Biography. Stanislav Donets Why the breakthrough in results occurred

The ex-record holder and multiple world champion in short course swimming, in an interview with R-Sport agency correspondent Veronika Gibadieva, explained why he left the sport with a calm heart and how difficult it was for him to return after shoulder surgery.

- Stas, how did you come to the decision to end your career? At what point did you feel it was time to leave?

At the last competitions, at the Russian Championship, when I didn’t qualify for, I swam the last distance, touched the side and sighed with relief because I realized: I don’t need to go anywhere else, I don’t need to start anywhere else.

The last time I started the World Cup stages - there are nine of them in the series - it was hard, my shoulder hurt, my body was tired. Therefore, I decided to end my career.

- Why didn’t you decide to voice it right away?

I’ve been doing this for so many years, it was difficult to suddenly come to the conclusion that it was time to leave. It was necessary to somehow understand it, digest it and decide to voice it.

- What are you doing now? Will you train?

Currently I work as Deputy General Director at the Neutron sports club. And I don’t consider the possibility of coaching.

- So you don’t want to follow in your parents’ footsteps?

No. Don't want.

- You had several “comebacks” after operations. And successful comebacks. How did you do it?

I still don’t understand how I managed to do this: in 2014 I climbed onto the podium at the World Championship, in 2015 I became a prize-winner at the European Championship, and competed at all stages of the World Cup. Even now my right hand works worse than my left.

- In ordinary life?

Yes, in ordinary life. So, I really don’t know how I coped. Rehabilitation after the operations was very difficult, and these were the most difficult moments in my career.

- You are a “late” athlete. Didn’t you really want to give it all up while waiting for the first significant result?

I just really wanted to do something useful for my parents, because they trained me, I swam and swam, but I couldn’t confirm the highest category.

- What caused the breakthrough in results?

I've grown up. Physically I became a strong man - for some this happens earlier, for others later. For example: my weight was less than 80 kg with a height of 1.92 m, and in 2010, when I won in Dubai, it was 90 kg.

- Does your child already swim?

He is two years and three months old. Very active, mischievous, but we don’t go to the pool because there is no pool where such small children would be comfortable. But he swam in the river, swam in the pool at the dacha. He likes water: he didn’t get out of the water in the summer (laughs).

- There are a lot of good spin players in the team now. Are you leaving with peace of mind?

I remember those moments when there were few of us in Russian backstroke in terms of competition. Arkady (Vyatchanin) and I fought each other, and at some point it was clear that he was stronger than me. I hope that I, too, somehow contributed to the fact that we have such healthy competition, high competition. We now have a lot of spinners, the guys push each other in terms of progressing their results, and now we have more athletes capable of winning the biggest competitions. So yes, I’m calm, I can leave (laughs).

Stanislav Donets was born on July 7, 1983 in the city of Dmitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk region), where he currently lives.

I started playing sports early - in elementary school. The swimmer’s first coach was an outstanding mentor, O. Reichman, who managed to bring the athlete to a high professional level and taught him the basics of real swimming.

In 2005, Stanislav Donets was included in the Russian national team, after which he began to take an active part in top-ranking competitions.

In 2007, Stanislav competed at the European Championships and took first place at a distance of one hundred meters. The following year, the swimmer again competed at the European Championships and this time won first place in the 4x100 meter relay and in the combined style.

Also in 2008, the athlete took part in the World Championship and again became the first - gold medalist - in the relay race and in swimming at a distance of twenty-five meters.

In general, the year 2008 turned out to be extremely successful and indicative for Stanislav - in addition to the fact that the athlete showed himself in the best possible way, he was also awarded an Olympic license.

Stanislav Donets deservedly received a ticket to the Olympics - long, hard training and practical performances at competitions were crowned with extraordinary success.

At the 2008 Olympics, Stanislav Donets (together with Arkady Vatchanin) adequately entered the semi-finals. In the preliminary heat of the 200-meter backstroke, the athlete finished sixth with a score of 1:58.68.

Best of the day

The Olympic Games for an athlete turned out to be not only an extremely important sports competition, but also a new stage in their career.

The swimmer is currently on short-term vacation and plans to continue training soon.

The Olympic athlete is confident that in the near future he will prove himself more than once and win a considerable number of honorary awards. Time will tell whether Stanislav's wishes will come true.

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Yuri Lvovich Raikhman, Stas’s coach and father, tells our correspondent about Stanislav’s sports path and the prospects for his participation in the upcoming Olympic Games.

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It should also be noted that his physical development was somewhat delayed. He graduated from school with a height of 178 centimeters, and grew up later. Because of this, everything he did was given to him with great difficulty, through overcoming. Although the path to athletic heights is never easy or short, nevertheless, Stas’s example in this regard becomes almost textbook. Moreover, not only in Russia, but also abroad. Coach Turetsky told me: “I’m now telling the story of your Stas to the Swiss national team. There are guys there who don't really believe in what they are doing. And I give them his example.”

