Vladimir Artemov Biography

Artemov Vladimir Nikolaevich Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, absolute Olympic champion, four -time Olympic champion, three -time world champion in certain types of all -around, three -time world champion in the team championship, the absolute champion of the USSR in certain types of all -around, the USSR Cup in the all -around Vladimir Artemov was born on December 7 in Vladimir.

He graduated from the Vladimir State Pedagogical Institute, in which he then taught. Volodya Artyomov came to gymnastics in the year - at the age of eight. Here, coach Viktor Nikolaevich Firsov immediately drew attention to a capable pupil, and so - from the very beginning - became his coach for the whole sports life. At that time, the idol of the boys in the sports school was Nikolai Andrianov - an outstanding Soviet gymnast, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, the holder of 15 Olympic awards, including 7 gold, won at three Olympiads, multiple world champion, Europe and the USSR, which trained in the same hall with young athletes.

The guys with trepidation examined his medals and dreamed that someday they could achieve the same success. The first serious victory came to Vladimir in the year when he won the country's junior championship in Alma-Ata. In the year, Artemov took seventh place already at the adult championship of the country and ended up in the USSR national team, for which he spoke for eight years.

The names of the athletes, which were then part of the USSR national team, were on everyone's mouths: Yuri Korolev, Dmitry Belozerchev, Valery Lukin, but Vladimir Artemov was not lost among them and so remembered that period: “The most difficult is everyday training and the struggle for a place in the national team. This is a very difficult daily process. You constantly need to be in shape, constantly be prepared, because at any time you can be called to competitions or on some trips.

To do this for eight years was a very, very difficult work. ” Incredible patience, endurance, everyday painstaking work and the desire for victory could not go unnoticed. At the world championship in Budapest Hungary, where the male team of the USSR lost to the palm of the championship gymnasts from China, Vladimir Artemov, in addition to the team of silver, won his first world champion title - took first place in the exercises in the bars, dividing it with the Chinese gymnast Lowe Yun.

In the year, Vladimir Artemov became the absolute champion of the national championship and was awarded the title “Honored Master of Sports of the USSR”. The World Cup in Montreal Canada brought him victory in the team championship and Silver in the all -around. In the year in the Netherlands Rotterdam, a team victory, “gold” on the bars, “silver” in free exercises and “bronze” in the all -around.

At the previous Olympic Games in Los Angeles, he, like many leading Soviet athletes, could not defend his titles in direct rivalry with the best gymnasts in the world-because of the boycott of these games by most countries of the socialist camp. In Seoul, a summer athlete became an absolute Olympic champion, having won four gold and one silver awards. He did not utter such a phrase for the first time, so it was in the year in Moscow and in M ​​in Los Angeles.

But the games in Seoul, indeed, were different in that they became a record in the number of spectators and athletes who took part in them. Athletes from countries fought for sets of medals, and the total number of spectators who observed competitions from the stands and television screens amounted to over 3 billion. Vladimir Artemov - the captain of the team - together with partners managed to defeat the main rivals - the Japanese.

Soviet gymnasts earned in the team championship, 35 points, and the Japanese - only athletes from the GDR who received 45 points pushed them to third place. In the personal standings, Vladimir Artemov won with the result, a point. Comrades on the team - Valery Lukin and Dmitry Biloservv rose to the podium with him honor. Artems did not remain without rewards and on individual shells: the bars are “gold”, the crossbar is “gold”, and free exercises are “silver”.

Vladimir Nikolaevich Artemov recalled those events: “It was the year of the dragon, and from the first competitions that took place in February in February and before the trip to the Olympics, I did not miss a single competition, all the time was the first ... in Seoul we were so ready that at any time of the day and night we could get out of bed and go to perform. We had a very good struggle, the gap between gold and silver was one tenth score.

” In the x years, Vladimir Artemov was one of the strongest gymnasts in the world. In his combinations, he successfully combined complexity and originality, and connoisseurs of sports gymnastics were remembered as an unrivaled performer of the combination on the bars, where he had no equal! After the victorious GO, Artemov and his mentor Viktor Firsov had difficult times.

In those years, outstanding gymnasts and their coaches went abroad. So it happened to them.First, Vladimir went to the United States at the invitation of the National Gymnastics Federation to sports Camp, and, having stayed there for 20 days, received an invitation to Congress in the New Orleans. In an interview, V. Artemov told the story of his departure.

They asked me if I could help in this. I agreed. I just had to start working somewhere. And in Russia or in America - it did not matter to me. I looked at the development of gymnastics as an international phenomenon. Regardless of whether this is due to gymnastics or not, I always lay out one hundred percent. ” Vladimir Artemov lives in San Antonio, a person is engaged in his sports school-there is a male and women's teams.

The son of Vladimir Nikolayevich followed in the footsteps of his father. When the sports school was a year, he won in regional competitions. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.