Smetanina was a skier when she finished her career. Raisa Smetanina: from a family of reindeer herders to Olympic champions. The sporting future of the country

Raisa Petrovna Smetanina. Born on February 29, 1952 in the village of Mokhcha (Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). Soviet skier, four times Olympic champion(1976, 1980, 1992), four multiple champion world, World Cup winner (1980/81). Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1976).

Her parents are hereditary reindeer herders. Parents almost all year round spent in the wild with herds. As a child, Raisa often had to spend the winter in folding shelters made of skins.

The family was large - five sons and two daughters.

I've been skiing since I learned to walk. I started with small planks that dad planed, to which he attached fastenings in the form of deerskin straps.

Interestingly, her older brothers preferred such national species sports such as long jumping over sleds, lasso and ax throwing.

Upon reaching the age of seven, parents sent their children to boarding school, where they visited them only a few times a year.

Actively engaged in skiing in school years. But she began to train systematically only at the age of fifteen, when she entered the pedagogical school in Syktyvkar. On professional level came out under the guidance of coach German Kharitonov. He prepared her for competitions, and thanks to living in a large city, she could not miss the most important competitions. On one of them fast girl with excellent technique and was noticed by the coach of the Russian national skiing team Ivanov, including her in the team national team in 1972.

In 1974, at the World Championships in Falun, she won two awards - bronze in the 5 km individual classic race and in the relay race (together with Nina Baldycheva, Nina Selyunina and Galina Kulakova).

At the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck Smetanina won medals in all three types of the program. She became a two-time Olympic champion - she won the individual 10 km classic race and took gold in the relay (together with Nina Baldycheva, Galina Kulakova and Zinaida Amosova). In the third event of the program - the 5 km classic race, Smetanina was second after the Finnish Helena Takalo.

At the World Championships in Lahti, Finland in 1978, she won three medals - silver in the 10 km race and two bronzes in the relay and 5 km race.

On Olympic Games ah 1980 in Lake Placid success awaited her again. Smetanina became an Olympic champion in individual race 5 km and won silver in the relay (together with Nina Baldycheva, Galina Kulakova and Nina Rocheva).

In the 1980/81 season, Raisa Smetanina became the strongest skier on the planet, winning the World Cup. Previously her best result was second place in the 1978/79 season.

In 1982, at the World Championships in Oslo, the racer won her second gold medal at the world championships - she became the champion in the 20 km race. She also won silver as part of the relay.

At the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo Of the Soviet skiers, only Raisa Smetanina was able to compete with the strongest foreign rivals. At the Olympics, Smetanina won two medals - two silvers in the 10 km and 20 km individual races. For the first time in long years The Soviet women's team did not win a medal in the relay.

At the 1983/84 World Cup, Smetanina repeated the result of 5 years ago, taking second place in the overall standings after the Finnish Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi.

In 1985, Smetanina’s main success was the gold medal in the relay at the World Championships in Seefeld. She won this award together with young Soviet skiers, future world sports stars Tamara Tikhonova, Anfisa Reztsova, Liliya Vasilchenko. In the final classification of the World Cup, Smetanina was eighth.

In the 1985/86 and 1986/87 seasons, the results of the eminent skier decreased slightly. At the World Cup stages she wins several prizes and is in 10th place in the classification of the strongest female skiers on the planet.

In the 1987/88 Olympic season, Raisa Smetanina returns to the highest sport level. She is sixth in the final World Cup classification.

At the 1988 Olympics in Calgary wins two personal medals - silver in the 10 km classic race and bronze in the 20 km speed skate.

Since the 1988/89 season, Smetanina has been pushed into second roles by a new generation of Soviet skiers - Svetlana Nageikina, Tamara Tikhonova.

However, her results at the World Cup are still consistently high and are in the range of 10-15 places. At the World Championships in Lahti, the racer wins silver as part of the relay four. Smetanina, as a veteran of the national team and a great skier, was an authority for young Soviet athletes. He noted the special role of Smetanina in the good microclimate of the national team Main coach team Alexander Grushin.

At the 1991 World Championships in Val di Fiemme, Smetanina won gold as part of the relay.

At the 1992 Olympics in Albertville she won gold in the relay a few days before her 40th birthday, which is a kind of record for skiers.

At the time of her retirement, she ranked first in the world among all athletes (both women and men) in the total number of awards at the White Olympics. Subsequently, only the Norwegians Bjorn Daly and Ole Einar Bjoerndalen in men and Marit Bjorgen in women managed to get ahead of Raisa Smetanina in this indicator.

