Dozens of the best athletes in Belarus. Where the stars are looking. Belarusian Olympic athletes

Many famous people - from saints of the Middle Ages to Nobel Prize winners and modern Olympic champions - are natives of Belarus

Famous historical figures of Belarus

Barbara Radziwill
Grand Duchess, Queen of Poland.

Lev Sapieha
Statesman and military figure, hetman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Commonwealth, diplomat, thinker. One of the main creators of the Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1588) - an outstanding monument of legal and political thought, in fact the first constitution in Europe.

Tadeusz Kosciuszko
Tadeusz Kosciuszko, born in Belarus in 1746, is a national hero of Belarus, America and Poland. He was the leader of the national liberation uprising of 1794 in the Commonwealth, took part in the US War of Independence.

Famous scientists from Belarus

Ignat Domeiko
Born in Belarus in 1802. Was famous geologist, spent most of his life in Chile, where he became a national hero. For his achievements officially recognized by UNESCO.

Ivan (Jan) Chersky
A prominent geographer, geologist, famous explorer of Siberia, after whom a number of geographical objects are named. Born in the Svolna estate of the Vitebsk province in 1845.

Nikolay Sudzilovsky (Nicholas Roussel)
Ethnographer, geographer, chemist, biologist, geneticist, populist revolutionary, first president of the Hawaiian Senate. Born in 1850 in Mogilev in an impoverished noble family. Since 1892, he lived in Hawaii, where he defended the rights of indigenous people.

Alexander Chizhevsky
Born in the Grodno region in 1897. Recognized Scientist, who studied the biological effects of the sun and the universe, including the relationship of solar activity with periods of war in human history.

Sofia Kovalevskaya
The world's first female professor of mathematics comes from a noble Belarusian family. She spent her childhood in the Palibino estate in the Vitebsk province, and at the age of 18 she entered into a fictitious marriage in order to go abroad and engage in science. The works of Kovalevskaya are devoted to mathematical analysis, mechanics, and astronomy.

Pavel Sukhoi
Aircraft designer, inventor, one of the creators of jet and supersonic aviation, author of fifty original aircraft designs, more than thirty of which were built and tested. Born in 1895 in the city of Glubokoe, Vitebsk region.

Mikhail Vysotsky
An outstanding scientist and designer, under whose leadership the best cars were created, for decades the general designer for automotive technology in Belarus. Author of 134 inventions and 17 patents. Hero of Belarus (2006). Born in the village of Semezhevo, Minsk region (1928).

Born in Vitebsk in 1930. Alferov awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.

Famous astronauts from Belarus

Peter Klimuk
Pyotr Klimuk, the first Belarusian cosmonaut, scientist in the field of technical sciences, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Born in the village of Komarovka in the Brest region in 1942. He carried out three flights as part of the crews of spacecraft and orbital complexes, spent 78.76 days in space.

Vladimir Kovalyonok
Vladimir Kovalenok, Belarusian cosmonaut, scientist in the field of military sciences, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Born in the village of Beloe, Minsk region in 1942. Implemented three space flights as commander crew, spent 216.38 days in space, incl. in outer space 2.3 hours.

Oleg Novitsky
The first Belarusian cosmonaut, heading in 2013 the crew of the 34th international expedition to the ISS. was born in 1971 in Cherven, Minsk region. Prior to joining the cosmonaut corps, he served as a military pilot, a combat veteran, was awarded medals of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Belarusians famous in art

Marc Chagall
Born in 1887 in Vitebsk. The most famous native of Belarus, known throughout the world as a classic of the avant-garde in the visual arts.

Leon Bakst

Renowned theater artist and set designer, decorator and fashion designer, portrait painter and master of easel painting, one of the founders of the famous association "World of Art". Leib-Chaim Rosenberg was born in 1866 in Grodno, and with his first successes he took his grandmother's shortened surname (Baxter) as a pseudonym. He gained worldwide fame thanks to his collaboration with Sergei Diaghilev, at whose invitation he brilliantly designed productions of the legendary "Russian Seasons" in Paris.

Napoleon Orda
Artist, composer, native of the village of Vorotsevichi, Pinsk district. He created more than a thousand sketches of buildings in Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, France, which are the most valuable source for architectural historians and restorers of Europe. In 2007, the 200th anniversary of the birth of N. Orda was included in the calendar of memorable dates of UNESCO.

Ivan Khrutsky
Born in the town of Ula, Lepel district, Vitebsk province. An outstanding artist who developed his own type of still life in combination with a portrait. The 200th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Khrutsky in 2010 was on the calendar of memorable dates of UNESCO.

Louis Bart Mayer
Born in Minsk in 1885. Cinematographer Louis Bart Meyer is best known as one of the founders of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, as well as the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It was Mayer who suggested that the Oscars be presented annually.

Writer, founder of new Belarusian literature and professional dramaturgy, creator of the first Belarusian theater group, actor. In 2008, the 200th anniversary of the birth of V. Dunin-Martsinkevich was included in the UNESCO calendar of memorable dates.

Mikhail Savitsky
People's Artist of Belarus, author of about 200 canvases, creator of a unique series of paintings "Numbers on the heart" dedicated to the prisoners of concentration camps. Many of Mikhail Savitsky's works have gained worldwide fame. Born in the village of Zvenyachi, Vitebsk region (1922). Hero of Belarus (2006).

Vasil Bykov
Bykov Vasily Vladimirovich, Belarusian prose writer, playwright, publicist. Born in 1924 in the village of Bychki, Vitebsk region. People's Writer of Belarus (1980). In 1990 - 1993 President of the association of Belarusians of the world "Batskaushchyna".

Svetlana Aleksievich
Belarusian writer and journalist, author of the books "War Does Not Have a Woman's Face", "Last Witnesses", "Zinc Boys", "Charmed by Death", "Chernobyl Prayer", "Last Witnesses. Solo for a Child's Voice", "Second Hand Time" . In 2015: "for her many-voiced work - a monument to suffering and courage in our time."

Gavriil Vashchenko
People's Artist of Belarus, painter and teacher. "Person of the Year-92" and "Person of the 20th Century" (1993) according to the International Biographical Center of Cambridge. "Person of the Year-94" according to the American Biographical Institute. Born in the village of Chikalovichi, Gomel Region (1928).

Vladimir Mulyavin
A brilliant performer, composer and arranger, collector of Belarusian folklore, creator (1970), who for many years was one of the most popular in the Soviet Union. People's Artist of the BSSR and the USSR, Knight of the Order of Francysk Skaryna (2001). The name of Vladimir Mulyavin, who became a Belarusian in spirit, and not by birth, is immortalized on Avenue of Stars in Moscow(2001) and the capital Vitebsk.

Famous politicians from Belarus

Iosif Goshkevich
Diplomat, orientalist, traveler, first consul of the Russian Empire in Japan and author of the world's first Japanese-Russian dictionary. The species of insects described by him and the bay in North Korea (Chosanman) are named after Goshkevich. Born in 1814 in the Rechitsa district (Gomel region). The 200th anniversary of the birth of I. Goshkevich is included in calendar for 2014-2015

Mikhail Cleofas Oginsky
Diplomat, politician, participant in the uprising under the leadership, a talented composer. Famous Polonaise "Farewell to the Motherland" he wrote in generic ( The Grodno region). The 250th anniversary of the birth of M. K. Oginsky is included in calendar for 2014-2015

Chaim Weizmann
Born in Belarus in the village of Motol (now Ivanovsky district, Brest region) in 1874. Chaim Weizmann was an outstanding chemist who lectured in Switzerland and Great Britain. As an active Zionist he was elected the first President of the State of Israel(1949) and remained in this position until his death (1952).

