Memory. Irina Wiener

On July 30, 1948, Irina Wiener, coach, president of the All -Russian rhythmic gymnastics Federation was born

Personal business

Irina Aleksandrovna Viner-Usmanova (67 years old) was born in Samarkand. Her father, Alexander Efimovich Wiener, was an artist, had the title of People's Artist of Uzbekistan, mother Zoya Zinovievna was a doctor. From childhood, Irina dreamed of dancing, but she was not taken to the choreographic school. She got into gymnastics by chance. “I came to rhythmic gymnastics in order to dance panther dance in a ballet circle. I came and said: "I will learn - I will leave." With these words I came, but it so happened that I remained forever forever, ”says Irina Viner herself.

From the age of 11, Irina was engaged in rhythmic gymnastics in Tashkent under the leadership of Lilia Petrova coaches and Eleanor Sumarokova. Three times became the champion of Uzbekistan in rhythmic gymnastics. In the Tashkent Palace of Sports, she was first seen by her future husband Alisher Usmanov, who was engaged in fencing there.

In 1965, Irina Wiener graduated from a secondary school No. 110 with a silver medal in Tashkent and entered the Uzbek Institute of Physical Culture, which she graduated in 1969.

In 1969-1972 she worked in the Republican Specialized Children and Youth Sports School of the Olympic Reserve in Tashkent. In 1973, she had a son Anton from her first marriage.

For 20 years - from 1972 to 1992 - Irina Wiener was the coach of the Tashkent team, and then the national team of the Uzbek SSR in rhythmic gymnastics. For some time she was the coach of the UK National national team in rhythmic gymnastics. The result of her work was the participation of English athletes at the XXV Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona (1992).

In 1992, Irina Wiener married Alisher Usmanova and moved to Moscow. She began working in the Moscow City Physical Educational and Sports Association. In the same year, she became the head coach of the Olympic training center. Since 2001 - head coach of the Russian national rhythmic gymnastics team.

Since 2008, Irina Viner-Usmanova-President of the All-Russian Federation of rhythmic gymnastics.

Since 2009 - President of the International Academy of Sports Irina Viner (Moscow). She is also a professor at the Department of Theory and Methods of Gymnastics of the National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health named after P.F. Lesgft (St. Petersburg).

Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Honored Coach of Russia and Uzbekistan.

Lives and works in Moscow.

What is famous

Irina Wiener is the head coach of the sports team of the Russian Federation in rhythmic gymnastics. Her wards have been occupied by world pedestals for many years she has prepared a number of famous gymnasts, including: two -time champion of the Olympic Games Evgeny Kanayev (2008, 2012), N.A. Lavrova (2000, 2004), E.A. Posevina (2004, 2008), champions of the Olympic Games Julia Barsukova (2000), Alina Kabaeva (2004), ALINA (2004). Silver winners of the Olympic Games Yana Batyrshina (1996), Daria Dmitrieva (2012), Irina Chashchina (2004) and many others.

What you need to know about

With the money of her husband-millionaire Alisher Usmanova-Irina Wiener is building in the Khimkinsky district a sports-agile complex "Olympic village of Novogorsk". Construction is carried out on the site provided to it by the former governor of the Moscow region Boris Gromov. At the same time, the structures of Usmanov build a residential complex nearby. There is an agreement that future residents of multi -storey buildings in Novogorsk will be able to use the infrastructure of the Olympic village

“My dream - I think that it is not utopian, it is already being implemented - this is the“ city of the Sun ”. A large general educational cluster: children, parents, school, kindergarten, a sports complex with a pool and a recovery medical center in one place, ”says Irina Viner about her project.

She also plans to open a British secondary school in Novogorsk, which will issue diplomas in two languages ​​at once - Russian and English.

The project caused criticism of ecologists who claim that the complex is built in the environmental zone.

“Here, for centuries, there were sports bases that had been chosen for a reason. Here is a very good nature, aura. We are reproached: "Of course, there is a wonderful nature, because it is a protected area." But in fact, we do not touch the protected area. Before planning the construction of the “Olympic village of Novogorsk” in this place, we consulted for a long time with ecologists. As a result, according to special technologies, they began to build up the lowland, where the swamp, ”says Irina Viner.

Direct speech

“She inhales your life, the desire to get better and better every year, and now I have not been engaged in 6 years, but she is always there, like a guiding star, like a mother ,” the world champion in rhythmic gymnastics Laysan Utyasheva about Irina Viner.

“Today, for the whole sports world, rhythmic gymnastics is Irina Viner. Subjective sport depending on the opinions of judges. But it was Winer who elevated exercises with objects to the rank of art and even a performance. This, from her presentation at the world championships and olympiads at the athletes, appeared bright costumes, and in the rules new, unknown elements before, " - the television program" Vesti "about Irina Viner .

5 facts about Irina Winner-Usmanova

• Every morning, Irina Viner takes place 7-10 thousand steps.
• Alisher Usmanov made Irina Viner a proposal while in custody. Back in the early 1980s, he sent her a scarf that, according to Uzbek custom, means a marriage proposal. They got married in 1992.
• In 2003, at the National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health named after P.F. Lesgft in St. Petersburg, she defended his thesis on the topic “Training of highly qualified athletes in rhythmic gymnastics”, became a candidate of pedagogical sciences. In 2013, there she also defended her doctoral dissertation on the topic “Integral preparation in artistic giemoornastic”, having received the title of Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences.
• In 2012, she was a confidant of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin, who then held the post of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
• In April 2015, Irina Viner-Usmanova, the presidential decree was awarded the title of the Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation. She was also awarded the Orders of Honor, Friendship and “For Merit to the Fatherland” IV and III degree.

Materials about Irina Winner-Usmanova

Irina Viner-Usmanova: Olympic champions will train children at the Academy of Sports

Irina Viner-Usmanova: I dream of the city of the Sun. Interview with the Vesti program.

Viner-Usmanova, Irina Alexandrovna on the website "Heroes of the country"

Article about Irina Winner on Wikipedia