Zibych, whom the biathlon family lost. "Heroic Man" Zybych, whom the biathlon family lost Klaus Siebert last

Penetrates right through. For those who even casually follow the Belarusian biathlon, German coach Klaus Siebert has become closer and dearer than many dozens of local specialists and officials combined. Even after the official end of work with the national team in 2014, Klaus’s presence in the team was invisibly felt. Because the words with which the athletes regularly spoke about their mentor exuded warmth, sincerity and gratitude.

If it were not for the serious illness with which Klaus Siebert fought with varying success for several years, he would probably still be happy to work for the benefit of the Belarusian biathlon, because he did not interrupt contacts with it. Sometimes he himself visited the team’s location during tournaments in Europe, sometimes the team visited him, setting up a training camp nearby.

Few manage to earn recognition and adoration in a foreign land. Zibych, as the coaches in the Belarusian national team called him, managed to become one of his own quite quickly. What's the secret here?

“In Belarus, people are reserved and secretive. But in professional sports this is not possible.”

— In every country you encounter something unusual. Therefore, first you need to become like a member of the family. You try, strive, adapt, look for compromises, but, as a rule, rapprochement occurs very slowly.<…>But in Belarus people are reserved and secretive. By the way, it was the same in the GDR. And in China it’s even worse. But in professional sports you can not do it this way. You need to be contactable, open, joyful, strong. Like me,” the coach explained in 2010, after two years of work in our country, in an interview with former biathlete Svetlana Paramygina.

<…>And my decision to stay in Belarus is a decision for the athletes. When athletes are grateful for your work, the coach wants to continue working with them. If people are open with you and, most importantly, honest, it has a very great importance- more than all the money in the world. Money means nothing if there is no connection between the athlete and the coach, if the chemistry does not match. You know: training is primarily about trust. If there is no trust, you can go home. And one more thing - there should always be pleasure.

“Today I work for Belarus, which means I am Belarusian”

Does the phrase in the subtitle remind you of anything? Remember the former commander-in-chief of the hockey team Glen Hanlon, with whom the Belarusians made it to the top eight at the world championships three times? He also directly stated: “I am a Belarusian!” The Canadian also paid great attention to creating an atmosphere in the team and emphasized that the team should be one family.

In general, these psychological techniques do not seem to be new, but they work in Belarus.

— As a coach, I won a lot of medals. With Ricco Gross - four olympic gold. In Salt Lake City, where I was the coach of the German men's team, we had medalists in all disciplines. But every time after a victory I felt a special feeling. And I don’t care which country’s athlete won the medal. Today I work for Belarus, which means I am Belarusian. And when he worked in China, he was Chinese. This is my philosophy,” Siebert said.

"I'm dad, mom, and friend"

“It’s hard for me, a foreigner, to judge... The reconstruction of the complex in Raubichi is, of course, overdue - it’s a necessity. But starting it in the Olympic off-season... I don’t know. This somehow doesn’t fit well with our ambitions for Sochi. But the training camp at Raubichi is summer speed training, allowing you to understand how the girls master the load. Studies of lactate and a host of other indicators. Why do you need to have a base of comparative assessments? Alas, we lost her, so I’m upset and sometimes even angry. This reconstruction is somehow untimely, if in general the country has such a serious attitude towards the Games in Sochi.<…>Usually, before the Olympics, training conditions and the level of support improve, but for us it turned out exactly the opposite, although the tasks remained the same - we need to win medals, and more than one.

“Even before Sochi, doctors said that Siebert needed urgent surgery”

Fortunately, we managed to cope brilliantly with these, and not only, difficulties, and at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Daria Domracheva won three golds, and Nadezhda Skardino won bronze.

Klaus went to Sochi with the national team and was sincerely happy for his students, but few people know how these victories were given to him.

In the spring of 2014, it was announced that Siebert would be leaving the national team at the end of his four-year contract to focus on his health.

— All the doctors said before the Olympics that he needed urgent surgery, but he decided that he would go to Sochi, that he wanted to be there. Everyone was worried about him, but it was his decision. Klaus is a fan of his work. Being a coach is the meaning of his life. And we understood and supported him. And as for the continuation? coaching activities, then it’s very difficult to guess here. Still, cancer is a very serious disease, and fighting it requires a lot of effort.