Andrei Gromyko
Diplomat, in 1957-1985 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. He headed the Soviet delegation at the conference on the creation of the UN, developed the Charter of the organization. Born in 1909 in the village of Starye Gromyki (Vetka district, Gomel region).

Famous enlighteners of Belarus

Francysk Skaryna
Born in Polotsk in 1486. Belorussian and East Slavonic pioneer. He translated into Belarusian and published 23 books of the Bible, the first in 1517.

Saint Euphrosyne
Polotsk princess. Born in the 12th century. She became a nun at the age of 12 and spent her life helping the poor and building churches and monasteries throughout Belarus. She died during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, her relics were returned to Belarus in 1910. Canonized as a saint, revered as a patroness, heavenly intercessor of the Belarusian land.

Champions from Belarus

Alexander Medved
Belarusian athlete and coach (freestyle wrestling). Olympic champion (1964, 1968, 1972), world champion (1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1969–71). Recognized as the best freestyle wrestler of the twentieth century.

Olga Korbut
legendary gymnast won 4 Olympic gold medals, three of them at the Olympic Games in Munich (1972). In 1972, she was recognized as the best athlete in the world.

Vitaly Shcherbo
Belarusian athlete (artistic gymnastics). Champion of the XXV Olympic Games (1992, Spain). Bronze medalist of the XXVI Olympic Games (1996, USA).
14-time world champion, 10-time European champion. Winner of the Goodwill Games (1990, USA). Champion of the Universiade (1993, 1995). 10th Anniversary World Sportsman of the Year (1991–2000).

Igor Makarov
Makarov won the gold medal in judo

Yulia Nesterenko
Nesterenko won the gold medal in run 100 meters at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Maxim Mirny
Maxim Mirny is the most famous tennis player in Belarus, who won a series of international doubles awards and led the Belarusian national team to the best place in its history at the Davis Cup.

Victoria Azarenko
The famous Belarusian tennis player, winner of the world's largest tournaments, Olympic champion. In January 2012, Victoria Azarenka topped the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rating for the first time in her career. At the 2012 Olympics in London, she won gold in mixed doubles (paired with Maxim Mirny) and bronze in singles.

Daria Domracheva
Four-time champion, Olympic silver and bronze medalist, two-time world champion, winner and prize-winner of the World Cup stages, Honored Master of Sports, Hero of Belarus. According to the Biathlon Award, the Belarusian athlete is named the best biathlete in 2010.

Alexey Grishin
A freestyler who brought Belarus the first gold in the history of an independent state at the Winter Olympic Games (Vancouver 2010), a bronze medalist at the Salt Lake City Olympics (2002).

Sergey Martynov
"King of the small-caliber rifle", Olympic champion in London 2012, two-time bronze medalist of the Sydney and Athens Olympics, world record holder: 600 points out of 600 possible in prone shooting from a small-bore rifle.

One of the best players in the history of Belarusian hockey, captain of the national team. Ruslan Salei was the first Russian stick master to reach the Stanley Cup final.

Belarusian gymnast Vitaly Shcherbo is the sole record holder for the number of Olympic medals won in 1 day - August 2, 1992: he won 4 Olympic gold medals. In total, he has 10 Olympic awards: 6 gold won at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​and 4 bronze (Atlanta 1996).

Belarusian gymnast, four-time Olympic champion Olga Korbut was the first to perform a unique and dangerous element, which was later called the Korbut loop. During its execution, the gymnast stands on the high part of uneven bars and does a back somersault, clinging to the top bar of the bars with her hands. Now this element is banned in official competitions.

International competitions in rhythmic gymnastics for children Baby Cup are held annually in Minsk. This is a unique tournament, the idea of ​​which was born in Belarus. Later, competitions among children aged 2-3 years began to be held in different European countries.

Traditionally, during the Christmas holidays in Minsk, the Christmas International Amateur Hockey Tournament for the prize of the President of the Republic of Belarus is held, in which the team of the President of Belarus takes part. Amateurs take part in it, as well as hockey veterans, legendary players who previously shone on hockey arenas. National teams of Russia, Sweden, Czech Republic, Finland are permanent participants of the competition. In total, 8 teams compete for the main prize. The competition is called the unofficial world championship among amateur teams.

At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, the Belarusian runner Yulia Nesterenko sensationally won the gold medal in the 100 meters, later earning the nickname "White Lightning". The fact is that since 1984, only black American women have become winners in this discipline.

Belarusian boxer Sergei Lyakhovich, nicknamed the "White Wolf", became the first boxer from the post-Soviet space to win the title of world champion among professionals in the heavyweight division. On April 1, 2006, Sergei Lyakhovich defeated WBO world heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster on points. The Belarusian lost the title during the first defense, losing in November 2006 to the American Shannon Briggs by knockout in the last second of the last round.

The public association “Amateur futsal club “Amatar”, operating in Brest, is a unique project for the development of amateur sports in general and futsal in particular in the post-Soviet space. More than 50 teams participate in amateur tournaments organized by Amatar. In 2010 UEFA named Amatar the best grassroots sports club in Europe.

The famous strongman Vyacheslav Khoroneko set 134 extreme records. Of these, 127 are officially recorded in the Russian Book of Records "Divo", and four - in the Guinness Book of Records. Vyacheslav Khoroneko is a multiple world record holder in kettlebell lifting, winner of the Planet Book of Records, Greece, Czech Republic, Russia, CIS and Baltic countries, multiple champion and cup winner of the USSR, CIS, Republic of Belarus, winner of international tournaments in kettlebell lifting. His most unusual records:

• lifted a keg with drinking water weighing 40 kg 6160 times in 48 hours;
• in 36 hours he lifted a barrel of beer weighing 40 kg from the bottom up to straight arms 4221 times. The record was set on January 1, 2001 in Minsk and included in the IV edition of the book of records of Russia "Divo", the CIS and Baltic countries;
• sitting in a split under water, in 52 seconds he lifted a weight of 32 kg with one hand 21 times;
• in 10 minutes, sitting in a twine, with one hand squeezed out a weight weighing 32 kg 100 times;
• in 6 hours he lifted a barrel of beer weighing 62.5 kg from the bottom up to straight arms 925 times.

Strongman Kirill Shimko is also the author of unique strength records. He has about a dozen unique records, set both alone and in collaboration with another Belarusian strongman Pavel Soroka.

In 2006, they moved a Boeing 737 aircraft weighing 40 tons, in 2007 - a train of 5 wagons (250 tons). In 2008, Kirill Shimko and Pavel Soroka moved and dragged a T-34 tank weighing 30.9 tons by 5.1 meters. This record is listed in the Guinness Book of Records. In 2011, Kirill Shimko moved a BelAZ mining dump truck weighing 55 tons.

Hockey club "Yunost-Minsk" twice became the owner of the Continental Cup (in 2007 and 2011) - one of the most prestigious international tournaments under the auspices of the IIHF.

Formula 3: made in Minsk

In the early 90s, with the support of the German businessman Johan Knapp, who built racing cars, the Race for Belarus program was launched in Belarus. As part of this program, several young Belarusian racers were selected, who were given a chance to prove themselves on European tracks in junior Formula competitions. However, the program did not last long.

