Olga Belyakova: biography, photo

For a long time, not a rookie in the international arena isathlete from the city of Rybinsk Olga Belyakova. She was born in an ordinary completely unhealthy family, but managed to achieve the title of a three-time champion of Russia. Among a number of deserved awards, it is especially worth highlighting the complete set received at the 2014 Olympics - bronze, silver, gold. Bronze brought her a distance of three thousand meters, on the first day of the competition, Olga immediately took gold at a distance of one and a half thousand, and after the race in a thousand meters, the athlete was awarded silver.

Biography

Belyakova Olga Vladimirovna was born on September 261988. Already at the age of 10 she first came out on the ice in Rybinsk. In the fifth grade to school number 5, where she studied, came the coach Starostina Marina. All comers were invited to sign up for lessons on the short track. Many were interested, but later most of them were eliminated, as a result, only Olga and her sister remained, but soon she left too.

Olga Belyakova continued to train hard and already in 2007 she was included in the Russian national team.

What is a short track

In this interesting sport is not alwaysthe strongest and hardest wins, often the primacy is given to someone who is more resourceful. You need to be able to properly distribute forces, take the right position, overtake in the right place, often all decide only a fraction of a second.

And of course, as in any sport, luck is important here, when an unexpected collision with the opponent's ridge occurs, the speed is lost, and with it the chances of winning.

Often, the short track is associated with car racing, the same turns, overtaking, going from the distance, although the speed is less - about 60 km / h - but this is enough to get serious injuries.

Therefore, in competitions and serious training, an additional layer of mats is screwed to the sides, or these boards are removed altogether.

Beginning of the sports way

Olga Belyakova did not immediately join the national teamand began to win seats in international competitions. At first it was just a hobby. Children skated, played catch-up, learned to deftly maneuver. Later competitions began, but here the girl was often ahead of her comrades.

One of the big pluses of Olga is her positive: she never despaired, she perceived the loss calmly and stubbornly went to the intended goal. Training was a lot, they were alternated trips to sports camps, strict regime, a lot of sports, sleep, lunch and again sports. "It's very difficult and still happens, I want to get out of training," Olga Belyakova tells about her life.

Photos of the girl clearly show her highlevel of training. As early as 2010 in Vancouver, it was not so sure. But after the end of the Olympiad, close communication with its competitors and idol Ekaterina Reuther, experience came, and with it a serious spirit to fight.

Forward to a new goal

"Sport will always remain a sport: these are victories and losses, but now I have a great incentive not to drop my hands and move on, "- says Olga Belyakova. Today she is one of the outstanding representatives of the national team of the short track, but, she said, she is thinking about skating. Both of these sports are supported by one organization and the union president Alexei Kravtsov agrees with this position of the athlete.