Vladimir Petrovich Kutz is a famous athlete and a well-deserved master of sports Soviet Union, record holder, the winner of the Olympic Games and the world's best athlete in 1956-1957. Consider its biography and achievements.
Birth and childhood
Vladimir Kutz's biography is full of ambiguous moments. The future famous athlete was born in 1927, February 7, in the village of Aleksino Sumy region. Parents were simple workers. Since childhood, the boy was very stubborn. For example, a declaration is known when Vladimir has put himself a goal to learn to go skiing. It was necessary to get to the village of Proteka, where his school was located, in five kilometers of one native alexino. And at the same time, the future athlete in childhood did not differ dexterity and agility. They had pleasses for the clumsiness even nicknamed his swords. Now there is not so much information about the childhood of this athlete, but one can say with confidence - even then it was a person of an incredible nature, the strength of the spirit and principles. This is told about this further life, and brilliant victories in the sports field.
War years
The war found a young athlete another eighth grader, his native village was taken by the Germans and freed only in 1943. Vladimir Kutz went to war volunteer. Although then he was only sixteen, he faked the data by ascribing two extra years. After learning on a sniper, in 1945 he was sent to the front, but he did not have time to brake. War is over. And in the fall of the same year he was sent to the Baltic Fleet.
Service and the beginning of a sports career
Vladimir was served in coast guard detachments, mainly on the islands and coast of the Gulf of Finland. It may impress that such conditions were not at all suitable for sports, and the harsh northern climate did not have any way to run. So everyone could consider, but not Vladimir Kuts - a man of an unprecedented nature and the power of will. Despite the frost and harsh climate, the future champion literally tortured himself with daily workouts. Morning jogging In some cowards and T-shirt, the distance to twenty kilometers became commonplace. It is not surprising that this man could continue to achieve such success. And already at the time of service, as is known from the biography, the athlete Vladimir Kutz took his first vertices. Being in the rank of senior, in May 1948, the athlete won the garrison competition on Crosses. Thanks to this victory, he was able to go to the competition in Tallinn, where he took the third place. The athlete was then only 22 years old and he needed his own coach. And the case played a role. In the spring of 1951, one of best coaches Countries - Leonid Sergeevich Khomenkov.
Champion's path
It was Leonid Sergeevich Khomenkov led Vladimir in big sportBy making it professional athlete. But their fates crossed them for a while, since 1922, a young athlete was trained by Alexander Chikin. It was under his leadership Vladimir Kutz defended the title of Master of Sports and won a number of significant victories in various competitions. In the winter of 1953, the athlete was in Leningrad. Here he met the coach, to cooperate with whom for many years, with a person who led Vladimir to a variety of sports vertices, and which he later considered a close friend. Grigory Nikiforov then coached the national team of the Soviet Union athletics. It was he who began working with the future champion of Olympians in the same year. Nikiforov quickly understood how unusual and non-standard "handwriting" at his new ward that Kuts Vladimir is a completely new style runner.
He did not somehow move the athlete to his way. Athlete and coach together bring the technique of "Rvangery" Vladimir Kutz to a completely new level, and the results do not force themselves for a long time to wait. In the same year, Vladimir wins silver at the International Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest, and also wins the title of Champion of the USSR. And already a year later, the athlete takes gold at the European Championships. Run 5000 meters. Then Vladimir Kutz did not just won. He installed the world record.
Vladimir Kuts - Champion of the Olympic Games
In 1956, in Melbourne, the athlete won two gold medals - in the races by 5 and 10 kilometers, defeating all their rivals, among whom was famous championlike a British Atlet Gordon Peel. The tactics of the "torn" run of the Russian athlete still remained unique for a long time. Thus, Kuts won world fame and title best athlete Planets in 1956-1957. Vladimir Kutz was not only a first-class athlete, but also the favorite of the public, a kind, simple and open person. Not in vain, the Western media wrote that for the rapprochement of the peoples, he did more than all diplomats. After these victories, the athlete needed a whole year for recovery, but already in 1957 he receives the title of the best athlete of the world, putting a new world record in the 5000 meters race, which was able to beat only the athletes of the next generation.
Complications with health and alcohol
When the athlete was at the peak of a career, he was diagnosed with the permeability of capillaries and strongly recommended to leave a big sport. But, despite complications with health, the athlete took another great victory - at competitions in Rome on October 13, 1957, he installed a new world record - 13 minutes and 35 seconds. For another eight years, no one could beat him. But after all, the disease gradually took her own, it was the last a great victory Athlete. Runner Vladimir Kutz did not immediately accept his fate, he went to competitions in Brazil and Tallinn, where she showed, alas, very low results: the eighth and last place, respectively. It was obvious - the times of the former glory passed. Vladimir literally lived in favorite sport, he was a whole world for him. And the fact that in the flourishing of the career, when he wanted to achieve so many tops when he wanted to bring so many victories to the state, he had to leave much of sports, he struck himself strongly, he became more and more often taken for alcohol.
Of course, Kuts remained in sports as a coach, but for him the most treadmill was closed forever. Unbearable pains in the legs, which gradually began to refuse and have almost never succumbed to treatment, only reinforced the increasing addiction of an athlete to alcohol.
But it should be noted that this unhealthy attraction to the alcohol was noticed for him also during the first great success. So, in 1956 in Melbourne, alcohol almost caused the death of an athlete who decided to drive a friend of a familiar journalist, of course, in a not quite sober state. Then Kuts did not cope with the control and crashed into a pillar, receiving several injuries. Some media even dismissed gossip that the athle was killed. But the doctors pretty quickly put Vladimir on his feet and returned to the competitions, where he spoke brilliantly, and most fans did not even guess how many wounds under the t-shirt athlete hide ordinary patches. In 1959, the last speech of an athlete took place, at which Kuts Vladimir Petrovich won the cross of the Leningrad Military District.
