Sergey Nikolayevich Volkov

Sergei Nikolayevich Volkov (Russian: Сергей Николаевич Волков; born April 19, 1949 in Moscow, † August 31, 1990 in Kharkov ), was a Russian figure skater who competed for the Soviet Union or for Spartak Moscow in a single run. He is the world champion of 1975.

Sergei Volkov spent ten years as a member of the Soviet figure skating team. The highlight of his long career came in the mid 1970s.

He was the first Soviet figure skater who won the gold medal at the world championships in a single competition.

After 1966 he was entered as a Soviet junior champion in appearance, him ten years later succeeded once again winning the Soviet Championship. Sergei Volkov took a total of two Olympic Games, four World Championships and eight European championships.

Life

Sergei Volkov began figure skating at the age of six years. His first teacher was Pyotr Tikhonov (Russian Петр Петрович Тихонов ). From 1959 he was coached by Viktor Kudryavtsev (Russian Виктор Николаевич Кудрявцев ). Among the children who trained together with Sergei in the same group, there was also Alexander Lakernik (Russian Александр Рафаилович Лакерник ), who now serves as Chairman of the Technical Commission of the ISU Figure Skating. The press mentioned Sergei Volkov little. This is due to the fact that his strength was the so-called mandatory program that does up to the introduction of the short program in 1975, 50 percent went down in rating, but was discharged from the public and thus had no media coverage. Sergei Volkov was considered closed and highly sensitive, on the other hand, as ambitious and extremely hard on himself, he was the perfect duty runners. However, the leadership that he regularly held after the mandatory program, it went as regularly lost again in the course of the competition, as the number of its jumps was barely larger than the number of its falls. Indicative of his class, however, is that his few accident-free lectures led to the winning of medals immediately. In his world championship freestyle in 1975 in Colorado Springs him get two triple jumps: Salchow and toe loop one. A year earlier, in Munich, he was defeated by Jan Hoffmann from the GDR, because he had an injury omit the Lutz and the flip.

Not only his jump weakness, but also his injury problems had forced out again and again from the medals Sergei Volkov. At the European Championships 1974 in Zagreb, he went out with a broken toe at the start and still won silver. A real stroke of genius was his appearance in 1975 in Colorado Springs. After the Soviet team had arrived just a month before the start of the competitions, Sergei Volkov such a serious knee injury moved to right the first training that he could no longer continue to train. So he went with a one-month training deficit in the competition, beating the reigning European champion, his compatriot Vladimir Kovalev and became world champion.

After ending his playing career in 1978, Sergei Volkov served as head coach of the youth national team until 1982. He then worked for his club Spartak Moscow as a children's coach. His students included, inter alia, the European vice-champion of 2002, Alexander Abt 1986/1987 Sergei Volkov trained with the world champion and four -time European champion Alexander Fadeev. In February 1990, Sergei Volkov went as a coach to Austria, but returned due to a serious illness (stomach cancer), he died in August of the same year, after only four months in his homeland. His grave is in the cemetery of the Moscow district Kunzewo.

Sergei Volkov has three children: Alexander, born in 1977 ( from the 1972 Agreement marriage to Ludmilla Olechowa that occurred along with her brother Andrej as a pair skater ), and the twins Catherine and Anastasia, born April 27, 1985 ( from his marriage to Oxana, a lecturer of the Metallurgical Institute Misis in Moscow).

Sergei Volkov's sister Elena Burjak (Russian Елена Буряк ) operates as an international martial judge.

Results

Skaters (Soviet Union)
Soviet champion (Figure Skating)
World Champion (Figure Skating)
Olympian (Soviet Union)
Born in 1949
Died in 1990
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