But Belarus has left its mark on the Formula world. So, at the Belbyt Minsk plant, Johan Knapp organized the production of components for Formula 3000 cars. And not only components: the Dallara and Junior race cars were assembled in the Belarusian capital.

A car for Formula 3, the third most powerful car series, was also completely created. The "Belarusian" car was purchased by the winner of the Japanese championship in Formula 3 - Englishman Anthony Reid. The Briton performed on the car, which was called the "Knapp F3", and not without success.

Karol Rummel - Olympic legend of Belarus

A native of Grodno, Karol Rummel became the first participant in the Olympic Games from Belarus. And a man who forever inscribed his name in the annals of the Olympic movement.

An excellent rider, who has been involved in equestrian sports since childhood, and captain of the 14th Little Russian Dragoon Regiment, Karol Rummel was included in the Olympic delegation of the Russian Empire to participate in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm.

Despite the fact that most of the “athletes” who represented Russia at this Olympics were outright “tourists” (the Olympic team included more than 150 people, but Russia won only four medals), Karol Rummel, who participated in the competition in overcoming obstacles, was considered medal contender. And almost until the end of the competition justified the hopes, being in the leading group. However, at the last obstacle, his horse, named Finch, stumbled and, falling, crushed the rider.

But Karol Rummel, despite his injuries, jumped into the saddle again and, pressing his hands to his chest, nevertheless got to the finish line. But only 15th. After the end of the race, the Belarusian athlete fell unconscious and was immediately taken to the hospital. As it turned out, he finished the race with five broken ribs.

King Gustav V of Sweden, who was watching the competition, was so impressed by the athlete's courage that he ordered to cast a gold medal for Rummel - an exact copy of those that were awarded to Olympic champions. This is a unique case in the history of the Olympic movement.

After the October Revolution and the formation of the USSR, Karol Rummel lived in Poland and participated in the Olympic Games twice more - as part of the Polish team. At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, he was left without awards, and at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam he became a bronze medalist in triathlon (in the team event).

Karol Rummel played a lot in various competitions, including winning the representative tournament in the United States, which was held at the famous Madison Square Garden arena. According to some reports, he has 75 victories in competitions of various levels.

Spartak Mironovich - the most titled handball coach in the world

The head coach of the Minsk handball club SKA Spartak Mironovich is one of the most famous specialists in the handball world and, perhaps, the most titled. Under his leadership, SKA won the title of champions of the USSR six times and ten times the champions of Belarus. Three times won the Champions Cup and 2 times - in the Cup Winners' Cup. Three times SKA won the USSR Cup. Already in recent history, in 2013, the Minsk club won the Challenge Cup.

Leading the junior team of the USSR, the coach led her four times to the title of world champion. With the adult team of the Union, he won the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, and with the CIS team he won the Olympics in Barcelona. It was under his leadership that the USSR national handball team won the Goodwill Games twice - in 1986 in Moscow and in 1990 in Seattle.

Having become the head coach of SKA in 1976, Spartak Mironovich has been heading the Minsk club without a break to this day - for more than 37 years!

Trophy raids: shocking Belarus

About ten trophy-raids are held annually in Belarus - off-road competitions over rough terrain. There are plenty of opportunities for organizing such competitions in the country, where the swamp area is 2.5 million hectares (about 14% of the country's territory).

As a rule, from 20 to 100 athletes take part in the competitions on specially prepared off-road vehicles - both from Belarus and from far abroad. The program of trophy-raids includes overcoming swamps, water barriers up to two meters deep, and forest blockages.

The duration of trophy-raids is from 2 to 4 days. As part of the competition, participants must find control points and reach the finish line within the allotted time limit. The program of some trophy-raids includes night orientation.

The most famous trophy-raids of Belarus are: liqua, "Tin", "Bagna" (Borisovsky district), "Drygva" (takes place in the format of 24-hour non-stop off-road orienteering).

Belarus- among the 92 countries participating in the XXIII Winter Olympic Games, which were held on February 9-25 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The team of our country was represented in six sports - biathlon, freestyle, speed skating, short track, cross-country skiing and alpine skiing.

The grand opening of the 23rd Olympiad, which was seen by about 75 thousand spectators and a multimillion television audience, took place February 9th. Within 17 days, the participants of the main starts of the four-year period (and their record number in the history is 2925) played 102 sets of awards in 7 sports(15 disciplines).

PyeongChang Olympic Games slogan - "Passion. Connected"("Unifying Passion"). The emblem is a combination of the main symbols of the 2018 Olympics - a square and a snowflake, and was chosen as a mascot white tiger named Sukhoran, which in Korean mythology and culture is a symbol of protection, strength, trust.

In the final medal standings of the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang Belarus took 15th place from 92 countries. The Belarusian athletes have two golds and one silver. Freestyler won the highest awards Anna Guskova in ski acrobatics and biathletes Nadezhda Skardino, Irina Krivko, Dinara Alimbekova and Daria Domracheva in the relay, silver - Daria Domracheva in mass start.

After three PyeongChang 2018 awards in the assets of the Belarusian national team in sovereign history has become 18 Winter Olympic medals.

Medals of the Belarusian team at the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang

Gold

Silver

Belarusians in the top 10 at the Pyeongchang 2018 Games

4th place

Alla Tsuper(freestyle, ski acrobatics)

5th place

• Daria Domracheva, Nadezhda Skardino, Sergei Bocharnikov, Vladimir Chepelin(biathlon, mixed relay)

6th place

• Stanislav Gladchenko(freestyle, ski acrobatics)
• Marina Zueva

7th place

Marina Zueva(speed skating, 5000 m)

Hope Scardino(biathlon, mass start)

Vitaly Mikhailov(speed skating, mass start)

8th place

• Anton Smolsky, Roman Eletnov, Sergei Bocharnikov and Vladimir Chepelin(biathlon, relay race 4x7.5 km)

9th place

Daria Domracheva(biathlon, 7.5 km sprint)

10th place

Hope Scardino(biathlon, individual race)

Modern Belarus occupies a worthy place in the world sports community. 132 sports are cultivated in the republic. A country with a population of 10 million during the period of sovereignty is constantly among the twenty strongest among more than 200 world sports powers participating in the Olympic Games.

In 2009 Belarusian sportsmen won 527 medals at championships, cups, world and European championships, including 167 gold, 166 silver and 194 bronze.

In 2008, 401 medals were won (107 gold, 129 silver, 165 bronze).

In Olympic sports in 2009, 208 medals were won, including 66 gold, 65 silver and 77 bronze.

In 2008, 149 medals were won (32 gold, 49 silver, 68 bronze).

In the total number of medals at the world and European championships among youths, juniors, youth in 2009, 315 medals were won - 95 gold, 99 silver, 121 bronze, which confirmed the competitiveness of Belarusian youth sports.

In 2008, 187 medals were won (42 gold, 63 silver, 82 bronze).

94 sports records of the Republic of Belarus have been registered. Awarded: the title of master of sports of international class - 146 athletes, master of sports - 978 athletes, the category "Judge in sports of the highest national category" - 44 judges, "Judge in sports of the national category" - 110 judges.

The functioning of 46 full-time national teams, 208 sports clubs in team sports, more than 500 specialized educational and sports institutions and schools of the Olympic reserve has been ensured.

521 republican competitions were held. The participation of Belarusian athletes in 772 international sporting events has been ensured. More than 86 thousand students of sports schools and schools of the Olympic reserve were attracted to sports and recreation camps.