But we maintain a relationship with Siebert and communicate. We are interested in his health. Yes, it’s hard for us without him, but what can you do. Over the years, we have come to love Klaus - as a specialist and a person. And we are very worried about his health. He underwent surgery and is now recovering from it,” Nadezhda Skardino said in the summer of 2014.

It soon became known that Klaus Siebert was replaced by the Austrian Alfred Eder. The Belarusian girls also received him very well and affectionately called him Alfredushka. Under the leadership of Eder, Daria Domracheva finally won the big Crystal Globe in the 2014/15 season.

And when Russian journalists asked Siebert how he felt about working with their country’s team, Klaus replied: “Training the Russian national team, and even defending my program?! I can’t even think about it. I like working in Belarus! That’s it”.

For the past two years, Klaus Siebert has continued his unequal battle. Last winter, during the Christmas and New Year holidays, he had another set of chemotherapy...

Klaus Siebert was born on April 29, 1955 in Elterlein - a few kilometers from Schlettau, Saxony, East Germany.

Klaus Siebert joined the coaching staff of the Belarusian biathlon team in 2008. Initially, he was invited to the position of shooting coach-consultant, but then began to perform broader functions. Moreover, he actively helped not only women's team, but also male, despite the serious cancer he suffered during the 2010/11 season. At the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, with the participation of Siebert, Daria Domracheva won bronze, and Sergei Novikov won silver.

At the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Daria Domracheva won three golds, Nadezhda Skardino became a bronze medalist. In the spring of 2014, after the expiration of his four-year contract, Klaus Siebert left the Belarusian national team and continued to fight cancer. He underwent further operations and underwent chemotherapy courses. He died on April 24, 2016, a few days short of his 61st birthday.

Came to biathlon in 1965 at the age of 10. Sports career Klaus Siebert was a member of the German Democratic Republic team, in which he became the silver medalist of the 1980 Olympics in the relay, as well as a three-time world champion (in 1978 in the relay, in 1979 in the individual race and relay), three-time bronze medalist (1975, 1977, 1978). In the 1978/79 season, Siebert won the World Cup.

Coaching career started in 1984 in the GDR junior team. He was a member of the headquarters of the national teams of Germany and Austria, and from 2006 to April 2008 he was the head coach of the Chinese national team. While working with Austrian and Chinese biathletes, the mentor was able to significantly improve the shooting training of his students. Three Chinese women were among the top 20 shooters in the World Cup. In 2007 he was named the best women's trainer peace.

The most famous student of Klaus Siebert is the German biathlete Ricco Gross. Over 14 years (1988−2002) of joint cooperation, this tandem won four golds, three silvers and one bronze at the Olympics, as well as five top medals at the world championships.

In 2014, he was recognized by the Pressball newspaper as Person of the Year in Belarusian sports.

He was married, had two sons and three grandchildren. Since 1982, after finishing his career as an athlete, he lived in Altenberg, a small town in Saxony (Germany).

He considered Daria Domracheva his best student. His students won a total of 39 medals at the World Championships and Olympics.

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He had every right to refuse us an interview, citing lack of time and poor health. This December is difficult for Klaus Siebert - a new chemotherapy session arrived just in time for the end of the year... But Herr remains a professional even in difficult life circumstances - he has always been a man of a broad soul. Three-time world champion, medalist Olympic Games, winner of the 1978/79 World Cup, recognized by the editors as Person of the Year, spoke about all the painful issues.

Klaus, how did you feel about Pressball’s decision to name you Person of the Year? Did the thought slip through your mind, why not Daria Domracheva?

I approach it this way: such recognition is a great honor for me personally. But at the same time, I consider it as a reward for the entire Belarusian team, the leader of which is Dasha.

Can you guess who else fought with you for this title?

Considering the historical results of Belarusian athletes at the Olympics held in Sochi, I am sure that there were many worthy contenders - and they also deserved such an honor.

Do you continue to follow biathlon? If the answer is positive, do you evaluate what you saw from the point of view of a fan or a coach?

So far this season I have watched all the races on television. I think I am no longer able to watch competitions through the eyes of someone other than a coach. So nothing has changed in this regard.

Well, in general, have you ever had the pleasure of watching biathlon as a simple fan?

In the last three decades - definitely not. After all, I constantly worked with one of the athletes. This implies a different way of looking at racing.

Curious how you got into biathlon?

This happened in 1965. I was ten years old then. It's simple: I was attracted by the combination of cross-country skiing and shooting. That's why I chose this sport. He worked professionally until 1980, and two years later he began his coaching career.