The first athlete (both women and men) to win 5 medals Winter Olympics contract.

In total, she has 26 awards from world championships and Olympics. On the recommendation of the IOC, Raisa Smetanina was awarded the International Coubertin Prize. In the capital of the Komi Republic, Syktyvkar, the Ski Center is named after her - Republican ski resort them. Raisa Smetanina.

In 1992, she was awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Syktyvkar.”

Alexander Grushin (head coach of the USSR and Russian national teams in 1984–2002): “In 1986, Raisa moved to train in my group. By that time, she was a titled athlete, but without stellar aplomb. She was the true leader of the team, took care of the younger ones colleagues, like a mother hen about chickens. She really helped me “resolve” the conflicts that inevitably arise in women’s groups. She even partially played the role of a coach. At the same time, she tried not to be in the spotlight. Some people cannot live without public praise, and Smetanina - on the contrary. Northern people are accustomed to saying little, but doing a lot. I wish Raya excellent health and want her to pass on her wealth of experience to young athletes. Now our champion lives too secluded. It’s good that her friends do not forget her and the local authorities treat her warmly. But you need to be in public more often. Such a person will not be a burden to anyone. Everyone loves and respects sour cream. Ski Federation we need to be more active - more decisively invite Raisa to various events. It’s a shame that the generation that brought so much success to the country is becoming less and less visible.”

Mikhail Devyatyarov (Olympic champion Calgary 1988): “The first thing that comes to mind when you talk about Raisa Petrovna is her beautiful, extremely easy skiing. Skating move They began to master it only during the twilight of her career, but the classics performed by Smetanina are classics! Such an ideal technique, firstly, was laid down by nature - innate coordination of movements, and secondly, by the competent work of mentors. In big sports, especially in women's teams, it is a common occurrence for old-time veterans to be jealous of newcomers. But Raisa Petrovna had nothing like that: young people always found support in her person and, if necessary, real help. Running back top level until the age of 40, Smetanina then worked very well as a coach. I don’t know why this fact is rarely mentioned. And its main role is the popularization of skiing, sports and healthy image life. I advise everyone who comes to Syktyvkar to visit the museum of the great champion - an extremely interesting exhibition."

Raisa Smetanina's height: 161 centimeters.

Personal life of Raisa Smetanina:

Not married and never has been. Have no children. Because of sports career I was never able to start a family.

Sports achievements of Raisa Smetanina:

Olympic Games:

Silver - Innsbruck 1976 - 5 km
Gold - Innsbruck 1976 - 10 km
Gold - Innsbruck 1976 - 4x5 km relay
Gold - Lake Placid 1980 - 5 km
Silver - Lake Placid 1980 - 4x5 km relay
Silver - Sarajevo 1984 - 10 km
Silver - Sarajevo 1984 - 20 km
Silver - Calgary 1988 - 10 km
Bronze - Calgary 1988 - 20 km
Gold - Albertville 1992 - 4x5 km relay

World Championships:

Gold - Falun 1974 - 4x5 km relay
Bronze - Falun 1974 - 5 km
Silver - Lahti 1978 - 10 km
Silver - Lahti 1978 - 20 km
Bronze - Lahti 1978 - 5 km
Bronze - Lahti 1978 - 4x5 km relay
Bronze - Falun 1980 - 20 km
Gold - Oslo 1982 - 20 km
Silver - Oslo 1982 - 4x5 km relay
Gold - Seefeld 1985 - 4x5 km relay
Silver - Lahti 1989 - 4x5 km relay
Gold - Val di Fiemme 1991 - 4x5 km relay

SMETANINA Raisa Petrovna was born on February 29, 1952 in the village of Mokhcha, Izhemsky district of the Komi ASSR. Soviet athlete ( ski race), Honored Master of Sports. Winner of three gold, two silver and one bronze Olympic medals. Multiple champion of the USSR and the world (1974 - 91). Honored Worker of Culture of the Komi Republic.

The first success came to the Soviet ski star in 1974, when Raya Smetanina, as part of the USSR women's relay team, became the world champion, and two years later she confirmed her champion title in the individual ski program for 5 and 10 km.

Raisa Smetanina came to the first Olympic Games in her sports life as the leader of the USSR national team. She lost just a second in the five-kilometer race to the Finnish athlete Helena Takalo. A second that turned out to be worth its weight in gold - Takalo received a gold medal, Smetanina received a silver one. However, three days later, the 23-year-old Soviet skier managed to take revenge. At the 10-kilometer distance, Takalo started almost immediately behind Smetanina, which gave the Finnish athlete the opportunity to lead the race, knowing the schedule of her main rival. Still, Takalo failed to capitalize on the advantage that the lot provided her. Raisa Smetanina's speed turned out to be higher in the end. So she won a gold medal, leaving Takalo with a silver.

