Irina Rodnina is a Soviet figure skater, which for achievements in sports is home to all over the world. Tenfold world champion, three-time olympic champion And the eleventh-time European champion in pair skating joined the story as not a single sportswoman's tournament, for which she was brought to the Guinness Book of Records. At the end of the sports career began political activities.
Childhood and youth
Irina was born on September 12, 1949 in Moscow in the family of personnel military and physician. The girl's father was from the Vologda region, mother, by the nationality of the Jewish, from Kharkov. Parents brought up two children - the figure skater has an older sister of Valentine, which by education is a mathematician engineer.
Irina Rodnina in Youth / Federal Archive of Germany
In childhood, the athlete was weak on health. After the pneumonia got 11 times, the parents decided that the daughter should be saved, and decided to take it to a skating rink to using exercise Naturally strengthen the immunity of the child.
This decision of the parents has become a fateful for the girl. After the Rodnina first came out on the rink, which happened in 1954, her biography is inextricably linked with sports. At first, she was given to the school of figure skating, then to the section of Figurists CSKA, then the girl graduated sport school CSKA, and in 1974 he became the graduate of the State Central Institute of Physical Education.
Figure skating
The sports career of a miniature Irina Rodnina (her growth was 152 cm, the weight - 57 kg) started in 1963, when she took the 3rd prize in all-union youthful competitions. Then its coaches were Czechi Milan and Sonya Valun, and Oleg Vlasov's partner. After the first victory, the future Olympic champion became the pupil of Stanislav Zhuk. Together with the new coach, the Rodnina has changed the figure skating partner, Alexey Ulannov became.
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Irina Rodnina and Alexey Ulannov
Over the next 10 years, Irina Rodnina and Alexey Ulanov won gold medals at the European Championships and the Olympiad, becoming with every victory leaders in the international sports arena.
In 1972, the injury of Irina Rodnina separates it with a partner in figure skating. After a 3-month break in the sports partner of athletes, Alexander Zaitsev becomes. Together they became the legends of figure skating and reached brilliant results on the rink, which could not be achieved by any modern figure skaters.
In the mid-70s, the duet passed under the leadership young coach that made focus on the art component of each room. New ideas allowed the pair to fully reveal their potential and take two more olympic gold - In Innsbruck in 1976 and Lake Placide in the 1980s.
In 1981, the figure skater moved to a big professional sport And became a well-deserved coach in figure skating. From 1990 to 2002 lived in the US and led coaching activity. Its best coaching result on international arena It is considered to be a victory at the World Championships of the pair of Rada Kovarzhikova and Rene Novotny from the Czech Republic.
Politics
Since 2003, Irina Rodnina has tried to break through into the Russian political arena, but twice in the election of deputies to the State Duma failed. In 2007, she still managed to become a deputy from the United Russia party from the Omsk region and take the post of deputy chairman of the Education Committee in parliament.
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Politician Irina Rodnina
In 2011, she again was re-elected by the State Duma deputy and became part of the Committee on Women, Family and Children. At the same time in " United Russia"The figure skater is headed by several internal projects devoted to the development of Russian sports.
Rodnina entered the Council on physical culture and sport under the President of the Russian Federation. She became a member of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi. Former figure skater and glorious hockey coach Vladislav Tretyak lit the Olympic Fire.
Personal life
The personal life of Irina Rodnina is not as successful as her brilliant sports career. The athlete was married twice, but figure skating was a barrier and in the first and in the second marriage.
On September 12, congratulations on his birthday took the famous figure skater, three-time Olympic champion, a tenfold world champion, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Irina Rodnin.
Her memoirs "tear champion", published this year, became a real "bomb." The athlete frankly told about his personal life, about intrigues in figure skating and difficult relationships with coaches. We bring to your attention the most intriguing fragments from the book.
Already in the first lines of their memoirs, Rodnin admits that he will not spare anyone:
"I wrote an honest book, so she is tough. The one who knows me is not surprised. I never loved anyone for my eyes and always spoke straight. I have such a thing, I will not ".
