At the last World Paralympic GamesRussian athletes won a record number of medals - 28 bronze, 38 silver and 36 gold. In the team event they took second place, only slightly losing to the Chinese team. Such results can not but cause a feeling of appropriate pride in the high achievements of these athletes. But it is especially fascinating to see what kind of struggle they are waging with their personal limitations, not allowing oneself to be broken. Their thirst for life truly inspires.
Olesya Vladykina is one of the championsParalympic Games and a vivid example of a strong personality. Eight years ago, in a terrible accident, she lost her close friend, with whom she spent 10 years swimming, and her left arm. However, at that terrible moment she did not allow panic and later also did not allow herself to become depressed. On the contrary, since then, Olesya Vladykina has even more firmly grasped the life. Her biography changed radically, but changed for the better.
Basic facts of biography
Владыкина Олеся Юрьевна родилась в Москве 14 February 1988. In 2008, Olesya lost her left hand in a car accident. In the same year, at the Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing, she won gold and became a world record holder in swimming with a 100-meter brace. In 2012, at the Summer Paralympic Games in London, she also won gold in a 100-meter brace, setting a new world record. In 2014 Olesya was the ambassador at the Olympic Games in Sochi.
A variety of children's hobbies
As a child, Olesya had many hobbies.Her mother thought that the girl should be engaged in art, namely music and ballet, and she was engaged. She studied the class of dombra at the music school, played the guitar, went to the ballet, danced acrobatic rock and roll. In addition to all this, Olesya studied English in depth. Such employment and simply crazy pace of life tempered the character of the future champion. Even then, with a loving mother's hand, Olesya's children's heart was filled with the will to win.
Swimming pool and swimming
On the voyage, my parents gave Olesya to helpgirl to cope with panic fear of water. This step vividly illustrates that the family of Vladykina since childhood has taught the girl never to "hide her head in the sand" and not to give in before difficulties. So Vladykina discovered a swimming pool and water sports. She was engaged in professional swimming in the SKIFSOR "Skif" for 10 years. Gradually, swimming practiced the rest and became the main passion in the life of the girl. Such a craving for sports in Olesya can be considered hereditary. Her mother was engaged in athletics in her youth, and later she was teaching shaping, her brother was seriously engaged in hockey. In the Vladykin family for many years, it was a custom to go skiing together and run in Tsaritsynsky Park. As a result of persistent selfless labor, Olesya Vladykina joined the Moscow swimming team and became a master of sports.
Leaves sports
At the age of 16 Olesya entered the MoscowState University of Railways to study sports management. In parallel with her studies, the girl had to work hard because her parents divorced, and it was not easy for her mother to have two children. Olesya settled herself as a salesman in the Central Department Store, in the fashion boutique Armani. So in her life there was something completely new - fashion, night clubs, parties, cinema. There was no time left for sports training, and it seemed that everything that could be achieved in the youthful voyage had already been achieved. However, Olesya's main victories were in fact still to come.
Pivot point
In February 2008, Olesya went with hergirlfriend Alexandra Malochueva in her first long-awaited vacation to the amazing country of Thailand. No one could have guessed that it was here that a terrible catastrophe would happen that would change everything. On the way to Bangkok, a sightseeing double-decker bus, in which friends were traveling, turned over on the overpass. Later it was found that the bus driver failed to manage. It was raining that day, and he was driving at too high a speed, which, unfortunately, cost some people the most precious - life.
В момент аварии Олеся дремала и даже не успела understand what happened. In that disaster, Olesya Vladykina lost her hand and suffered many other serious injuries, including a fracture of the nose, shoulder blades and sacrum. Olesya's friend Alexander died on the spot. In an instant, life literally turned over. However, from the very first minutes Olesya gave herself an order not to give up. Subsequently, her swimming coach, Sergei Zhilin, admired that the girl was then incredibly brave and before the arrival of the doctors she herself squeezed the mutilated hand to stop heavy blood loss.
Recovery period
During the month Olesya Vladykina took a courserehabilitation in Bangkok, the material costs of which could be covered by insurance. Upon returning to Moscow, literally a month later, the girl resumed sports training. At that time, the support of mom and true friends helped Olesya to come to terms with the changes that had taken place and accept that now her life simply became different, but did not become worse. In her interviews, the athlete will emphasize more than once that it was thanks to many caring people and especially those close to her who were always there that she had more strength to deal with new difficult circumstances. A return to the sport opened up new horizons for Olesya and helped to see that she can set herself and achieve many more good goals.
New life
From this moment, Olesya Vladykina - Paralympicthe champion. However, it was not her first gold, setting its Olympic record, the athlete was also not going to stop. She was determined to surpass the achieved results more than once. After that Olympic victory, Olesya gave many interviews, met with the Russian president, went to the Economic Forum held in St. Petersburg, she was appointed ambassador for the Sochi 2014 Olympics - in a word, life became more intense than ever.
New victories and awards
Among the awards athletes can be identified:
- Assignment of the title of "Honored Master of Sports of Russia."
- Award of the Paralympic Russian Committee "Return to Life" in 2008.
- Order of Friendship for a significant contribution to the development of physical culture and sports and high achievements at the Paralympic Games in Beijing, held in 2008.
- Order of Honor for significant contribution to the development of physical culture and sports and high achievements at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.
Неудивительно, что, как поделилась Олеся Vladykina, her personal life after the accident not only did not end, but became much brighter. And if earlier she considered herself a whiny and depressive person, now she understood that she could at the critical moment gather her strength, fight and win the struggle even with very serious difficulties.
An example to follow
Olesya often attends sports training.disabled children, each of whom wants to someday become a Paralympic champion. She talks about the fact that sport opens up many new opportunities for people, and also that life is a priceless gift that you need to cherish, enjoying every moment. It is quite natural that in the hearts of these children Oles Vladykina herself became a real example to follow. As she lost her hand, she, of course, is scary to remember, because that event deprived the young girl of the usual life that her peers lead, but it was this loss that revealed in her character the qualities of a true fighter, such as courage and fortitude.