Tell about your family.

My parents were also interested in biathlon. My father was even a judge in this sport. I have been married for forty years, I have two sons and three grandchildren.

According to your Wikipedia article, you were born in the East German town of Schletau. What kind of place is it?

More precisely, my small homeland is Elterlein, located a few kilometers from Schletau. This is a town with a population of two and a half thousand people. In those parts they loved biathlon very much and were actively involved in the education and training of young athletes.

I have heard more than once that sport in the GDR was a state cult. Is it true?

I will speak directly about biathlon. He was Olympic form, the development of which was actually facilitated by the state. And we athletes felt proud when we achieved success.

Remember the day the Berlin Wall fell? How did you feel?

I was abroad then - as at many other moments in my life... There was a feeling that new era, and there was a need to adapt to its requirements as soon as possible. We, former athletes and coaches definitely had an advantage in this regard, since by that time they had an understanding of both systems.

Were you a communist?

Not really. More like a person who, together with his family, was simply trying to live his life. At the same time, we felt proud when we brought success to the country, because we felt that people were also proud of our achievements.

I wonder what the relationship was like between the athletes of the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany?

Always friendly. Although we fought for our country, and they fought for theirs. I must say that contacts with the West Germans have been preserved to this day - already in a united Germany.

If we compare biathlon in the 70-80s and now - what is the main difference?

Over the past few decades, it has become a sport for the public, for fans. At one time, we also participated in this process - after all, until 1977, shooting was carried out from large-caliber weapons, and then from small-caliber weapons. By the way, I am proud that I managed to win medals at the world championships before and after these revolutionary changes.

What is your most memorable achievement as a biathlete?

Perhaps this is the victory in the individual race at the 1979 World Championships in Ruhpolding.

Domracheva, it happened, shot at other people’s targets, confused prone and stance. Have similar incidents happened in your career?

Ha, no. Nothing like this ever happened to me.

Tell us where is your home now?

Since 1982 - the same year when I began my coaching career - I have lived in Altenberg. This is a small city in Saxony.

Did the Belarusian state adequately appreciate your work with our team?

When you are honored, it is always a special reward. But we are especially glad that we were able to make so many people in the country happy.

For so much high level sport is a very difficult activity. Great success can only be achieved together by joining forces. The athletes made my task easier because we were all working on how to make the dream come true. Everyone respected each other as individuals. Joy and friendship always reigned in the team.

What is your most memorable moment working with the Belarusian national team?

Of course, personal races in Sochi, marked with gold and bronze!

What most often evokes a feeling of nostalgia in you right now?

Oh, there are many reasons for this feeling. There are too many to choose just one.

What achievement are you most proud of in the six years you have worked on our team?

Again, the Olympics in Sochi - and the whole thing. And also cooperation with the entire team - athletes, coaches, doctors, physiotherapists, servicemen...

What role do you actually assign to yourself in Domracheva’s Olympic success?

Being a responsible mentor, I planned training daily - determined the volume, content, tasks. And then he accompanied them along with his assistants.

Did the current coach of the women's national team, Alfred Eder, contact you for consultations? Did he ask for advice?

No. We had no contact with him.

Has interest in you increased in Germany after the Belarusian success in Sochi?

Also no. This was not a topic for discussion.

During your time working in Belarus, what shocked or surprised you the most?

The warmth and sincerity of your fans. And also - increased attention from the media.

What interests and hobbies does Klaus Siebert have?

I enjoy playing golf. In addition, I love driving a motorcycle - I have a Triumph Street Triple R.

Are Daria Domracheva’s shooting problems solvable?

I wish this for her!

Who will win the overall World Cup this season?

Ha! I think that the strongest athlete will take first place.

Are you interested in news from our country, or is this a past stage?

We are constantly in contact with Belarusians. Of course, we discuss the latest events. I'm interested in everything!

Does anyone in Germany call you Zibych?

Oh no, this nickname is specifically for Belarus. This is what they call me only in your country. At home in Germany, I'm just Sieb.

You worked with the national teams of the GDR, China, and Belarus. Are there any countries you would like to coach in more?

I can only say that all the places where I worked played an important role in my development as a coach. I gained new and useful experience everywhere. In 1984-90 - in the junior team of the GDR, in 1998-2002 - in the men's team of a united Germany, in 2002-05 - in Austria, in 2006-08 - in China and, finally, in 2008- 14th - in Belarus.

