"Svetlana Konovalova won silverParalympics "- articles with such a headline were published by many of the Russian newspapers and online publications, when a biathlete, a native of the Ryazan region, was the second in the" sitting "category at the ten-kilometer distance and brought the 25th medal to the Paralympics team of the country. Her achievements and Olympic medals are a matter of pride in two Russian regions, Ryazan and Penza. And this is all about a man who never stood on his own feet, moved only on a wheelchair.
So what did this girl, disabled withchildhood, so persistent, so confident in the surmountability of any difficulties, capable of achieving the goal? After all, from the very birth of life, she was presented with a surprise for the surprise. The test was simply to live, and to achieve such heights ... this is not given to everyone.
We all come from childhood
Svetlana Konovalova, whose photo you see inarticle, was born on February 10, 1990 in a hospital in Ryazan. In childbirth she suffered a fracture of the spine. This birth trauma could cross out her whole life. But fate decreed in its own way.
It was known that her parents lived inShilovo, which is a hundred kilometers from the regional center. But because in March the mother of the little girl refused her, not wishing to raise a disabled child who would never walk, and the father did not insist on the opposite, she had to live and be brought up in the Ryazan child's house until the five-year-old baby Sveta They did not transfer to the Nizhnelomovsky boarding school of the Penza region. So the girl was among the same as she, children with physical disabilities.
New house
This sociable and kind girl never faint. This was noted by all the staff of the orphanage. She studied well. She had to learn to live in a stroller. Here Sveta spent all her childhood up to 17 years.
And it was here that she began to play sports. At first it was table tennis, later in her life there were skis. Svetlana stubbornly cut circles around the building. Though it was not easy.
Another betrayal
Employees of the orphanage attempted to find Sveta's parents. Yet they were very much hoping that Mom finally thought better of it and would want to take home such a wonderful daughter.
However, expectations were not justified.Mom refused the girl a second time. It turned out that she had a new family, a daughter was born, healthy, unlike the first, that she could not bring a sick child to her second husband's house, that Sveta's father had died.
She only began to pay alimony to her daughter, fully agreeing with the court's decision.
On the verge of big sport
After boarding Konovalov Svetlana returned to Ryazan and entered the economic college of the city of Mikhailova.
There she studied and at the same time practiced sports.Her tenacity could only envy. Under the guidance of her first coach, Galina Muravleva, the girl continued to play table tennis, became a member of the team of volleyball girls in wheelchairs. Participated in competitions and became a prize-winner.
Here the young athlete fully showed her solid character. She was persistent, even persistent. She did everything herself and did not allow anyone to help herself, although she moved only on the wheelchair.
The boarding school taught her how to survive. Here Konovalov Svetlana has learned to gain victories and realized that it is in her power.
On his hands there was already a college degree in the specialty"Human Resources Manager". She, as a disabled person of the first group, was not allowed to have a separate social housing, but she had to live somewhere. And then came to the aid of Moscow journalists who created a video that told the story of an orphan girl.
With his exit, Svetlana's dwelling appeared.In Mihajlov she was given an apartment. But the girl chose the capital. After all, in Moscow, Irina Gromova, the head coach of the Russian Paralympic team for ski racing and biathlon, who is waiting for her and ready to become her coach.
New Horizons
Irina Alexandrovna learned about Svetlana from the same movie. They met through the Internet when the girl was already in his final year. And Gromova offered to do it, even become a member of the team.
She registered the girl in her apartment, her andAlexei Bychenko, another of his pupils. And right before the Paralympic Games in 2010, young people also received their own housing, dedicated specifically to athletes with disabilities. In this odnushke and settled: Svetlana herself took the hall, and Alexei and his wife - a room.
The whole winter of 2011/12 at the end of college was held in training at the Moscow sports school of the Olympic reserve "Vorobyovy Gory" on ski-beans.
Nothing is impossible. Svetlana Konovalova: Paralympic Games
Her biography is full of victories.The successes of this remarkable industrious sportswoman are only admirable: she twice became a World Cup winner and a bronze medalist in the World Biathlon Championships, in ski races at the World Cup - at a long distance and in a sprint.
But the strong spirit of Svetlana did not stop there.Konovalov. Paralympic Games in Sochi brought her great fame. The President of the country presented the Order of the IV Art. "For services to the fatherland." She became the “Honored Master of Sports of Russia”, as well as the owner of the commemorative badge “Gratitude from the Land of Ryazan”.
But this is far from all the achievements of the Ryazanathletes. Svetlana Konovalova takes part in the Paralympic World Championships, where the strongest disabled athletes compete in the autumn of 2015, becomes the silver medalist in the wheelchair relay race on the treadmill. And at some distances she even set her own personal records this season.
And in Cheboksary at the Russian Track and Field Championships in 2016, she again became the silver bronze medalist. Perhaps we will see her name in the squad for the games in Rio de Janeiro.
Information and sports agency "RyazanSport ”constantly holds among its subscribers a vote for the right to be called the best athlete of the month. And it is not surprising that Konovalova Svetlana Igorevna repeatedly won the most votes. Totally deserved.
By the way, Sveta still found her mother, met her younger sister, who also took part in this victory for Konovalova Olympiad as a volunteer.