The main start of 2010 for the national teams of the Republic of Belarus was the XXI Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver (Canada), where Belarusian athletes won gold, silver and bronze medals.

The first Olympic champion at the Winter Olympics in the history of sovereign Belarusian sports was Aleksey Grishin, who won the freestyle competition (acrobatics).

Biathletes won two awards. In the men's individual 20 km race, Sergey Novikov became the silver medalist. Darya Domracheva won the bronze medal in the women's 15 km individual race.

In the unofficial team standings among 81 countries participating in the XXI Winter Olympic Games, the Republic of Belarus took 17th place in terms of the quality of medals won.

At the Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver, 2 gold and 7 bronze medals were won. Lyudmila Volchek became a two-time Paralympic champion in cross-country skiing. She also has a bronze medal. Bronze medalists in cross-country skiing were Larisa Vorona, Yadviga Skorobogataya with leader Vasily Gavrukovich, Dmitry Loban, Vasily Shapteba with leader Nikolai Shablovsky won bronze medals in cross-country skiing and biathlon.

In the unofficial team standings, in terms of the number and quality of medals won, Belarus took 9th place.

In recent years, the material and technical base of physical culture and sports has been significantly strengthened in the republic.

In 2009, more than 50 facilities were put into operation in the country.

Among them the most significant are:

Brest region: Ice palace in Baranovichi, Ice arena and water park in Kobrin, 2 swimming pools in Pruzhany and Kamenets districts, a swimming pool with a gym 45x24 meters in Kamenets;

Vitebsk region: the first stage of the stadium in the city of Glubokoe, the Sports and Sports Complex in the city of Miory, the sports complex of the SDUSHOR in the city of Polotsk;

Gomel region: rowing canal and rowing base of the Olympic reserve school in Gomel, rowing base of the branch of the Olympic reserve school in Mozyr, indoor tennis courts in Svetlogorsk, the first stage of the SDUSHOR stadium in Gomel;

Grodno region: a complex of 4 tennis courts and a playing field of the Grodno State University named after Y. Kupala, a gym in the agricultural town of Tarnovo, a sports and recreation center in the town of Ostrovets;

Minsk region: an indoor training skating rink in Raubichi, the second stage of the stadium "Torpedo" (tribune "Vostochnaya") in Zhodino, the first stage of a sports and recreation center in the town of Pleschenitsy;

Mogilev region: educational building and hostel of the Olympic reserve school in Mogilev, a swimming pool in the city of Krichev, a swimming pool in the Khodosy village of the Mstislav region, a weightlifting hall in the city of Bobruisk;

Minsk: a multidisciplinary cultural and sports complex "Minsk-arena", a sports and recreation center with tennis courts in the area of ​​​​Koltsova - Podolskaya streets, a family sports and leisure center on Narochanskaya street.

Material taken from the source

10 September 2015

Oral magazine "Heroes of Sports of Belarus"

(for 8th grade students)

Class teacher: Gecher S.M.

Target: formation of the concept of sport as one of the main conditions for a healthy lifestyle.

Tasks:

To promote the preservation and strengthening of the health of each student;

To instill interest in systematic sports, physical education;

Develop thinking, cognitive abilities: analyze, invent;

To cultivate a sense of pride for Russian athletes, for their country.

The form: oral journal.

Equipment: field; illustration depicting athletes; a computer; projector.

Location : cool room.

Event plan

Organizing time.

Knowledge update.

Classroom hour.

Reflection

Summary of the classroom.

Practical implementation : this event will arouse interest among students, and practical material will be useful for them, as the relevance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and practicing various sports is discussed unobtrusively in an accessible form.

Event progress

DarIDomracheva

Darya Vladimirovna Domracheva was born on August 3, 1986 in Minsk. Height - 168 cm, weight - 59 kg. Until the age of four, Daria lived in the Belarusian capital, but then moved to Russia, to Siberia. For the “northern” stage of her life, Daria has to thank her architect parents who went to build a new city - Nyagan, which is located on the border of the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug and the Tyumen Region. Mother was the chief architect of this city. Here the Domrachev family lived for 15 years, although at first they counted on a maximum of 5 years.

Moving from his native Minsk largely determined the future of Dasha. The girl was very active, restless, her energy needed to be released, and living in Siberia and not being in some ski section is unrealistic. Before taking up biathlon, Dasha tried many activities: already in the first grades, she managed to dance a little, play basketball for six months, fall from the horizontal bar upside down, and then in 1992, following her brother Nikita, enroll in the ski section. Nikita did not work out for long - he quit and seriously took up architecture, but Dasha immediately liked it ... Therefore, throughout her studies at a sports school, Daria appeared much more often than in general education (either holidays, then fees, then quarantine, then competitions). There were many favorite subjects at school. In the first place, of course, physical education. After all, movement is life. The exact sciences, such as algebra and physics, did not really like it, but she simply adored history and geography. Dasha always had a great desire to explore the world in all its diversity: countries, cities, continents, past and present.

Fees fees, but Dasha graduated from school among the good students-excellent students. The conquest of sports peaks was even more successful. Almost from the first training, the mentors singled out a lively girl from hundreds of trainees and subsequently, I think, more than once regretted that they had let the young talent go to Belarus. Nevertheless, it was their efforts that helped Dasha stay on the track and eventually grow into a serious competitor to her recent teammates.

Dasha liked the offer to try herself in biathlon right away. This memorable event took place in 1999. Albert Musin and Viktor Postnikov are the names of the people who gave Domrachev to biathlon. The first put her on skis, the second armed the young athlete. Having finished his sports career, Postnikov decided to open a biathlon school in Nyagan, and the name Domracheva was listed among her first students.

Once, for family reasons, Daria came to Minsk, where she received an offer from the head coach of the women's team to play for Belarus. Daria agreed, because. playing for her native country was her dream, and left Nyagan, starting to train with the national team of Belarus. Then, for about 6 months, I had to seek the right to play for Belarus, and not Russia, the Belarusian birth certificate became the decisive factor. At that time, Domracheva was already a multiple champion of Russia among juniors and a winner of European level competitions.

The first major international start for the Belarusian national team was the 2005 World Junior Championship, where in the first race (individual) she became 40th. At one of the lines, the diopter fell off, as a result of which five out of five possible misses were made on the third shooting. However, the next two races - sprint and pursuit - Domracheva wins. A year later, from a similar championship, Daria took away only bronze for the pursuit.

Dasha made her debut in the World Cup on December 1, 2006 (season 2006/07) as part of the 1st stage in the Swedish Östersund in the sprint race, showing the 16th result (becoming the 2nd and 5th Belarusian athletes). At the junior world championship in 2007, she twice managed to finish second: in the sprint and pursuit,

In the 2008/09 season, Domracheva steadily began to get into the Top-10 according to the results of the races. At the stage in Oberhof, in the race from the mass start, a funny thing happened to Daria. Leading the race, and coming to the 2nd firing line first, in the heat of the fight, instead of shooting while lying down, the girl shot back standing. Hits were not counted and she had to retire. Despite this incident, already within the framework of the 5th stage of the World Cup, Dasha for the first time got on the podium in a personal race, taking 3rd place. After this success, two more podiums followed, and the Belarusian athlete confidently entrenched herself in the elite of the world women's biathlon.

Evil fate pursues a potentially very gifted biathlete. A year later, during the same Oberhof mass start, Domracheva was in the lead before the third firing line with a very serious advantage. But the first three shots were fired at someone else's target. Realizing the mistake in time, Daria continued shooting at her target, but missed again, and the resulting 4 penalty laps did not allow her to fight for the victory in the race.