Your best student is...

Dasha. She is an exceptional athlete. But in general, I was lucky enough to work with many great biathletes. Suffice it to say that my students won a total of 39 medals at the World Championships and Olympics. We can recall, for example, Ricco Gross, who became a four-time Olympic champion.

Wolfgang Pichler said that he never got used to the quality of Russian roads. What have you not been able to get used to in Belarus in six years? What remains a mystery in the behavior of Belarusians?

The bitterness of this loss permeates through and through. For those who even casually follow the Belarusian biathlon, German coach Klaus Siebert has become closer and dearer than many dozens of local specialists and officials combined. Even after the official end of work with the national team in 2014, Klaus’s presence in the team was invisibly felt. Because the words with which the athletes regularly spoke about their mentor exuded warmth, sincerity and gratitude.

If it were not for the serious illness with which Klaus Siebert fought with varying success for several years, he would probably still be happy to work for the benefit of the Belarusian biathlon, because he did not interrupt contacts with it. Sometimes he himself visited the team’s location during tournaments in Europe, sometimes the team visited him, setting up a training camp nearby.

Few manage to earn recognition and adoration in a foreign land. Zibych, as the coaches in the Belarusian national team called him, managed to become one of his own quite quickly. What's the secret here?

“In Belarus, people are reserved and secretive. But in professional sports this is not possible.”

In every country you encounter something unusual. Therefore, first you need to become like a member of the family. You try, strive, adapt, look for compromises, but, as a rule, rapprochement occurs very slowly.<…>But in Belarus people are reserved and secretive. By the way, it was the same in the GDR. And in China it is even worse. But in professional sports this is not possible. You need to be contactable, open, joyful, strong. “Like me,” the coach explained in 2010, after two years of work in our country, in an interview with former biathlete Svetlana Paramygina.

<…>And my decision to stay in Belarus is a decision for the athletes. When athletes are grateful for your work, the coach wants to continue working with them. If people are open with you and, most importantly, honest, it means a lot - more than all the money in the world. Money means nothing if there is no connection between the athlete and the coach, if the chemistry does not match. You know: training is, first of all, trust. If there is no trust, you can go home. And one more thing - there should always be pleasure.

“Today I work for Belarus, which means I am Belarusian”

Does the phrase in the subtitle remind you of anything? Remember the former commander-in-chief of the hockey team Glen Hanlon, with whom the Belarusians made it to the top eight at the world championships three times? He also directly stated: “I am a Belarusian!” The Canadian also paid great attention to creating an atmosphere in the team and emphasized that the team should be one family.

In general, these psychological techniques do not seem to be new, but they work in Belarus.

As a coach I won a lot of medals. With Ricco Gross - four Olympic golds. In Salt Lake City, where I was the coach of the German men's team, we had medalists in all disciplines. But every time after a victory I felt a special feeling. And I don’t care which country’s athlete won the medal. Today I work for Belarus, which means I am Belarusian. And when he worked in China, he was Chinese. This is my philosophy,” Siebert said.

"I'm dad, mom, and friend"

This is how the four-time veteran described the situation Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov: “I’ll tell you about Pichler’s next clown prank. Already here during the World Cup ( in Ruhpolding 2012 - Red.) he shouted at Klaus Siebert, called him a doper and threatened to expose him. And this is addressed to a person who recently suffered a serious illness. Who is Pichler to insult the honored man and real coach Klaus Siebert?”.

The Federation is my boss, its decisions are not discussed

What else distinguished Klaus Siebert was his amazing modesty, tact and ability to get along with his employer and colleagues. For him, not everything was clear about the structure of the sports structure in Belarus; he was unpleasantly surprised by the level of training and basic skills of the athletes, and was upset by the insufficient material equipment of biathlon. But he expressed his opinion on these issues, albeit intelligibly, but very restrained, understanding the peculiarities of the country to which he came. He adequately perceived its financial capabilities and based his work on them.

The Federation is my boss, its decisions are not discussed. In Germany, sponsors give money to the team. This is a federation. And it’s impossible to take five or six more people to a training camp in Austria. It would be real in Russian biathlon, American or Swiss. But Belarus is a small country, and you constantly have to decide what is possible and what is not. Therefore, we must work one hundred percent of what we have. There is no other way out.

Klaus Siebert wanted as many athletes as possible to work according to his system, he was ready to vary and adapt it. He was not embarrassed by the fact that some athletes had to be taught new techniques ski run and make them forget the outdated one that they have been instilled with for many years. The same applies to shooting technique. And so, little by little, step by step, the biathletes became better.

