scandinavian skiers were held at the Dynamo base of the dynamo base. There we won the 4x10 kilometers relay, and in the personal competition I won the race for fifteen kilometers. The season began normally. Then we went to Italy. There, in Cortina-D "Ampezzo, I won the race for thirty kilometers. The following competitions were held in Lahti, in Finland. When watching a distance, I relaxed on one of the descents and fell. The snow was very deep and I failed. I happened In the area of \u200b\u200bthe back. So my and doolympic and after the problem began. I could not perform here, but I went to the following competitions in Norway with the team, and since it didn't become better, I began to be treated there. Electroplating, massage, injections - Nothing helped. They were treated until the fall - everything is not, but after six months of the Olympiad. There were only radical measures: the mud care, which, as it turned out, actually acts on the heart. The national team is already on the southern Urals at the fees, and I'm treated in Moscow. To The Olympiad remains three months. I still do not get better. But I spil all myself. I spent the intense independent running workouts. And after one of these training at night I have a suddenly strongest heartache.
When the procedures are over, I went to Zlatoust, where the team fees were taken at this time. Rose on skis - as a disabled. Doctors after consultations decided before each training or competitions to make me an injection - ascorce with glucose to help your heart. Nina Grigorievna, a team of the national team, sometimes got into a vein, sometimes no. Because of this, a hand swollen.
Nevertheless includes me in the team, and I am going to the Olympics in Cortina-D "Ampezzo. The first day is the race for thirty kilometers. At the finish, I'm the fifth. Fifteen kilometers - I try to do anything, but I did not calculate. Ten kilometers It was among the leaders, and then, when the descent began, I realized that the skis would slide worse than the rivals. Finished in the top ten.
In the relay, I was entrusted with the latest, fourth, stage. Knowing my condition, it was possible to put me on the second, easier that, but I was at the time more titled and, apparently, resistant, namely, this quality and need to finish.
Fedya Terentyev starts first. Immediately after the starting site was a narrow bridge. The organizers clearly did not provide and did not expand it. And at the bottom of the gorge, and teams about thirty. Fedya turned out to be squeezed at the railing of the bridge (he then said that it was good that they did not encounter at all). He left the bridge, not the leader. But he was the most experienced among us, calmed down and overtook everyone. Changing Finn Curura and easily went around him. Redone the baton with almost a two-minute gap. The second stage flew Pasha Kolchin. It is small, light. For the middle mountain, this is good. Pasha transmits his stage with increasing separation. The third of the Kolya Anikin starts. His task was not to be lost the resulting advantage, and he coped with her, although the interval between him and Finnish Vichitan decreased almost for almost a minute. When I took the start, I was told: "Just do not fall on the descent." "Why should I fall?", I thought. And did not fall. I finished normally. On that day, we were handed over in our country golden Olympic medals in male ski racing. Plus still medals of world champions. And in 1957, closer to the summer, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, I and the love of Kozyreva were presented to the Higher Government Award - the Order of Lenin.
- With friends on the national team see?
- Rarely. Pasha Kolchin lives in Estonia, Kolya Anikin - in the States, and Fedya Terentyev, unfortunately, was dead for a long time. But we are definitely young. We not only performed well, we lived very friendly, and I have the warmest memories about them. And in general, I am satisfied with life.
Our certificate
Kuzin Vladimir Semenovich
Born on July 15, 1930 in the village of Lampow, the Arkhangelsk region. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of the USSR, world champion in distances 30 km and 50 km (1954, Falun, Sweden), winner of the title and Cup "King Ski", Champion of the Olympic Games in the 4x10 km relay (1956, Cortina -d "Ampezzo, Italy). Awarded the honorary sign of the National Olympic Committee" For Merit in the Development of Olympic Movement in Russia ", Kavaler of the Order of Lenin, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Professor RGAFK, Colonel of Reserve.
VERBATIM
It was not clear to me that it means "to run right." I did not have a special school, nor a coach. I knew nothing about the technique. It was clear that it was necessary to run forward, I kind of running.
I adapted again, after a step to beat myself with a ski stick in the stomach. An unpleasant later picture. I finished all in bruises and scratches. From a three-minute advantage there were insignificant eight seconds, but the title and the Cup "King Ski", I still deserve.
Doctors after consultations decided before each training or competitions to make me an injection - ascorce with glucose to help your heart. Nina Grigorievna, a team of the national team, sometimes got into a vein, sometimes no. Because of this, a hand swollen.
By the way about doping
- In our team, at the time did not know anything about doping. But an interesting case happened to me in Lahti. There is a race, I really want to drink, but the thermos crashed. I reserved the coaches of Finns. But when I got out of the thermos proposed to me, I realized that there was something brandy in him. Finish kilometers from our rivals have always been incredibly fast. It was also forced me to think about what all this happens under the influence of something, here my opinion was strengthened. Anabolics and chemicals appeared much later when I have already finished performing. I will not argue unfounded, but I know that many use them. So checking for doping is, maybe not such an unnecessary procedure, because you need to win on your resources. Just checking athletes needed with the mind, so as not to interfere with them to compete.
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