Runner Family Vladimir Kutza
Not so much is known about the family life of the athlete. In the midst of mine sports activities He moved to Moscow. There he married a journalist Raisa Polyakova. They met when the girl took an interview at the athlete. It was Raisa in the future will write the book of memoirs of her husband and some articles about him. Family life, alas, did not work out happily, and the couple was separated, and Vladimir remained alone. Athlete and the second time tried to equip his personal life, and the new wife was also called Raisa. But again nothing happened. No person can be talented in everything and everywhere to sleep. Personal life turned out to be a competition in which the Great Athlete had no victories and medals.
Coaching activities and further fate
The athlete left Running in his past and became CSKA coach. At that time, he wrote the book "Tale of Run." Vladimir was a truly outstanding person, because in addition to his brilliant career Runner, he was able to distinguish between both coaching activities, having prepared a lot of famous athletes, champions both the All-Union level and the world. Vladimir Afonin became one of the most gifted students, who, alas, lost to the Olympics in Munich, and it became another blow to the coach. Another talented student of the masters was Sergey Violin. But all the Protege of Vladimir Kutz lacked the iron will of his teacher, the incredible obsession with the thirst for victory, fanaticism, when or victory - or death. That is how Kuts himself thought and ran, and it made it unique.
It must be said that the disciples with warmth responded about their teacher. They reported that he had often lived with him, he treated them for eating their own preparation, drove on his car, always helped the Council and generally replaced his father. And even though Kuts and could not prepare the Olympic champion, but it cannot be said that he did not achieve success on the coaching field.
The biography of Vladimir Kutz's athlette is indicated that his life was filled with many trials. In 1972, an athlete had a stroke.
In 1973, the athlete fell into a serious car accident, the doctors were not even sure if he would survive. Thousands of long hospitalization, Kutz became recovered, although, of course, the accident was also strongly affected by his health. Therefore, former athlete, Vladimir Kutz demobilized, after which it settled to work at the Sports School School coach. But soon he returned to CSKA.
Champion's death
In August 1975, in the morning, Vladimir Afonin discovered the corpse of Kutza when he came to the house of the mentor to wake him up to the next training session. As the expertise has shown in the future, the former Olympic champion took the shock dose of sleeping pill tablets. All this was stored with vodka. So before the end, it did not know whether the great athlete realized, which makes when he accepted such a "slaughter bouquet". Some say with confidence that it was that suicide. Probably, the athlete is simply tired of life, from endless pain, from loneliness, from what was no longer able to fight for something, there were no vertices that could still be taken. Although now we do not know the truth.
Athlete is buried in Moscow, at the Preobrazhensky cemetery.
Vladimir Kuts - Champion of the Olympiad, he was like an outbreak, I spark in the world as domestic and global sports. His career was rapid, dazzling, shining, but such a quick. Nevertheless, this outstanding thrust person fits forever his name in the history of mankind, becoming one of family athletes All time.
The memory of the athlete
In Moscow near the metro station "Airport" you can see the athletic playpen named after Vladimir Kutza. Also, the monument in the form of an athlete with a thickest hand, which is torn to the victory, installed in the native village of athlete, Aleksino in the Sumy region. The stadium in Trostyanza carries the name of the athlete. At school in Belchansk, a memorial plaque was installed on Suschin. And the Olympics in Melbourne 1956, where the champion got two gold medals at once for victories at distances at 5 and 10 kilometers, called in his honor.
On the day of death, Kuts was held an international athletic tournament in Nice. When the speaker notified all about death famous Runner, the whole stadium rose to honor his memory, and only after that suspended competitions continued.
Vladimir Kuts - Olympic champion in running on 5 and 10 thousand meters, European champion in 1954 at a distance of 5 thousand meters, Champion of the USSR 1953-59 for a distance of 5 thousand meters, in 1953-56 at a distance of 10 thousand meters, in 1957 - Cross 8 thousand meters. Vladimir Kuts is a global record holder in running for 3 miles (four times), 5 thousand meters (four times) and 10 thousand meters (once). Also athlete installed 13 All-Union and 3 Olympic Record. In 1956 and 1957 Was recognized as the best athlete of the world. He was awarded the Order of Lenin.
By summing up, we can say that Vladimir Petrovich Kutz was an outstanding personality. From the earliest childhood, he has already demonstrated perseverance and unprecedented will. In his youth passed through tough devastating workouts during his service in the north. But what is interesting: already wondering her first victories, the athlete has not yet known where he goes, and very vaguely saw his future. Skiing, he was engaged on a par with running, he had no personal workout plans, like his coach. He just wanted to run, wanted to do his beloved thing, and it once led him to unprecedented success. Now we know that he did not get along with his wives, loved to drink, by the end of his life did not really respect Soviet power, but at the same time he was kind, open, volve and strong man. It was about him that he made more than the army of diplomats for the rapprochement of peoples than the army of diplomats, it was he who was a favorite of people, hero and a symbol of his generation.
Hundreds of victories, many records, both world and domestic, two gold medals at the Olympics and the title of the best athlete of the world 1956-1957 forever entered Vladimir Petrovich Kutz to the list of the most famous athletes all the planet.
Vladimir Kuts was born on February 7, 1927 in the village of Aleksino Ukraine. Since childhood, he was distinguished by persistent character and even extreme stubbornness. He ran a lot. The war found him in his youth, but during the Great Patriotic War, Volodya managed to play on the front. In the autumn of 1945, he was sent to the service in the Baltic Fleet. It was there that he first came out on running track During the garrison competitions, which showed absolutely the best result and in the cross, and in running. He became a bronze medalist on the championship of the Baltic Fleet.
A truly sports career Kutz began in 1951, when he was lucky enough to meet with the famous athlete and experienced trainer Leonid Khomenkov, who helped Vladimir to enter a big sport, becoming, let them a short time, his first coach. Since 1952, a novice athlete began to train under the leadership of Alexander Chikina, won in a number of prestigious competitions and defended the title of Master of Sports.