The future champion remembers that love for sports activities She cherished her father and her sister. But she did not love charging in the morning since childhood:
"When the dad was near, the morning began with charging at the open window ... since then morning exercises I can't stand: on this guy music in the morning, on these open vents, I have a terrible allergy since childhood ... "
Father athletes, personnel military, believed that classes figure skating For daughter - hobby. And I waited a long time when Ira truly decide on the profession:
"I believe that in great sport got quite randomly. I was led to the skating rink to strengthen health, and then went and went ... Sports talents were originally manifested. It was important to parents that the daughter in fact and the child's health seems to be corrected. And then, in the same year, when we first won the world championship, Dad told a significant phrase: "Daughter, what will we do next?" I: "What is the sense?" Dad: "We must choose a serious profession. You won - wonderful. This is a little good, but life does not stop this. " Every year my dad asked me: "I hope this is your last season?" He has already retired and waited when I finish doing nonsense and take the mind. Dad knew one thing: his girls should have a good education and a good profession. But these trawls, it is figure skating, it is up to a certain point ... "
Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev 1977:
Rodinina more than once had to face rigid rivalry not only on ice, but also for the "scenes" of sports competitions:
"Before an arbitrary program, a hitch arose. Our dresses were fastened with lightning, and someone from the girls threads were cut along the lightning along with a razor. When zipper is fastened, the cut is not immediately visible. But if you strain your back - zipper diverges. I remember that I sewed a zipper back. When I beetle (Stanislav Zhuk - coach Rodnina, - approx. The author) told what happened, he in response told the stories that took place with the previous national teams. The beetle recalled that earlier the championships took place at open skating rinks, and someone's skates put on the battery. The horse was heated, and when the "enemy" came out to roll "School", then Konk literally fell into ice. Usually a long track was led to the rink. To get to the ice, I had to go long, the locker was far away. Everyone passed this way on the teeth, so as not to open the blades ... "Hochmachi" sprinkled with sand or dumped with buttons. These were entertainment. It was considered a joke ... " 
Irina Rodnina with warmth recalls his first partner in pair figure skating and friend of youth Aleksae Ulanne:
"I was terribly interested in Lesha, for me he became the first of the world of people related to art. For several years, he dragged me in all metropolitan halls ... We together viewed all the best that then went to the Bolshoi Theater, the entire program of the Moiseyev ensemble. Ulanov knew all the elderly women who stood on control. We did not have money for a real ticket, and tickets, suppose, in the big, in nature seems to have no existence. But for the ruble we passed on the steps of the gallery. Leshka formed me great, thanks to him, I had a completely different idea of \u200b\u200bMoscow ... Despite the fact that we were held a lot of time with a lot of time, we didn't have a romantic relationship. What would the people speak ... "
As for any Soviet girl, a trip abroad for the young figure skater Rodnina has become not only a discovery, but also shock:
"At the sixty-eighth year, I flew on the plane for the first time. The first time on the plane! And immediately abroad! I naturally looked four eyes, so I wanted to see this abroad in all details. We are "their lives" only in films seen! We arrived in a small town Westeros in Sweden immediately after the new year ... I went through the streets of the town with a clear feeling that I got into a fairy tale ...
... when I first went into the locker room, I realized that I could not change clothes in it. I can not, because we did not have this linen. And for girls it is very important! And then, to the surprise of the entire foreign public, I accept the only right decision: I start to shoot everything together and immediately - trousers, tights, panties, because everyone individually cannot be removed. And then I already put on the dress. Then I sleeved right in the room to go to the rink in the dress. This unresolved complexity lasted until we were given daily. We, girls, of course, ran to the store. First - we bought lingerie, the second - tights. Otherwise it would be nothing. We, of course, issued tights. One pair, as members of the Soviet Union national team.
Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev 1982:
The Olympic champion frankly tells readers about their "personal" problems with elevators, gin-tonic and the song "Katyusha":
"The world championship ended, very difficult for us, ended indicative speechesWe ran away by numbers, changed clothes and gathered at the elevator, already in evening dresses, already with a glass of champagne inside ... Lift stops. I need to be the first everywhere! I, of course, fly first, and immediately the door closes behind me. This feature of the elevator begins with minus eighth and to plus fifty-second five times walk up and down. When he finally stopped, I was already sitting on the floor with a smeared of tears and horror paint around the eyes. When I finally got into a banquet hall, I immediately began to "be treated" by Gin with Tonic, taking it as a medicine. On an empty stomach, after a speech, I naturally raised quickly. Announced a number - offered each team to fulfill their national songs. It is impossible to sing it categorically, but then the activity was again suspended. Plus gin with tonic. I pulled Yuru Ovchinnikova, Iru Vorobyev, a few more people on the stage, and there we began to negotiate what to sing. It turned out that we more or less all know "Katyusha". Tightened. It turned out quickly that no one knows that no further words, and we all took out: "I went ashore Katyusha ... The apple trees and pears were flourished, I went ashore Katyusha ..." I remember, I stood in the middle of the hall Anna Ilinichna, I am madly proud that her children Sing, and completely stunned Japanese, because, unlike us, they knew this song by heart ... "
The fact that great coaches are also people, and their authority can be shaken at any time, Irina Rodnina understood after a hike with Stanislav Zhomo in the cinema at Romeo and Juliet:"We sit in the hall all in tears and snot, the film goes in Italian with English subtitles. We leave, and Stasik (Stanislav Zhuk - approx. Of the author), who was a little bitlel, says: "What a cool story. But why did such a bad end come up with? " I, without waving, I say: "Stanislav Alekseevich, this is Shakespeare." And the hears the tears wipe, rushing his nose. He says: "I am talking, the plot is cool, why such an end? Look, all cry. " - "But this is Shakespeare! "Romeo and Juliet"!" He again: "I'm talking, a cool story."
Until this evening, I completely unreserved him, believed everything that he would say, whatever did, fulfilled all his orders. Once he told me: "Weak hands." I echo: "Weak". - "So little swing." I: "No, I do all tasks." The beetle: "I woke up in the morning, twenty times fell on the floor." And I really fell from the bed to the floor and squeezed. Further: "The ankle is weak." I repeat: "weak." - "Do you descend in the metro on the escalator?" I say: "Go down." He orders: "You need to run up." And I am with a bag, all sweeping, fled on the escalator as abnormal. And then, maybe for the first time, I suddenly realized that he was not God. I didn't even laugh at him. I could not imagine how to react to the fact that my teacher does not know Shakespeare ...
... Then I first saw the beetle drinking. I have never noticed such a similar one. It seemed the impression that he continues to celebrate our victory. He continued to celebrate: day, second, third ... "
Rodnina and Zaitsev perform at the European Championships in 1978:
Rodnina recalls how hard they were given to the Soviet athletes of their achievement, as many of them had to sacrifice the country's glory. And the fact that in those days had to resort to doping:
"On the last bulk, everyone rode ... The skating rink in Colorado was built very quickly, for almost two weeks, because they were waiting for the arrival of the Soviet Union of Hockey. The rink is very small ... And when you go from ice, in the end - a narrow corridor. To the right men's dressing room, left - female. During the rental of an arbitrary program, on one side of the corridor, there were two black, sort of like a doorman, in gloves, with stretchers, and the same two on the other side. When the couples came out from ice, they waited for estimates, then they did two or three steps towards the locker room and understood that their movements no longer control. At this moment, the "Schwitzer" couple cleverly opened the stretcher and they added to the locker room. And in the dressing room there was a huge square sofa, rather the ottoman. And you were dumped at her. After some time we came to her. Young faster, and Belousova was very bad for a long time. All night our doctor asked about her. We were not checked then, and it seems to me that they took some drugs. It is likely that it played its role, because it is often an action of stimulants is designed only for a short period of time, and during the second part there was an opposite effect of the drug. Immediately make a reservation - all this exclusively my guesses ... "
