Biography
The whole world knew her as an iron tour. Gymnast Lyudmila Tourskieva glorified Soviet sports as a multiple Olympic champion, as well as the winner of world and continental championships. The volitional character, inflexible spirit, diligence and perseverance made Lyudmila invincible in the early 1970s and forever entered her name in the history of world sports gymnastics.Childhood and youth
The star of Soviet sports was lit on October 7, 1952 in Grozny. The gifted, sports and elegant girl at first began to engage in ballet, where Mom led her completely bluer. There, Luda pulled the sock, studied the first Pa and squeezed hope, circling under the accompaniment of classical music. However, the Ballerina Tourishchee was not destined. The first coach of Kim Wasserman, who noticed the challenges of the future athlete in the child of the future athlete in this, was played.
The mentor came to his parents three times and persuaded them to give the girl to the gymnastics, because he saw in her character, diligence and perseverance, so necessary in this discipline. Lyudmila at the age of 10 years did not get tired of infinitely repeating the same combinations as long as she did not work perfectly.
Such a person was needed by the coach, who was engaged in 2 years with Tourishche, until he moved to work in the men's group. Luda passed the colleague by Vladislav Rastorotsky, who subsequently brought up the pleiad of famous gymnasts. But the first among them became Tourskieva, who moved to Rostov and dedicated 13 years of life with daily exhausting training in order to become a sports legend.
Personal life
Lyudmila's personal life was no less successful than sports career. Her husband Valery Borzov shines in the same years as the spouse. Only their Olympic medals athlete came to the treadmill. They happily met at sports events in Moscow, where they came as members of the Komsomol and the hope of Soviet Sports. Couple crossed and at the Olympics in Munich, which for both athletes became the moment of the highest take-off.And the relationship began at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, where they first went on a date. After that, Tourishchev, and Borzov decided to leave the Great Sports. The guy lived in Kiev, and the girl in Rostov-on-Don, and their love was maintained through endless phone calls, which in a year have already shown that there is no sense to live away from each other.
The wedding was played on December 10, 1977, and since then in the life of the Iron Tour, the family began to occupy. The name of Tourskieva, however, did not change. Lyudmila and Valery were blinded from one dough: responsible, purposeful, immaculate, they looked at the perfect pair and were considered a symbol of the era. This "the same" helped them to build a strong union, which was preserved for many years. Although the temperatures in athletes are opposite: the husband is calm, like a rock, and the wife is an explosive like a volcano.
More native wife became each other with the birth of her daughter. Tatiana Borzov would go in the footsteps of any of the parents, but decided to study on the designer-designer. True, as a child, he managed to work out with rhythmic gymnastics, and then seriously took up the run, following the Father's example, he exercises in the sprint. To great achievements, the case did not reach what Lyudmila was incredibly glad. An eminent gymnast without obsteakov expressed the view that today it is impossible to further progress in athletics without doping, and its use of Tourishchev considers unacceptable.
Gymnastics
Strict and demanding Vladislav Rodistsky developed a special training program for the pupil, which did not leave any free minute in the schedule. Early morning began with weighing, which controlled that the weight of the girl did not exceed 52 kg with a height of 163 cm. Hard discipline and persistence soon gave their fruits: in 1968, Tourishcheva went to the first serious adult competitions that the Olympiad was in Mexico City.
Then she could not get personal medals, but the first team gold 16-year-old asterisk already brought. Two years later, the World Championships in Ljubljana Lyudmila left the triumph: five medals hung at her neck at once, three of whom were the highest dignity. Becoming in 18 years by the absolute world champion, Tourskiev continued to climb the stairs of achievements.
In 1972, Munich, Iron Tour went in the status of Favorita, and her main rival was considered a girlfriend for the national team Olga Corbut. Despite the fact that Olya conquered the public with ease and charm, on that Olympiad, everyone decided to technique and composure. They helped tourist advocate to speak perfectly and become the absolute Olympic champion.
Cool Celebrole Lyudmila in 1975, when at the World Cup in London, she performed exercises on the bars. At the time of the scope there was a drop in the design, and the fraction of a second was separated by an athlete from hazardous injury. But she managed to finish the exercise and moved away from the shell collapsed behind his back with proudly raised head under a loud sigh and applause of the public.
The last Olympiad Tourskie took place in 1976. The gymnast brought command gold from her, two silver and bronze and decided to put a point in his sporting fate.
Lyudmila Tourskieva now
Lyudmila with her husband now lives in Kiev. After the completion of the sports career, the woman was the president of the Federation of Sports Gymnastics of Ukraine. Her husband, a member of the International Olympic Committee of the country, was not only a prominent sports functionar, but also a politician - Minister of Sports, People's Deputy.Daughter Tatiana married and moved to live in Canada. She presented the parents of three grandchildren, Ilya, Timofey and Egor, with whom Tourishchev, in 2020, happily devotes his free time, which she was so lacking in his youth. In the era of "Instagram" news and fresh photos of the famous Soviet athlete not so often appear on the net.
Achievements
- 1968, 1972, 1976 - Olympic champion in the team competition
- 1970, 1972 - Absolute World Champion
- 1971, 1973 - Absolute European Champion
- 1972 - Absolute Olympic champion