And when the Kutz was transferred to the city of St. Petersburg, in the winter of 1953, the fate brought him with a man who became his coach and a friend for many years, - Grigory Nikiforov, who then trained the USSR national athletics team. In the same year, Vladimir won his first international award, silver at the International Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest and for the first time won the title Champion of the USSR. In a year, the first "adult" victory was also the first victory, at the European Championships took gold at a distance of 5000 meters, and at the same time, while setting the world record.
Soon Kuts moved to the city of Moscow, married to the interview with his journalist Raisa Polyakova, who later published the book of memoirs of his famous husband and write many articles about him, and continued to train hard - ahead was the Olympics in Melbourne. Shortly before the games set another world record in the race at a distance of 10,000 m.
At the XVI Summer Olympic Games of 1956, Vladimir Kutz became a genuine hero of Melbourne, won both styrene distances: won two gold medals at 5,000 and 10,000 meters distances. His main opponent was a British athlete Gordon Peel, who shortly before that took away the world record from the Kutca in a run of 10,000 meters, and then he beat Vladimir Jerk at the finish. Taking into account all the mistakes and thoroughly prepared, Kutz managed not only to win, but at the same time establish new Olympic records on both distances. At the closure ceremony, he was honored to be a banquenas of the USSR national team, and the games themselves called the Olympiad Kuts.
Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Vladimir Kutz became the first Olympic champion among Soviet athletes. In addition to olympic awards He was also a ten-fold Champion of the USSR, a multiple world record holder in running for 5,000 and 10,000 meters, the last world record of the Kutsa 5000 meters, established in 1957, lasted eight years. Two times in a row, in 1956 and 1957, recognized as the best athlete of the world, was awarded the Order of Lenin and medals.
Every year the athlete increasingly began to disturb health problems. He was tormented by pain in the stomach and in the legs. Gruel training And incredible tension did not pass in vain. Doctors, revealing his increased permeability of venous and lymphatic capillaries, carried out their verdict "Want to live - throw the jogging." But Kutz did not throw in 1958, going to the start of the next competitions, brutally lost, having come to the finish line the latter, the legs simply refused to work.
Treatment helped to win the cross of the Leningrad Military District in 1959, but it was the last speech of the Great Runner, after which he officially announced the rest of the Sports. At the same time, Kutz enrolled in the Leningrad Institute of Physical Education, graduating which in 1961, began to train the runners in CSKA, prepared a lot of famous athletes, wrote the book "Tale of Run". However, the departure from great sports was given to Vladimir hard, and he began to drink. And the consequences of the automotive accident, in which he fell in 1973, aggravated by the already undermined health. "For the mind" kutz took only after stroke. True, I did not fully recovered and since then I went with a stick. After recovery headed the children's sport schoolHe was enthusiastically engaged in young people, but he did not throw away to the end.
Vladimir Petrovich Kots died on August 16, 1975 in the city of Moscow in his own apartment. He was buried at the Preobrazhensky cemetery of the capital.
Vladimir Kuts.
(1927–1975)
Soviet athlete. Champion games XVI Olympiad in Melbourne (Australia), 1956
Vladimir Kutz is one of the great styers of the 20th century, such as Hannes Khaleinen, Paavo Nurmi, Emil Popopek, Lasse Viren. The victories of Kutz at distances 5000 and 10,000 meters were no less bright than them, but life turned out to be shorter and fate is tragic. To start at least with the fact that he had to experience the fascist occupation: the Sumy region, where his native village Aleksino was released from the enemy only in 1943.
After the war, Vladimir Kots served on the Baltic Fleet, was a ship artillers. Like other sailors, engaged in sports - boxing, swimming, barbell. At first athletics at first did not even think. However, in May 1948, during the festive competitions, first participated in Cross and unexpectedly for everyone, including for himself, won.
This determined his further fate - after a few months, Kutz was sent to army competitions, where he easily won the race for 5000 meters. But he decided to make an easy athletic seriously.
At first, however, trained independently. About running tactics on long distances, the ability to distribute forces, about rational training loads Vladimir Kutz received some idea only after he accidentally read the article about one of the Soviet athletes known at that time. Nevertheless, even without coach, Kuts indicators on various army competitions grew.
Only in the spring of 1951 in Sochi, he accidentally met with the coach of Runners Leonid Khomenkov. He specifically made a training plan for Kuts. In 1952, a 25-year-old sailor of the Baltic Fleet debuted in the championship of the country of athletics. A year later, he was to become the champion of the Soviet Union at distances of 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
In the same 1953, the international debut of Kutz was held - he was included in the USSR national team, sent to Bucharest to the I friendships of young people. Then at the "Republic" stadium on both "his" distances - 5,000 and 10,000 meters - Vladimir Kutz turned out to be the second; But then, and here he gave way to Emile himself.
The sports star of flooded, however, then Zenit has already switched and began to tear to the sunset. And the star Kutz was rapidly gone. Since 1954, he trained under the leadership of the famous coach Grigory Nikiforov at the Central Sports Club of the Ministry of Defense in Moscow and in the national team. Soon he has already become European champion and world record holder at a distance of 5000 meters. This victory was obsessed at the Championship of athletics in Switzerland.
And at the same time, the famous full-time and absentee competition of a Kuts with outstanding English Stayers Gordon Piri and Christopher Chataueem began. In the rivalry of these runners, global records were established and bent. In 1954-1955, at a distance of 5000 meters, Vladimir Kutz, for example, became the world record holder three times.
Once again, the opponents had to meet at the XVI Olympiad games in Melbourne. Olympic gold medals had to play in the conditions of unbearable heat. In addition, Kutz a few days before the starts suffered in a car accident, in which, however, he was to blame.
The fact is that just on the eve of the Olympics he bought a "victory", but he didn't really learn to led. In Melbourne, however, asked the car from one of the Australian journalists to ride in the Olympic village. Of course, it could not come to mind that the world record holder was still a very bad driver.