Rodnina, as the USSR representatives on international competitions, had to feel the "special" attitude to Soviet in America:
"And the attitude towards our passport is even in a hotel where we stayed were very strange. I remember, we were taken in some big house where Barman was, as they say, an African American, and then - just black. He stood, listened, listened to our conversations, looked, looked, and then asked: "And you actually guys, where?" We: "There is such a country - Soviet Union" "Strange," he says, "you look exactly the same way as we, dressed as well and drink better than us." In other words, the concept of "Soviet" was for America at the end of the sixties exotic. And the fact that we also ride better, they just killed them. "
With humor, Irina Konstantinovna recalls his first sports fees:
"Returning from the World Cup, in a month we got the first of our awards. It seemed to me that we became owners of insane money. For the Championship of the Soviet Union, where we ranked third, we were given a hundred rubles. And for the World Cup - one and a half thousand! European Championship, first place - five hundred rubles. So we really got crazy money ... "
All fans of Irina Rodnina remember the famous "Kalinka", which our skaters rolled with the triumph. This is how the figure skater itself recalls the dance:
"... We rolled back all three demonstration rooms, and the audience shout everyone:" Kalinka! Kalinki! " And then we began to roll "Kalinka". In Kalinka, my "focus" appeared in time. When I got up for the start, I chose someone from the audience one and started to roll for him. I did it in order to at least somehow entertain myself, because this "Kalinka" I already sat in the liver ... "
The famous "Kalinka" performed by the birthplace and Zaitseva, 1976:
Rodnina recalls his wedding with a partner in Ice Alexander Zaitsev, who became a real event for Moscow. And about the divorce that followed in a few years:
"... I said Zaitsev at the wedding: Shura, leaving, I can not be here anymore. People walk in might and, we are not needed anyone. I'm hungry, I can't eat anything in this wedding dress, in Fate ...
... grandma from the second floor fell, examining us. Fell, thank God, on the crowd, so nothing happened to her. I have preserved photo: Palace of Wedding, I'm near the main entrance with my Fata. I start walking on the stairs and do not have time to raise the dress. At the second step, I get up on my own hem, on the third step - we compete on it with another foot and I understand that now you will fall ...
... We parted through the court, not everything turned out to be simply, but somehow enough of the mind did not announce our scandals. Yes, and the yellow press then did not exist. Court to avoid we could not, once there is a common child. For several months, I flew from fees to court, where the hares, naturally, was not ... I flew to Moscow, because I could have gotten cool to me to fly. Sat in court, he did not appear, the court was transferred to another date ... " 
With a partner in figure skating and husband Alexander Zaitsev
Irina Rodnina is the most titled athlete in the history of figure skating.
Her sport biography Such is: she won 10 times world championship And three times celebrated Triumph at the Olympic Games, she won six times at the USSR Championship. How did it happen to be a deputy of the State Duma?
Childhood
Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina was born on September 12, 1949 in the capital of the USSR. Her dad served as an officer and was from under Vologda, the mother worked as a nurse, she was from Ukraine.
In childhood, Irina has more than 10 times pneumonia. The doctors advised parents more often to send a child to open air to fix her health, those sent it to a skating rink, from that began a passion for the "figure."
Yakov Alekseevich Smushkin became the first children's coach of Irina SMUSHIN. Later, the talented schoolgirl was taken to section under CSKA. Viewing was successful, and up to 15 years old, Irina Rodnina performed mainly in a single discharge.
Everything has changed when Czech specialists who worked with armes under the Agreement began working with young figure skate. Under their leadership, Rodnina, together with Oleg Vlasov won the first medal. It was the bronze of All-Union Youth Competitions. It was 1963.
First shift coach
Already in 1964, Stanislav Zhuk began to train Irina Rodnina. It is now one of the most famous names in the world of "figurines", and then only recently finished sports career And moved to the coaching field. The beetle together with his wife Nina specialized in pair skating and even three times took bronze on the European championship.
