Biography
In February 2021, a premiere showing of the 8-serial sports drama "Master" was held on the NTV channel on the NTV channel, and one of the co-arresters of which was the 7-fold winner of the Dakar Rally in Vladimir Chagin. The series raised interest in car drivers from Tatarstan to an unprecedented height. One of the most titled athletes of the KAMAZ-Master team Anton Sibalov in his personal life is modest, shy and laconic.Childhood and youth
The future race car was born on April 25, 1984 in the city of the Great Lukes of the Pskov region. However, the childhood of Anton passed in the Tatar autogradua Naberezhnye Chelny: with the future star of the KAMAZ-Master team, Edward Nikolaev Skibalov studied together in the first grade. Then the Edik family moved. The children again met in a sports school, where the native of Pskovshchina was engaged in football, and the native of Brezhnev (so from November 1982 to January 1988 was called autographs) - sports gymnastics.
At the competition karters, Sibalov first got as a viewer for 8 years, while being with his father in St. Petersburg. The boy fell in love with motor racing once and forever. Anton's father was friends with Martisar Martaev, the life of which was cut off in 2014 as a result of an accident on a quad bike. Congenital talent and family relationships allowed the Shibalov-younger in 12 years to make motor racing. Soon, the teenager began to win at the competitions of Tatarstan, and once won the Russian Cup.
Car racing
The KAMAZ-Master team, Anton joined in 2007. In 2010, Sibalov became a mechanic in the crew of Airat Mareev at the Khazar Steppe Competitions, and in 2011, as part of the same crew, he won silver on the "Gold Kagan".In 2011, the native of the great onions for the first time went to the "Dakar" rally as a night mechanic and soon debuted as a pilot on the Silk Road track. The first award of the crew Shibalov became bronze at the Silk Road Competitions - 2012.
Especially successfully for Anton was a race "Africa Eco Reis" race, where he in 2013, 2015 and 2016 came first. In 2013, the roller coaster with his comrades brought the Christmas tree to Africa and for the New Year, joining the tree in the sand, decorated it with toys and garlands.
Shibalov's crew has repeatedly helped rivals, losing precious for a minute in the name of sports fraternity. So, in the race "Bach" Crimea-2017 "" Anton, together with Dmitry Nikitin and Andrei Mokheev, helped put the overturned truck gas on the wheels speaking for Nizhny Novgorod. At Dakar-2018, Shibalov crew helped the Belarusian team under the leadership of Sergey Vyazitovich to get out of Solonchak.
In January 2020, Dakar's rally-raid, first in Saudi Arabia, Andrei Karginiov and Anton Sibalov took the first and second place, respectively. For the first time in the history of competitions at the presentation of the awards, the anthem of the winning country was performed.
Personal life
Happiness in the personal life of Anton found with Catherine Klimova, who worked in the press service "Kamaz Masters". Young people met the team corporate. At 30, the athlete took his favorite marriage and brought her to the doors of the Chelin Palace of Celebrations on the Racing Kamaz.
November 1, 2019 Anton and Katya became the parents of the girl worlds. Photo of the daughter often appears in the Instagram account of Catherine, now developing a children's karting in Naberezhnye Chelny.
Skibalov, due to the specifics of the profession, takes little time at home, which, according to the wife, allows you to avoid household quarrels and maintain romance of relationships. Among the general hobbies of spouses - snowboarding and fishing. Anton and Katya adore their dog breed Jack Russell Terrier.
According to Shibalov, adrenaline is enough for a rally and out of the track, he drives a car as the "old grandfather".
Anton Shibalov now
In January 2021, the Rally Marathon "Dakar", held in Saudi Arabia, the Russians managed to climb the pedestal only in one class out of five: automobile, reality, motorcycle and quadrocytic podiums were taken by representatives of other countries. But in the 4th time in the history of the racing, all cargo class awards went to a team of Naberezhnye Chelny. The native of the Great Bow went home with a silver Bedouin, Comrades Shibalov on the "Kamaz Master" Dmitry Sotnikov and Ayrat Mareev - with gold and bronze.200 km to the finish of the Marathon Truck Anton, bouncing on the hill, ran into the helicopter of the organizers of the competition, from the side of which was shot. Although as a result of the incident, the air intake, pilots of both the car, and the helicopter were not injured and did not have complaints about each other. Photos and video collisions flew off all sports media.
Achievements
- 2012 - Bronze medalist rally "Symbir tract"
- 2012, 2018 - Bronze medalist rally "Silk Road"
- 2013, 2015 - Bronze medalist rally "Gold Kagan"
- 2013, 2015, 2016 - Winner Rally "Africa Eco Reis"
- 2013, 2017 - Silver winner rally "Silk Road"
- 2014, 2015 - Winner rally "Great Steppe"
- 2017 - Silver winner rally "Great Steppe"
- 2019 - Winner Rally "Silk Road"
- 2020, 2021 - Silver winner rally "Dakar"