We must continue to train hard and not make any incredible plans, but set goals gradually and gradually move towards them. Well, as experience shows, it is very important not to get sick, so that everything is in order with your health,” said Siebert.

But if anyone suddenly thought that Siebert was a conformist who passively accepted the existing order, then he was mistaken. If the situation did not suit him, he expressed it firmly and without equivocation. For example, when in the summer of 2013, during the pre-Olympic off-season, Raubichi was closed for reconstruction, this canceled out the painstaking collection of data over the previous several years. The coaching staff lost the opportunity to objectively assess the readiness of athletes in similar periods compared to previous seasons. After all, it is for this reason that the team goes to training camps in the same places every year and trains according to the same program. And Siebert did not remain silent:

It’s hard for me, a foreigner, to judge... The reconstruction of the complex in Raubichi is, of course, overdue - it’s a necessity. But starting it in the Olympic off-season... I don’t know. This somehow doesn’t fit well with our ambitions for Sochi. But the training camp at Raubichi is summer speed training, allowing you to understand how the girls master the load. Studies of lactate and a host of other indicators. Why do you need to have a base of comparative assessments? Alas, we lost her, so I’m upset and sometimes even angry. This reconstruction is somehow untimely, if in general the country has such a serious attitude towards the Games in Sochi.<…>Usually, before the Olympics, training conditions and the level of support improve, but for us it turned out exactly the opposite, although the tasks remained the same - we need to win medals, and more than one.

“Even before Sochi, doctors said that Siebert needed urgent surgery”

Fortunately, we managed to cope brilliantly with these, and not only, difficulties, and at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Daria Domracheva won three golds, and Nadezhda Skardino won bronze.

Klaus went to Sochi with the national team and was sincerely happy for his students, but few people know how these victories were given to him.

In the spring of 2014, it was announced that after the expiration of his four-year contract, Siebert would leave the national team to focus on his health.

Even before the Olympics, all the doctors said that he needed urgent surgery, but he decided that he would go to Sochi, that he wanted to be there. Everyone was worried about him, but it was his decision. Klaus is a fan of his work. Being a coach is the meaning of his life. And we understood and supported him. As for the continuation of coaching activities, it is very difficult to make any guesses here. Still, cancer is a very serious disease, and fighting it requires a lot of effort.

But we maintain a relationship with Siebert and communicate. We are interested in his health. Yes, it’s hard for us without him, but what can you do. Over the years, we have come to love Klaus - as a specialist and a person. And we are very worried about his health. He underwent surgery and is now recovering from it,” Nadezhda Skardino said in the summer of 2014.

It soon became known that Klaus Siebert was replaced by the Austrian Alfred Eder. The Belarusian girls also received him very well and affectionately called him Alfredushka. Under the leadership of Eder, Daria Domracheva finally won the big Crystal Globe in the 2014/15 season.

Well, Klaus Siebert continued his unequal battle. Last winter, during the Christmas and New Year holidays, he had another set of chemotherapy...

Klaus Siebert was born on April 29, 1955 in Elterlein - a few kilometers from Schlettau, Saxony, East Germany.

Klaus Siebert joined the coaching staff of the Belarusian biathlon team in 2008. Initially, he was invited to the position of shooting coach-consultant, but then began to perform broader functions. Moreover, he actively helped not only the women’s team, but also the men’s team, despite the serious cancer he suffered during the 2010/11 season. At the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, with the participation of Siebert, Daria Domracheva won bronze, and Sergei Novikov won silver.

At the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Daria Domracheva won three golds, Nadezhda Skardino became a bronze medalist. In the spring of 2014, after the expiration of his four-year contract, Klaus Siebert left the Belarusian national team and continued to fight cancer. He underwent further operations and underwent chemotherapy courses. He died on April 24, 2016, a few days short of his 61st birthday.

Came to biathlon in 1965 at the age of 10. Klaus Siebert's sports career was spent in the national team of the German Democratic Republic, in which he became the silver medalist of the 1980 Olympics in the relay, as well as a three-time world champion (in 1978 in the relay, in 1979 in the individual race and relay), three-time bronze medalist (1975, 1977, 1978). In the 1978/79 season, Siebert won the World Cup.

