Olga Rypakova. Biography, sports career, awards

Men have always competed, who is stronger infighting, swimming, who is faster in running, who can jump higher or further. These competitions did not leave indifferent women. Many chose gymnastic exercises and, of course, the "queen of sports", which we do not quite rightly refer to as athletics. Those who have achieved some results in this sport will never call it easy. But still it does not stop the girls. And they continue to choose their entertaining disciplines. Running, jumping, throwing, performed with a high level of skill, do not leave anyone indifferent: both the participants themselves and numerous spectators.

The heroine of this article, the Olympic champion intriple jump (London, 2012), twice winner of the bronze medal in Beijing in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016, the world champion in 2010 in closed premises, a multiple winner and prize-winner of various international competitions, began her ascension to the heights of world glory "queen of sport". This star is now known to almost all athletics fans not only in the post-Soviet countries, but also far beyond their borders. This is a native of Kazakhstan Olga Rypakova.

Biography

Olga was born in a sports family November 30, 1984year, in the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk, the Kazakh SSR. I started to track athletics under the control and on the recommendation of my parents. Olga's father was engaged in decathlon and at the age of eight brought her to athletics sectors. The first coach in his youth was Tatyana Nazarova, a pupil of her father. Olga Sergeevna Rypakova was originally involved in the long jump and heptathlon. The first international start of the athlete was the Junior World Championship, which took place in 2000 in South America, the city of Santiago (Chile). There she debuted in a long jump and took only 23rd place so far. From the memories of the athlete - it was her great achievement at that time, because all the other participants in the competition were several years older than her.

First achievements

Olga Rypakova at the age of eighteenbecame the champion of Kazakhstan in heptathlon among adult participants. In Kingston (Jamaica) in the same year won a silver medal at the World Junior Championships. Becoming the gold medalist of the Asian Games in Doha (Qatar) in the discipline of the heptathlon, the athlete still in 2007 decided to concentrate on the long jump. Since these disciplines require very high rates in the sprint, and not the technical jumping abilities of the athlete, then, considering physical inclinations, it was reasonable to choose the kind of track and field athletics where competitors could be circumvented more by technique than by speed. And of course, the choice eventually fell to a triple jump - it's a complicated form of athletics, which consists of the phases of takeoff, jump, step, jump and landing. To achieve significant results in this form, the athlete needs speed training, jumping, coordination and the ability not to extinguish the running speed when performing the jump itself.

Triple jump record holders

If men competed in the triple jump withthe very beginning of the Olympic Games of the present (1896), then for women this discipline was introduced into the Olympic program of competitions only a hundred years later in Atlanta (USA), in 1996. The first Olympic champion in this discipline was the Ukrainian jumper Inessa Kravets, who a year earlier in Gothenburg (Sweden) set a world record in the triple jump start discipline among women (15 meters 50 centimeters). In men, the world record belongs to the Englishman Jonathan Edwards (18 m 29 cm). It was installed in the same 1996, at the same world championship in athletics at the royal stadium in Sweden. Many are surprised by the fact that Jonathan is not an athlete by specialty, for him it is just a hobby since childhood.

Let's return to our heroine. Olga Rypakova began her cultivation in the triple jump and on her way to the Olympus.

Rypakova - Olympic champion

For each athlete, the most outstanding achievementis winning the olympics. The 2008 Olympics in Beijing brought Olga a fourth position, but then she still got a bronze medal, which the Greek athlete was deprived of for catching illegal drugs. And then at the next Olympics athlete was already determined. At the Misty Albion Stadium - London - in 2012, Olga Rypakova won her first Olympic gold medal in her career in the triple jump with a result of 14 meters 98 centimeters. In Rio de Janeiro (2016), Olga finishes a series of her jumps and finds herself in a prize troika with a bronze medal. Olga's personal achievement in the long jump - 6.85 m. And in the triple jump in Split (Croatia) the athlete showed her best result - 15.25 m, which is the official record of Asia.

Sports legend of Kazakhstan

In 2016, Olga received the title ahead of schedule"Major" (representing the club of the army of CSKA). The athletics center in her hometown of Ust-Kamenogorsk was named in her honor, where many competitions are held and the international competitions of the name of Olga Rypakova have been held several times already. The director of the center is her husband Denis Rypakov, a 400-meter professional runner, winner of the World Universiade. They have two kids growing up - daughter Nastya and son Kirill. Parents do not mind that children will follow in their footsteps. My daughter, doing athletics, still chose a different sport - volleyball.

Future plans

The family promotes a healthy lifestyle. Athletics in Kazakhstan is rapidly developing, mostly due to the achievements of Olga Rypakova, which inspire modern youth. Currently, Olga is training under the guidance of her father and husband and is the record holder for medals in victories at international competitions among athletes of Kazakhstan. She is not going to give up her sports career and is preparing to perform this year at the world championship in London. He will also take part in the Asian Games and the subsequent 2020 Olympics, which will be held in Tokyo (Japan).

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