In the 2009/10 season, Dasha made her debut at the Olympic Games held in Vancouver, and did not leave the competition without a medal. In the individual 15 km race, she won a bronze medal for Belarus. In the overall standings of the World Cup at the end of the season, Domracheva is in 6th place.

In 2010, at the world championship, held in Khanty-Mansiysk, the athlete became the second in the mass start, and in the relay race she helped her team get bronze. In the 2010/11 World Cup, Domracheva again finished sixth.

The 2011/2012 season was the heyday for Dasha. The girl was finally able to find a balance between speed and shooting, won a number of victories at the World Cup stages and firmly entrenched herself in the top three of Total. And at the 2012 World Championships in Ruhpolding, Domracheva became the world champion for the first time - in the 10 km pursuit.

On the eve of the 2012/13 cup season, Domracheva was considered the favorite and the main contender for winning the Big Crystal Globe. However, the results of the biathlete were mixed. Magnificent starts were combined with frank failures. The main reason for Daria's failures was unstable shooting, although she still remained one of the best in the speed component. At the World Championships in Czech Nove Mesto, Daria won the second gold in her career - this time the victory came in the mass start. In total, in the 2012/13 season, Domracheva won three World Cup races and climbed the podium nine times. In the overall standings, the athlete repeated last year's result, finishing the season second.

For the first time she became an Olympic champion on February 11, 2014, speaking in the 10 km pursuit race at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. Occupying 9th place and yielding according to the results of the sprint on February 9, 2014 to the winner of this program Anastasia Kuzmina 31.8 seconds, the silver medalist Olga Vilukhina 11.9 seconds, the bronze medalist Vita Semerenko 10.1 seconds, Domracheva took the lead in the race after the second shooting, and further, after each firing line only strengthened the leadership. And only at the last - 4th firing line, leading for more than 40 seconds, Daria allowed herself to miss the last 20th shot, which did not prevent her from reaching the last round as the absolute leader and proudly holding the flag of her country at the finish line.

Daria Domracheva meets with the famous Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen.

Anton Kushner

Anton Sergeevich Kushnir (born October 13, 1984, Chervonoarmeysk, now Radivilov, Rivne region, Ukrainian SSR) is a Belarusian freestyler performing in aerial acrobatics. Olympic champion of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. Winner of the World Cup 2009/2010 (won 4 stages out of 6, once took second place and once third), silver medalist of the overall World Cup 2007/2008, winner of the European Cup 2004. Master of sports of international class.

The first coach is Galina Petrovna Dosova. Since 2002 he has been living and training in Belarus (in Minsk). Plays for Dynamo (Minsk).

Participated in the 2006 and 2010 Olympic Games. At the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, being one of the main favorites of the tournament, he was in the lead after the first jump, but in the second he landed unsuccessfully, his ski came unfastened and as a result, Kushnir showed only 21st result in the second attempt, failing to score 2 jumps to break into the number of 12 finalists.

In the post-Olympic season, he won a bronze medal at the World Championships in Deer Valley. However, in the following seasons, Anton did not show outstanding achievements, but struggled more with injuries, undergoing two operations. He missed the 2013 World Cup due to health problems.

In the Olympic season, Kushnir fully recovered, won the World Cup stage in January and arrived in Sochi as one of the favorites. In the first qualifying attempt, the Belarusian showed the seventh result, which did not allow him to immediately qualify for the final, but in the second qualifying jump he had no problems getting into the top six, showing the second result. In the first and second final rounds, Kushnir placed second and third respectively, which qualified him for the main final. In the final, Kushnir made the most difficult jump in ski acrobatics - a triple somersault with five pirouettes, which brought him 134.5 points and the title of Olympic champion. This result turned out to be the highest score that was scored in one jump at the Olympics (before that, the record holder was the American Eric Bergoust, who received 133.05 points at the Nagano Olympics for his jump). In the superfinal at the Olympic Games in Sochi, Anton performed a jump with a difficulty factor of 5.0. Prior to this, no one had done a triple somersault with five rotations at the Olympics. For the performance of this jump, Anton Kushnir received a record 134.50 points.

Alla Tsuper

Alla Petrovna Tsuper (born April 16, 1979, Rivne, Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Belarusian freestyler, 2014 Olympic champion in ski acrobatics, multiple winner of the World Cup stages. At the beginning of her career, she played for the Ukrainian national team.

Participant of five consecutive Winter Olympics (1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014). Master of sports of international class.

At the Games in Sochi, Alla Tsuper barely qualified, only 0.03 points ahead of Chinese Zhang Xin. In the first final she showed the best result, in the second final she became the fourth and the last to reach the next final. In the third decisive final, she successfully completed her back-full-full-full jump, receiving 98.01 points.

All three competitors after Alla failed their jumps (second place world champion Xu Mengta scored only 83.50 points), making Zuper an Olympic champion.

Zuper's gold was the fourth for Belarus at the Winter Olympics. Previously, freestyler Alexei Grishin and biathlete Daria Domracheva became champions (twice, and Daria won her second gold at the Games in Sochi earlier on the same day as Zuper, speaking under the same number 13). The Tsuper medal was the first for Belarus in women's freestyle.

Hope Scardino

Country: Belarus
Age: 30
Date of birth: March 27, 1985
City of birth: Leningrad
Place of residence: Minsk, Belarus
Height: 160
Weight: 51
Hobbies, hobbies: knitting, beach volleyball, tourism.

Biathlete Nadezhda Skardino is one of the most accurate and stable female shooters in modern biathlon. She has a bronze medal won at the World Championships in 2011 in the relay. Nadezhda Skardino - European champion, twice winner and silver medalist of the 2007 Universiade. Repeatedly, the athlete climbed the podium at various stages of the World Cup.

Nadezhda was born into a large family (except for her mother and father, she has two brothers and four sisters) in the city of St. Petersburg (then still Leningrad). From the age of seven she began to engage in the skiing section, but in 2005 she switched to biathlon, which fascinated her. But there was no way to get into the Russian team, and that's the only reason she agreed to the invitation to play for the biathlon team of Belarus.

Currently Scardino lives in Minsk. The biathlete spends all her free time from training camps and competitions actively - she plays volleyball, climbs and travels.

Nadezhda Scardino has repeatedly been the winner of various competitions. She played for the junior team of Belarus at the World Championships. Scardino participated in all the races of the European Championship. She won the first prizes at the World Championships in the summer of 2005 - first place in the race with a mass start and was twice second in the pursuit and sprint. In the 2005-2006 season, she competed in the IBU Cup, where she managed to win in her first "individual" race. Due to consistently high results, she was selected as the basis of the Belarusian biathlon team to participate in the World Cup.

At the start of her participation in the World Cup, the 2006-2007 season, the athlete scored only eleven points and became the seventieth in the overall standings. Nadezhda Skardino got into the top ten for the first time in the 2009-2010 season. She became eighth in the sprint at the World Cup in Pokljuka. And in the 2010-2011 season, as part of the women's team of Belarus, she won two relay bronze medals at the stage in Oberhof and at the World Championships in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk. We emphasize that at the World Championships, Nadezhda won a wooden medal in the individual race, taking fourth place, just a step away from the podium. And at the end of the whole season, she was 24th in the overall standings and for the first time in her career she rose so high.