He began his coaching career in 1984 in the GDR junior team. He was a member of the headquarters of the national teams of Germany and Austria, and from 2006 to April 2008 he was the head coach of the Chinese national team. While working with Austrian and Chinese biathletes, the mentor was able to significantly improve the shooting training of his students. Three Chinese women were among the top 20 shooters in the World Cup. In 2007, he was named the best women's coach in the world.

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Died after 6 years of fighting the disease big coach, an excellent athlete and, most importantly, a very good person Klaus Siebert.Playing for the GDR national team, he became a World Cup winner, an Olympic silver medalist and a three-time world champion.As a coach, he educated and trained such athletes as Rico Gross, Daria Domracheva, Nadezhda Skardino, and worked with the German, Austrian, Chinese and Belarusian teams.Siebert had a good attitude towards our country, often visited the USSR, understood and spoke a little Russian.Here is a good article "Pressball", pressball.by, about him.

In one of the interviews, Zibych, as the Belarusians lovingly called him, spoke about his philosophy: “As a coach, I won a lot of medals. But every time after a victory I felt a special feeling. And I don’t care which country’s athlete won the medal. Today I work for Belarus ", that means I am a Belarusian. And when I worked in China, I was Chinese. This is my philosophy."

Winner of the 1978/79 World Cup, two-time vice-winner of this trophy, three-time world champion. Siebert achieved a lot in his professional career. One of the best biathletes of his time, probably, could not help but become a coach. A successful trainer. It is with Klaus that the successes of the great Ricco Gross are associated. It was Siebert who led the Austrian team to their first ever silver at the World Championships. And everywhere where Zibych worked, the shooting performance of biathletes, as if by magic, soared to the heights.

Siebert left his mark not only in the Old World. The German came to us from China, where he coached the local team for two years. national team. In the 2006/2007 season, biathletes from the Middle Kingdom showed their best result in history in relay races - fifth place in the overall standings. At the same time, three Chinese women were in the top twenty shooters. The team, which until now was associated with only one name, Liu Xianyin, acquired new heroines: Yingchao Kong, Dong Xu, Yao Ying... The leader of the men's team, Zhang Chenyi, also achieved significant progress in shooting. But Klaus was able to work away from home for only two seasons. “Too many problems have arisen. Asia is not Europe, there is a completely different mentality there,” Siebert said then. And he plunged headlong into the problems of the Belarusian national team.

Our shared history with Klaus began in April 2008. The German was appointed shooting consultant for the Belarusian national team. “Nothing, we’ll restore it,” - this is how Siebert answered the question about the quotas in the cup races that were lost by our teams in past seasons. The mentor even promised the men's team to get into the top 5 of the Nations Cup in a few years. But he soon focused on working with the women's team.

Already in the first seasons of working with Siebert, the Belarusians achieved significant progress in shooting. Daria Domracheva improved her performance by 4-5%, and Nadezhda Skardino completely entered the pool of best shooters, which she left only once in the future: in the 2011/12 season. It was under the leadership of Siebert that the native of St. Petersburg achieved her first great success in individual racing - Scardino became third in the sprint in Pokljuka in the 2011/12 season. At the same time, the Belarusian women's team, led by Klaus, entered the top 5 of the Nations Cup standings for the second time in history. And two years earlier in Vancouver, our Dasha took her first Olympic medal- bronze in the individual event, finishing the race with only one penalty!

But the year 2010 was remembered not only for the success of Domracheva and Novikov. In October, terrible news spread across the news: Siebert had cancer. Klaus underwent surgery and was prescribed a course of chemotherapy. "IN this moment I am under the power of circumstances. This illness was a big blow, and it took me some time to come to my senses." And the courageous German really came to his senses and set to work with renewed vigor. After all, the main successes of his Belarusian “diamonds” lay ahead.

These successes came in the Olympic Sochi. Three golds for Daria Domracheva, bronze for Nadezhda Skardino. And all this in front of the happy Zibych, who came to the Olympics against the recommendations of doctors. “Pressball” then awarded the mentor the title “Man of the Year.” And Siebert himself awarded Dasha the title of his best student.
My best student? ... Dasha. She is an exceptional athlete. But in general, I was lucky enough to work with many great biathletes. Suffice it to say that my students won a total of 39 medals at the World Championships and Olympics. We can recall, for example, Ricco Gross, who became a four-time Olympic champion.

