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Nelly Kim
On July 29, 1957, Nelly Kim, a gymnast, a five -time Olympic champion was born.
Personal business
Nelly Vladimirovna Kim (63 years old) was born in the city of Shurab in the north of Tajikistan. Her father Vladimir Kim - the Sakhalin Korean, the mother of Alfiya Safina is a Tatar. After the birth of her daughter, the family moved to the Kazakhstan Chimkent (now Shymkent), where the parents of the athletes still live.
From the age of 10, Nelli began to engage in gymnastics in the local Youth Sports School with spouses Vladimir Baydin and Galina Barkova. Barkova recalled: “My husband and I decided so. He goes to the north of the city. I am south. We agree with the directors [schools] and during the lessons we look at children. We did not find Nelly right away, but after some time walking in schools. She was a playful third -grader with huge eyes. The girl, well, just could not stand still! With all her might, she had to attract our attention to herself. By the way, this quality probably helped her in many ways. Nelly always had to be the best. She was interested in winning. "
Moreover, at first, according to Barkova, Kim “was not flexible, plastic. Rather, on the contrary. She had a bad stretch, and she was very worried that she could not win with her peers. Therefore, she trained with a vengeance. "
Kim won her first award in Tashkent at the sports gymnastics tournament among juniors.
In 1969, she won the Spartakiad in Chimkent, in the 1970s she became the strongest in Kazakhstan and one of the best gymnasts of the USSR and the world.
In 1975, along with Olga Korbut, he became the absolute champion of the Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR. In the same year, she won the European Championship in free exercises, won silver in all -around and in exercises on a log.
In 1976, Kim became a three -time champion of the Olympic Games in Montreal - in the team championship, supporting jumps and in free exercises. I won silver games in the all -around.
Galina Barkova recalled: “Nelly's performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal was dramatic. We then prepared the most complicated Jukahara jump (Salto with a screw that was invented by the Japanese gymnast of Mitsuo Tsukhara - Polit.ru). Added a screw to it. None of the gymnasts yet did this. Romanian Nadia Komenchi jumped in front of Nelly. Also jumping "Tsukahara". Only without a screw. She did perfectly and got into the board [landing exactly on both legs]. It was the turn of Nelli. Imagine what the tension was! After all, her jump with a screw is much more difficult and it is very difficult to resist her feet after its execution. Komenchi is highly rated by 9.95, and we have no hope that my athlete will go around her. And what do you think? Nelly jumps, gets into the board, the stands explode. Judges are confused. And put her 10 points! This is the highest assessment. Gold medal! ”
In 1977, Nelli Kim married the Belarusian gymnast Vladimir Achasov and moved to him in Minsk. She began to train with the coach of her husband Nikolai Miligulo, played for the Belarusian SSR.
In 1978, she became the world champion in the team championship, in supporting jumps and in free exercises, won silver in the all -around.
In 1979, Kim became the absolute world champion, and at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 she won gold in the team championship and in free exercises. Then she completed the career of the gymnast.
Shortly after the Olympics, 80 divorced and for the second time she married a bicycle man from Kharkov Valery Movchan, the Olympic champion (1980) and the world champion (1982) in the team persecution race. They had a daughter Nelly. But this marriage was short -lived - after a while the couple divorced.
After a divorce from her second husband, Kim moved with her daughter to Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA).
After the end of the sports career, Nelli Kim trained national teams in sports gymnastics in South Korea, Italy and Belarus. As an international arbitrator, the largest competitions in this sport - the championships of Europe and the world, the Olympic Games. In 2004, he was elected president of the Women's Technical Committee of the International Gymnastics Federation, became one of the initiators of the introduction of a new judgment in gymnastics, where artistry began to be paid more attention.
What is famous
Nelly KimThe famous Soviet gymnast, representing Kazakhstan, and then Belarus. A five-time Olympic champion (three gold at the Games-76 in Montreal, two gold awards at the Olympic 80), a five-time world champion, a two-time European champion. Kim is also a multiple champion of the USSR and twice the absolute champion of the Soviet Union (in 1975 and 1980).
The first gymnast in the history of the Olympic Games, which received the maximum 10 points for free exercises and a supporting jump at 1976 games in Montreal.