Kuts planted George Klimov in the car, the country's record holder in sports walkingAnd got behind the wheel. The car's engine was much more powerful than the "victory", which Kutz obviously did not expect. The car rushed off and crashed into a pillar. Klimov broke the edge, and at the Kuts himself, doctors olympic Village We also counted 12 bruises and abrasions.
This incident, of course, has not passed unnoticed, and the moment swept the rumor that the famous Soviet stider received severe injuries and could not participate in the races. To stop talking, in the evening the same day Kutz appeared in the Olympic Concert Hall and showed his ability to dance. That every movement hurts him, no one saw.
In the dispute for the Olympic medal in the run of 10,000 meters, many preference to Gordon Piri preferred. And Kutz exhausted the main opponent with unexpected jerks, which, as well as known, it is incredibly hard during a long run. Kuts made three such jerk 400 meters each.
Later, the famous kuts race told in detail in his book. Yes, and who could tell better? Here is one short passage:
"I do my first jerk. It gives me a small, short-term success. The fifth circle passed in 65.4 seconds. But here the shadow of Piri passes back to my, again I feel his breathing back, and the tribunes of the applause are noted by the Anglicin's response jerk. And then I dramatically slow down the pace. We pass in 71.6 seconds. "
Distance 10,000 meters is 25 circles. And about the climax of the race, about the dramatic struggle, which unfolded by the end, Kutz told so:
"Before Finish, there were even more than three kilometers, when many finally decided that the Golden Medal in the hands of the Englishman. And at that time I was preparing for the last, decisive jerk, which, in my plan, was supposed to follow the twentieth round. It's time to fulfill your intention.
And at full speed, I turn from the first track to the second. Peem follows me. From the second to the third, Peem follows me. With the third to the fourth. Peem follows me. With the fourth to the first. Peelie is still behind. And suddenly I slow down this unusual zigzagogo jogging, which is almost completely stopping and, turning back, I propose a pyri to go ahead ... And finally, Peel comes out! We run now near, and for the first time for all this jog, I see his drooping figure, marginal fatigue written on his face, and I understand that the moment of decisive acceleration has come.
Runs next to the Peelie meters one hundred, I again developed most speed, finally broke away from the Englishman, and he, apparently, having exhausted the remnants of the forces, lagged behind more and more. One after another went to Kovach, Lawrence, Kshishkovyak ...
The last drop overflowed, apparently, the bowl of fatigue of Peel. And here is the twenty fifth, the last circle. He was passed by me for 66.6 seconds. I flew to the finish line, to my victory. "
So on November 23, 1956, Vladimir Kutz became the Olympic champion, establishing the Olympic record. And Gordon Peel finished only to the eighth. "Kutz killed me with his speed and change of tempo," he said to journalists.
Five days later, Kutsu had to participate in the race for 5000 meters. But the victory at a 10-kilometer distance was given to him too hard, he felt unhealthy. Doctors convinced not to go to the start, and the representative of the sports committee insisted - the victory and the second Golden Olympic medal, he said Kutz, very much needed homeland.
And Kuts won his second gold medal. This time, he took a very sharp pace from the start and supported him to the finish line, installing the Olympic record.
To his homeland, the great styer returned to the hero. He was 29 years old, and who would doubt that he would still beat records for a long time and win?
In 1957, he, indeed, once again became the champion of the country. But soon there was an unexpected: at competitions in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, where no one doubted his victory, Kutz finished in the second echelon. In 1958, the Country Championship turned out to be ... Latest.
The body began to pass rapidly, pain in the legs appeared, all sickings developed. Doctors with great difficulty were able to convince Kuts, that it is time, not too late, throw a sport; To keep health it is necessary to avoid overloads.
He graduated from the Institute of Physical Education to become a coach, and since 1961 began to raise the army runners in Moscow sport ClubAt the same time, he gets very much at the time general retirement.
Vladimir Kutz was still one of the most famous people in the country, but something in it is visible, she left after he left the treadmill. He lived in the past.
I often began to drink. At its Moscow region, the dacha also collected friends to remember the Melbourne Olympiad, the glorious past victories. Conversations, naturally, went at the table. In the end, friendly feast switched to single multi-day rugs. Friends became less and less, a wife gone from Kutz.
He stopped him only the resulting stroke. Doctors managed to save him, and Kuts had returned to normal life for a while, continued to train army runners. But only for a while. Soon he was almost daily daily to be applied to the bottle.
The life of Kutza ended in one of the August 1975 days. In the evening, in his own way, he drank decently, and in the morning one of his wards of athletes who lived then in his Moscow apartment and came to wake Kuts to go to the training session, found him dead. For six months before, the Great Stoyer turned 48 years old.
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In Sydney, the capital of the last Olympiad of the twentieth century, in the television building there is a sports museum, where the photo of Vladimir Kutza is hanging - the legendary Soviet athlete of the Stayer of the mid-50s. On an old black and white photo, the Soviet athlete is captured at the finish of his golden Olympiad in Melbourne: all in a rush, in the last effort back head, and a hand raised in a victorious gesture ... Millions of fans remembered.
Kutz was a symbol of fearlessness and daring. The name of our runner was even called the 1956 Olympics, there he won on both styrene distances. There was no such obvious and loud glory, probably no athlete.
"Stubborn donkey"
Vladimir Petrovich Kuts was born on February 7, 1927 in the village of Alexino in the working family. Already in those years, Volodya was distinguished by a persistent character, for which the children often called him a stubborn donkey. He set itself the task - learn to go skiing. And achieved his own. On skis, he was more handy to get to school in the village of Proteka, who were five kilometers from Aleksino.
When the war began, Vladimir was supposed to move in the eighth grade. But it became not before studying - in October the Germans entered the village. In 1943, Alexino was released. Over the next two years, Kutz managed to play on the front connected in the headquarters, work as a loader in the roar and a tractor driver in his native village, ending sniper courses.
