Latin Larisa Semenovna
Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
Honored coach
Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation
Nine-time Olympic champion
Owner of eighteen Olympic medals
Two absolute world champion
Multiple world champion, Europe
Winner of the Cup of the USSR
Absolute champion of the USSR, Japan
Cavalier Order "For Merit Before Fatherland" III and IV degree
Father Deeriy Semen Andreevich (1906-1943), a participant in the Great Patriotic War, died in the Battle of Stalingrad.Mother - Barabanus Pelagia Anisimovna (1902-1975). Spouse - Feldman Yuri Israelovich (1938 Birth), Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian and International Academy of Electrotechnical Sciences, Past - President, General Director of Joint-Stock Electrical Company Dynamo OJSC. Daughter - Latynina Tatyana Ivanovna (1958 Born.), For 15 years, danced in the choreographic ensemble "Berzka". Grandchildren: Konstantin (1981 born.), Vadim (1994 Born.).
The share of Larisa and her mother fell out of the difficult years of enemy occupation and post-war ruin. To feed the family, Mom had to work during the day and night - a cleaner and an exposure. Nevertheless, her unshakable principle - the daughter should be brought up not worse than those in humans - acted under any circumstances.
Larisa Semenovna recalls: "I will never forget the war. And none of my generation will not forget her. Among the families of my peers there is not one that would not touch the trouble of wartime. Somewhere in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Great Battle of Stalingrad, in the Earth, dyed by fragments and impregnated by Powder Gar, My Father is buried. "
Larisa since childhood dreamed of ballet. The girl clearly imagined a huge scene Big Theater., multi-tiered lounge and stormy applause addressed to Larisa Diyiron ballerina, dancing on stage easily, confidently naturally. Once after the lesson, Larisa saw an announcement that choreographic studio was opened in the house of folk art. Training in it cost 50 rubles per month, which constituted the essential part of the mother's salary, but Mom without thinking, gave this money. If B.
The same time somewhere has opened any other paid school - for example, playing the piano, then there would be the latest money.
... The day came when we, shyring from the excitement of noses, began to study the great wisdom of the ancient and wonderful art of ballet. Our head of Nikolai Vasilyevich Stesso seemed to us a direct close heir of the Petipa, and we often wondered: why did he get to us in Kherson, and not command the soloists and the horren of the corpsoretole on the scenes of Moscow or Leningrad? On the protection of our leader, we fell to the speech by touring our Great Dancer Lpeshinskaya. If in the first moments the question "can I be like that?" It was still subconsciously, then he retreated, as he retreated and fed all the surrounding, except for the scene. Then I first really saw what was accepted now to call the words "the amazing world of movements." Yes, it was a new, beautiful, dazzling world, and when the performance ended, I did not even believe that one person moved there.
Soon the studio closed - did not have enough parental fell. N.V. Stemo invited Larisa and another girl to continue classes in the circle, which he led in one of the clubs. There, girlfriends were in an almost adult club life: they "put numbers", they danced at the evenings of amateur activities, took place for evening film. And yet the atmosphere was no longer the same, Larisa decided to part with the dances. It is impossible to say that this decision was easy for her. It did not mean that she broke up with a dream. After all, she already had gymnastics ...
I really liked the gymnastics, as you like the movements to any child and as the art of beautiful movements of any girl. I used to climb on trees and attics and tighten into improvised crossbars from the pipes, running on stone parapets and jump with a rope. At the end of my dance career, the decisive role was played by the fact that parallel, it would seem, the courses of ballet and gymnastics were still crossed. "Leave you, Larisa, gymnastics - she is lit up, consolidate muscles, and in general it is not an art, except that the circus is closer," said I speak politely, making hands, Nikolai Vasilyevich Stesso. "Throw, Laura, His Hopak," my first coach Mikhail Afanasyevich Sotnichenko said angrily. - This is a frivolous business. Only interferes with sports. And in the gymnastics, something began to get something. "
Mom, Dad and Larisa. 1940
Champion of the USSR among schoolchildren. 1951
Something worked with a hopak. But I believed Mikhail Afanasyevich. Childhood and youth quickly capture false and truth. And every word of my first coach, school teacher, Always it was true.
Gymnastics became more and more in the life of Larisa. In 1950, she completed the first category and as part of the team of schoolchildren of Ukraine went to the All-Union Championship in Kazan. However, the performance failed: the young gymnast received zero on the crossbar and was then worried about, alone pouring into tears. It was then that Larisa learned one firm rule: laugh with everyone, cry alone.
After Kazan Larisa trained with double energy and already in the 9th grade I performed the standard of the master of sports. In Kherson, at the urban stadium, she solemnly handed the icon and certificate. She became the first master of sports of the USSR in his hometown. In 1953, Larisa graduated from school with a gold medal and was going to go to Kiev to enter the Polytechnic Institute. Almost simultaneously from Moscow, she was sent a challenge to the All-Union Collection of Bratsevo, where the USSR national team was preparing, traveling to the World Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest. Decisive control qualifying competitions she walked adequately and soon got a cherished blue wool suit with a white "Olympic" strip on the neck and letters of the "USSR".
In the capital of Romania, the first in sports career Larisa Diriy Gold medals at competitions of international scale were won.
Workout…
In training with Alexander Semenovich Mishakov
Bucharest.
For the first time in the national team of the USSR.
L. Latinina, T. Manina.
1953
Warsaw. Student games. 1955
In Kiev, a student of the Electrotechnical Faculty of Polytech Larisa continued training under the leadership of the Honored Coach of the USSR Alexander Semenovich Mishakov. For a capable girl, sports from simple hobby has surrendered to the work of life and demanded more and more attention. She became more clearly to choose the path where the future profession will be related to sports. And when it became apparent, she switched to study at the Institute of Physical Culture.
There was time, and once in the June day of 1954 we found themselves in the eternal city - Rome. The thirteenth championship of the world, and for Soviet gymnasts - the first. And it was held in unprecedented conditions: in the open sky, in the shadow, the thermometer showed more than forty degrees, it was scary to approach the projectiles.
Fortunately, we started with free exercises. I remember the feeling of unexpected lightness, with which I went out on the carpet and began running away. Turns, high jumps, jump with a turn - everything turned out, and it turned out quite well. I finished the exercise and heard applause.
The competition continued to exercise in equilibrium on the log. I finally dry the lips, and it seemed that the sweat would necessarily rush into the eyes, and the sultry air seemed to be a thick fog. I whispered myself: I do not fall, I don't fall, and instantly forgot, that quite recently performed with such ease. Dismount. Completely exhausted, I thought: No, it is impossible to act. Meanwhile, Sonya Muratova dropped out of the struggle, received a dislocation of the elbow joint. Maria Gorokhovskaya was leading, followed by her perfectly jumped Tamara Manine, and nearby Galina Shamray and me. The excitement was very large.
After the first day of the competition, we read in the evening newspapers: "Russia has an indisputable advantage. Soviet gymnasts are calm, cold-blooded, have a wonderful style and have an unconditional superiority to the rivals in the performance of exercises under the mandatory program. " I would know the author of these lines, which was worth our girls every speech.
In the morning I decided: the worst behind. This time we started at ten o'clock, and the stands of the stadium were filled with spectators who were protected by the Sun with the most families. We applauded in advance before the performance. And our freely spawned, played. Later, I was shown the translation of the articles of the famous German gymnast in Dichuta, where there were such lines: "What a young Larisa Diriy has demonstrated to us, we see very rarely ... It was the purest acrobatic work, which showed an excellent ballet school, and wonderful musical Foundming, which provides harmony in difficult exercises. This is an exemplary demonstration of international class skills. "
The highest rating in an arbitrary program, the largest amount of points and the gold medal of the world championship learned Tamara Manina. Tamara - world champion. I believed and did not believe it, and rejoiced the success of the girlfriend, wondered and distilled the idea that I could also speak well, because I was in the group of leaders. However, the grave cargo of leadership was then not clear to me. Fucked with bars! Perfectly losses were estimated in two points. Tamara Manina, and the most experienced Maria Gorokhovskaya were allowed. Fortunately, Galya Shamray withstood all the exhausting peripetics of the struggle and boldly attacked the top, which we, in truth, were afraid to think.
Moscow. USSR Championship. 1964
The USSR national team won the first place, and Larisa Latynina (Dironi) in its composition received the first gold medal of the world champion.
Two years remained to the Olympics in Melbourne. Larisa and her coach Alexander Semenovich Mishakov were looking for a special style where the sport would be harmoniously combined with artistry. The search was not easy. Sometimes he had to hear reproaches: "Take the ballet in the gymnastics, and here you do not need to show the experiences."
Semented taught us to think, to solve something on each workout. However, he recognized improvisation then in very certain boundaries. "You first learn, repeat, and then wait for the spark of God," he said to me. And I taught and repeated dozens and hundreds of times.
The best gymnasts of the world: L. Latynina, B. Shahin, Y. Titov.
1962
In March 1956, Larisa won large international competitions in Kiev, defeating Tamar Manine, Sophia Muratov and Galina Shamray. Moreover, won the all-around and won on three shells, leaving Eva Bosakov and Hungarian Agnesh Kelty behind the Czech. In May in Baku L. Latinina won the USSR Cup. Then followed the USSR Championship and two gold rewards for jumping and free exercises. This meant that Larisa's corporate identity came to the shower.
And it came on December 3, 1956. P. Astakhova, L. Kalinina, L. Latinina, T. Manina, S. Muratova, L. Yegorova were first published on the gymnastic lip of Melbourne as part of the team of the Soviet Union. All - Debutants of the Olympics.
Friends rival.
L. Ivanova, L. Latinina, T. Manina.
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"Make everything you know how to do, and speak well," Alexander Semenovich said me. Previously, these words would have sowed a lot of doubts, and now the experience has already suggested: yes, perhaps, this is true. I saw in training that I do much no worse than recognized masters. After two shells, the best of us Sonya Muratov in third place, and I on the pole. After jumping, we leave the team in the first place and won already more points. Now you can safely understand and in personal chances - ahead of the whole day of rest.