In the 2011-2012 season, the performance of Nadezhda Skardino dropped significantly compared to the previous ones, even though the Belarusian team won silver medals at the stage in Antholz. Scardino ran in the first stage and was the only team member to have just one miss on the shooting range. The reason for the decrease in performance was the problems that the biathlete had with her eyesight. In the off-season, the athlete underwent a successful vision correction surgery. After that, Nadezhda Skardino very quickly regained the title of one of the most accurate biathletes in the world of our time.

Thanks to accurate shooting and pretty good skiing in the sprint in the 2012-2013 season at the stage in Pokljuka, an athlete from Belarus managed to win her first personal bronze medal at the World Cup.

Andrey Kravchenko

Andrei Kravchenko was born and spent his childhood in the military town of Myshanka, Gomel region. His father is a military man, champion of the USSR in military all-around; mother, Elena Viktorovna, who also had a sports background, worked in the library of a military unit. Andrei in his school years was fond of athletics and volleyball.

In 1999, at the regional competitions in pioneer quadrathlon, he met with the coaches of the Gomel school of the Olympic reserve. The guy’s sports prospects were not obvious - at that time Kravchenko, in his own words, “was small, 167 centimeters, thin”, but largely thanks to his mother’s perseverance, he was nevertheless called by coach Mikhail Konoplev to a training camp in Golden Sands near Gomel, where for the first time in life picked up a spear. After these training camps, the mentor of the Gomel sports school, Ivan Petrovich Gordienko, accepted Kravchenko into his group.

Kravchenko's first major achievement was the silver medal at the 2003 World Junior Championships in Sherbrooke. In the same year, due to a conflict with Ivan Gordienko, Kravchenko went to Finland and for two years trained with Pavel Hämäläinen, the father of the famous Belarusian decathlete Eduard Hämäläinen. Under the leadership of this specialist, he became the winner of the youth world and European championships, but the rather harsh methods of work of Hämäläinen Sr. forced him to return back to Gordienko.

On May 26-27, 2007, at the traditional decathlon super tournament in Austrian Götzis, Kravchenko won the gold medal, setting a personal best - 8617 points. New personal achievements were shown to them at once in six types included in the decathlon program, and the total amount of points became the third result in the world at the end of the season. In July 2007, in Debrecen, Kravchenko became the European champion among youth, gaining a record amount for the youth championships in the decathlon - 8492, with a margin of 253 points from the silver medalist. The first adult world championship in Kravchenko's career, held in Osaka, brought failure - in the very first form, the 100-meter run, he made a false start and was disqualified.

In 2008, at the Winter World Championships in Valencia, he took 2nd place with a personal best in heptathlon - 6234 points, losing only to American Brian Clay (6371). At the Beijing Olympics, due to low results in technical events, Kravchenko was far behind Brian Clay, but in a heated rivalry with Russian Alexander Pogorelov and Cuban Leonel Suarez, he won silver. Before the final event of the program - the 1500m run - the Belarusian athlete was only 13 points ahead of his pursuers. On the last lap of the lorry, Kravchenko found the strength to accelerate sharply and reduced the gap from the Cuban, and just before the finish line he took the lead, showing a time of 4:27.47. In the final table, Kravchenko was ahead of Suarez by 24 points - 8551 against 8527.

In 2010, he won a bronze medal at the European Summer Championships in Barcelona, ​​but this competition could have ended in an unpleasant way. In the first attempt in the pole vault sector, Kravchenko broke the pole, but waited for help from the Lithuanian athlete Darius Draudvila, who gave him his projectile.

In 2011, in the Bercy Arena in Paris, despite a severe leg injury that happened a week before leaving for the competition, Andrey Kravchenko confidently won the first gold medal in his career at the European Winter Championship, setting a new national and personal record in the heptathlon - 6282 points. In 2011-2012, he trained under the guidance of Russian Vladimir Kudryavtsev. Since September 2012, he has been training with a Gomel coach, USSR Master of Sports in all-around Igor Leonidovich Sivodedov.

An injury and an operation on the Achilles tendon, which Andrei Kravchenko did in a Finnish clinic at his own expense, did not allow him to compete at the London Olympics. Returning to performances after a long break, the Belarusian athlete in May 2013 became the winner of the international tournament in Florence with the best result of the season in the world - 8390, and in June - the winner of the World Challenge tournament in Kladno with a personal record in shot put.

In March 2014 Andrey Kravchenko won the silver medal at the World Winter Championship for the second time in his career. At the Ergo Arena, he surpassed his own national record in the heptathlon - 6303 points. In August of the same year in Zurich, he became the winner of the European Championship and only one point did not get to repeat his personal record. In the high jump, Kravchenko showed the best result in the history of the European Championships among decathletes (2.22). During the execution of the eighth type, pole vault, he felt pain in the left Achilles tendon, but this did not prevent him from winning the next type, the javelin throw, with a big advantage, and taking the lead in the competition. Due to an injury received at the European Championship, Kravchenko underwent a second operation in Finland in January of the following year.

Sergey Rutenko

Sergey Rutenko was born on August 29, 1981, in the village. Privolny, Minsk region - a Belarusian handball player who also had Slovenian and Spanish citizenship in the past.

Pupil of the Minsk handball school. In 2000, as part of the youth team of Belarus, he became the silver medalist of the European Championship and moved from the Minsk Arkatron, where he began his playing career, to the Slovenian club Gorenye. A year later, he signed a contract with the leader of Slovenian handball, the Laško Pivovarna club. The year 2004 was very successful for the athlete - in addition to the next national titles, Sergey Rutenko won the Champions League with a team from Celje, beating the top scorers of this tournament in a dispute.

In the same year, Rutenko agreed to accept Slovenian citizenship. He played his debut match for the Slovenian national team at the Olympic Games in Athens against the Russian national team, the colors of which were defended by Rutenko's club partner Eduard Koksharov. In total, Sergei played 40 matches for the Slovenian national team, scored 269 goals; became the top scorer of the European Championship in 2006 (51 effective shots).

In 2005, Rutenko moved to play in one of the strongest clubs in Europe - the Spanish "Ciudad Real", with which he won three victories in the Champions League, League and ASOBAL Cup in 4 seasons. In January 2008, at the initiative of the leadership of Ciudad Real, due to the limited quota for legionnaires in the Spanish league, he accepted Spanish citizenship.

Around the same time, Sergei Rutenko announced his desire to return to the Belarus national team (for which he had not played since June 2001) immediately after the required three-year period had passed since his last official match for Slovenia. The Spanish Federation did not create obstacles.

In the summer of 2009, the handball player moved from financially troubled Ciudad Real to Barcelona, ​​signing a 5-year contract with the Catalan club. The amount of the transfer amounted to a record €1.2 million for world handball.

In January 2010, Rutenko was included in the expanded application of the Belarusian national team for the 2011 World Cup qualifying tournament, but due to legal obstacles, the player's return to his native team was postponed. According to the regulations, a player, before the first match for the national team of a new country, must have at least 12 months of experience in its national competitions, while there were disputes about whether this refers to the total experience or exactly the last year of a three-year quarantine, as the European Handball Federation interprets this rule. As a result, only in September 2010, Sergei Rutenko officially received the right to play for the national team of Belarus. Since November 2011 he has been the captain of the national team.

In five seasons spent at Barcelona, ​​he won four championships and four ASOBAL Cups, in 2011 he won the Champions League for the fifth time in his career.

The younger brother of Sergei Rutenko Denis (born 1986) is also a handball player, plays as a right winger in the Brest club BGK and the Belarusian national team.

