Queen of Rhythmic Gymnastics – Gymnastics News – Summer

The President of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation, head coach of the Russian national team, the country's eminent coach Irina Aleksandrovna Wiener- Usmanova celebrates his 70th birthday. Tbad congratulates for the date of the tour of the honored coach of the country and recalls important events of his life with his titled students

Irina Wiener-Usmanova was born in Samarkand , in a smart family. Grandfather was a violinist, father – artist of the people of Uzbekistan, a member of the Academy of Arts. From where the hobbies of his children. She loved music, took an active part in theatrical productions, enjoyed visiting ballet that she did not desire herself.

She had all the necessary qualities to realize herself in the creative profession and rhythmic gymnastics offered her such an opportunity. Although her parents first thought that she would follow in her mother's footsteps, she would become a doctor, since that is what profession brought the main income to the family.

But with the entrance of the medical institute, Viner sent fate to the Uzbek Institute. The choice was not accidental, indeed she is engaged in rhythmic gymnastics from 11 years, having obtained serious results in this sport. Suffice it to say that she became three-time champion of Uzbekistan

Wiener started her coaching business after graduating from the university, in the Republican Sports School specialized children and youth of the Tashkent Olympic Reserve

designated trainer of the national team of the city and the national team of Uzbekistan in Rhythmic Gymnastics.

For 20 years she has managed to breed several successful sportsmen, including Venus Zaripova – five times the winner of the USSR championship and the world champion in the exercises of group Marina Nikolaeva, who was among the first students Wiener-Usmanova, who succeeded on the international arena

restricted, because the sport they represented n '# 39; was not Olympic. The situation changed after the Los Angeles, Games which were played for the first time in rhythmic gymnastics. These are only Soviet "artists", however, as well as the entire national team of the USSR, in connection with the boycott in the United States did not have it. Their culmination came four years later in Seoul, when Marina Lobach won the gold, and Alexander Tymoshenko – bronze

After such a success, the Soviet demand for overseas appeared, helped by the restructuring started in the country. This is why, in the early 1990s, parallel to the Uzbek team, Wiener-Usmanov coached the British gymnasts.

But in 1992, after the Barcelona Olympics, which again beat the representative of the Soviet school Tymoshenko, Wiener-Usmanov decided to move to Moscow

In the city of Novogorsk, she opened a rhythmic gymnastics club on the site of which currently operates a modern training center, parallel to the growth of the results of the Russian "artist". Among them, Jan Batyrshin, Amina Zaripova – several world champions. But the most brilliant talent was Alina Kabaeva – two-time absolute world champion, five-time champion of Europe. At the 2000 Olympics, she lost first place to fellow Yulia Barsukova Wiener-Usmanova but four years later, at the Athens Games, Kabaeva won the biggest sporting price. Russian artistic gymnasts win all Olympic gold medals in team competitions and in individual competitions. After the start of the Kabaeva sport, the team leader's place was taken by Yevgeniya Kanaeva, the only sportswoman in history who won two Olympic gold medals in the personal championship. At the last Games, which took place in 2016 Rio de Janeiro, victory was won by another coach-trainer – Margarita Mamun. And silver medals in the individual championship in the last two Games were also won by the students Wiener-Usmanova

She did not not leave after their sports career. Students become trainers and work with a growing generation of "artists", or marry successful young people, often from the world of sport. Her warm and maternal attitude towards the students is manifested at least by the fact that she invited to her home those who had nowhere to live in Moscow. And then she helped them acquire their own homes.

She calls the students of "my children", and she calls herself "mom". [2008] Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Emeritus Coach of Russia and Uzbekistan, Worker Emeritus of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation.

Her training results are the driving force behind the development of world rhythmic gymnastics, as the Vice President of the International Anthem Federation (FIG), she actively reinforced the position of the rhythmic gymnastics at the Olympic Games, where two sets of awards are played

Wiener-Usmanova received the Order of Honor (2001), "For Services to the Fatherland" IV ( 2005) and III (2008), the Order of Friendship (2013).

Irina Viner is married to a businessman and philanthropist, Alisher Usmanov. With the main shareholder of Metalloinvest, she met in Tashkent, while they were training in a sports school. He was engaged in fencing, and she – rhythmic gymnastics. They married after the meeting in Moscow in 1992.

Artem Kuznetsov