Biography
Semen Yelistratov - Russian athlete skater performing at short track, a member of the Russian Olympic team at the 2010 Winter Olympics, in 2013, Honored Master of Sports of Russia, Olympic champion in 2014 in the relay, a multiple world and European champion.
Semen Yelistratov - ufimets. He was born on May 3, 1990 in a simple and friendly family, which was dominated by love and understanding. The father of the athlete - the construction business, my mother works as a teacher-counselor. Elistratova I have a brother, Stepan, who is younger than him by 5 years.
Semen from childhood was an active and agile, he could no longer sit still. Parents recorded in its sports section. The boy had to combine classes in ordinary schools and sports. From the first class he was engaged in taekwondo, but after six months, caught fire a short track. Two sports at the same time - so the load was too much for even purposeful Semyon Elistratov. He faced a choice and chose short track.
Prospective student first noticed Andrey Maksimov, who trains him to this day. He helped to open up sports talents Elistratova, put into it their knowledge and soul. Maksimov was always there, even when the 12-year-old Simon few months did not train due to a broken leg, and thought about how to quit sports. At competitions Andrey Maximov does not hide emotions and shouts louder fans.
Semen Elistratov had to get up at 5 am and run to the gym, after it - in school, then - again on the training. With such a busy schedule, he managed well to finish school, to enroll in physical education institute, then Masters and become a professional coach.
The sports schools have a tradition that the first skates youth receives a gift from the older generation. Semen Elistratov they handed Julia Chachina, bronze medalist of the European Championship. The athlete received a gift from the strongest runner of the republic, and saw this as a good sign. Now the skates make special order for him that they were on foot, as if he was born to them.
Short track
As with most professional athletes, the Competitive Biography of Seeds began at school age. At the age of 13, Semen Elistratov became a master of sports in Russia, and after three years he was already part of the Russian national team. At the age of 17, he won the Junior Winter Games and received the title of Master of Sport International Class. Six years needed an athlete to go through a difficult path from a newbie to the participant of the Russian national team, the champion of Russia, the European Championship, winner of the World Cup. But his main victory was ahead.
Olympiad-2014 in Sochi became the second in the sports career of Elistratov. In Vancouver in 2010, he took only the 24th place. Then there were hard workouts. In the spring-autumn of 2012, he trained with athletes from the Dutch national team, next to the world leaders of a short track - it was a wonderful school. In Sochi, the Dutch showed the highest pilot of classical skating sports. And Semen Elistratov won the Olympic "Gold" in the relay.
On February 6, 2016, Elistratov became the world record holder at a distance of 1000 meters and won the World Cup in Short Track in Dresden. He says that in his sporting life there was two significant victories - the medal of the men's championship of Russia, won in 15 years, and the Olympic medal.
Native and coach say that Semen Elistratov is very much experienced. In his youth, he took 4 place at the competition and could not reach the award, because he was ashamed of the fans for such a result.
Personal life
Recently, the athlete married. With his wife Julia he is familiar with school. A short trekist admits that he has a smart and understanding wife who supports it in difficult life situations.
Semen Elistratov travels a lot. The first country in which he visited was Germany. For several years, the athlete changed 5 passports, because there was no place to put visas. From each passage tour of Elistratov brings presents to parents.
His hobby - collecting machines. Each car in its own way athlete. Semen Elistratov - their fan, knows everything about vehicles. The athlete asked his parents so that they watched his speeches on TV and did not come to the stadium so that he could psychologically tune in to the start. So they do.
Semen Elistratov Now
Currently, the athlete is experiencing a difficult situation. Semen Elistratov did not go to the World Cup in Seoul because of the positive sample for Doping - Meldonium was discovered in his body. From January 1, 2016, the World Anti-Doping Agency included this drug to the list of prohibited. In the center of the scandal with Meldonius, not only seed, but also other Russian champions - Maria Sharapova, Ekaterina Bobrova, Pavel Kuliznikov, Alexander Markin and others.
The scandal with doping became international, a number of sports experts claims that the inspections were biased, the sudden inclusion in the list of inspections of new prohibited substances put athletes in an unequal position. Also, the sports community began publishing doping scandals with the participation of American and European athletes, against which tough measures did not apply. Sports scandal of flows into political, and then left at all. Sanctions against Russian athletes were mitigated.
Already on April 21, 2016, ISU removed removal from Elistratov seeds. Immediately after the abolition of restrictions at the athlete, as the elstatov himself admitted, there was not a single free minute. The athlete plunged into training and qualifying competition to convince the time lost on the proceedings.
Today, the purpose of Elistratov's seeds is a gold medal at the 2018 Olympics, but now in the personal event.
Fresh news from the life of the athlete is associated with the first stage of the World Cup, which started on September 28, 2017. The World Cup is a stage where athletes are just conquered by the Olympic quotas: those who are included in the Olympics in the Olympics in Phenchhana are selected on the first three stages of the World Cup of this year.
Russian athletes with optimism waited for starts, but at the end of the first stage of the competition at the 2017 World Championships, the Russian team has not yet won prizes. But on this World Cup has not yet ended: the third stage will be held in Chinese Shanghai on November 9-12, the fourth - in Seoul, in South Korea, November 16-19.
Sports experts also do not contribute Russian short trackers in the list of favorites of the coming Olympiad, which will be held from 9 to 25 February 2018.
Achievements
- 2007 - Silver winner of the Russian Championship 2007 in the all-around
- 2008 - Champion of Russia in all-around
- 2009 - Put the record of Russia in the relay 5000 meters among men - 6: 46.336 seconds
- 2009 - 5th place at the World Junior Championships at a distance of 1000 meters and in the relay of 3000 meters
- 2014 - Olympic champion in the relay
- 2014 - received the Order of the Formulation "For a great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high sports achievements at the XXII Olympic Winter Games of 2014 in Sochi"
- 2014 - European champion at 1500 meters
- 2014 - European champion in the relay
- 2014 - Silver winner of the European Championship in Multi-Obory
- 2015 - World Champion at 1500 meters
- 2015 - European champion at distances 1000 and 1500 meters, as well as in all-around
- 2015 - the 2014/15 season World Cup winner at a distance of 1000 meters
- 2016 - Winner of the 2015/16 World Cup World Cup at a distance of 1000 meters
- 2016 - established a world record at a distance of 1000 meters - 1: 22,607