After leaving the great sport of the legendary Svetlana Zhurova in 2006, the young athlete Yekaterina Lobysheva had to take the place of the leader of the national speed skating team. About her and will be discussed below.
Looking for yourself
One of the most beautiful athletes at the Olympic Games in Sochi was Ekaterina Lobysheva. Photo medalists in team competitions flaunted in many sports publications. However, it could happen that she might not have come to speed skating.
Ekaterina Lobysheva was born in Kolomna near Moscow in 1985. There were no professional athletes in the family, but her parents loved an active lifestyle. My father participated in various amateur football competitions, and my mother went skiing great.
Therefore, parents have always approved of their daughter's passion for sports.
Catherine spent a long time looking for an area where she could fully reveal her talents. She went to ballroom dancing, was engaged in basketball, volleyball. Due to the relatively low growth for these sports, Lobysheva goes into speed skating. At one point, she was bored, and she seriously took up badminton.
However, the coaches managed to persuade her that badminton is not the future for such an athlete as Ekaterina Lobysheva. Speed skating eventually became her main occupation. The first mentor of the athlete was Vladimir Rubin.
Sport of high achievements. Awards
Ekaterina specializes in sprint distances from 500 to 1500 m. For the first time in large tournaments, she begins to participate in the 2004/2005 season. Since the beginning of her career, Lobysheva has conducted more than a hundred races at the stages of the World Cup. The athlete took part in the World and European Championships.
During her career, she has repeatedly won the championships of Russia. Ekaterina Lobysheva did not achieve much success in the individual competition at international tournaments. Her best result was getting into the second ten of the strongest.
Nevertheless, the high average level of the entire national team allows the athlete to compete for prizes in team competitions. Twelve times at the stages of the World Cup, Ekaterina Lobysheva together with her friends rises to the podium, including three times the girls become the first.
Regular seasonal tournaments are certainly important, but the Olympics are always an indicator of the success of any athlete. Ekaterina Lobysheva won the most valuable awards at the main competitions of the four-year period. The first time this was done at the Olympics in Turin. Then, in the team competition, fast Russian girls took third place.
After 2006, Svetlana Zhurova ends her career . Her place and position of leader of the team is occupied by Ekaterina Lobysheva.
The next Olympic Games in Vancouver turned out to be a failure for the entire Russian team. The team of domestic walkers was no exception. Catherine and her partners have remained far beyond the line of winners.
At the Olympics in Sochi, Russian athletes simply did not have the right to perform unsuccessfully. With the frantic support of the stands, rushing like the wind, Lobysheva and her friends ran to the third step of the pedestal. So she became a two-time bronze Olympic medalist.
The explosive nature of the swift Catherine
Like any talented athlete, Lobysheva has a very difficult character. Everyone for a long time remembered the grandiose conflict between her and one of the girls from her team. After the scandal, Abramov refuses to play for the team before the decisive run of the World Cup. This leads to a forced replacement. An untrained athlete fails his stage, and the team takes last place in that race. After that, the entire team rolled back far from the first place in the overall standings of the World Cup.
Penalties were imposed by the Russian Skating Union. Abramova was excommunicated for a whole year, and the second participant in the conflict escaped with a severe reprimand.
Ekaterina Lobysheva: personal life
Fans are always interested in how their idols breathe outside the arena. Especially if the athlete is an attractive girl. Ekaterina Lobysheva graduated from Kolomna State Pedagogical Institute. In the future, she does not exclude herself from coaching. In 2014, she gets married. Lucky was Alexei Naumov - a famous motorcycle racer.
In social networks there was a stormy discussion of the wedding of Catherine and Andrew. As a wedding limousine, the newlyweds used a tricycle of a protective color.
Today, athletes from the Netherlands unconditionally dominate in speed skating. Wedging in between them is an incredibly difficult task. However, gathering in a team, Russian girls are able to compete with other teams and take prizes. Ekaterina Lobysheva is one of the main leaders in this fast-moving team.