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From childhood to the present day, he has been training under the guidance of his parents, Yuri and Olga Raikhman (Stanislav bears his mother’s maiden name).

Specializes in backstroke swimming. Seven-time world record holder, multiple European record holder in short pools. Current world record holder in the 4x100m medley relay in short pools - 3.19.16 (St. Petersburg, December 20, 2009, together with Sergei Geibel, Evgeniy Korotyshkin and Danila Izotov) and in the 4x50m medley relay in short pools - 1.31.80 (Istanbul , December 10, 2009, together with Sergei Geibel, Evgeniy Korotyshkin and Sergei Fesikov).

He became one of the heroes of the 2010 World Short Course Championships, winning gold medals in the 50 and 100 m backstroke and setting a European record in the 100 m backstroke in the first leg of the medley relay - 48.95 (missing just 0.01 from the record peace).

Recognized as the best athlete of Russia in December 2010 by voting on the Rossiya-2 TV channel.

Sports results

* set a European record in the 100m backstroke at the first stage - 48.95

World records

(Current records are highlighted)

* - finished at the same time as Arkady Vyatchanin.

Family

Parents - Olga and Yuri Raikhman - swimming coaches. Sister - Anna Raikhman (married to Alexander Testov)

Stanislav Donets is a famous Russian swimmer who achieved his main achievements in short-track swimming pools. Here he became a ten-time European champion and won world championships many times. However, in long water his successes were much more modest; he could not challenge the strongest swimmers of the USA and Australia, being hopelessly inferior to them in speed.

Unpromising student

Many swimming fans are wondering where swimmer Stanislav Donets disappeared to. He has not disappeared anywhere and continues to perform at national tournaments and World Cup stages, but today he is losing competition in the national team to the newly-minted world champion and is not so noticeable. In general, Stanislav Donets burst into the world of swimming as quickly and unexpectedly as he disappeared from it. He was born in Ulyanovsk in 1983 and modestly took up swimming from elementary school, training with his own parents and not showing outstanding results.

Swimming is a sport where talents are revealed already at a young age, but Stas, at sixteen years old, was still a candidate for master of sports and did not even dream of major tournaments. However, his parents, Olga and Yuri Raikhman, continued to believe in their son and did not give up where others would have long ago expelled the unlucky student for lack of prospects.

First victories

After twenty years, serious changes took place in Stanislav’s life, and his sailing business got off the ground. He began to actively progress and already in 2005 he joined the national team, becoming one of the leaders in In 2007, Stanislav Donets for the first time in his life competed in a major tournament, which was the European Short Course Championship. Here he immediately took gold in the 100-meter backstroke, to which he added silver in the two-hundred-meter event and another silver in the medley relay.

A year later, he participated in the continental championship in pools with a standard fifty-meter track. Here his successes were more modest; he was content with one gold medal in the relay, failing to take awards in individual events. Stanislav Donets again demonstrated his best qualities in short-track pools. At the 2008 European Championships, the Dimitrovgrad native took all three gold medals in individual disciplines, and also added silver in the medley relay.

Triumphs and downfalls

In 2008, Stanislav Donets earned a ticket to the Olympics in Beijing. Despite the fact that he showed his best results at distances of 100 and 200 m, the athlete was left without awards, unable to overcome the semi-final barrier. Donets was able to redeem himself for his Olympic failures at the next European Short Course Championships, where he had no equal. Stanislav won all the individual events and helped the relay team win the final heat, thus leaving Istanbul with four main awards.

The athlete himself admitted that he was much more comfortable swimming in pools with short lanes. This was explained by the fact that in his native Dimitrovgrad there were no swimming complexes with fifty-meter lanes. Hence the specific technique, which involved swims with more turns and sections under water than at standard distances.

In 2013, the native suffered a serious shoulder injury and was forced to take a break from his career. Stanislav Donets and his wife devoted this time to organizing their personal lives, and at the same time the athlete underwent a number of operations, after which he recovered for a year and a half. After returning to the sport, there was no longer such a hail of gold awards, but in 2014 Stanislav was able to win bronze at the World Short Course Championships. The swimmer himself said that this award had special meaning for him, and he valued it more than other gold ones.

Stanislav Donets and his wife

Photos of the titled athlete and his wife show viewers happy young people, and there is every reason for this. Not long ago they became the parents of a son, Andrei, whom they had been waiting for so long.

Stanislav’s wife is five years younger than him; at one time she received an education in public administration, but for now she devotes herself entirely to her family. Alina Donets says that she is not going to stop at one child and is ready to give her husband a daughter.