Biography
Victor Saneyev since childhood had an unprecedented force and will to victory, which helped him achieve success in sports. He became famous as the famous Soviet athlete, the champion of triple jumping and the three-time owner of the Olympic Gold.Childhood and youth
Viktor Saneev was born on October 3, 1945 in Sukhumi. Father celebrities suffered from infectious paralysis and could not move independently, so the family provided his mother. She worked in the Gardening Department, cared for her husband and raised the only son.
Vitya helped her as he could, but he grew up an active boy and wanted to play football with the guys in the yard. Since they did not have money for the purchase of balls, the children came up with a tricky plan. They walked to the nearest stadium and duty over the fence, waiting for the ball through it, and then carried to the nearest yard. It was done weekly, because exactly so grabbed the next "trophy".
At 11 years old, Vitya began to study athletics. The first achievement of a small athlete was a jump in a length of 4 m 30 cm. But in those years he was devoted to football, so he often missed workouts to go to the next match. It did not please the first coach of the celebrity of Akop Kerselian, but soon they had to say goodbye.
The mother took the difficult decision to send the Son to the boarding school, which was located in Gantiadi. Caring for her husband took all his free time, and the boy needed a care and good nutrition. At first, the athlete was dissatisfied with what was happening and often wrote a letter to his homeland with complaints and demands to pick it back, but soon he found friends and joined the local football team.
During this period, the teenager continued to engage in athletics, but now on his own. The fact is that the competition was held in Sukhumi, and Vitya used any opportunity to visit their homeland. In those years, the results of the athlete were mediocre, but stubborn workouts gave their fruits.
After the 8th grade, the young man began to grow rapidly, so I decided to leave football to basketball. Then he took up the improvement of his physical form - bought the dumbbells, he made several shells and began to read sports magazines with jumper development tips.
After 6 years after the departure, Vitya returned to his native Sukhumi and settled to work at the factory, where the irons grinding. He continued to engage in basketball, but because of disagreements with the mentor, he decided to visit the training in athletics, where he again met with Kerselian. He suggested a young man to try himself as a professional athlette, to which he eventually answered agree.
For some time, the athlete tried himself in different types of athletics, combining training with basketball hobby. But soon it became clear that the best of all, Viti goes a triple jump, in which he began to install the first personal records.
Athletics
The turning point in the biography of the celebrity was the 1968 Olympiad, conducted in Mexico City. It was his debut year in the USSR national team, besides, he only recently recovered from the effects of severe injury. Therefore, no one was waiting for the gold medal from Saneyeva, and after at the stage of qualifications, Giuseppe Gentile installed a new world record, it seemed that the winner was already defined.But in the final competition, something incredible began to work, and the athletes have repeatedly updated the best result. In the 3rd round, Victor jumped at 17 m and 23 cm, but then Nelson Prudensio turned him. The celebrity remained only 1 attempt, but he believed in a victory and managed to consolidate a new world record behind him, jumping at a distance of 17 m and 39 cm.
The champion was not going to stop at this achievement: he knew what could be further and better. Therefore, when the Olympiad held in Munich in his career, the athlete won a gold medal with a result of 17 m and 35 cm, he remained dissatisfied. Celebrity to surpass itself at the Saneyev Cup, named after him. He jumped at 17 m and 44 cm.
Another attempt to establish a new world record athlete took in 1976 at the Montreal Olympics. But the competition was conducted in a stuffy room, and no one from the participants managed to show outstanding results. Saneyev was recognized as the winner after the jump at 17 m and 29 cm and became a three-time Olympic champion. By the number of gold medals of the Olympic Games, he surpassed such famous Soviet athletes, like Vladimir Kuts, Valery Borzov and Valery Brumber.
But even after that, Viktor Danilovich did not want to go to a well-deserved rest. At Olympics-80, he went to an already honorable for an athlete of age - 35 years, but was still a serious rival for young competitors. That year, the athlete participated in the opening ceremony, he solemnly made a torch to the stadium and handed over to the Basketball player Sergey Belov, who fled the flame in the bowl.
Later, the Olympic champion stated that he regretted participation in the ceremony. Because of the need to come to the rehearsal to Moscow, he lost the time that could spend on training. This still did not prevent celebrities to jump at about 17 m 40 cm, but the judges recorded the intercession, and gold gave Yaaku Uudmay, while Viktor Danilovich was forced to be content with a silver medal.
After that, he decided to complete the sports career. For some time, the athlete was the coach of the Georgian national team, and then moved to Australia. He donkey in Sydney and settled a physical education teacher to a local college, but when the term of the contract has expired, Saneyeev was in a serious material situation. During this period, he worked as a supplier of Pizza and even planned to sell his Olympic rewards, but soon found a job at the Institute of Sports.
Personal life
The athlete's personal life has developed successfully, he is happily married to a woman named Tatiana, who gave him the son of Alexander. In the old age, the Olympic champion was carried away by gardening, in his house in Sydney, he equipped the garden in which lemons and grapefruits are growing.
In his youth, athlete weighed about 78 kg with a height of 188 cm.
Viktor Saneev now
In 2021, Viktor Danilovich is retired. Now the former athlette rarely turns into contact with journalists and shares new photos, but remains a significant figure in sports.Achievements
- 1968-1971, 1973-75, 1978 - Champion of the USSR
- 1968 - Winner of the Olympic Games in Mexico City
- 1968 - World Record in Triple Jump (17 m 39 cm)
- 1968 - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR
- 1969 - Winner of the European Championship in Athens
- 1972 - Winner of the Olympic Games in Munich
- 1972 - world record in Triple jump (17 m 44 cm)
- 1974 - Winner of the European Championship in Rome
- 1976 - Winner of the Olympic Games in Montreal
- 1980 - Silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Moscow