The performance of the leader of our team, Raisa Smetanina, a participant in five Winter Olympic Games (1976-1992), where she won 4 gold, 5 silver and 1 bronze medals, was triumphant. Moreover, at her fifth Olympics (1992, Albertville, France), she was awarded a gold medal at the age of 40 (!), which is a kind of longevity record among female skiers in maintaining the level of highest sportsmanship. And in total, her collection, like Galina Kulakova’s, includes 26 awards from world championships and Olympiads.

R. Smetanina’s contribution to the development of personal sports, in physical education youth, her personal unique sporting achievements were awarded high state and government awards: the Order of the Badge of Honor, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the Order of the October Revolution, the Order of Lenin. The republican ski stadium, which has international status, is named after her.

Leaving big sport, Raisa Smetanina as a mentor to the national team coach women's team skiers pass on their experience and knowledge to young athletes.

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There is no such person who lived in the era of the USSR and did not know who Raisa Petrovna Smetanina was. His last medal in skiing this legendary athlete won by the age of forty. This can be called a kind of record, moreover, it still holds today.

Raisa Smetanina left the sport almost immediately after the breakup Soviet Union. Last time she performed at the Olympics in Albertville, France in 1992. It was there that Raisa Smetanina won the relay race as part of the United Team of the Republics of the Former USSR, along with Lazutina, Vyalbe and Egorova. Immediately after this, she decided to end her career as an athlete.

Smetanina Raisa Petrovna: biography

This legendary skier was born on February twenty-ninth, 1952 in the Izhevsk region of the Komi Republic in the small village of Mokhchi. In her family, from generation to generation, everyone became hereditary reindeer herders. The girl learned to ski very early. The Smetanins were a large family: another sister and five brothers grew up with Raya. And since there was tundra all around, which was impossible to travel on foot, skis and their poles very quickly became familiar to the kids. Moreover, they were inherited from older children to younger ones. And soon the time came when the skis fell into the hands of the future Olympic champion.

It must be said that in this distant northern region the sport life. The directors of two local secondary schools were themselves avid fans of cross-country skiing, and therefore introduced children to it. From time to time, competitions were held in the area, and films were even made. On weekends, they always took the children out into nature and in the end they infected almost all the children from both schools with their enthusiasm. The girl Raya did not stand aside either. Since childhood, she was distinguished by strength of character and perseverance.

First successes in sports

Besides hobbies skiing, Raisa Petrovna Smetanina often fished as a child, in addition, she periodically went to haymaking with the rest of the children from her village. The legendary athlete won her first victory at the youth republican championship held in Perm. Here she took second place.

Immediately after graduating from school, the girl entered the pedagogical college. At the same time, she began to ski professionally. In Syktyvkar, where Raisa Smetanina studied, she was coached by German Kharitonov. Since 1970, the girl was included in the team of the Urozhay sports society. The future Olympic champion spent time training from morning until late evening. Apparently, that’s why just four years later Raisa Petrovna Smetanina was included in the national team of the country. Almost the same year she became the world champion, winning the team relay. At the same time, she won a bronze medal in the five-kilometer individual race.

As Raisa Smetanina later said, she was very lucky with the team: their mentor was Viktor Ivanov, who at that time was considered the best coach in the country. And a more experienced skier immediately took over the patronage of the young debutante and simply good man Galina Kulakova. Very soon the girls became close friends.

Sports achivments

In 1976, at the Innsbruck Olympics, this Soviet skier won three medals, two of which were gold. And only in the five-kilometer race the athlete lost to the Finnish Helena Tekalo, who was first at the finish line. As a result, the competitor received a gold medal, and Smetanina was only second.

At the world championship in 1978, which took place in the Finnish city of Lahti, Raisa Petrovna stood on the podium four times. Although, in fairness, it should be said that she never managed to get to the first stage.

In total, Raisa Petrovna Smetanina took part in as many as five Olympics. And nowhere was she left without a medal. A seven-time medalist at world championships, a “queen” in the sport of cross-country skiing, this amazing athlete has twenty-six international awards in her collection. But, as Raisa herself believes, the main thing for her is the prize of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. This cup is awarded to athletes for following fair fight and the principles of the Olympic movement.