State educational institution

"Esmon educational and pedagogical complex

Kindergarten-Secondary School of Belynichi District"

extracurricular activity

(oral journal)

Gecher S.M., class teacher of the 8th grade

Self-analysis of the event "Heroes of Sports of Belarus"

This event was presented as part of the implementation of a cycle of extra-curricular activities dedicated to a healthy lifestyle and the development of physical culture and sports. At the same time, elements of the development of students' communication skills were indirectly used, namely: the creation of a favorable background for communication. The children were reminded of the rules of working in a team.

The purpose and objectives of this event are aimed at forming a common culture of students, mastering the skills necessary for everyone: to know information about a healthy lifestyle, about sports, about the best athletes in the country and try to be like them. Based on this, we can argue the significance of this event for students.

When choosing the content and amount of information, age characteristics were taken into account. I believe that some of the information received was completely new for the students, while in general the content was based on their life experience.

Form of conducting: oral journal.

This form helped to present the necessary information and to interest students in obtaining it.

Methods used:

Verbal (conversation, story)

Visual (map, illustrations)

Practical (composing a puzzle).

The chosen methods correspond to the purpose of the class hour, the nature and content of the material, the level of knowledge and skills of students. These methods contributed to the development of thinking, the ability to generalize, to construct the correct answer.

The attention of students was activated with the help of various game moments (riddles related to sports).

The structural elements of the event are interconnected: a logical transition from one stage to another was carried out. The alternation and change of activities ensured the maintenance of the working capacity of students throughout the event.

Maintained a favorable, friendly atmosphere, working environment. The interest and discipline of the participants remained throughout the event.

The event was held on a high emotional upsurge. The students were organized; intellectually, and most importantly, emotionally involved.

Belarus is rightly proud of its history of participation in the Olympic Games. For the first time, Belarusians took part in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki as part of the USSR national team. The sporting achievements of the three-time Olympic winner wrestler Alexander Medved, four-time Olympic gold medalists gymnast Olga Korbut and fencer Elena Belova, five-time Olympic champion Nelly Kim, six-time Olympic champion Vitaly Shcherba and many other famous Belarusian athletes are inscribed in golden letters in Olympic history.

During the years of Belarusian sovereignty, our athletes have competed at 11 Olympic Games - 6 winter and 5 summer. 95 athletes became champions and prize-winners of the Games. They have won 91 Olympic medals: 18 gold, 28 silver and 45 bronze.

For the first time Belarus was represented by an independent team in the Olympic arena:

At the XVII Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer (Norway) February 12-27, 1994. Were conquered 2 silver awards:

Svetlana Paramygina (biathlon, 7.5 km), Igor Zhelezovsky (skates, 1000 m);

At the XXVI Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta (USA) July 19 - August 4, 1996. Was conquered 15 medals - 1 gold, 6 silver and 8 bronze:

gold- Ekaterina Khodotovich (Karsten) (rowing);

silver- Alexei Medvedev (Greco-Roman wrestling), Alexander Pavlov (Greco-Roman wrestling), Sergey Lishtvan (Greco-Roman wrestling), Vladimir Dubrovshchik (athletics, discus), Natalia Sazanovich (athletics, heptathlon), Igor Basinsky (shooting) bullet);

bronze- Valery Tsilent (Greco-Roman wrestling), Vitaly Shcherbo (gymnastics, all-around, vault, bars, crossbar) - 4 medals, Vasily Kaptyukh (athletics, discus), Elina Zvereva (athletics, discus), Natalia Lavrinenko, Alexandra Pankina, Natalia Volchek, Tamara Davydenko, Valentina Skrabatun, Elena Mikulich, Natalia Stasyuk, Marina Znak, Yaroslava Pavlovich (rowing, rowing eight).

Belarusian athletes achieved their highest success at the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 when Belarus conquered 19 medals, including 4 gold and 5 silver. The Belarusian team took 16th place by the number of medals won:

gold- Andrey Aryamnov (weightlifting), Oksana Menkova (athletics, hammer throw), Alexander and Andrey Bogdanovichi (kayaking and canoeing, two), Roman Petrushenko, Alexey Abalmasov, Artur Litvinchuk and Vadim Makhnev (kayaking and canoeing, four);

silver- Andrei Rybakov (weightlifting), Natalia Mikhnevich (athletics, shot put), Andrei Kravchenko (athletics, decathlon), Inna Zhukova (rhythmic gymnastics), Vadim Devyatovsky (athletics, hammer throw);

bronze- Nadezhda Ostapchuk (athletics, shot put), Andrey Mikhnevich (athletics, shot put), Anastasia Novikova (weightlifting), Ekaterina Karsten (rowing), Yulia Bichik and Natalya Gelakh (rowing, double), Roman Petrushenko and Vadim Makhnev (rowing and canoeing, two), Murad Gaidarov (freestyle wrestling), Mikhail Semenov (Greco-Roman wrestling), Ivan Tikhon (athletics, hammer throw), Ksenia Sankovich, Alina Tumilovich, Anastasia Ivankova, Zinaida Lunina, Alesya Babushkina and Glafira Martinovich (rhythmic gymnastics, team championship).

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Belarusian athletes won 12 medals including 2 gold and 5 silver. In the medal standings of the Olympics, Belarus took 26th:

gold- Sergey Martynov (bullet shooting), Victoria Azarenka and Maxim Mirny (tennis, mixed doubles);

silver- Alexandra Gerasimenya (swimming 50 m freestyle and 100 m freestyle) - 2 medals, Marina Goncharova, Anastasia Ivankova, Natalia Leshchik, Alexandra Narkevich, Ksenia Sankovich, Alina Tumilovich (artistic gymnastics, team championship), Vadim Makhnev, Roman Petrushenko ( rowing and canoeing, deuce), Alexander and Andrey Bogdanovichi (kayaking and canoeing, deuce);

bronze- Lyubov Cherkashina (artistic gymnastics), Marina Poltoran, Irina Pomelova, Nadezhda Popok, Olga Khudenko (rowing and canoeing, quadruple), Victoria Azarenka (tennis), Irina Kulesha (weightlifting), Marina Shkermankova (weightlifting).

At the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi Belarusian sportsmen won 6 medals, including 5 gold and 1 bronze. For the first time in history, the Belarusian team took 8th place in the medal standings in terms of the number of awards won.

gold- Daria Domracheva (biathlon) - 3 medals, Anton Kushnir (freestyle), Alla Tsuper (freestyle);

bronze- Nadezhda Scardino (biathlon).

In team sports, Belarus was represented by three teams at the Olympic Games. These are the national hockey team of Belarus (Nagano-1998, Salt Lake City-2002, Vancouver-2010), the women's basketball team of Belarus (Beijing-2008) and the Olympic football team of Belarus (London-2012). However, the Belarusian teams have not yet reached the finals.

Olympic gold

Olympic gold was brought to Belarus by 20 athletes, who have won 18 medals.

Three gold medals at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Daria Domracheva(biathlon), who received the title of Hero of Belarus and became one of the best athletes of the Games. On February 11, 2014, she became the Olympic champion in the pursuit. She won the second gold medal in the 15 km individual race. Daria got her third gold medal in the mass start race. Domracheva became the first biathlete in history to win three Olympic gold medals in individual races.