In the spring of 1945, graduates of the Sniper School received directions to front-line parts. But they no longer have to fight. And in the fall of the same victorious year, Vladimir was sent to the Baltic Fleet.
It seemed to what athletics - After all, the Vladimir service passed mainly in parts of the coastal defense located on the islands and the coast of the Gulf of Finland. But his fate decided the case. In May 1948, the ears of the second article Kutz won the garrison competitions on the cross. He then won garrison competitions in athletics, showing the best result at a distance of 5000 meters.
This victory allowed Kutsu to go to Tallinn to the Fleet Championship. Here he ranked third. Success is obvious, but he has been twenty-two years old. Age when many athletes establish records. In addition, Vladimir had a real coach.
However, in the spring of 1951 another event occurred, playing an important role in the fate of Kuts. He was noticed by one of the best coaches of the country - Leonid Sergeevich Khomenkov. It was he who helped Kutzu in a big sport, although he trained him at all long.
"I remember I was struck by his curiosity. He asked literally about everything: And how many times a week you need to train, and at what pace run, and what exercises are performed on the warm-up. I advised him to look at the classes and technique of running leading styers of the country. Here, there were such famous runners as Vladimir Kazantsev, Ivan Ladoriev, Feodosius Vanin, Nikifor Popov, Ivan Semenov.
For two weeks, Kuts trained, performing my tasks. We spent at the end of the collection and attack. Already then I realized that Vladimir is endowed with uncommon's abilities and with reasonablely delivered training can show outstanding results in running. "
The first significant successes of Kutz in a styer race should be attributed by 1952, when Alexander Chikin began to lead him to his training session. In the spring, the second searplitzer, in the autumn he became a master of sports.
The first victories and the first world record
In winter, 1952/53, Kutz was transferred to Leningrad. Here, Vladimir's acquaintance with a man, who became a mentor and a friend for many years, was acquainted in Manege, - by one of the coaches of the country's national team Grigory Isaevich Nikiforov.
In July 1953, Kutz participated in the first international Competitions. At the Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest, he fought with famous foreign runners: Hungarian Yozhef Kovache, Australian Dave Stevens, Hero of the XV Olympic Games in Helsinki, Czech Emil Pollopek. Only on the finish of the flooding broke forward, the sowing to get ahead of the Soviet runner-debutant in the race for 5000 meters.
In 1954, Kuts hit the European Championship. Few of those present at the stadium in Bern believed that the Soviet runner could become European champion.
From the very beginning, Kuts runs running. Perhaps the third kilometer was critical. It was especially difficult to maintain a high rate of running, to force ourselves to run wide and at the same time. For a kilometer to the finish of the flooding lags behind 70-80 meters. And no matter how hard the Olympic champion, he could not prevent the impressive victory of Kuts with the New World Record - 13: 56.6!
By that time, Kutz moved to Moscow, where his own apartment appeared on Shcherbakovskaya street. For some time, returning from traveling around the country or from abroad, Volodya expected a meeting not only with his brother Nikolai, but also with his new acquaintance - paradise. After graduating from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, Raisa Polyakova became a literary employee of the Soviet fleet newspaper. The editorial commission is to interview the Maritime officer, the European Champion of Athletics Vladimir Kutza - stretched for many years. Its result was a new young family, the book is a literary record of Kuts's memories, numerous articles in newspapers and magazines. One of them, published in the French journal, was called - "My husband".
This marriage will bring a lot of joy, will help to join the literature, art, will expand its horizons, will force a different look at the world around. True, in the end, he will bring him a lot of grief.
The Olympics in Australia approached. After success at the European Championship, Kutz suffered several hurt defeats, when rivals of the British Chataui and Peeli ahead of him on the finish.
Kutz learns to vary the speed of running. And achieves excellent results in this, it is easily moving from a junction of a coward or uniform running at an average pace to long accelerations, extinguishing the enemy to the roques. Shortly before the Vladimir Olympics establishes a world record by 10 thousand meters.
And here is Melbourne. The central event of the first day of the competition was running by 10 thousand meters.
Let us provide the word to the coach Gabriel Krakokov, who from the stands carefully followed the struggle that unfolded on the treadmill:
"In the seventh round, Kutz goes to the right and runs along the second path, thereby offering Piri to go ahead and run running ... By the end of the eleventh round of Piri, it is still firmly held by the Kitz. Both are far away from the rest of the runners. Somewhere from behind Peter Bolotnikov and Ivan Chernyavsky. It seems that roles in this game were distributed. Piri - Hunter, Kutz - His victim.
Vladimir sharply goes to the right to a third track, opening the way to Peel. However, the Englishman is faithful to himself. He never wants to go ahead. His task is to keep behind the Kitz to the last meters, and then, using its superiority at speed, get away from it ... "
But Kuts is ready for any tempo, any roar and does not intend to behave for the finish. Meanwhile, many spectators seem to be that Piri has already won. A few more accelerations, and finally Kutz decides to give his opponent's last fight.
Nineteenth round. This performance is so unusual that most viewers will bring from their places.
"At full speed, I turn from the first track to the second, - recalled Kuts. - Peem follows me. From the second to the third, Peem follows me. With the third to the fourth - Peters again for me. From the fourth ago on the first - Peel is still behind me. He agrees on everything, even on zigzags, just not to the leading ... And then I decide to stop. He will not stop running ... I'll leave right, gently shut down from my feet to the leg, and then almost completely stopping and I propose a gesture to head the jog ...
And in the stands no longer doubt that the dispute between us is over, that I am about to go from the track ... And finally happened: Piri became the leader. We run now near, and for the first time in all this jog, I see his drooping figure ... I once again peering into his face. Gordon Peeli is so exhausted, so tired that he, apparently, is not scary, even defeat.