So, in all-around in the first place Romanian Elena Leustyana. Keltei Agnesh, as we expected, let down jumps - she is on the fourth ... in second place Sonya, on the third. Between us and the leader, the thousandths of points, and Tamara, which occupies the fifth place, loses the Keltei a little. So everything is ahead. "Third place is very good for you," Mishakov told me, "but I still have to stay." "Do everything, as already done," I repeat before the jump. I do not know if it was a high automatism of the skill, as I talked later, or something else, but from the whole jump I remembered only landing in the "Dakekeke".
The fact that the assessment was the highest for the whole day, I learned later. But here you passed free exercises: both Agnash Keltei, and I have the greatest and equal amounts. I rejoiced this victory then evenly, and then I have already realized her as a personal achievement as the advantage of the style. Apparently, in this watch I believed in my senses, after a break on the bars, I was easily easily, calmly and got the grant for all days in Melbourne in women - 9.6. This gave me a second place and a silver medal.
So, equilibrium on the log. It was the moment of the XVI Olympic Games, when calm left me. At first I felt on a log fixed with a mannequin, and then, when the movements still found ease, I thought: "Do not break, do not break." This is a very bad refrain. Forget under it about all the other. It is unlikely that the actor will be able to light the viewer, if during the monologue he repeats about himself: "Do not forget, not forget." He will not forget, but he will quickly forget. After Melbourne, I managed to get rid of such a refragment. It seemed not to one and a half minutes, and one and a half hours passed until I jumped off the log. That's the assessment. I do not have time to perceive her, but I understand, if I kiss me and hug and linen, and Lida and the girls run to me, - Victory!
The ship "Georgia".
P. Astakhova, L. Kalinina, L. Latynina, T. Manina, S. Muratova, L. Egorova. 1956
On the ship "Georgia", when we returned home, I was handing the icon and certificate of the Honored Master of Sports of the USSR and Cake. It also relied in our delegation for gold medals. The icon is individual, cakes - at anyone who goes to the cabin. ... I remember many meetings in my homeland, but this one is the first after my Olympic Games - was especially unexpected. Until those minutes until they went to the snowy Vladivostok coast, we all lived in the world of sports. In the Olympic Whether the enzyme of peoples, or in their delegation, or in the hall, full viewers, we were still in the usual environment of people who knew the price and sports, and victories, and defeat. And only here they understood how many people would seem to be invited to sports, waited for victories, watched and worried, rejoiced and disappeared. Our train from Vladivostok people met at all stations and in such hours, when it was time to sleep and we, and who met. For more than 8 days, the train was, and all this time in our coupe, on the platforms of the station, even where the train passed the gerverters and connectors, we felt something incomparably more than friendly curiosity and attention. We felt recognition, recognition of the people, recognition of the Great country.
In 1957, Larisa Latynina wins the European Cup and defeats in all four exercises. In equal struggle, its new style is approved.
Moscow Palace of Sports. Here in 1958, the opening of the World Championship is preparing the opening of the World Championship, which was to start Latin. But unlike the first start in 1954, she had to defend the right to refer to the best gymnast of the planet. The duel for this title began in December 1957 at the USSR championship. Larisa loses Sophie Muratova competition for the absolute championship. Wins only in free exercises.
There are things in the life of a woman, in front of which the magic of sports, or art is retreating, or the ability to build dams and drive planes. He retreats everything. I'm waiting for a child. I think I just entered here, in the white-green house of the clinic on the Boulevard Taras Shevchenko. Opposite me, a calm gray professor.
- What are your plans, girl?
- What are your plans now? What you say, I will do.
"When I didn't wait, I was going to perform in July to the world championship."
- In July ... - Professor thought about and calmly said: - Well, speak!
- In July?
- in July, and only no one word. Commission will begin, tips, they themselves scare and scared you.
- But it's dangerous, doctor?!
- Listen to me, girl! In the gymnastics, I see worse than you, of course, but in the ballet, let's say I am a famous obese grandma. And in medicine, I understand the already much better than in ballet and gymnastics. I tell you: if you are a brave person - speak. The child will be healthy, the mother will be happy, Professor - pleased. What else? If the panty is sitting, starting to die with fear now.
- Professor?!
- Do you know what the doctor Anton Chekhov said? "Where is the art where talent there is no old age, nor loneliness, no disease and death herself half." Risk? And I tell you that it is only your risk.
I went out and loudly laughed: it was heard on all the boulevards. I could shut up the bells now that they rang on the five-chapted church standing nearby.
"Risk only you," the professor told me then. But is it? There is a huge personal risk. Scary and think about misfortune. But there is risk and other kind: I am the leader of the team, I will perform the latter - this is a recognition of the class, recognition of my opportunities to win. And this is the trust that you think more than once and not two.
"To his title of the absolute champion of the Olympic Games of Larisa Latynina, I certainly wants to add the title of world champion," they write in the Soviet Sport. And who does not want? Now, if at least in one copy, the newspapers wrote how to do it.
... And here I stand on the podium podium. I am awarded the gold medal of the absolute world champion. No, it's not a night, not sleepy visions, not a dream: this is a yawl. There are still finals in projectiles ahead. The team we won the championship confidently and with a big advantage. I remember how the stands were chanting: "Congratulations to Laura, congratulations!" This is not a hum of someone else's room, where it is necessary to conquer support, sympathy. These are your native walls, native people. Good to perform at home!
I remember the happy face of Alexander Semenovich Mishakova - during the day before the absolute world champion of the world became Boris Shahin. Two absolute world champion - students of one coach - this has not yet been in world gymnastics! I managed to conquer the first places in the jumps and on the bars. Congratulating Tamaru, who became the world champion in the exercises on the log, whispered to her:
- Tamar, and I'm waiting for a child.
"Ah," Tamara waved his hand, "you will always invent anything unfortunately."
The professor was right: my Tanyushka was born a healthy, mobile girl. Ten days after her birth, I was 24 years old. I was a happy mom. What else to wish? I possessed the highest titles in gymnastics ... But all this has already taken place. And again I waited, counting on my fingers, how much time will pass when I can again truly plunge into our booming beautiful world of sports. Legs themselves led to the gym.
Memorable card released in Kiev. 1957
Spring has come, I said goodbye to the institute. I will not hide, I was pleased with the diploma with honors. Ahead was the preparation of the II Games of the Peoples of the USSR. I was returning. Let it hard, painfully, but returned. And here is the meeting of the coaching council, there are no special reasons for excitement: the team of Ukraine is six people, I should have a place there. The place was found, but I heard such comments: - for the entire collection did not make a single combination to the end. What and in Moscow for her Mishakov will have to perform?!
In the national team, the USSR was very strong Polina Astakhov, on the rise of Ivanov-Kalinina Lida, who became the champion of the USSR in 1958. Then, after the championship, comic expression sounded: "We wish Kalinina to win with Latin." Well, now, with me, it's not good to win. Tamara and Sonya are ready to defeat. And maybe someone else. Here in Voronezh Tamara Lukhin rose - a thin, miniature, accurate girl.
Moscow, Olympics. And I'm fourth again. Not a single gold medal. One silver - in jumping. But I'm joyful. Still, I returned. Nothing that today the absolute champion of the USSR Lina Astakhova is much stronger than me. Nothing that in front of me is old rivals and girlfriends. I did not let the team of Ukraine - the second one. The fourth in the Union, which means again in the national team. So except for the year that he separates Spartakiad from the Olympic Games, I will not add to the mind?
"It will be a very difficult year," the Seeds told me thoughtfully.
"It seemed to many that Larisa could no longer be able to return to the trophies on the gymnastic arena" - these are words from the newspaper. They are written after the Olympic Games in Rome. But they were told before the start of the games. The Roman Olympiad is marked by an acute rivalry between the two outstanding Soviet gymnasts - Larisa Latin and Polina Astakhova.
We started with jumps. The best score from Sony - 9,566. I have 9,533. Lina gets 9,466. After a second view, where Lina, brilliantly after performing the entire combination on the bars, receives 9.8, and I 9.7, it becomes the leader. Nor to Rome, nor in Rome, nor after Rome, I have never engaged in the competition by counting and my own and other people's assessments. If the seed and planned something for himself, he showed me all the records after the competition: I did not come true. But when they called the sum of the leader and the next mine, there was nothing to consider - I lost thirty-three thousandths. And very calmly, I went to play on the log. Here I "shit", and quite fairly followed "Zabet" and the result - 9,366. Then - excellent speech Lina - 9.5. After for the free we received equal estimates, it turned out that Astakhov ahead of me on 177 thousands, almost two tenths. Is there a lot or a little?
Rome. Olympic Games. After the pants. 1960
Meanwhile, Boris Shahin won the next title of the absolute Olympic champion in sports gymnastics. I congratulated Boris and Semyon.
"Well," Alexander Semenovich said me, "tomorrow we will congratulate you."
- Do you still believe?
- Believe? Yes, I have been recorded in the plan - two absolute Olympic champion. You know how plans make up, but then claim? Show? Here you won the world championship in Moscow, it means that it is impossible now less.
... and again jumping. Evaluation - 9,433, in one form I recover from Lina almost all that it has accumulated for the first day. But the next appearance is bars, where Polina was then unsurpassed. Here she returns her one tenth. Then log. Boldly ahead. And, as always, do not think about the assessment, do not think about danger, do not think about rivals. Think about how it is better to perform, showing everything you know, spiritualizing the skill with feeling. The result turned out accordingly the setting - 9.7.
Polina failed to maintain balance. She fell and rating 8,733 dropped out of the struggle for the championship. After many years, I once again say that I would truly be happy in Rome if we fought with her for the absolute championship at equal to the end. This did not happen, and many hurried to declare that if it were not for the fall, Astakhov would become the Olympic champion. I can say: yes, it may be very, and it would be. But it may be very much that everything would be solved in the last form.
I was preparing for free, and before my eyes I had a face of Polina, crying on a bench. After many years in a very unpleasant conversation, I was told: "Sport made you cruel." Cruel? I never agree with this. Sport made us adamant - it's right. After a minute weakness of Polina goes to the platform and brilliantly performs free. Applauded and shouted on all the stands. The searchlights illuminating the platform shinned in a new way. And at that instant, preparing for your exit, I did not think about the assessment again, I knew: only an accident could deprive me now the title of absolute champion. Accident is possible, but I will not think about being insured and caped. I had to show everything that I can, express everything that I feel.