Starting working with Irina Rodnina, the beetle made her partner Alexei Ulannova. Already in 1968, Irina and Alexey won the third place at the Championship of the Union.
On the sixth year of collaboration, the first places on Che are conquered for the sixth year of working together. The tournament of 1969 was very difficult for a couple: the beetle was not released from the USSR, they came to the competition without a coach, in the mandatory program, they took only second place, passing forward Lyudmila Belousov and Oleg Protopopov, but everything decided in arbitrary. Elements of high complexity brought a pair to a common victory. For her, the athlete received the title of ZMS.
At the 1969 World Championships, Irina and Alexey won already perfect, taking first places in both types of programs. These were times when soviet school Figure skating strongly ahead of all rivals. Irina with a partner won all major international competitions (World Cup and Che) until 1972, when white Sapporo passed in Japanese Olympic Games. The figure skaters did not go smoothly: in the short program of Ulanov, the ordinary Salkhov made, although he was needed double, and the world championship itself was mistaken - in the jumps of jumps. However, in the end, Irina and Alexey were ahead of another Soviet pair (Lyudmila Smirnov and Andrei Surajkin).
Shocking brain and stop music
Ulan and Rodnina turned out to be ahead of Smirnov and Suraykina and the World Cup of 1972, which was already after the Olympics. That success was a triumph of exceeding, as a day before the tournament, the athlete fell from support during training and found itself in the hospital. Doctors diagnosed "concussion", but Irina decided to go on ice. And if the short program partners rolled flawlessly, then in the arbitrary freshly baked Olympic champion felt no matter and ended the speech in sevenness.
The victory at the World Cup 1972 became for Irina and Alexey the last minimized together. Ulanov decided to combine personal life with a sport and decided to ride with Suraykina, at which he was already married by that time. It was rumored that the fall of the relatives in training before the World Cup was adjusted by the Ulanov himself.
Irina Rodnina then, as Wikipedia writes, there was a desire to leave the sport. The country's championship she missed, looking at him as a viewer. Saving the position of the beetle, offering her to create a couple with young Alexander Zaitsev.
Plus, Zaitseva turned out to be a good leap technique and fast learning. With a new partner, Rodnina won in 1973 as the European Championship and the world championship. At the World Cup in Bratislava, the famous incident happened in the Annals of History: during the speech of Soviet athletes turned off the music, but the skaters did not leave the ice, but continued to ride in complete silence. Hall met this rental applause. Subsequently, it turned out that these were the marchs of the representative of Czechoslovakia, which was meant for the events of the Prague Spring, which happened five years before.
Despite mistakes, Irina and Alexander won the following World Cup. Although the public remained disappointed, that day, the judges gave proper a set of very complex elements by putting high marks.
Rodnina and Tarasova
In 1974, the couple replaced the coach. From the beetle, Rodnina and Zaitsev moved to Tatiana Tarasova. The results did not decrease. The couple won the World Cup 1975, and then Irina Rodnina took the second gold Olympiad. It happened in Montreal in 1976.
Following the gold OI, there were victories at the World Championships 1976 and 1977. The last championship of the world was overshadowed by the fact that the pair was awarded the estimates of 6.0 only from the Soviet referee Valentine Piseev (subsequently the head of the FFKR). The ISU began a scandal in the Spirit "How much can I endure it?", And the Soviet judges were removed from work for the next season. However, and in it, Soviet skaters won gold awards for the World Cup.
World Cup of 1979, the couple missed family circumstances (because of the birth of a son, at this point the partners were already married). That World Cup won Americans Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner, after which their compatriots, as Wikipedia writes, began to criticize the Soviet athletes for the use of prohibited elements.
However, the decisions at the Olympics in Lake Placide used judges, which considered that the Soviet couple did everything within the rules. As a result, in 1980, Irina Rodnina won the third award of the highest sample and became the most titled figure skater in pair skating in the history of OI.