Piri was leading just a hundred meters. I again developed a great speed and broke away from the Englishman. Fight and did not believe himself: the shadow of Peiri did not stretch for mine, did not hear behind the back of a heavy ripping breath, nor ships strikes. It seemed to me that the chains fell away from me. I was free, free in choosing any rate of running, any speed. Damn it's good to be free! Pyirie lagged more and more. One after another, Kovacha, Kshishkovak, Lawrence, Chernyavsky, Power, went around him.
... And here is the twenty fifth, the last circle. The stadium rages. Bouquets of flowers, hats, shawls fly into the air. Stunning "Hurai! Keywords: ("Hurray! Hurray!") Eater is barely withstand. When, in his long-standing habit, raising his right hand, I broke the finish tape, it seemed to me that the sky itself was lost to the Olympic calm. Slowing, I passed another, twenty-sixth round. It was a circle of honor. "
This time, Piri was honest and told reporters: "He killed me with his speed and change of tempo. He is too good for me. Kutz is certainly the greatest runner, and I could never beat him. I did not have to run 10,000 meters ... "
Piri, Kuts, Ibbotson But does Kuts be able to run 5 thousand meters so brilliantly? It seemed that it would be incredibly difficult for him, firstly, the British formed the "Anti-Coalition", which was included in the day of running for 10 thousand meters of Chatauway, Ibbotson, as well as Piri. A special tactic was developed, directed against the ribbon run of Russian. Preparing for this run and Hungarian Troika: Iharosh, Sabo and Tabori.
Rocking Kuts for five thousand meters showed that its tactics are diverse and non-sabrus. After the defeat on the first day of the competition, the British were preparing for the tactics of the "torn" run, but Kutz now ran to the gap in the utmost pace, which was only capable of. Remembers one of the participants of the english styer Derek Ibbotson:
"Kutz, as we expected, was ahead after half an hour. Peeli followed on the heels. I was deeply confident in Piri's abilities and decided to keep him. So I fled the third. The first few circles all the runners kept together, but soon the furious pace of Kutz began to pull out the pursuers, and by half of the path the group broke into parts. Peel was the second, I am the third, Chatauway - the fourth. About 40 yards for us, Hungarian Tabori led another group.
I was aware that I would give a busy to go away - a little more for us, only this forced to maintain a violent pace adopted by it. After two miles Chataui came out on the second place. I could not understand why he did it. After we learned that he felt pain in the area of \u200b\u200bthe stomach and moved forward, hoping to knock her down. But after 20 yards run Piri and I witnessed a terrible spectacle - a removed Kuts ...
Chatauway could not resist him, and Piri continued three fatal seconds was in confusion. When he decided to follow Russian, it was too late. Kutz turned out to be inadequate. I was very upset that I could not feel the danger earlier and take action. I blindly trusted Peel. Later, Piri reproached Chatauia for the loss of contact, but I disagree with it ... "
Yes, Kutz built his run other than before. The British prepared to the fuvers, but they will not be. Apply a uniform run in the dark for opponents pace. He was so high that two strong styers - Yugoslav Mugosha and American Delinger generally left the distance. The new Olympic record (13: 39.6) for 27 seconds exceeded the record of flooding!
So Kuts "won" Australia and became a genuine hero of Melbourne. He was entrusted to bear the banner of the Soviet delegation at the closing parade of the Olympic Games. Newspapers did not bother to such headlines as: "Triumph Vladimir Kutza!", "Russian Sailor - Cummy Melburstsev!" Roger Bunner was forced to change his opinion and after the Games in the article "Kutz - Cat, Piri - Mouse" wrote:
"But Kuts is not a car. His mind is the same strong as his body, and he owns tactical art. Spectators from all countries rose to greet the Kuts with his approach to the finish. Runners, as it, are born, and not prepare for the recipe. Kuts remains, as was to the Olympic Games, the greatest runner in the world ... "
In 1957, Kutsu was awarded the title of the best athlete of the world. It seemed that everything was successful. But instead of performances at the competition, Kutz fell into a sanatorium. Bothered the stomach, her legs hurt. Doctors warned: "Want to live - throw the run."
But Vladimir wanted all records on long distances to belong to him. And, despite the disease, at international competitions in Rome on October 13, 1957 at the Form-Italico Stadium, the Kuts stopwalls stopped the judges for 13 minutes 35 seconds! This new world record will last in the World Records Table of Eight, and in the Table of All-Union - Ten!
But in the future, he could no longer help neither the will or thorough preparation. It happened what doctors were warned: the legs ceased to obey and sore sick. The treatment in the hospital helped him in the spring of 1959 to win the cross of the Leningrad Military District. But that was the last speech of the Great Runner.
Leaving a treadmill, Kutz becomes a trainer in CSKA. He managed to prepare a lot of famous runners who defeated the All-Union and international arena. Unfortunately, family life He did not find himself, and in last years He lived alone in a studio apartment. And in 1973, Kutz fell into a car disaster. The injury was serious. Doctors doubted, will survive. Kutz lay around the month, then he was transferred to the Military Hospital named Burdenko. Left with a wand.
Demobilized. I got a job by the coach to the School of Higher Sportsmanship, but could not stand. Returned to his native CSKA, having received an appointment for the position of chief of children's sports school.
Maximum in nature, Vladimir Petrovich, throughout the allotted destiny, the coaching career dreamed of growing a second Kuts. In CSKA, where he worked, he had very talented disciples, such as champion and champion of the USSR, in a run of 5000 meters by Vladimir Afonin, the country champion in Slaply Cese Sergey Violin. But in the scale of victorious motivations, they were not founded even to the mark "I will win by anything" ...