One and a half minutes of music, as well as ninety-seconds of movements, probably, is not enough to leave a very deep impression. And yet, merged together, they can say a lot. In these moments, it all depends on you. Do not think about how to get a diagonal and exit a rack, do not waste the last minutes to repeat the flasks. Think of one thing: how best to convey all you want to say with your movements, which serves every one of them. Then, in Rome, I knew it. I really wanted these free steel events not only for me. I started and finished them in one breath. Perhaps for the first time in my life I was extremely listened to the noise of applause. And even before the evaluation of the judges - 9.9 - knew: I fulfilled what I was thinking.
But the results of the absolute championship: I am the first, Sonya Muratova is the second, Lina Astakhova - the third, Rita Nikolaev is the fourth, Lida Ivanova - the seventh. The zero assessment on the log far dropped Tamar Lukhin, but she also gets a gold medal for a team victory. We won almost nine points from Czech girls with the team, and the Day of Finals was our day.
The world press was full of enthusiastic responses: "Russian girls harm the Olympic medals in the" Terms "(the newspaper" Mesciero ")," Russian gymnasts are amazing "(Stockholm newspaper" Svenska Dagblade "). "German Olympic newspaper", on the first strip: "Russian gymnasts, as it was already in Helsinki, Melbourne, turned out to be in Rome invincible. After success in the team competition and triumph in the personal event on the gymnastic all-around Russian girls in concluding competitions on individual projectiles from 12 played Olympic medals won 11. English newspapers: "Calm gymnasts" of the Soviet Union "dominated the Olympic competitions." "Soviet gymnasts," said Gianni Rodari in Pathiere sulfur, was given on television the finest idea of \u200b\u200bthe Olympic Games. We have never seen anything more beautiful than beauty, grace and harmony.
Television commentator said: "Soviet gymnasts dares all opponents. They took everything that could be taken away, and stunned everyone ... The third time in a row the Soviet Union dominates the gymnastics at the Olympics. Gymnastics is the festival of the USSR. "
"Listen," one expansive fan told me that evening, because it was phenomenal. The medals were filled with you from the sky, as in a good starfall.
"No, Signor," I replied, "we get every medal from the sky ourselves. "Everyone has their own stars."
Possessing all the titles that exist in the world sports gymnastics, being a recognized form in this sport, L. Latynina for many years could not win the internal championship of his country - so great was the competition among her girlfriends and rivals. But this situation was soon resolved soon: in 1961 and 1962, Larisa became an absolute champion of the USSR.
In 1961, in the Grand Exhibition Hall of the city of Leipzig, the European Championship was held, one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world. L. Latynina won the European Cup and free exercises. For life, sports happiness and his ornament remained in mind: a brown thunderstorm, extinguished during the performance of light and red-punch roses, which was given to winners in Leipzig.
1962 year. The World Cup takes Prague. The very fact of holding the largest gymnastic forum in the capital of Czechoslovakia testified to the international recognition of the success of the gymnasts of this country, and above all Eva Bosakova and the Faith of the Chairlawski - the main rivals Larisa Latinina and her friends on the team. For Latin, it was the third world-class championship. Proving the priority of the Soviet gymnastic school was to be in an acute struggle.
Before starting the tricky minutes. Five of our girls in front of me will be held a projectile. I am the leader of the team, closing - sixth. The first knows in advance: no chance of personal success, work only on the team. And the second, consider, not so much chance, and in the third. That is why after coaching reflections, we already know their opinions before the competitions: who is who is in the team.
Sofia. Europe championship.
A. Chervyakova (coach),
L. Latynina, L. Petrik. 1965
Finally the first day is finished. I am leading, win two and a half of the tenths .. A day, in the evening, the multi-thousand Palace will support the leader of the Czechoslovak team. It will be hot. Does not interfere with this heat my gold in silver? When my free, I was over, I saw an assessment - 9.9 and quickly looked at Essay Gdaliwich Vevrica, our composer-accompaniator, who composed music specifically for my speech. He sat behind the tool tired, touching, and smiled.
In the history of world gymnastics, the Prague championship entered as another Latin triumph: she is the absolute world champion, already double, is still invincible in favorite free exercises. The USSR team reaffirmed his championship again, but the fact became as apparent: Vera Chawlsk could be the strongest rival to our gymnasts at the upcoming Olympiad in Tokyo.
- You know, they are talking about me, "A.S. said to me in the way Mishakov - that my ideas are outdated, I imagine yesterday gymnastics and that I am already grandfather.
- Well, I am a grandmother of our gymnastics.
At the next SPARTACADE, I lost to the Muratova three tenths in all-around. And did not won a single gold medal on the shells. Only the Olympics ended, and it was already necessary to gather in a distant journey. In Brazil, in Porto Allegro, World Universiade. Let someone I am a grandmother of Russian gymnastics, but I have not yet turned twenty nine years old, I am a graduate student and should perform at student competitions.
After the Universiade, I discourage me from a trip to Japan. Our Dr. Michal Mikhalych is concerned about my cardiogram. Extrasyistol. Russian: heart interruptions. I do not have them for the first time. Before the European Cup went to the consultation to Professor Letunov.
- We must go to the hospital for a month, - Seraphim Petrovich looked at me through thick glasses of glasses very angry. He knew perfectly well that I was not a lyg to the hospital. Considered: it will be enough to drink every day calcium chloride. Large bottle I left this drug in a Moscow hotel. And now this extrasystole is again.
- Go for a consultation!
- I am going on the third ("decisive") Floor of the Central Council and I say: "It will be a big mistake if a year before the Olympic Games we will leave rivals in Tokyo without Competition!"
- Suggestions?
- Go to Tokyo!
And I'm going to the open championship of Japan. And the extrasystole does not prevent me from winning all-around, free and log. I become an absolute champion of the country of the rising sun. However, all thoughts about the Olympiad, which will take place here, in Tokyo, but in a year.
Later, when the recordings of the loads of 1964 showed me, it turned out: in front of Tokyo I did almost twice as much as usual. But the sports form has never been measured only by physical training. The psychological climate in front of Tokyo created the mood: you need to catch up. It seemed why? After all, I was the official leader. Vera Chawlsk did not benefit me yet any competition, including the last in Japan.
Before starting the competition, the definition of the order of our speech on the projectiles clearly said: the coaches believe that the team has two leaders - Lina Astakhov and me. The time passed when the struggle for the championship was our internal affair. It was useless to fight with a rival tandem: we were just missing those hundredths folded in the tenths, and there were six of them - which are given to one, only one leader.
Once again I want to say that such a leader could be or Lina, or me. Who exactly - the coaches should have been solved. Some of us will undoubtedly be offended. But someone may have been able to conquer the medal of the absolute champion. After all, with that arrangement of the forces, which was accepted, we lost a little. In the absolute championship, we were prepared this time second and third places.
Yes, we lost to the faith of Cheslavskaya. And lost a worthy rival.
On the pedestal, every step is honorable. I was able to exactly almost the same as in Rome, to perform on all projectiles: bars - second, log - second, the third jump.
Olympic champion on the bars was Polina Astakhov. Before free, what was held on the last day, I knew: and here everything will decide "a little bit."
Let someone reproach me in insincerity, but, thinking about the victory, I did not think about the gold medal. After all, I already won it and the most honorable - along with the team. But the victory was needed to me: I just did not have the right to finish the Olympic way by defeat. And not only me: before the last hours of the competition, we still laughed from the American delegation in an unofficial team competition for eleven and a half. Glasses, medals: boring sport arithmetic. But because she is boring to someone from the side, you can't abolish it. Then it turned out that after our polynah medals, Boris Lagutina Boxer's victory was required in the final, and the delegation came out in the first place.
"Times" wrote in those days: "In the life of every person there are several moments of such beauty, which causes tears and sneaking in the chest. It can be a sunset in the mountains, a picture, some musical excerpt, it can be one of those rare moments when sport suddenly becomes a form of art. One such moment we experienced here in Tokyo, when Latynina fascinated us with their free exercises.
At that moment she was not just a magnificent gymnast. She was the embodiment of youth, beauty and glitter "; "Latin remains in memory. Now she is 29 years old, perhaps we will never see her such. But it is precisely such moments as those that she gave us this evening will generate eternal hopes. "
Tokyo. Olympic Games. Finalistics
In exercises
On bars.
1964
Dortmund. World Championship. 1966 L. Petrik, L. Latynina, N. Kuchinskaya, O. Karayova, S. Muratova (coach), Z. Druzhinina, P. Astakhova
Larisa Latynina is the only gymnast that was able to win gold medals in free exercises on three Olympiads in a row - in Melbourne (1956), in Rome (1960) and Tokyo (1964), and the only Olympic Games owner of the Olympic medals, from which 9 are gold.
And then the moment came when my hopes were even less to contact the big gymnastics. Back in 1962, before Prague, I laughing, distilled the idea of \u200b\u200bparting with the sport, thought that oh, how far, far until the moment of farewell. Yes, no one in our team did not appear.
But it was 1964, and our wonderful teams are not. Lida Ivanov and Ira arrived in Tokyo (both knee injuries). After Tokyo, Sonya Muratova, Tamara Manina, Tamara Lihina, said goodbye. And that is very strange, they left the gymnastics and those young who diluted our team in Tokyo, - Lucy Gromova and Lena Wolchtskaya.
In the January day of 1965, I waited for the Palace of Sports Alexander Semenovich, and my thoughts were completely unhappy. I recently lost here the USSR championship 15-year-old girl Larisa Petrik. And what is surprising: I am twice as older than her.
I am preparing for a speech at the 1965 European Championship. And it brings me second places. Five silver medals. Larisa Petriks I won, as Mishakov predicted, and first place - again in Chawl. And this time without any "but". She is stronger - that's all. Then the autumn of the same year in Mexico City, when I finally understood: I do not reach the Olympics.
With my husband I. Latynin. Visiting sculptor
Larisa Latynina-coach
And since, it was necessary to schedule my last frontier. And I set it out: September 1966, the championship of the world in Dortmund.
