Borzov Valery Biography

Born on October 20 in Sambor of the Drogobych region. Soviet sprinter. Two -time Olympic champion Honored Master of Sports of the USSR The first and only Soviet sprinter to win Olympic gold at distances and meters. Sports functionary, state and public figure of Ukraine. Valery Borzov was born on October 20 in the Sambor of the Drogobych Region in the military family.

Soon after his birth, the family moved to Chernivtsi, where the first ten years of his childhood passed. I remember that in my childhood I always had black hands - we ate these still not bored nuts with bags, ”he recalled. Then the family of Valery Borzov moved to the new Kakhovka. There, at the summer, he seriously engaged in athletics. The area was sandy, which helped him as a sprinter: “They came to school, after school where?

In the sands. Imagine half a day with barefoot or in boots on loose sand, plus football for three hours in the sand. Plus diving behind crayfish, and this is a holding of breath - they sat under water for a minute. For a sprinter, this is very important - because we work in a low -acid regime. And when we swam on the cells along the Kakhovsky sea! It was necessary to work with handles and legs.

Thus, I received a good yard and fishing physical training. ” His coaches, first of all, Boris Voitas, immediately examined the future star in it and contributed to Valery’s move to Kyiv, the first successes came to an athlete at a relatively young age. He entered the Institute of Physical Education in Kyiv, trained under the leadership of the innovator coach Valentin Petrovsky.

After all, who knew whether I will get something or not, to devote me the best years of youth to sports or not? Then I was a year, I am only 16 years old. Who at the age of 16 can think something serious? Need someone who can convince of something. The leading argument when choosing the institute was that I was already the champion of the USSR among young men. In addition, Voitas suggested that I act precisely to Petrovsky, because not so much a university was important as a coach, ”said Borzov.

He played for the Dynamo sports society. In the year, at the age of 19, Valery Borzov became a three -time European champion among juniors. Next year, he wins the adult championship of the USSR, running meters in exactly 10 seconds. In the year in Athens, he became the European champion in the run on m. In the year, he won the European Championship in Helsinki at distances and meters.

The summer Olympic Games of the year in Munich became triumphal for him. The victory at the Olympics in the race by meters as a whole was unexpected. At the meter distance, the athlete managed to make a golden double, bypassing the finish of three Americans. This was the second victory at the sprint distances of the white -skinned athlete at the Olympic Games after the winning of Armin Hari in Rome.

It was they who interrupted the complete dominance of the dark -skinned athletes of the United States and Jamaica.

In a preliminary race at the hundred -meter at the Olympics in Munich, Valery Borzov showed the result of 10.07 s. With the transition of the IAAF, from a year to official registration of records by automatic timing with accuracy to hundredths, this result became a record of Europe with Italian Pietro Mennea photography with a leader in the Olympic race Valery Borzov in the form of the national team of the USSR is recorded on the Golden Bounty of the Voyader, traveling far in Cosmos.

After the victory at the Olympics from for a year, Valery wins the title of European champion at a short distance of 60 meters in closed rooms three times in a row. I enjoyed the victory over the opponent, and not at all. I did not set the records of the world, although I could. He believed that the world record is a nuisance in installments, because sooner or later it would be beaten, but I collected victories to collect victories, not records!

.. I had no vanity, but I had a desire to win, ”said Borzov. Member of the CPSU from the year. Under the leadership of his coach, a well -known teacher and scientist V. Petrovsky, conducted a great research work, the results of which formulated in a successfully protected candidate dissertation in the year. After political work, he returned to sports, becoming the deputy chairman of the state sports of Ukraine.

At the end of the year, at the Congress of the European Athletics Association, Valery Borzov was elected a member of the Council of this organization. C was simultaneously the Minister of Sports and the President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine. In the year he left the post of Minister of Sports, and in the year - the post of head of the National Olympic Committee. Member of the International Olympic Committee from the year.

From for the year - People's Deputy of Ukraine, Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 3rd convocation on youth policy, physical culture, sports and tourism. In the year, he was re-elected to deputies of the Rada of the 4th convocation. Since the year he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine United. In the fall of the year, Valery Borzov left the post of head of the Athletics Federation of Ukraine.

At the reporting and election conference, the Former Flau has shot his candidacy. The reason was the choice of voting mode.Borzov was for the elections to be open: “Some of the delegates are under administrative pressure. If you work in the system, for example, education, or in the state system, you receive a call, and they say who to vote for. Otherwise, you say goodbye to work tomorrow.

” In the year, as vice president of the NOC of Ukraine, Valery Borzov urged Slavic enmity, referring to the conflict of Russia and Ukraine: “We need to stop Slavic enmity, the military should leave Ukraine, the war should stop, since this military aggression will not lead to good, including in relations with athletes. In Pyeongchang, the main principles of Olympism in relation to Russian athletes were violated - it was not quite friendly.

It was not that someone showed their position, but the fact that there are such processes that violate ethics, relations between athletes, regardless of what country they were from. These are the vices of war. ” Growth by Valery Borzov: centimeter. Four -time Olympic champion, multiple world and European champion. The President of the Federation of Gymnastics of Ukraine is close to Borzov and Turishchev in the year during the Olympics in Montreal.

Then the gymnast was preparing to end his career after the games, and as an incentive she was left in the Olympic village until the end of all the competitions, but at the same time loaded with public orders along the Komsomol line. Borzov, who also performed at that Olympics, was forced to constantly be under guard. Rumors passed that during a hundred -meter, the sniper wants to shoot him, which will allegedly be at the stadium.

When Turishcheva once again went to a report to the Soviet club, they met on the stairs, and Borzov in the presence of his guard invited the athlete to the cinema. In the cinema, they were sitting nearby. According to her memoirs, Valery behaved modestly, did not show signs, but he asked for a phone number. They phoned after the Olympics. Borzov admitted that the idea of ​​meeting him was given by the coach of Lyudmila: “We were familiar with the future wife in absentia for a long time.

They read about each other, heard on the radio, saw on TV. And personally, we met thanks to the coach of Lyudmila, who came up to me and said: “Valera, pay attention: that girl is not yet married, but serious.” And I just wanted to find myself serious and unmarried. " Soon their relationship led to the wedding, which took place on December 10. Valery Borzov and Lyudmila Turishcheva “I fell in love with honesty, calmness, confidence in my abilities and for blue eyes,” said Turishcheva.

In a marriage in the year, they had a daughter Tatyana, she was engaged in gymnastics, then athletics. But in the end, I chose another profession - I learned the designer, became a fashion designer. Later moved to Canada. Her husband Denis is a former swimmer, he has his own tennis club. The Kharzovo has three grandchildren - Egor, Timothy and Ilya.