Sergey Violin, a student of Kutza, champion and a three-time winner of the country in a run of 3000 meters with obstacles, the winner of the Olympics of the Peoples of the USSR:
I have not had to hear and read about the fact that the real coach from Kutz did not succeed, since he, they say, constantly identified himself with his students and demanded that they were not able to. Fuck it! Vladimir Petrovich was a teacher who had to still search. Not great (for this, probably, it was necessary to prepare olympic championships), but advanced. Some of his pupils, he in the literal sense replaced his father. We are with afonine, for example, they constantly lived with him (as long as Petrovich did not make us apartments in Moscow), he fed us with her own preparation, drove to competitions on his "Volga".
I have no doubt that at the Olympics of 1972 in Munich I could get to the pedestal, be near the coach - he could set up, starting before the start, like no other. But the Kutz in Munich was not, even though the organizers sent him a personal invitation ...
In January 1972, after the automotive accident and the nervous shock associated with it, Vladimir Petrovich suffered a stroke. After the restoration began to walk with a stick, and for some reason the Soviet sports functions thought that in this form to show the Kutz at the Olympics ...
I annoy me today and today's publications that Kuts, they say, godlessly drank, could, for example, in one day "remove" five bottles. These are all species of paddocks on fried journalists. Yes, Petrovich loved to drink, like many Russian people, but always knew the norm. He had others had problems. So it did not work out, for example, a personal life, although he tried twice to create a family. Both wives, by the way, were called to hears, and with both he never managed to find a common language.
He died after another quarrel with the second wife, who after the divorce lived in the same house on the street Fleet. On the eve of, we agreed with him to spend the last training session before leaving the national team for the traditional friendly match with the team of England. Afoni and I came to the CSKA stadium, took care of the cross, performed all the exercises, and Petrovich in training did not appear. In the evening he called me, asked to come. Naturally, I did not forced myself to wait long. We sat, talked, he was no longer sober.
At two o'clock in the morning I asked him to give him sleeping pills, and while I was distracted to get from the refrigerator mineral water, one smear swallowed six pills Seduksen. I think that he did it deliberately: it can be seen, very tired of all everydays and tagging the bouquet of disease. In recent years, loved to repeat that was a great athlete, and our soviet system made from him a great fool ...
But then I, honestly, did not give such a serious meaning that such a number of sleeping bags with alcohol could lead to so terrible consequences. In the morning I woke up, it became, as usual, going to training. Went to wake Vladimir Petrovich, and he is already cold.
We buried him at the Preobrazhensky cemetery, not far from the eternal flame and military burials of 1942-1943.
Facts about Vladimir Kutus
On the day of death, Kuts in Nice passed a major athletic international tournament. And when before the start of the next race, the announcer announced the tragic behavior, the competitions stopped. The whole stadium standing honored the memory of the Great Runner ...
Two phenomenal victories achieved by him at 10,000 meters (November 23) and 5,000 meters (November 28) made the XVI Games of the Olympiad Vladimir Kutza. And this is not the "invention" of Soviet propaganda, but a fact recorded by the Australian press. "Running the legendary Russian styer Vladimir Kutza did for the rapprochement of peoples much more than the hull of the most skilled diplomats"
At one of the concerts in the early 70s, Vladimir Vysotsky so determined the principle of its song programs: "I want them to be like Running Vladimir Kutz. Famous torn pace. A sharp start, philosophical calm, mad acceleration, again light braking, a ghostly chance worthy of rivals, winning finish jerk and proudly sprinkled hand ... "
Five years before the start of the games in the Melbourne Runner (and "part-time", the Soviet Sailor of the Baltic Fleet), Vladimir Kutz did not have not only a personal coach, but also the concepts that such an individual preparation plan and running schedule. In one of the interviews, Vladimir Kutz said: "I was already 23 years old, and I still plut in dotmakes, without having firmly, in which sport to stop. At my age, my future rivals - Hungarian Runner Shandor Iharosh owned by the world record, Czech Emil Popopek has already declared itself in the international arena, Englishman Gordon Piri had a 12-year-old experience of the runner, and I was just going to become a sports master, not knowing where to start targeted workouts and how to go to workshop workshop. It's good that I learned about the then successes of Iharoš, flooding and peeri a lot later ... "
Kutz was an avid car enthusiast and shortly before the Olympics bought himself a "victory." But, apparently, he did not have time to visit her, so, therefore, I barely arrived in Melbourne, I decided to catch up in someone else's land. He persuaded one Australian to give him a ride on his car within the Olympic Village. He agreed. Vladimir sat in her coach Nikiforov, his colleague Klimov and sat down behind the wheel. And then there was an unexpected. Apparently, without having calculated its actions (the car was foreign, the steering wheel with right sideAnd her engine was twice as powerful than the "victory"), Kuts rushed the car from the scene and crashed into a pillar. In this accident, he received a dozen of various wounds, which had to heal in the local trauma. This event, naturally, did not hide from the eye of the ubiquitous reporters, and in the evening of the same day the newspaper did the newspaper that the hope of Soviet athletes - Vladimir Kuts - is seriously injured and dropped out of the games. To refute these rumors, Kutzu had to personally appear on dancing into the Olympic concert hall and on the dance floor to demonstrate to all that he was absolutely healthy.
The victory on the "dozen" cost the bumps is very expensive: the doctors discovered blood in her urine. In order for the body to recover, it took time, and there was no athlete: on November 28 he had to participate in the next race - by 5000 m. And then Kutz decided to abandon the race. They say that the team supported him, but the official from the sports committee, who was there, said: "Volodya, you have to run because it is not for you, but our homeland!" In addition, the official promised an athlete in the event of victory to general retirement. In short, Kutz came to the distance. And, of course, won, winning the second gold medal. But after these victories he has restored health for more than a year.
Throughout the stay of the Soviet team in Melbourne against its athletes, and especially against Kuts, several provocations were made. For example, once with Vladimir, a spectacular blonde was collided on the street "by chance", who introduced a countrywoman athlete (allegedly from Ukraine) and invited him to visit him. However, Kutsu enough of the mind and excerpt to tactfully evade several families.