I have repeatedly asked questions: "Did you have a desire to leave earlier, unfeesened, or in the Operal of the last success in Tokyo?"
And I, absolutely not hesitating, answered: "No. I never connected my gymnastics only with victories. If a strong rival appeared earlier and beat me in 1960 or in 1962, would you have to leave? Did you leave those who beat me?
When the athlete tries to leave undefendant, although she can still give something to sports, people, - he retreats. Externally, this courage - went in the prime. Essentially, this is a cowardice: it is afraid to lose. I lost in Tokyo, and in Sofia. I knew perfectly that I would not win Dortmund, but I knew another thing: I have enough strength to perform for the team! Unfortunately, in a persistent struggle we lost to the Czechoslovak national team only thirty-eight thousandths! Sport teaches not only to win ... He teaches and play.
In the absolute championship for victory, Faith Wellawsk and Natalia Kuchinskaya fought. However, here the Czechoslovak gymnast was stronger. In some types, the bill has changed already in favor of Kuchinskaya - she won three gold medals. Nobody knew such a phenomenal take-off in gymnastics at seventeen years.
Mexico. Olympic Games.
L. Latynina-coach national team. 1968
In 1966, Larisa Latynina finally completed a gymnast career, and next year she received an offer to become a senior coach of the USSR national team.
The beginning of its coaching work coincided with the difficult times of the Soviet female gymnastics: the positions in the team and absolute championship were lost, there was a painful process of formation in essence of the new team. In its composition there were four gymnasts who spent in Dortmund: Natalia Kuchinskaya, Larisa Petrik, Zinaida Voronina and Olga Karaseva (Kharlov). With them, already "sniffing powder" of international competitions, the main hopes were associated. However, very young gymnasts were included in the team: 16-year-old Lyudmila Tourishchev and 15-year-old Love Burda. They were seen on the palmings of Leningrad, Gorky, Budapest, Bucharest, Paris ... and everywhere they were the main rivals, Czechoslovak gymnasts remained.
With a daughter Tanya. 1961
In front of the Olympiad in Mexico City of 1968, a task was set: to achieve victory in team competitions. The struggle turned out to be difficult, the debutant of the national team was allowed missing. But the task was solved - a slight advantage was conquered in the mandatory program. Happy Mexico! Six girls from the Soviet Union return the title champions of the Olympic Games to our country. We won, and then not very many in the delegations could say that. I was congratulated, they spoke about the young teammate in the history of gymnastics. Yes, the average age of our team is eighteen years old. You can think about a multi-day perspective, that I will add in the skill every, and the whole team after Mexico City is selected, it will temper even more ...
It seemed that there were every reason to develop the success achieved at the Olympics, next year. However, N. Kuchinskaya's disease, forced breaks in training L. Petrik and Z. Voronina, again set the USSR national team in difficult conditions. As a result - at the European Championships in Landskrune, the championship seized the GDR athletes, and the place of the new leader in European gymnastics was confidently occupied by 17-year-old Carin Yanz. She won four of five gold medals. Comparing the achievements of O. Caraseva (Golden and Silver Medals) and L. Tourishcheva (Bronze Medals), it was possible to come to pessimistic conclusions.
However, Larisa Latynina believed in his wards. She could not agree with the opinion of experts who hurried to declare the speech by the Yant's style to which the future belongs. Her immaculate technical perfection, accented complexity of the program, according to Larisa Semenovna, was still not able to serve as a model, and the statements that "the Yang soon and very soon will be inaccessible," were too afraid. The leadership of the Soviet national team was convinced that the team adopted the right course and soon our gymnars will enter the strongest cohort.
After Mexico City, the Soviet team actually became the strongest in the world. Formally, it was necessary to return the title of champion at the next championship of the world in Ljubljana. By this time, Lyudmila Tourishchev and Love Burda were nominated for the leaders in the national team, and 16-year-old Tamara Lazakovich became the only replenishment of the team. Zinaida Voronin continued to speak.
In front of the gymnasts put a fundamentally important task: to return the absolute championship. Events showed that she was on the shoulder of the new team leader - Lyudmila Tourishcheva. She won in an acute rivalry with famous German gymnasts Karin Azz and Eric Tsuhld. Zinaida Voronina, who took third places in the all-around, exercises on the bars and in free exercises.
In 1971, yesterday's debutant team of Tamara Lazakovich was published at the European Championships in Minsk on the first position in the Russian, European and world gymnastics. Together with Lyudmila Tourishcheva, they were divided among themselves all the gold and silver championship awards.
On the eve of the XX Olympic Games in Munich, the USSR national team was replenished with young forces. According to the results of qualifying competitions, the experienced Larisa Petrik, Zinaida Voronina and Olga Karaseva retreated before the Natius of the young Olga Corbut, Antonina Koshel and Elvira Saadi. These changes were clearly advantageous: the Soviet team won command gold, the absolute champion became Lyudmila Tourishchev, and in the exercises, all the same L. Turischev, as well as T. Lazakovich and O. Corbut, were undecided.
In 1974 at the World Championships in Varna (Bulgaria), the team spoke brilliantly: 14 medals were conquered. They are 5 gold (team, all-around, logging exercises and free exercises - L. Tourskieva, jump - O. Corbut), 5 silver (4 - O. Corbut and one - L. Tourskieva) and 4 bronze (L. Toursk - Schue, N. Kim, E. Saadi, R. Siharulidze).
Mr. Leselidze.
National team of the USSR.
T. Schologkov, L. Burda,
T. Lazakovich, L. Tourskieva, Z. Voronina, O. Corbut, R. Sikharulidze,
E. Saadi, O. Karayova
During the competitions of 1973-1974, we constantly waited for attacks on the position of the leaders. Anyone who analyzes the ways of development of world gymnastics is obliged to be aware of: leaders who have left forward, catch up with double persistence. The fashion in gymnastic art dictates the one who does not satisfy samples of today. A vivid testimony was the tenth European Championship in Norway. These competitions were marked by the major success of the Young Romanian gymnast Nadi Komarechi. Unfortunately, Lyudmila Tourskieva turned out to be unprepared for acute struggle. However, it would be quite unreasonable to talk about the victory of mosquito as an accident. Achievements of the Romanian gymnast - the fruit of thoughtful and very purposeful training. Despite its incomplete 14 years, it was she who said a new word in the gymnastics of 1975.
At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, the rivalry of gymnasts was sharp than ever. For the USSR national team, of course, the main task was to continue the tradition of victories in the team championship. By defeating in Montreal, the team of Soviet gymnasts established a kind of unofficial record of the Olympic Games. The fact is that in no one team did not manage to defeat seven times in a row in the post-war Olympic cycle. Olympic champion in all-around became Nadia Komneychi.
With the conditions of credit in the exercises on the projectiles, the Soviet gymnasts scored about 74 percent of possible test points and won 8 medals from 12 possible: 3 gold - one team, two - N. Kim (jump, free exercises), 4 silver - L. TURSIRCHEVA (jump, free exercises), O. Corbut (exercises on the log), N. Kim (Multi-Obory), Bronze-L. Tourskieva (all-around). Undoubted success.
But ... Big Sport is often big intrigues. Not passed the bowl of this and Larisa Semenovna. After Montreal, she was accused of the fact that the Soviet gymnasts gave way to the absolute championship of the Romanian athlete. They said: they say, the gymnastics is not the same, Latynina preaches femininity, but we need tricks, speed and complex elements ... In 1977, the charter of undeserved reproaches emanating from sports officials, Larisa Semenovna, without seeing further opportunity to work in such conditions, filed a statement about care from coaching.
For four years L.S. Latynina worked in the Olympiad-80 Organizational Committee, where he overseed the preparation and conduct of gymnastics competitions. After the usual coaching work, she mastered a new board for himself: dealt with the construction and equipment of gymnastic halls, ensuring athletes with the form and necessary inventory, etc., was represented by the Organizing Committee on all the largest international competitions on gymnastics, including championships Peace and Europe. Then he worked in the sports committee of the city of Moscow, for 10 years she was the senior coach of the national team of Moscow on gymnastics. Over the years, the metropolitan gymnasts won the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, the USSR Cup.
In 1990, L.S. Latynina worked in the Foundation of Mercy "Physical Culture and Health", which headed Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, three-time Olympic champion Tamara Press. Until 1992, Larisa Semenovna was Deputy Director of the Foundation. In 1997-1999, he worked as Deputy General Director of the Joint Russian-German Enterprise "Hephaest". From 1991 to the present, she is a member of the Bureau of the Union of Athletes of Russia.
L.S. Latynina - Honored Master of Sports, Honored Coach of the USSR, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation. She was awarded the Order "For Merit to Fatherland" II, III and IV degree, orders: Honor, Lenin, Friendship of Peoples, three orders of the "Honor Sign", the Order of Holy Princess Olga III degree, medals. For outstanding merit, President of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Antonio Samaranch, presented L.S. Latin in 1991 Silver Order of the International Olympic Committee. "Children's" branch of UNESCO-UNICEF - awarded Latin "Golden Charton".
Larisa Latinina's name was made to a unique list of athletes in New York - "Hall of Olympic Glory". In 2000, at the Olympic Ball in the nomination "The best athletes of Russia of the twentieth century", it is included in this magnificent ten, and to survey the world's leading sports journalists, Latynina, along with Alexander Karelin, was among the 25th anniversary century athletes.
After the ceremony of determining the athletes of the century and his spouse Yuri Feldman. 1999
Peru L.S. Latin belongs to the book "Sunny youth" (in Ukrainian), "balance", "What is this girl", "Gymnastics through the years", "team". She was printed in the magazines "Spark", "Banner", "Theater", "Physical Education and Sport", "Sports Life of Russia", participated in television programs.
I passed through a lot. Twice was married. But in the end I was lucky, I met Yura.
Yuri Israelovich Feldman - Dr. Science, Professor, Academician, worked as the Director General of the Dynamo plant. We have complete mutual understanding with him, common interests. For example, I loved the whole life. When the house was built, the opportunity to create a winter garden appeared. And the husband also fell ill with this passion. It will go to the flower shop, he will see some handsome with silky leaves and brings home.