Outside ice
After the Olympiad in Lake Placide, Irina Rodnina, which was already in 30, completed a skater career. On the one hand, she is very tired, on the other - age has already given a job about himself, with the third - so many victories as she had no more. After the end of the career, she got a job in the Central Committee of the W CLKSM, then, according to Wikipedia, was a teacher at the Institute of Physical Culture.
Before the collapse of the USSR (in 1990), Irina Rodnina, who was a member of the CPSU, left for permanent residence in America. There he settled in an international center near Los Angeles. Subsequently, in an interview, Rodnina told that the contract was for two years, but everything was delayed.
The first its coaching medal fell for 1995. Then the Czechs of Kowarzhikov's grains and renew newly became champions of the world, for which the coach even gave the Honorary Czech Citizenship. Rodnina also helped cook American Michel Kwan and Angela Nicodinov. The first eventually won two OI medals (silver in Nagano, bronze in Salt Lake City).
Rodnina and Politics
In 2002, Irina Rodnina returned to Moscow. She puts out his candidacy in the elections in the State Duma in 2003, but could not be blocked by losing. I did not bring her success and pretabilities, arranged a year later.
Only with the third attempt by Irina Rodnina managed to go to the State Duma. In 2007, she passed on the list of United Russia from the Omsk region. In the convening of the Duma, she held the post of deputy chairman of the Committee on Education. Since then, Rodnina has been re-elected twice (in 2011 and 2016).
In "EP", it is engaged in such projects as "school sports" and "courtyard coach". Also Rodnina is one time (in 2006) was a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. Now it is part of the presidential advice on physical education.
The former athlete was often criticized by the liberal community for their activities as a deputy. In 2012, Irina Rodnina voted for the "Law of Dima Yakovleva", prohibiting the giving Russian children to foreign families, and in 2018 for raising the retirement age (up to 60 and 65 years, respectively).
In 2018, Irina gave a large interview with Sports.ru, which told about their political views. She noticed that he considers the law of Sergei Magnitsky to the political continuation of the act of Jexon - Vanik, and the sanctions imposed in connection with the accession of the Crimea in 2014, illegal. Speaking about the law of Dima Yakovlev, a representative of United Russia also acknowledged that he became a certain answer to the law of Magnitsky.
Surgene spoke and addressed to the opposition policy of Alexei Navalny. She stated that he believes the major score that pulls into the politics of schoolchildren.
Speaking about supporting Vladimir Putin on the eve of the March 2018 elections, Irina noted that he looks like the most real candidate.
Scandals with relatives
The first scandal with the relatives happened in 2005. Then her signature was under the appeal in support of the sentence of Yukos owners. Four years later, Rodnina stated that she did not sign this letter.
There is in the biographies of Irina Rodnina and the fact of charges in racism. In 2013, Rodnina placed a collage in his Twitter account, where the US President Barack Obama was depicted next to Banana with his wife Michelle.
A representative of United Russia initially referred to freedom of speech, but after some time deleted his post. Six months later, she said at all that her account in the social network was hacked, and she condemns racism hotly.
The next scandal in which Rodnina was involved, happened in 2018. Then the group of journalist accused a deputy from LDPR Leonid Slutsky in sexual attacks. Included in the Duma Commission on Ethics, Rodnina, together with other deputies, disassembled Farida Rustamova (Russian Air Force) and its colleagues Darya Beetle (from the Rain TV channel) and did not find anything crazy. After that, several editions declared the boycott's State Duma.
Personal life
The first husband of Irina Rodnina - since 1975 - was Alexander Zaitsev, with whom she rode paired. The first marriage of the relatives lasted for almost 10 years (she lived with Zaitsev until 1983, two years ago, the spouses were dragging with a divorce). In marriage they had a son Alexander. As Irina recalled, after leaving the sport, she quickly discovered that she connected little with elastic.
The next husband, the owner of Leonid Minkovsky became the next husband, with whom the champion met shortly after leaving Zaitsev. In marriage with him, Irina born daughter Alena, who is now working as a journalist (one time wrote for Russia Today). Marriage with Minkovsky lasted long only formally, as Irina recalled, she quickly found out that her husband had a mistress. After the requirements of the divorce began, the long judicial tyslogita began on the subject of whom the daughter of Alena will remain.