Another time, already at the very end of the games, during a press conference, arranged by the Kota, a certain lady jumped to his table and with the "Red Rat!" I crumbled eight rats from the bag on the table painted with red paint. Kutz and this time resolved.
At the championships of the Armed Forces Kutz was known as a wizard of Spring-Cezu Sports (running at 3000 m with obstacles).
School nickname Volodya was PU or the Pooh, which was given to him for the completeness. With a rise of 172 cm, he weighed 85 kg and classmates often podded him. When he began to run, then weight, of course, dropped.
At one time, the psychologist of the USSR national athletics team, Maria Yermolaeva, offered a list of victory motivations of athletes: "It would be good to win," I want to win, "" I will definitely win, "" I will do everything for winning, "I will win by anything", "Umna, but win." The last motivation approached the Kutz, like no other. And subsequently fixed at all. Vladimir really offered to his rivals running on the verge of life and death.
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57 years ago, on November 28, 1956, in the Olympic Melbourne, the Great Soviet runner Vladimir Kutz won the final race at a distance of 5000 m. It was the second victory of Kutza at the 1956 Olympic Games. On November 23, Vladimir won the finals of the run for 10,000 m.
In this fan video of the Spanish Run Lover - both victories of Kutz. They were obsessed completely differently.
In running on 10,000m kuts, for the first time in the history of the run, the tactics of "torn" run - acceleration along the distance for 200-400 m and sharp discharge of speed. This tactic was developed by coach Kutza, the Great Soviet mentor Grigory Nikiforov, after several defeats of his student from his main rivals - English runners.
Here is a video, as October 13, 1954, Chris Chatauway establishes a world record at a distance of 5000m in London and defeats Vladimir Kutz. This record stood just 10 days, after which Kutz improves it in Prague. Matching meeting London-Moscow, there were such cool starts!
However, all the same, Kuts had no good finish, and his rivals, sowing to resist Vladimir to the last circle, almost always won. Preparing k. Olympic Games In Melbourne-1956, Nikiforov and Kuts worked a lot over a variety of tactical runways, to avoid the finishing sprint disadvantage.
Kota's main rival at the Olympic 10-Ke - Englishman Gordon Piri - was fighting such tactics. Pyiri fought desperately, picked up all the acceleration of the Kutza, and they broke it - for 1200 m to Finish, Kutz made the last, decisive acceleration and left Piri. Gordon barely reached the finish line of the 8th. Kuts won with the Olympic record.
Results of the Olympic Games 1956, running per 10000m, final, men:
1. Vladimir Kuts (URS) 28: 45.6
2. József Kovács (HUN) 28: 52.4
3. ALLAN LAWRENCE (AUS) 28: 53.6
4. Zdzisław KrzySzkowiak (POL) 29: 05.0
5. Kenneth Norris (AUS) 29: 21.6
6. Ivan Chernyavskiy (URS) 29: 31.6
7. David Power (AUS) 29: 49.6
8. GORDON PIRIE (GBR) 30.00: 6
9. Herbert Schade (EUA) 30.00: 6
10. Frank Sando (GBR) 30.00: 6
11. Pavel Kantorek (TCH) 30.00: 6
12. ALAIN MIMOUN (FRA) 30.18: 0
Having won the 10000 m equal run, Kuts on the second distance - 5000m - again surprised his feedback. From the start he led the run in a very high pace close to the schedule of the world record. This time, to fight with the Kota his own weapon decided another "open" opponent Chris Chataui. He did not believe in the seriousness of the intentions of Kuts and even at some point came forward, thinking that Kuts would play in the same game as for 10,000 m. It cost Chataui olympic medal - He finished only the 11th. The scientific experience of Piri and cautious Ibbotson became silver and bronze medalists.
And Vladimir Kutz won with an excellent result - 13: 39.6, also by the Olympic record.
Results of the Olympic Games 1956, Running on 5000m, Final, Men:
1. Vladimir Kuts (URS) 14: 15.4 13: 39.6
2. GORDON PIRIE (GBR) 14: 25.6 13: 50.6
3. DEREK IBBOTSON (GBR) 14: 18.8 13: 54.4
4. Miklós Szabó (HUN) 14: 32.6 14: 03.4
5. Albie Thomas (AUS) 14: 14.2 14: 04.6
6. Laszlo Tabori (HUN) 14: 18.6 14: 09.8
7. Nyandika Maiyoro (Ken) 14: 29.4 14: 19.0
8. THYGE TOGERSEN (DEN) 14: 29.0 14: 21.0
9. Pyotr Bolotnikov (URS) 14: 28.0 14: 22.4
10. Ivan CherniaVsky (URS) 14: 32.4 14: 22.4
11. Christopher Chataway (GBR) 14: 32.6 14: 28.8
12. Herbert Schade (EUA) 14: 18.8 14: 31.8
- Bill Dellinger (USA) 14: 26.8 DNF
- Velisa Mugosa (Yug) 14: 25.6 DNF
Personal records of Vladimir Kutza: 5000 m - 13: 35.0 (1957), 10,000 m - 28: 30.4 (1956). These were world records. The record for 5000 m stood 8 years - he broke his famous crusher of Records Australian Ron Clark. After 56 years, the results of Vladimir Kutza are already too fast for Russian runners. The best Russian styer of 2013, Yevgeny Rybakov: 5000 m - 13: 46.28 and 10,000 m - 28: 34.56.
Unfortunately, there is no good book about the life of Kuts. The autobiographical book "The Tale of Run" is not only weak from a literary point of view, but also very much inaccurate with the sports side of the narration. I have a lot about Petrovich Kutus told Nikitich - Vladimir Nikitich Maslachenko. Best football commentator In the history of Soviet-Russian television lived full events and meetings life. I still regret that I did not remove the film with Nikitich. His stars about the stars soviet Sport There were not only a source of knowledge, but also a real intellectual pleasure.
Vasily Parnyakov