Once I lay in the hospital. Yura bought a palm tree, put it in winter Garden, photographed and the snapshot brought me: "To do not miss home ..." And we met thanks to the same sport. Yura - in the past cyclist, chased at one time with the Olympic champion Rome Viktor Kapitonov. It so happened that in 1985 we rested together in the Moscow region, in the holiday home "Voronovo". My future spouse invited me to somehow play tennis, and when I learned that I could not keep the racket in my hands, offered me to learn this game and train with him on the tennis court. Since then, tennis has become serious enthusiasm for both of us.
A family
We were crowned in the church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the territory of the Dynamo plant. In the restoration of this Church, Yura, still being the main engineer of the plant, took the most active part.
Family couples Larisa Latynina and Yuri Feldman have another overall passion. Larisa Semenovna loves to sing, and Yuri Israelovich in his student years was a soloist of the popular vocal-instrumental ensemble "Seekers". Now they sing a duet, more often the romances that give them unraded to joy. For several years, they play tennis and billiards together.
In the early 1990s, L. Latinina and Y. Feldman received a plot of 12 acres, began to build their own homes. Subsequently, they were fortunate enough to lease almost 3 hectares. Now there is everything you need for life and what the earlier could only be dreaming: a man-made pond, a tennis court, greenhouses and a homeland, where their numerous pets live - Baby Cow, burguy, chick of T-shirt, horses, nurses and asterisk, goats , turkeys, chickens, cats, huge Caucasian Shepherd Dog in Nick Lott ... Spouses put a fruit garden, and recently laid a whole pine forest. Larisa Semenovna spreads flowers, it is not difficult for any habitual work on the garden and a garden, cares for animals. They help them in this family friends - Anatoly and his wife Valentina.
Together with them there was a son of Yu.I. Feldman Sergey with his wife Irina and grandson Yura, as well as the brother husband of Yakov Israelich.
Sometime I had the thought to give my daughter to Tanya in ballet. But did not dare. Tanya, two months visited the section of rhythmic gymnastics, then he was engaged in jumping into the water, and it was not bad until "earned" the inflammation of the middle ear. In the end, I gave it to the "Moiseev" school. After graduating her, Tanya has danced in the "Berzka" ensemble. Traveled the whole world, and at the tour in Venezuela, I got acquainted with the future husband - Rostislav Ordovsky-Tanaevsky Blanco.
At first I was categorically against. Husband is a foreigner! But did they ask me. Soothed one thing that Rostislava has Russian roots. His great-grandfather was the Governor of Tobolsk. In 1918, he along with his family went to Yugoslavia. The father of Rostislav was born there, which, despite the fact that he lived away from his homeland, perfectly owned by the Russian language, knew our story, literature. He and son taught his native language, although Rostislav is half a spanish and born in Venezuela.
Ironic Larisa Semenovna loves to call himself a "grandmother of Russian gymnastics." However, fresh thoughts about the social role of sports, about the ways of developing her beloved gymnastics give the right to name Latin by the romantic of the beautiful world of movements. She recently included in the Board of Trustees of the World Cup in the Latin American Dance.
In 2008, in the city of Obninsk, the Kaluga region, the construction of the Specialized Children's and Junior School of the Olympic Reserve for Sport Gymnastics Larisa Latynina was completed. This school has become a good base for Russian and international competitions. And the Kaluga boys and girls have a real opportunity to achieve high results in great sports.
L.S. Latin is akin to spirit, according to the thoughts of Sergey Yesenin's poetry, Fyodor Tyutchev, Joseph Brodsky. She prefers to the music of Rachmaninov. Allocate outstanding ballet masters - M. Plisetsk, W. Lopatkin, R. Nuriev, M. Baryshnikova.
For more than 30 years, its friendship with the Soloists of the Ballet Ballet named after K.S. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Galina Savarina and Mikhail Salop. Among other her hobbies - painting and theater.
She is a fan of creativity T. Schmygi, O. Otrumova, L. Guzeyeva, V. Gafta, A. Mironova. Favorite films consider the "cruel romance" and "worn by the wind".
With chairman
International Olympic Committee Jacob Rogge
With the most titled world athlete by Michael Phelps
Gymnasts
who became Olympic champions, world championships and Europe
Under the leadership of the senior coach of the USSR team
L.S. Latinina
(from 1967 to 1976)
Burda love
Walle Antonina
Voronina Zinaida
Lazakovich Tamara
Grostova Svetlana
Petrik Larisa
Dronova Nina
Saadi Elvira
Caraseva Olga
Siharulidze Rusudan
Kim Nellie
Tourishcheva Lyudmila
Kuchinskaya Natalia.
Filatova Maria
Corbut Olga
In total, these gymnasts won 30 gold medals.
School history
Larisa Latynina - an active man, not indifferent, fondant, in state-minded thinking. Knowing these qualities of the Great Gymnast, the director of the Children's Sports School of the city of Obninska of the Kaluga region Olga Corkach asked. The proposal was to create a specialized children-youth school of the Olympic reserve for sports gymnastics. And there was another request: "Our children and coaches would like the Obninsk school of gymnastics to carry your name, we know so much."
It was about the creation of a modern sports complex of the All-Russian meaning, which will be used for conducting Russian, as well as international competitions.
Larisa Semenovna arrived in Obninsk, took part in holding competitions, met the kids, coaches and, believing in them, agreed. Outside the possibility of opening a fundamentally new center of sports gymnastics, she began to work with all thoroughness and enlisted support for the Minister of Sports V.A. Fetisov and Governor of the Kaluga region A.D. Artamonova.
The result of the great work of the team of people who devoted themselves to the education of the younger generation, under the patronage Larisa Latinina became the opening in
In 2007, the modern school of sports gymnastics, which has no analogues in Russia.
The complex of specialized Dusher in sports gymnastics Larisa Latynina, built in Obninsk, is the subject of the special pride of the modern Russian gymnastic school.
The best room in the country, equipped with the latest technology using the latest technologies, materials and equipment, impressive and its size (its area 1650 square meters), and its functionality.
The possibilities of the new complex allow not only to fully train, but also to conduct training and training fees for youth and youth teams, large Russian and international competitions.
But the main thing in the school Larisa Latinina is people. School Director Olga Gennadievna Corkachlessly loves his work, delves into every little thing. A unique team rods around it.
These are not just coaches, these are comrades who understand each other and support. Parents of young gymnasts are very trusted by coaches, and all problems are solved with them as like-minded people. Larisa Semenovna itself coaches and school pupils are called "patronization."
Sdyushor is not just a place where children are engaged in sports, but also a school where they are raised. And the coaches remember that they are also teachers, and that the upbringing of not only athletes, but also of highly moral people depends on them. Of course, not all pupils of the Latin School will be in the future champions, but in any case, the sport will be an excellent hardening for them, it disciplines, forms character.
At school it is planned to open boarding schools for talented children from other cities. Accommodation and meals in this boarding will be free.
Sports gymnastics school Larisa Latynina has more than a thousand pupils. It is provided with 24 coaches, there are groups of educational gymnastics for children from 3 years old, initial training, training and training and sports education groups.
Sports gymnastics in our country has a great story that should have a decent continuation. Sports gymnastics are waiting for new loud names and victories on the world sports arena, at the Olympic Games. These hopes are largely related to the specialized school and youth school of Olympic reserve Larisa Latinina.
Russia is reborn, national self-esteem is reborn, and the pride for the victory of our athletes is the best incentive for this.
One of the main directions of development of modern sports is to maintain the best of the accumulated experience and the creation modern Conditions̆ For preparing decent, physically strong citizens of new Russia.
The value of mass sports and higher achievements sports is very large, and this proves and emphasizes the attention of the country's president to athletes and coaches.
Creating such atypical so far as a school Latin School Latin - a decent example for replication, an example of creating conditions for the work of an excellent and spectacular sport - sports gymnastics, an example for the upbringing of good people and large champions.
Gymnast of the century Latinina Larisa Semenovna
Gold medals conquered by Larisa Latin at the largest tournaments
1951
Lviv, USSR Championship among schoolchildren
1952
Bucharest (Romania),
International Festival of Youth and Students (two gold medals on shells)
1954
Rome, Italy),
World Championship (team championship); Budapest, Hungary),
XII World Student Games (Command Championship)
1955
Warsaw Poland),
V World Festival of Youth and Students (all-around, jump);
Baku, USSR Cup (all-around)
1956
USSR Championship (jump, free exercises); Melbourne (Australia), XVI Olympic Games (Command Championship, Multiple, Jump, Free Exercises)
1957
Moscow, VI World Festival of Youth
and students (3 gold medals
in various exercises);
European Championship (all-around, jump, bars, log, free exercises)
1958
USSR Championship (free exercises)
1959
USSR Championship (jump, log, free exercises);
World Championship (team championship,
all-around, jump, bars)
1960
USSR Championship (jump); Rome (Italy), XVII Olympic Games
(Command Championship, all-around, free exercises)
1961
USSR Championship (all-around, bars); European Championship (all-around,
floor exercise);
Moscow, USSR Cup (all-around)
1962
USSR Championship (all-around, bars); World Championship (team championship, all-around, free exercises)
1963
World Universiade (team championship, all-around, free exercises)
1964
USSR Championship (bars);
Tokyo, XVIII Olympic Games
(Command Championship, Free Exercises)
Latynina is the most titled athlete of the planet! She won 18 Olympic awards, of which 9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze. She is two-time absolute champion of the Olympics, Peace, Europe and the USSR.
Latynina recognized that he did not like to train. He said that he didn't like all of the fact that only preceded by gymnastics, but in itself gymnastics was not. She loved to perform. Probably, many famous athletes think the same way. But only Latynina confessed this, spoke of all. She has such a difficult character - to think and speak, not a cry of soul. And in the end, it always helped her to establish themselves in the error of choice, creatively analyze each step towards the intended goal.
Larisa Semenovna Latynina was born on December 27, 1934. She grew up in the post-war Kherson without his father. At that time, her name was Larisa Dironi. In early childhood, Larisa was engaged in a choreographic circle. Gymnastics came in fifth grade. Her first coach was Mikhail Afanasyevich Sotnichenko. In 1950, Dironi became the primary and as part of the national team of schoolchildren of Ukraine went to the All-Union Championship in Kazan. However, in the capital of the Tataria, she spoke unsuccessfully.