What you need to know about
Since 2004, Nelli Kim has been managing the Women's Technical Committee of the International Gymnastics Federation.It formulates its tasks as follows: “This is the leadership of the development of female sports gymnastics, holding all international competitions, starting with the Olympic Games and ending with the tournaments of the World Cup. I observe the work of the continental federations, present at their meetings. In addition, you have to participate in the development of gymnastics rules. ”
The legislative activity in the gymnastics of Kim, according to her, prompted the case: “Even under the USSR [in 1990, I judged international competitions on the world of the World Cup in Belgium, where I put our [Belarusian] Svetlana Boginskaya for a double somersault in free exercises. The head of the Technical Committee immediately took up arms against me, accusing me of bias. Knowing firsthand what a double somersault was, I was very outraged, since the chairman of the technical committee had no idea about this element, since I had never been engaged in professionally gymnastics. In order for the sport to be professional and honest, professionals should lead them. As a result, I am the president of the technical committee, I think that I’m doing this position. ”
Direct speech:
On the beginning of a sports career ( Trend.az , October 2013): “I believe that gymnastics must be implemented in the school curriculum. After all, it is the basis of the foundations, the foundation for future professional athletes. This is, first of all, a healthy lifestyle, knowledge of the structure of your body. It is great if the school is held at the school, and the coaches, thus, will be able to select children in the section. After all, how did I start my path in sports? I just did not digest mathematics, but being in the third grade, I was taken by the coach for gymnastics: it was this episode that became the starting point in my whole life. ”
About the first marriage (coach Galina Barkova, quote in c-soociety.ru ): “After the games [ongoing from July 17 to August 1, 1976] Nelly was very tired, we gave her a rest. In the summer of 1976, she invited friends to the national team on Shymkent for her birthday. Among them was Vladimir Achasov, a gymnast from Belarus. A month later, our student leaves for Achasov. At the end of the year, he informs us that he is married to him. We were categorically against! But did she listen to anyone? It was such love ... Nelly always went into feelings, like a pool with her head. "
On awards and competitions (Caravan.kz , April 2008):
- Best of all, you succeeded in free exercises that brought you the titles of the world champion, Europe and the Olympic Games ...
- Yes, this is my favorite type of program. He is very interesting. In free exercises, acrobatics, dancing, and music are combined.
- Which of the medals are the most road to you?
-Gold in the absolute championship at the 1979 World Championship in Fort Wort (USA). Victory in the all -around is always valued higher than on individual shells.
- And which reward was given to you the hardest?
- Bronze - at the World Cup in Varna (Bulgaria) in 1974. This was my first adult world championship, and I really wanted to win a medal. In a support jump, I injured my leg, but still went to the log, where I made my way to the finals. I could not walk, my leg was purple, but I won the bronze medal.
About moving to the USA (ibid.):
“There were many acquaintances who helped me quickly adapt to life in this country. In addition, a local climate is well suited to me. Here ... you get used to everything quickly and easily. Therefore, I settled here. For example, all issues can be resolved without leaving the apartment: by phone or via the Internet. And in the republics of the former Union, in order to pay for light, water or gas, we must go somewhere, stand in lines. This is how much time takes! In addition, in the USA I had the opportunity to earn: before I head the Technical Committee, I worked in sports camps. Now the largest gymnastic market is in the States. Therefore, many coaches from the former USSR moved here. ”
5 facts about Nelly Kim
- In the USSR national team, Kim had the nickname Kimanelli. “The coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva Vladislav Stepanovich Polotsky accidentally confused my name with the surname. And since then everyone calls me that, ”said the legendary athlete.
- After the games of 1976, I wanted to leave big sport. She recalled: “When the Olympics in Montreal ended in 1976, I fell ill and spent several months in the hospital. After a half -year absence in the gymnastic hall, she thought that everything was. But by the end of 1977 she resumed training. And in 1978 she already performed at the World Cup. "
- In 1999, Nelly Kim was included in the international glory of sports gymnastics in American Oklahom-City.
- The daughter of the athletes Nelly graduated from the university in Chicago at the financier, then entered the medical university, where, as of October 2014, she studied for a doctor.
- The Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado (born in 1978) was named after Nelly Kim. Her full name is Nelly Kim Furtado. A strong impression on her parents was made by Kim at the Olympics in Montreal.
Materials about Nelly Kim:
Article about the athlete in Wikipedia
Biography on the site gym-club.info
Yuri Shpilkin "Gymnast Nelly Kim"