Olga Rypakova. Biography, sports career, awards

Men have always competed, who is stronger in the fight, in swimming, who is faster in running, who can jump higher or further. These competitions did not leave indifferent women. Many chose gymnastic exercises and, of course, the "queen of sports", which we do not quite rightly call athletics. Those who have achieved some results in this sport will never call it easy. But still it does not stop the girls. And they continue to choose interesting disciplines. Running, jumping, throwing, performed with a high level of skill, do not leave anyone indifferent: both the participants themselves and numerous spectators.

The heroine of this article, the Olympic champion in triple jump (London, 2012), twice winner of the bronze medal in Beijing in 2008 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016, world champion in 2010 in closed premises, multiple winner and prize-winner of various international competitions , Began once its ascent to the heights of world glory "queen of sports". This star is now known to almost all athletics fans not only in the countries of the post-Soviet space, but also far beyond their borders. This is a native of Kazakhstan Olga Rypakova.

Biography

Olga was born in a sports family on November 30, 1984, in the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk, the Kazakh SSR. I started to practice athletics under the control and on the recommendation of my parents. Olga's father was engaged in decathlon and at the age of eight brought her to athletics sectors. The first coach in his youth was Tatyana Nazarova, a pupil of her father. Olga Sergeevna Rypakova was originally engaged in jumps in length and heptathlon. The first international start of the athlete was the Junior World Championship, which took place in 2000 in South America, the city of Santiago (Chile). There she made her debut in a long jump and took only 23rd place so far. From the memories of the athlete - it was her great achievement at the time, because all the other participants of the competition were several years older than her.

First achievements

Olga Rypakova at the age of eighteen became the champion of Kazakhstan in heptathlon among adult participants. In Kingston (Jamaica) in the same year won a silver medal in the World Junior Championships. Becoming a gold medalist of the Asian Games in Doha (Qatar) in the discipline of the heptathlon, the athlete still decided in 2007 to concentrate on the long jump. Since for these disciplines very high rates are required in the sprint, and not the technical jumping abilities of the athlete, then, considering physical inclinations, it was reasonable to choose the kind of track and field athletics where rivals could be circumvented more by technique than by speed. And of course, the choice eventually fell to a triple jump - it's a complicated form of athletics, which consists of the phases of takeoff, jump, step, jump and landing. To achieve significant results in this form, the athlete needs speed training, jumping, coordination and the ability not to extinguish the running speed when performing the jump itself.

Triple jump recorders

If men competed in triple jump from the very beginning of the Olympic Games of the present (1896), then for women this discipline was introduced into the Olympic program of competitions only a hundred years later in Atlanta (USA), in 1996. The first Olympic champion in this discipline was the Ukrainian jumper Inessa Kravets, who a year before in Gothenburg, Sweden, set a world record in the discipline of a triple jump from a women's run (15 meters 50 centimeters). In men, the world record belongs to the Englishman Jonathan Edwards (18 m 29 cm). It was established in the same year in 1996, at the same World Athletics Championships at the Royal Swedish Stadium. For many, it's surprising that Jonathan is not an athlete at all, it's just a hobby from his childhood.

Let's return to our heroine. Olga Rypakova began her cultivation in triple jump and on her way to the Olympus.

Rypakova - Olympic champion

For every athlete the most outstanding achievement is the victory at the Olympic Games. The 2008 Olympics in Beijing brought Olga the fourth position, but then she still got a bronze medal, which the Greek athlete was denied for incriminating illegal drugs. And then at the next Olympics the athlete was already determined resolutely. At the Foggy Albion - London Stadium - in 2012, Olga Rypakova won her first Olympic gold medal in a triple jump with a result of 14 meters 98 centimeters. In Rio de Janeiro (2016), Olga completes her series of jumps and finds herself in the top three with a bronze medal. Personal achievement of Olga in the long jump - 6,85 m. And in the triple jump in Split (Croatia), the athlete showed her best result - 15.25 m, which is the official record of Asia.

Sports legend of Kazakhstan

In 2016, Olga received the early title of "Major" (representing the CSKA Army club). In her honor the track and field athletics center in the native city of Ust-Kamenogorsk is named, in which many competitions are held and have already repeatedly held international starts named after Olga Rypakova. The director of the center is her husband Denis Rypakov, professional runner for 400 meters, the winner of the World Universiade. They have two children, Nastya's daughter and Cyril's son. Parents do not mind that the children will follow in their footsteps. Daughter, while practicing athletics, still preferred another sport - volleyball.

Future plans

The family promotes a healthy lifestyle. Athletics in Kazakhstan is developing rapidly, mostly thanks to the achievements of Olga Rypakova, who inspire modern youth. At the moment, Olga trains under the guidance of her father and husband and is the record holder for medals in victories at international competitions among Kazakhstan athletes. Her sports career, she is not going to give up and is preparing to perform this year at the World Championships in London. He will also take part in the Asian Games and at the subsequent Olympics in 2020, which will be held in Tokyo (Japan).