After that failure, Larisa trained twice a day. In the fall, they with Sotnichenko moved to work on the program for masters. Pretty soon she became the first master of sports in his hometown. Speaking on the updated program on an adult republic's championship in Kharkov, Larisa ranked fourth. All tempting offers to move to another city Larisa responded with refusal.
She finished school with a gold medal and in 1954 he entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. Once because of the trip to the competition passed the chemistry later. The elderly teacher asked: "Why didn't you come on credit with everyone?" Having heard that the student performed at the gymnastic tournament in Paris, outraged: "Girl, this is the Order of Lenin Polytechnic Institute! Here you need to learn from dably and know, and not to tumble through abroad! "
Next year, Larisa studied in Kiev infizcut. In June of the same year, Deering went as part of the USSR national team in Rome for the next, thirteenth World Championship. The team won in difficult struggle. Larisa could not even pass all the shells and remained in all-around far beyond the feature of the winners. Another thing is free exercises. The famous German gymnast Dickhut wrote: "What has demonstrated to us young Larisa Diriiy, we see very rarely ... It was the purest acrobatic work, in which the excellent ballet school manifested itself, and the wonderful musical flair, which ensures harmony in difficult exercises. This is an exemplary demonstration of international class skills. " So she first became the world champion.
In Kiev, Larisa trained Mishakov. Semench taught his wards to think, independently solve emerging problems in each training session. However, he recognized improvisation in very narrow boundaries. "You first learn, repeat, and then wait for the spark of God," he said. Mishakov's praise was very stingy. He peered, pushed and rarely smiled. In March 1956, Larisa won large international competitions in Kiev and Tamara Manina, and Sony Muratova, and Gali Shamray. Eva Bosakova, and Agnesh Keltei were behind. In addition to all-around Larisa won on three shells. But the seeds remained dissatisfied: it was necessary to win the bosakov free exercises!
And now it came on December 3, 1956 - the opening of gymnastics competitions in the Olympic Melbourne. Three: Muratova, Manine and Latynina remained from the fifty-fourth year.
Before the day of recreation, the USSR national team came out in the first place and won more points. In the first place in the first place was Romanian Elena Leustyan, in second place Sonya Muratova, on the third Larisa. The leaders were separated by thousands of points points. Larisa, oddly enough, was not worried. And why? "Third place is very good for you," Mishakov's subtle psychologist told her, "but I also need to stay." And she thought how to stay.
In his book, "Equilibrium" Latynina wrote:
"" Do everything, as already done, "I repeated myself before jumping. I do not know if it was a high automatic skill, as I was talked later, or something else, but from the whole jump I just remembered the landing in the dressboard. The fact that the assessment was the highest for the whole day, I learned later. Also later, when all the participants had already drenched, it became clear that I had golden, and Tamara was a silver Olympic medal. In Melbourne, we last time chained medals for exercises simultaneously with the struggle for the title of absolute champion.
And I must say that with this system I did not really fully felt the first victory. But the free, and Agnash Keli passed, and I have the greatest and equal amounts. I rejoiced this victory then evenly, and then I have already realized her as a personal achievement as the advantage of the style.
Apparently, in this watch I believed in my senses, after a break on the bars, I was easily easily, calmly and got the grant for all days in Melbourne in women - 9.6. This gave me in the amount of the second place for the Kareti and the silver medal. Now in the afternoon we have changed in places: Agnesh finished to perform, and I led a kind of persecution race. However, I must completely frankly say that it was clear to me just before the last shell. It would be enough for me to get 9 points, and I became an absolute champion of the Olympic Games. Sona would have required 9.5, and Tamara on Melbourne standards had to get a completely fantastic assessment - 9.8. So, the realmost thing was to solve the task of me. But ... didn't you consider such an unrealistic task in Rome Keltei? I knew that now we are watching Hungarian gymnasts just as we once watched the jumps of Agnesh. Were they waiting for accidents? Perhaps if there were no accidents, surprises, the sport would not be sport, the gymnastics would not be gymnastics.
So, equilibrium on the log. That was the moment of the XVI Olympic Games when calm left me. At first I felt on a log fixed with a mannequin, and then, when the movements still found ease, I thought: not break, not break. This is a very bad refrain. Forget under it about all the other. Well, maybe if the actor ... light the viewer, if during the monologue it repeats about myself: "Do not forget, not forget." He will not forget, but he will quickly forget. After Melbourne, I managed to get rid of such a refragment. It seemed not to one and a half minutes, and one and a half hours passed until I jumped off the log. That's the assessment. I do not have time to perceive her, but I understand, if I kiss me and hug and linen and Lida and run all the girls to me, - Victory! "
After the Olympics at the government reception in the Kremlin, in the presence of Khrushchev and Voroshilov Larisa all shocked, saying from the name of the champions toast: "You know why we fought in the Olympic Arena? They were afraid if they play, Nikita Sergeevich all stadiums falling corn. "
Another testimony highest level The mastery of Latin was the first European Championship, which collected actually all the strongest gymnasts. Larisa was leading from the first exercise and achieved a convincing victory in all-around and in separate exercises.
In December 1957, Latynina lost the championship of the USSR Muratova. But it was not bothered by Larisa. She waited for a child. In July 1958, pregnant Latynina did not have anything at the championship of the world, being on the fifth month. But how! She not only first in all-around, but also took "gold" in a support jump and on the bars. The girl named Tatiana was born on time and healthy. After years, the daughter, showing the 1958 medal, will smile: "We won it with my mother."
After the birth of a child, many seemed to many that Larisa could no longer win on the gymnastic arena. And in the new leaders of the Soviet gymnastics began to read Polina Astakhov.
"Now, when I return to the games in Rome, I clearly understand," Latynina recalled, "that tell us about our competitions there and not tell about my duel with Lina simply impossible ...
We performed in the evening, and there was still a whole day of anxiety. The strongest team, spoke about us, what to worry about them. Indeed, Czech gymnasts have won more than four points.
And again jumping. I jumped out on the platform. Do you think, learned to compete? My estimate is 9.433, and I play in one form of Lina almost everything that she has accumulated for the first day. But the next species is the bars, where Polina was then, of course, unsurpassed. Here she returns his tenth. Then log. In front of him, I recalled Rome, hot six years ago, and one instant, which was deprived of Tamar Manina Hope for the title of world champion, and her inappropriate face. Yes, it was all that was long ago. And now - forward. And, as always, do not think about the assessment, do not think about danger, do not think about rivals. Think about how it is better to perform, showing everything you know, spiritualizing the skill with feeling.
But after the projectile emotions with emotions, and the struggle struggle. Practical language - 9.7. I knew that this was a high score. Sonya received 9.66 after me. If Polina had received an estimate equal to mine, I could not catch up with it; If equal to Sonina - before the last view, it would be ahead of me for one tenth. I believed that I could play it, - Freedom in front. I'm talking about these two estimates. For more, it was necessary to take risks, as Eva Bosakov, who received 9,766. But Eve could afford risk; She did not claim to the absolute championship, the exercises on the log was the only chance of a medal. Lina thought about another medal, and when the struggle aggravated, she, apparently, drown a little. A little bit. It cost her much. And Polina did not have enough equilibrium. She fell and dropped out with an estimate of 8.733 from the fight for the championship.
One and a half minutes of music, as well as ninety-seconds of movements, probably, is not enough to leave a very deep impression. And yet, merged together, they can say a lot. In these moments, it all depends on you. Do not think about how to go a diagonal and exit a rack, do not waste the last minutes to repeat the flasks. Think about one thing - how best to convey all you want to tell your movements, which is served by each of them. Then, in Rome, I knew it. I really wanted these free steel events not only for me. I started and finished them in one breath. Perhaps for the first time in my life I was extremely listened to the noise of applause. And even before the evaluation of the judges - 9.9 - knew: I fulfilled what I was thinking.
But the results of the absolute championship: I am the first, Sonya Muratova - the second, Lina - the third, Rita Nikolaev is the fourth, Lida Ivanova - the seventh. The zero assessment on the log far dropped Tamar Lukhin, but she also gets a gold medal for a team victory. We won almost nine points from Czech girls with the team, and the Day of Finals was our day. "
"Soviet gymnasts," wrote Janni Rodari in Parese Sere, "the finest idea of \u200b\u200bthe Olympic Games was given on television. We have never seen anything more beautiful than beauty, grace and harmony ... "
At the Olympics-64, the USSR national team went to a strongly updated composition. According to Latynina, the coaches should have betted one gymnast: either on her or on Astakhov. Then there was a real chance to conquer the medal of the absolute champion.
Back in 1963, Latynina managed to win by Chalvaski prepayment in the open championship of Japan. But ... Larisa performed smoothly, almost the same as in Rome: Brussia - second place, log - second, jump - the third, free - first. Successfully, smoothly, but not enough shine, the external effect, what a real champion should always have.
However, Latynina simply did not have the right to finish the Olympic way by defeat. And as always brilliantly, she performed her beloved free.
In Tokyo Latynina was the last time the captain of the Soviet gymnastic team - the winner of the Olympiad. But she remained in the team for several years, went out on the platform next to the newcomers, lost them, who was completely fulfilling the second role in the play, where he shone the soloist during so few seasons, he taught girls to defeat.
It is natural that Larisa Latynina has become the senior coach of the women's national team of the USSR, and was it for the past ten years. Under her leadership, our team won three times in 1968, 1972, 1976 Olympic medals of golden chasing. Five years later Latynina was part of the Olympiad-80 Organizing Committee, then answered the development of gymnastics in the Moscow Sport Committee.
Today, at its dacha - near the famous architectural monument of the XVIII century "Otrada" in Semenovsky over the river Breata - Larisa Semenovna spread a whole farm: rabbits, pigs, sheep ...
"Since childhood, I loved pets very much," says Larisa Semenovna. "But life so has happened that I have always been far from them." And now I am a pensioner, and when it became possible to start this economy, I gladly took advantage of the case. And then, this is not a pampering ...