Awards

Raisa Petrovna Smetanina puts all her efforts into popularizing sports and physical education of young people. The personal life of this legendary athlete is also inextricably linked with ski racing. Today she is the mentor of the Russian women's team. Raisa Smetanina's personal sporting achievements were recognized with many high state awards. “Queen of the Ski Track” was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor, the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, the October Revolution, and Lenin. The republican stadium, which has international status and hosts cross-country skiing, was named after her.

The sporting future of the country

Having left the big ski track, Raisa Smetanina today passes on her knowledge and experience to young athletes. Like her coaches who raised her to become an unrivaled golden star, the legendary woman invests a lot of time and effort into the process of educating the younger generation. Raisa Smetanina works as a mentor for the women's ski team.

Together with Italian Stephanie Belmondo, our legendary skier shares the world record for the most medals in the history of the Winter Olympic Games. Each of them has ten awards of varying denominations. But no one will ever surpass our athlete’s other, personal record. Raisa Petrovna Smetanina is the first among women and men in skiing who was able to win as many as five medals in a row at the Olympics.

It’s interesting, but life played a joke on the skier. Her birthday fell on the twenty-ninth of February, so she celebrates it once every four years.

Smetanina lives in Syktyvkar in a beautiful house in the Orbit area. But few people know that the most titled skier “of all time” lives in the mansion under a tenancy agreement, renting it from the state.

Raisa Smetanina - pride Soviet sports, Olympic champion (4 times), world champion (5 times), Olympic bronze medalist, multiple champion of the USSR.

Among the athletes whose names glorified Soviet sports is the name of Raisa Smetanina. Ski racing is the work that an athlete has put into her life.

Since childhood, skiing has been a basic necessity for a little girl. The people around her instilled in her strength and perseverance, which became faithful helpers for the little girl in achieving her goal.

First ski track

Raisa Petrovna was born on December 29, 1952 in Komiya, the village of Mokhcha. When the girl started skiing, hardly anyone will remember. In the family of a reindeer herder in Meta, where snow falls from early autumn to late spring, this is the main means of getting to school and helping parents in their difficult life.

Over time, the need for skis became not only a means of overcoming space in the tundra. It so happened that next to her there were people passionate about sports. Thanks to their influence, Raisa Smetanina transformed her trips in the tundra into constant training.

After graduating from school, having moved to Syktyvkar, the young athlete becomes a technical school student. In every educational institution, not only physical education classes are required according to the curriculum; sports sections are organized for enthusiastic children.

The head of such an organization was Raisa Smetanina’s ski coach German Kharitonov. He perfected sportsmanship Raisa, preparing her for cross-country skiing. However, at this stage the young athlete was unable to achieve high results.

The new mentors of the beginning skier, coach Viktor Ivanov and guardian Galina Kulakova, helped Smetanina open up new sporting opportunities.

How to become a champion

A professional approach to the young athlete not only opened up prospects for sporting successes Raisa, but gave the first victories. A strong, purposeful, talented girl during the first two years under the guidance of the best coach country and Olympic champion gave rise to endless victories:

1974 - The rising Soviet ski star became world champion as a member of the Soviet Union women's relay team.
Two years later, 5- and 10-kilometer races allowed the athlete to confirm her title of champion.
1976 - the first Olympic Games of Raisa Smetanina, leader of the USSR national team. The price of victory for Finnish athlete Helena Takalo in the five-kilometer race is 1 second.

The series of victories continued, each one backed by hard training. Fans gave her the title of Queen of Skiing for her consistent victories in all the world championships and other competitions in which she took part. There were results that five-time champion I found it very painful. The Olympics in Lake Placid brought the athlete second place, and four years later the champion won two silver medals.

The Calgary Olympics brings the 36-year-old champion bronze and silver. The girl continued to fight. The Winter Olympic Games of 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992 were a special achievement for the Soviet skier. The Russian athlete won 26 awards. The entire history of the Olympic Games does not know such a number of victories that Raisa sour cream won. Only two female skiers have the same number of medals - Raisa Smetanina and Stefania Belmondo.

Sports future of Russia

Raisa Smetanina is not only about winning ski races. Like her coaches, who raised her to be the golden unsurpassed star of Soviet sports, She invests a lot of time and effort in educating the younger generation. After leaving the ski track, Raisa Smetanina took over the women's ski team. The accumulated knowledge and experience of fighting for the title of the best is passed on by the multiple champion to young skiers.

A ski complex in the Komi Republic is named after the famous skier. He is one of the best sports facilities Russia. Every winter the complex is visited by guests from all over the Russian Federation. For his work in sporting achievements Smetanina was awarded awards by the Russian government.