Person of the Year. Klaus Siebert: you need to learn to understand the mentality of the country in which you work

The secret of Klaus's success is the family atmosphere he created in the team. For Siebert, all biathletes became real sports daughters... “Money means nothing if there is no connection between the athlete and the coach, if the chemistry does not match. If there is no trust, you can go home.” In the Belarusian national team this “chemistry” coincided, probably, 100%. And Klaus’s contribution to the team’s success was also recognized by his best student.
Is Siebert largely responsible for our successes? Very! This is certain. Klaus brought a lot of new things to our training - both in terms of methods and in terms of construction training plans. Thanks to this, the increase in results began even before the 2010 Games in Vancouver, and we ourselves began to understand a lot about biathlon, learning to think about our professional activity at a completely different, much higher level than before.

After the Olympics, Klaus left. He left to continue his fight against the disease. But the disease won... Yesterday, biathlon father Klaus Siebert passed away...

“Klaus Siebert passed away yesterday! He was our superman! (sometimes we called him that) He was our coach, psychologist, teacher and friend! This is probably how a real coach should be! You can even say that for me he was a biathlon dad... our team was a biathlon family! This will always remain in our hearts with the girls! I am infinitely grateful to fate that it brought me together with this man! He taught me a lot, and most importantly, showed how you can love life and how you can love the work you do! And I can only say: thank you, Klaus! Thank you for all the time that you were with us, taught us, rejoiced, worried with us, thank you for being with us! And you are with us there is, in heart, soul, in memory! You are our Klausi! Zibych! Zibushka! You are our superman!" Nadezhda Skardino.

“We will keep only the warmest memories in our memory. Our Zibych... His charisma is unique, and the time spent with him is unforgettable and invaluable. In my heart I will keep the kindest memory of Klaus and great gratitude for everything, for every minute spent with us. With warmth and love for Klaus Siebert,” Domracheva wrote.

Klaus Siebert has died... The news cannot leave anyone indifferent. After all, over the six years of working with our biathlon team, this good-natured German has become like family to us. Not only for the biathletes themselves, for whom he was, one might say, a second father. But also for all Belarusian sports fans.

In one of the interviews, Zibych, as the Belarusians lovingly called him, spoke about his philosophy: “As a coach, I won a lot of medals. But every time after a victory I felt a special feeling. And I don’t care which country’s athlete won the medal. Today I work for Belarus, which means I am a Belarusian. And when I worked in China, I was Chinese. This my philosophy".

Indeed, he became a Belarusian German. Or a German Belarusian. In general, hit the board with your boyfriend. A guy who really cared about his cause. A guy who bravely endured criticism from the press and fans. A guy who no less steadfastly endured the anecdotes of his main Belarusian pupil, Daria Domracheva. A guy whose life credo was boundless optimism. And faith in your students.
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Well, in our country, THIS disease is not going to be “pushed back”.
IN Nizhny Novgorod, ETA (“with all varieties and directions”) disease (oncology) “has come out on top.”
But the DS from this “direction” were involved in ensuring the creation of infrastructure facilities at the World Cup (I really like the sound) 2018.

What a pity that we cannot push back THIS disease. In the 21st century, it’s time to come up with something.

It's a pity. In loving memory of Klaus Siebert.

Rest in peace, good man
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All with a beard, and a goatee.
Even in his prime, he “had photographs.”
Those years when I was YOUNG and greedy for VICTORIES!

Outstanding athlete and coach!
Mark on history.
Bright memory!

Bright memory. I'm grieving...

It's a shame to lose talented and good people.
Bright memory.

Sad at heart...
Bright memory.

He was an excellent coach and just a good person. Rest in peace.

It's always sad and sad when such talented people leave, no matter where they work.

There is a sea that is called the Sea of ​​Memory.
The dim sun does not set over it.
There the sky is strewn with pearls of seagulls
And the wind shakes the azure waters.

Martiel.

I fought to the end... It's a pity... Eternal memory!

Happy memory to a good man and a great coach! May he rest in peace.

Blessed memory... Condolences to family and friends. He did a lot for world biathlon.

blessed memory to an outstanding coach and person... I mourn with the entire biathlon community... courage to family and friends, condolences to everyone who knew and worked with Klaus Siebert.

It's a pity for a good man and coach.

Very, very sorry ((Condolences to the Belarusian team and all the family and friends of such a worthy person!

Very sorry and very sad... Condolences to family and friends. friends... We mourn!

When such Names leave, it becomes disproportionately sad. It's a pity! My condolences!