All my life, while I acted, I trained while I went to fees and competitions, my home, I once had to do. And now I am with such pleasure I fulfill my purely female responsibilities. I am preparing, I'm waiting for the work of Yura - this is my husband. The Lord sent me a wonderful person, with him I experiencing real women's happiness. Next to me Favorite and loving man, not far from us lives my daughter with two grandchildren. I am pleased to help them: I cook, clean, ironing. I am not in any place. On the contrary, I feel some kind of pleasure. So, as you can see, life in pensions can also be happy. "
The daughter of Tanya gymnast did not. After graduating from the school during the ensemble of Igor Moiseeva, he entered the famous "birch", with which he traveled around the whole world. On the tour in Venezuela met with a future husband. The son-in-law, which has Russian roots, is called Rostislav, it is not surprising that the network of restaurants opened by him "Rostiks".
There are many Olympic champions in the world. But only one woman won gold at the Olympic Games - nine times! Gymnast, record holder Larisa Latynina, nee Diron (genus. On December 27, 1934 in Kherson), the absolute record was kept most of his life. After all, until 2012, she was the most titled Olympian athlete in history and still retains leadership among athletes. And all your victories, this amazing woman won only thanks to the work and diving.
The eight-year-old Larisa became an orphan when the father died during the Great Patriotic War. The mother worked on the two works by an extractor and a cleaner, but still managed to get money for girls studies in the choreographic studio. However, the studio (the only one in the city) closed: for Larisa, who dreamed of a preju-ballerina career, it was a blow. I had to go to classes in the studio of gymnastics. The nine-time Olympic champion got into the sport almost by chance ...
In fifteen years, Larisa participated in the All-Union Championship for schoolchildren - and with a crash lost these competitions. But failure harden the future champion.
In the ninth grade, the girl became a master of sports, the only master of sports in Kherson. And in eighteen years he won the first international awards (gold) at the youth festival in Bucharest. In the next, 1954, was Rome: Larisa Dironi (she will become Latin only after the first marriage) for the first time became the world champion.
During the speeches, Larisa demonstrated not only the technique, but also excellent artistry. Trainers even reproached the girl in the fact that she ". One way or another, the failed ballerina won the rest of the gymnasts after time. From the Melbourne Olympics of 1956, Larisa took the whole painting of medals: four gold (in absolute and team championships, in a support jump and free exercises), silver (bars) and bronze (command exercises with the subject). When the team returned to the liner in Vladivostok and drove to Moscow (long flights at that time were even rare), people welcomed gymnasts at each station and gestand.
In 1957, Larisa triumphantly completes the European Championship, winning gold medals in absolutely all nominations. However, next year, the girl could and leave the sport: The fact is that Latynina prepared to become a mother. Not being confident in his sports future, Larisa hid a pregnancy, went to the World Cup and won the first place there. What is surprising, she went on such an act on the advice of the doctor. The daughter was born quite a healthy child, subsequently became a dancer, having endorsed my mother's dream. Now Latin has two adult grandchildren.
Birth - a great test for gymnast. Nevertheless, Larisa managed to fully recover and continued the winner's career. She won gold, silver and bronze and the Roman 1960 Olympiad, and at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964. Latynina's sports speeches has already completed at the age of 31: a rare gymnast "longevity".
However, Larisa is not used to sit without a business and immediately began a new, no less successful career. Latynina was the head coach of the Soviet Olympic gymnasts and in Mexico City (1968), and in Munich (1972), and in Montreal (1976). The Soviet team during this period was the world leader.
However, despite all merits, Larisa was fired from his post in 1977. Later, she consisted in the Organizing Committee of the Moscow Olympiad, in the 80s he trained the Moscow national team, and in the 90s was the Deputy Director of the Foundation "Physical Education and Health". The nine-time Olympic champion and is now actively involved in the sports and public life of the country. Looking at this woman, you will not say that she is already eighty!
Latynina is the most titled athlete of the planet! She won 18 Olympic awards, of which 9 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze. She is two-time absolute champion of the Olympics, Peace, Europe and the USSR.
Latynina recognized that he did not like to train. He said that he didn't like all of the fact that only preceded by gymnastics, but in itself gymnastics was not. She loved to perform. Probably, many famous athletes think the same way. But only Latynina confessed this, spoke of all. She has such a difficult character - to think and speak, not a cry of soul. And in the end, it always helped her to establish themselves in the error of choice, creatively analyze each step towards the intended goal.
Larisa Semenovna Latynina was born on December 27, 1934. She grew up in the post-war Kherson without his father. At that time, her name was Larisa Dironi. In early childhood, Larisa was engaged in a choreographic circle. Gymnastics came in fifth grade. Her first coach was Mikhail Afanasyevich Sotnichenko. In 1950, Dironi became the primary and as part of the national team of schoolchildren of Ukraine went to the All-Union Championship in Kazan. However, in the capital of the Tataria, she spoke unsuccessfully.
After that failure, Larisa trained twice a day. In the fall, they with Sotnichenko moved to work on the program for masters. Pretty soon she became the first master of sports in his hometown. Speaking on the updated program on an adult republic's championship in Kharkov, Larisa ranked fourth. All tempting offers to move to another city Larisa responded with refusal.
She finished school with a gold medal and in 1954 he entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. Once because of the trip to the competition passed the chemistry later. The elderly teacher asked: "Why didn't you come on credit with everyone?" Having heard that the student performed at the gymnastic tournament in Paris, outraged: "Girl, this is the Order of Lenin Polytechnic Institute! Here you need to learn from dably and know, and not to tumble through abroad! "
Next year, Larisa studied in Kiev infizcut. In June of the same year, Deering went as part of the USSR national team in Rome for the next, thirteenth World Championship. The team won in difficult struggle. Larisa could not even pass all the shells and remained in all-around far beyond the feature of the winners. Another thing is free exercises. The famous German gymnast Dickhut wrote: "What has demonstrated to us young Larisa Diriiy, we see very rarely ... It was the purest acrobatic work, in which the excellent ballet school manifested itself, and the wonderful musical flair, which ensures harmony in difficult exercises. This is an exemplary demonstration of international class skills. " So she first became the world champion.
In Kiev, Larisa trained Mishakov. Semench taught his wards to think, independently solve emerging problems in each training session. However, he recognized improvisation in very narrow boundaries. "You first learn, repeat, and then wait for the spark of God," he said. Mishakov's praise was very stingy. He peered, pushed and rarely smiled. In March 1956, Larisa won large international competitions in Kiev and Tamara Manina, and Sony Muratova, and Gali Shamray. Eva Bosakova, and Agnesh Keltei were behind. In addition to all-around Larisa won on three shells. But the seeds remained dissatisfied: it was necessary to win the bosakov free exercises!
And now it came on December 3, 1956 - the opening of gymnastics competitions in the Olympic Melbourne. Three: Muratova, Manine and Latynina remained from the fifty-fourth year.
Before the day of recreation, the USSR national team came out in the first place and won more points. In the first place in the first place was Romanian Elena Leustyan, in second place Sonya Muratova, on the third Larisa. The leaders were separated by thousands of points points. Larisa, oddly enough, was not worried. And why? "Third place is very good for you," Mishakov's subtle psychologist told her, "but I also need to stay." And she thought how to stay.
In his book, "Equilibrium" Latynina wrote:
"" Do everything, as already done, "I repeated myself before jumping. I do not know if it was a high automatic skill, as I was talked later, or something else, but from the whole jump I just remembered the landing in the dressboard. The fact that the assessment was the highest for the whole day, I learned later. Also later, when all the participants had already drenched, it became clear that I had golden, and Tamara was a silver Olympic medal. In Melbourne, we last challenged the medals for exercises simultaneously with the struggle for the title of absolute champion.
And I must say that with this system I did not really fully felt the first victory. But the free, and Agnash Keli passed, and I have the greatest and equal amounts. I rejoiced this victory then evenly, and then I have already realized her as a personal achievement as the advantage of the style.
Apparently, in this watch I believed in my senses, after a break on the bars, I was easily easily, calmly and got the grant for all days in Melbourne in women - 9.6. This gave me in the amount of the second place for the Kareti and the silver medal. Now in the afternoon we have changed in places: Agnesh finished to perform, and I led a kind of persecution race. However, I must completely frankly say that it was clear to me just before the last shell. It would be enough for me to get 9 points, and I became an absolute champion of the Olympic Games. Sona would have required 9.5, and Tamara on Melbourne standards had to get a completely fantastic assessment - 9.8. So, the realmost thing was to solve the task of me. But ... didn't you consider such an unrealistic task in Rome Keltei? I knew that now we are watching Hungarian gymnasts just as we once watched the jumps of Agnesh. Were they waiting for accidents? Perhaps if there were no accidents, surprises, the sport would not be sport, the gymnastics would not be gymnastics.
So, equilibrium on the log. That was the moment of the XVI Olympic Games when calm left me. At first I felt on a log fixed with a mannequin, and then, when the movements still found ease, I thought: not break, not break. This is a very bad refrain. Forget under it about all the other. Well, maybe if the actor ... light the viewer, if during the monologue it repeats about myself: "Do not forget, not forget." He will not forget, but he will quickly forget. After Melbourne, I managed to get rid of such a refragment. It seemed not to one and a half minutes, and one and a half hours passed until I jumped off the log. That's the assessment. I do not have time to perceive her, but I understand, if I kiss me and hug and linen and Lida and run all the girls to me, - Victory! "
After the Olympics at the government reception in the Kremlin, in the presence of Khrushchev and Voroshilov Larisa all shocked, saying from the name of the champions toast: "You know why we fought in the Olympic Arena? They were afraid if they play, Nikita Sergeevich all stadiums falling corn. "
Another evidence of the highest level of Latin's skill was the first European Championship, which collected actually all the strongest gymnasts. Larisa was leading from the first exercise and achieved a convincing victory in all-around and in separate exercises.
In December 1957, Latynina lost the championship of the USSR Muratova. But it was not bothered by Larisa. She waited for a child. In July 1958, pregnant Latynina did not have anything at the championship of the world, being on the fifth month. But how! She not only first in all-around, but also took "gold" in a support jump and on the bars. The girl named Tatiana was born on time and healthy. After years, the daughter, showing the 1958 medal, will smile: "We won it with my mother."