Now Rodnina is already grandmother. Her granddaughter's name is Sonya, it was born in 2008. Her father - Alexander Zaitsev Jr. - works by the artist. At one time, lived in the states, now lives in Russia.
For the third time, the glorified champion is not in a hurry to go for her husband, although the media one time wrote about her warm relations with the doctor Pavel Niderman, living in the United States.
"Telling champion"
At leisure, Rodnina wrote a book: In 1978, "Non-Student Years" was published, and 35 later - "Tellion of the champion". His name is the biography of Irina Rodnina, written by her, received thanks to the situation on awarding on the OI in Lake Placide, when she burst out right on the podie. According to Irina, it happened not so much because of physical Loadshow much because of moral.
In the book, the former athlete also told about complex relations with the beetle, because of which she once changed the coach. She told about the nras of figure skating. According to her, one day she discovered that a broken glass was poured into his skates. Another time, in training, Oleg Protopopov demonstratively prevented his relatives with Ulannov to train jumping and as a result almost got the edge of the skate in the face.
Leads Rodnina, which has been shouted for 70 years, and social networks. She owns an account on Twitter, profile - Irodnina. She has over 50 thousand subscribers. She has a page in Instagram, an account - Irina.rodnina, almost 11 thousand people read it.
In 2010, the VTsIOM conducted a survey, whom Russians consider the "idols of the twentieth century." Rodnina in it took the eighth place, ahead of Maya Plisetsk, Dmitry Shostakovich and the legendary football goalkeeper Lion Yashin.
Irina was born on September 12, 1949 in Moscow in the Military Family. In childhood, Irina Rodnina did not differ in his biography. Girl 11 times sick pneumonia. After another disease, in order to somehow strengthen the health of the child, the parents led Irina on the rink. It is thanks to the care and attention of parents, Irina Rodnina in biographies was seriously fascinated by figure skating. The girl was talented and diligently, so it was soon in the section of the Figiefers of CSK. The first serious victory of the athlete came to 1963, when Irina became the third on the youth competitions of the USSR.
After Irina began to train and speak in a couple with A. Ulanov (and the coach was S.Zhuk), the victories literally fell apart, although they got serious difficulty. In 1967 - the victory at the Moscow Skate Competition, twice (in 1968 and 1969) the couple became the third at the USSR Championship. Take the first place at the European Championships in the biography of Irina Rodnina's figure skater. At the same time, the athlete received the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. The first victory at the World Championships falls on the same 1969.
After a successful period in the biography of Irina Rodnina followed failure. At the USSR Championship in 1970, the pair of Rodnina-Ulanov took only fourth place. In 1972, literally per day before the World Championship, Irina receives a serious injury (concussion, hematoma), but still decides to speak. In the same year, she leaves partner. Then Rodnina Irina Konstantinovna decided to leave the sport in his biography. But the coach put to her in a couple of talented figure skateman - Zaitsev. At the next European Hare Rodnin Championships get record number Points. In 1973, at the World Championships in Bratislava, skaters continued their speech, despite the lack of music. In 1975, speaking at the World Championships (under the leadership of Tarasova's coach) the pair again ranked first.
In 1974, Rodnina graduated from the Institute of Physical Culture, and in 1975 he married Zaitsev. The couple continued to perform, showing the wonderful programs at the 1976 Olympics, the 1977 World Cup. For the third time, the victory at the Olympics Rodnin was able in 1980.
After overpowing to perform, the figure skater Irina Rodnina in his biography became a coach. Irina took up teaching, public activities. Rodnina is the chairman of the Council of the All-Russian Voluntary Society " Sports Russia", A member of the Council on Physical Culture under the President of the Russian Federation, as well as a member of the Public Chamber. Irina published the book "Non-Locked Ice", leads the transfer of the "stadium" on the radio of Russia. Children in the biography of Irina Rodnina play an important role. Irina has two children - son Alexander and daughter Alena.