Ekaterina Karsten(rowing) - a participant in six Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona. Two-time Olympic champion in the history of independent Belarus. At her first Olympic Games in 1992, she became a bronze medalist in the quad sculls. Then there were two gold medals in singles - in Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000, a silver medal at the 2004 games in Athens and a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Elina Zvereva(athletics, discus) - participant in five Summer Olympics (1988, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008). Bronze medalist in Atlanta 1996. At the age of 39, she won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. After 8 years at the Beijing Olympics, she took 6th place.

Yanina Karolchik(athletics, shot put) - champion of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. In the final sixth attempt, she managed to put the shot at 20 m 56 cm and far outperform her rivals, in particular, the second-place experienced Russian athlete Larisa Peleshenko (19 m 92 cm).

Yulia Nesterenko(athletics, sprint) became the main sensation of the 2004 Olympics in Athens, winning the 100 m race. In the final race, she swept in front of the crowded stands of the Olympic stadium in Athens in 10.93 seconds. Julia was ahead of the recognized sprint aces - Americans Colander and Williams, representatives of Jamaica Campbell, Bailey and Simpson, as well as the Bulgarian runner Lalova and the representative of the Bahamas Ferguson. After this victory, she was given the nickname "White Lightning".

At the 2004 Athens Olympics Igor Makarov(judo), performing in the weight category up to 100 kg, won the first gold for Belarus in the history of the participation of our wrestling masters on the tatami in the Olympics. In the final bout, he defeated Sung Ho Jang from South Korea. According to the three-time Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling Alexander Medved, who watched the fight, only a few achieve such a result, and it became possible because Makarov stubbornly walked towards his goal.

At the XXIX Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008, twenty-year-old Andrey Aryamnov(weightlifting) was out of competition in his weight category (105 kg) and became a champion. Our hero during the competition set three world records. First, Andrei improved his world record in the snatch - 200 kg, in the second exercise - clean and jerk in the final attempt, he took another record weight - 236 kg and in the biathlon gained 436 kg - also a new world record.

Oksana Menkova(athletics, hammer) won the gold medal of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. In the final, in her fifth attempt, she threw the hammer at 76.34 m and set a new Olympic record (the previous one was 75.2 m).

Belarusian canoe-two crew consisting of brothers Alexander and Andrey Bogdanovich(canoeing, pair) won the gold medal of the 2008 Olympics. At 250, 500 and 750 meters, Andrey and Alexander were third. Everything changed a few tens of meters before the finish line: the Belarusian athletes found the strength for the final spurt and literally snatched victory from the German crew, ahead of them by only 0.223 seconds. Time of winners - 3 min. 36.365 seconds.

The crew of the Belarusian kayak-four Roman Petrushenko, Alexey Abalmasov, Artur Litvinchuk and Vadim Makhnev(kayaking, quad) won Olympic gold in Beijing. They finished without letting anyone doubt their superiority. If for Alexey Abalmasov and Artur Litvinchuk the Olympic success was the first in their career, then for Roman Petrushenko and Vadim Makhnev this is the second Olympic award. Four years ago in Athens, they won bronze in the two-man kayak.

Alexey Grishin(freestyle) in Nagano-98 was the eighth, in 2002 in American Salt Lake City he became a bronze medalist, in Turin-2006 he stopped a step away from the podium, taking fourth place, and received his gold at the XXI Winter Olympic Games in 2010 in Vancouver. This is the first gold medal in the history of Belarus won at the Winter Olympic Games.

Sergey Martynov(bullet shooting) - winner of the Games of the XXX Olympiad in 2012. In London, Sergei Martynov won his third medal at the Olympic Games. Prior to that, he won bronze twice - in Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. In total, he took part in six Olympics, and four of them got into the finals. In the capital of Great Britain, the 44-year-old Belarusian had no equal in shooting from a small-caliber rifle at 50 m. In the qualifying tournament, he won an unconditional victory, setting a new world record - 600 points. In the final round, Sergei Martynov was again outrageously stronger than his opponents, once again improving the world achievement with a total of 705.5 points.

Maxim Mirny and Victoria Azarenka(tennis, mixed doubles) won the final of the mixed doubles tennis tournament at the London Olympics. The Belarusian duet Azarenka/Mirny is unique. It included two current world No. 1s: Victoria Azarenka was then the current World No. 1 in women's singles according to the WTA rankings, and Max Mirny led the ATP rankings in men's doubles. At the 20th Olympiad in London, Victoria Azarenka also became a bronze medalist in singles.

Alla Tsuper(freestyle, acrobatics) - champion of the XXII Olympic Games in 2014. Alla Tsuper's Olympic gold became a sensation. At the Olympics, she constantly lacked a little: she took 5th place in 1998 and 9th place in 2002. However, in Sochi, Zuper used her chance to one hundred percent, not allowing judges and rivals to doubt her superiority. Alla Tsuper's gold is the first Olympic award in the history of Belarusian women's freestyle.

Belarusian freestyler Anton Kushnir(freestyle, acrobatics) became the Olympic champion in 2014 in Sochi. In the final round of competitions in the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, a 29-year-old Minsk resident perfectly performed a jump with the highest coefficient of complexity - a triple somersault with 5 screws, and received the highest score among all competitors - 134.59 points.

Olympic silver

37 Belarusian athletes are silver medalists of the Olympic Games, with 14 awards on the account of gymnasts. Three athletes became twice silver medalists: shooter Igor Basinsky(bullet shooting), Andrey Rybakov(weightlifting) and Alexandra Gerasimenya(swimming).

Olympic bronze

Bronze awards were won by 57 Olympians of Belarus, they have 45 medals. The record holder for the number of bronze medals is a six-time Olympic champion Vitaly Shcherbo. This is a unique gymnast who, acting as part of the CIS combined team at the Barcelona Olympics, won six gold medals, winning in all types of programs. At the 1996 Olympics, as part of the Belarusian national team, he climbed to the third step of the podium four times.

Belarus at the Paralympic Games

For the first time, Belarusians competed as an independent team at the X Summer Paralympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. Belarusian athletes won 13 medals, of which 3 are gold, 3 are silver and 7 are bronze.

Belarus at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London was represented by 31 Paralympic athletes in seven sports: athletics, swimming, rowing, fencing, judo, cycling, powerlifting. Belarusian team 10 awards (5 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze) placed 25th in the final medal standings.

Of the 10 awards of the Belarusian team at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London 6 conquered swimmer Igor Boky. He won gold in the 100m butterfly, became a silver medalist in the 50m freestyle, added gold to the collection in the 100m freestyle, won gold with a world record in the 100m backstroke, became the best in the 400m freestyle, again setting a record planets, with another world record won the 200 m medley.

The swimmer won the silver medal Vladimir Izotov at a distance of 100 m breaststroke in the category SB12.

Athlete's bronze medals Alexandra Saturday in the triple jump in the F46 category, Lyudmila Volchek in academic rowing, Anna Buzzard in the long jump in the F11/12 category.

At the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi representatives of the Belarusian national team won 3 bronze awards and finished 18th in the medal standings. Vasily Shapteboy became a two-time bronze medalist in biathlon at distances of 7.5 km and 12.5 km with four firing lines among the visually impaired. Yadviga Skorobogataya won bronze in cross-country skiing at a distance of 15 km in the classic style among athletes with visual impairments.

The 2016 Summer Paralympic Games will be held from 7 to 19 September 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 526 sets of awards in 22 sports will be played. For the first time, kayaking, canoeing and triathlon competitions will be held. Competitions will be held at the same venues as the 2016 Olympics.-0-