After the birth of a child, many seemed to many that Larisa could no longer win on the gymnastic arena. And in the new leaders of the Soviet gymnastics began to read Polina Astakhov.
"Now, when I return to the games in Rome, I clearly understand," Latynina recalled, "that tell us about our competitions there and not tell about my duel with Lina simply impossible ...
We performed in the evening, and there was still a whole day of anxiety. The strongest team, spoke about us, what to worry about them. Indeed, Czech gymnasts have won more than four points.
And again jumping. I jumped out on the platform. Do you think, learned to compete? My estimate is 9.433, and I play in one form of Lina almost everything that she has accumulated for the first day. But the next species is the bars, where Polina was then, of course, unsurpassed. Here she returns his tenth. Then log. In front of him, I recalled Rome, hot six years ago, and one instant, which was deprived of Tamar Manina Hope for the title of world champion, and her inappropriate face. Yes, it was all that was long ago. And now - forward. And, as always, do not think about the assessment, do not think about danger, do not think about rivals. Think about how it is better to perform, showing everything you know, spiritualizing the skill with feeling.
But after the projectile emotions with emotions, and the struggle struggle. Practical language - 9.7. I knew that this was a high score. Sonya received 9.66 after me. If Polina had received an estimate equal to mine, I could not catch up with it; If equal to Sonina - before the last view, it would be ahead of me for one tenth. I believed that I could play it, - Freedom in front. I'm talking about these two estimates. For more, it was necessary to take risks, as Eva Bosakov, who received 9,766. But Eve could afford risk; She did not claim to the absolute championship, the exercises on the log was the only chance of a medal. Lina thought about another medal, and when the struggle aggravated, she, apparently, drown a little. A little bit. It cost her much. And Polina did not have enough equilibrium. She fell and dropped out with an estimate of 8.733 from the fight for the championship.
One and a half minutes of music, as well as ninety-seconds of movements, probably, is not enough to leave a very deep impression. And yet, merged together, they can say a lot. In these moments, it all depends on you. Do not think about how to go a diagonal and exit a rack, do not waste the last minutes to repeat the flasks. Think about one thing - how best to convey all you want to tell your movements, which is served by each of them. Then, in Rome, I knew it. I really wanted these free steel events not only for me. I started and finished them in one breath. Perhaps for the first time in my life I was extremely listened to the noise of applause. And even before the evaluation of the judges - 9.9 - knew: I fulfilled what I was thinking.
But the results of the absolute championship: I am the first, Sonya Muratova - the second, Lina - the third, Rita Nikolaev is the fourth, Lida Ivanova - the seventh. The zero assessment on the log far dropped Tamar Lukhin, but she also gets a gold medal for a team victory. We won almost nine points from Czech girls with the team, and the Day of Finals was our day. "
"Soviet gymnasts," wrote Janni Rodari in Parese Sere, "the finest idea of \u200b\u200bthe Olympic Games was given on television. We have never seen anything more beautiful than beauty, grace and harmony ... "
At the Olympics-64, the USSR national team went to a strongly updated composition. According to Latynina, the coaches should have betted one gymnast: either on her or on Astakhov. Then there was a real chance to conquer the medal of the absolute champion.
Back in 1963, Latynina managed to win by Chalvaski prepayment in the open championship of Japan. But ... Larisa performed smoothly, almost the same as in Rome: Brussia - second place, log - second, jump - the third, free - first. Successfully, smoothly, but not enough shine, the external effect, what a real champion should always have.
However, Latynina simply did not have the right to finish the Olympic way by defeat. And as always brilliantly, she performed her beloved free.
In Tokyo Latynina was the last time the captain of the Soviet gymnastic team - the winner of the Olympiad. But she remained in the team for several years, went out on the platform next to the newcomers, lost them, who was completely fulfilling the second role in the play, where he shone the soloist during so few seasons, he taught girls to defeat.
It is natural that Larisa Latynina has become the senior coach of the women's national team of the USSR, and was it for the past ten years. Under her leadership, our team won three times in 1968, 1972, 1976 Olympic medals of golden chasing. Five years later Latynina was part of the Olympiad-80 Organizing Committee, then answered the development of gymnastics in the Moscow Sport Committee.
Today, at its dacha - near the famous architectural monument of the XVIII century "Otrada" in Semenovsky over the river Breata - Larisa Semenovna spread a whole farm: rabbits, pigs, sheep ...
"Since childhood, I loved pets very much," says Larisa Semenovna. "But life so has happened that I have always been far from them." And now I am a pensioner, and when it became possible to start this economy, I gladly took advantage of the case. And then, this is not a pampering ...
All my life, while I acted, I trained while I went to fees and competitions, my home, I once had to do. And now I am with such pleasure I fulfill my purely female responsibilities. I am preparing, I'm waiting for the work of Yura - this is my husband. The Lord sent me a wonderful person, with him I experiencing real women's happiness. Next to me a loved one and a loving person, my daughter with two grandchildren lives. I am pleased to help them: I cook, clean, ironing. I am not in any place. On the contrary, I feel some kind of pleasure. So, as you can see, life in pensions can also be happy. "
The daughter of Tanya gymnast did not. After graduating from the school during the ensemble of Igor Moiseeva, he entered the famous "birch", with which he traveled around the whole world. On the tour in Venezuela met with a future husband. The son-in-law, which has Russian roots, is called Rostislav, it is not surprising that the network of restaurants opened by him "Rostiks".
On December 27, his birthday celebrates the owner of the greatest number of awards in history among women athletes, nine-time Olympic champion in sports gymnastics, honored master of sports of the USSR, honored coach of the USSR Larisa Semenovna Latin.
Larisa Latynina (in Maiden - Dironi) won four golden, one silver and one bronze Olympic medals at the XVI Olympiad games in Melbourne (Australia) in 1956, three golden, two silver and one bronze - at the XVII Olympiad games in Rome (Italy) In 1960 and two golden, two silver and two bronze - at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad in Tokyo (Japan) in 1964. At the same time, she became the Olympic champion in the absolute championship and three times in the team.
Until 2012, Larisa Semenovna had the greatest (by quantity) the collection of Olympic medals in the entire history of sports - 9 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze medals. Only "Baltimore Poole" - American swimmer Michael Phelps managed to surpass Latin by the number of Olympic awards.
Latinina owner and other record - at the 1957 European Championships, she won all gold medals.
Larisa Semenovna Latynina was born on December 27, 1934 in the city of Kherson in Ukraine. Father - Semen Andreevich Diriy (1906-1943), the participant in the Great Patriotic War, died in the Battle of Stalingrad. Mother - Pelagia Anisimovna Barabanük (1902-1975), worked as a cleaner. 
Larisa since childhood dreamed of ballet. When choreographic studio opened in the city house of folk art, mother for the last money determined Larisa. After the closure of the studio was fascinated by gymnastics, in 1950 she fulfilled the first category and as part of the team of schoolchildren of Ukraine fell to the All-Union Championship in Kazan. In the 9th grade, I fulfilled the norm of the Master of Sports. She became the first master of sports of the USSR in his hometown.
In 1953, Larisa graduated from school number 14 of Kherson with a gold medal and entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. A qualifying test for the World Festival of Youth and Students in Bucharest was successfully held at the All-Union Collection in Bratsevo, where he received the first gold medals. He advocated "Petrel" (Kiev). In Kiev, a student of the Electrotechnical Faculty of Polytech Larisa continued training under the leadership of the Honored Coach of the USSR Alexander Semenovich Mishakov. Sport has already mastered it and demanded more and more attention. Of the simple hobby, he has surrendered into a matter of life. She became more clearly to choose the path where the future profession will be related to sports. And when it became apparent, she switched to study at the Institute of Physical Culture. In 1954, at the World Championships, the USSR team won the first place, and Larisa Latynina (Dironi) in its composition received the first gold medal of the world champion. 
Possessing all the titles that exist in the world sport gymnasticsBeing a recognized form in this sport, Larisa Latynina for many years could not win the internal championship of his country - so great was the competition among her girlfriends and rivals. But this tradition was put an end: in 1961, and then in 1962, Larisa became an absolute champion of the USSR.
More than 10 years Larisa Latynina was a premix of Soviet gymnastics.
At the end of the sports career Latynin became the coach. He was the coach of the women's national team of the USSR in sports gymnastics at the Olympic Games (1968, 1972 and 1976).
Great sport is often - and large intrigues. The bowl of this and Larisa Semenovna did not pass. After Montreal, she was accused of gymnasts gave way to the absolute championship of the Romanian athlete. They said: the gymnastics is no longer the one, Latynina preaches femininity, but you need tricks, speed and complex elements. In 1977, the charter from undeserved reproaches emanating from sports officials, Larisa Semenovna, without seeing further opportunity to work in such conditions, filed an application for care from coaching.
For four years, worked in the Olympiad-80 Organizational Committee, where he oversaw the preparation and conduct of gymnastics competitions.
Then he worked in the sports committee of the city of Moscow, for ten years she was the senior coach of the national team of Moscow on gymnastics. Over the years, the metropolitan gymnasts won the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR, the USSR Cup.
Larisa Semenovna Beautiful writer. Her first book "Sunny youth" was published in Ukrainian in 1958. Then there were "equilibrium", "what is this girl", "Gymnastics through the years", "team". She printed in the magazines "Ogonosk", "Banner", "Theater", "Physical Education and Sport", "Sports Life of Russia", participated in television programs.
Larisa Latinina's name was made to a unique list of athletes in New York - "Hall of Olympic Glory". In 2000, at the Olympic Ball in the nomination "The Best Athletes of Russia of the 20th Century", it was included in the "magnificent ten", and on the survey of the world's leading sports journalists, Latin, along with Alexander Karelin, was among the 25th century-outstanding athletes.
Ironic Latinha likes to call himself a "grandmother of Russian gymnastics." However, fresh thoughts on the social role of sports, about the paths of development of her beloved gymnastics give the right to name Larisa Semeno by the poet, the romantic of the beautiful world of movements.