Anfisa Reztsova

Anfisa Reztsova, a Soviet and Russian biathlete and ski racer, has many titles on her account. In addition to the official sports awards, the athlete is assigned the unofficial title of Queen of Biathlon, since she is the first Olympic champion in this sport. Reztsova is also the only Olympic gold medalist in the world in two different winter sports.

Anfisa Anatolyevna was born in December 1964 in a large family of a builder and a postman. In addition to their daughter, Anatoly Mikhailovich and Nina Pavlovna Romanov raised three sons. They planned to name the daughter Vera. However, the mother liked the name of the woman who served in the church where the girl was baptized. So from the christening, the daughter returned Anfisa.

At the age of 7, Anfisa moved from the village of Yakimets to Vladimir. There I went to a regular high school and at the same time to gymnastics. But soon the coaches advised the girl to take up cyclic sports. And from the fifth grade, skiing entered Reztsova's life.

After the first lessons with a passionate teacher, seven remained in a group of 25 people, including Anfisa. Although the girl understood that the first coach did not see any prospects in her, she continued to train with enviable persistence, despite the health problems soon identified.

At one of the regional competitions, Anfisa was noticed by a coach from Dynamo. So the girl got to the all-Union level. The victory at the national championship led the future champion to the junior national team. Studying at school faded into the background, but after her Reztsova was going to enter a law institute. The coach of an adult women's team dissuaded from a career as a lawyer, arguing that great prospects open up for Anfisa in sports.

Anfisa Reztsova's sports biography did not begin at all in biathlon. Having just graduated from school, Reztsova won two bronze medals at her first world championship among juniors in cross-country skiing. At the next championship she repeated her success, and in 1983 in Finland the skier won her first world champion title.

In 1985, Reztsova was included in the national team of the Soviet Union, in which she quickly took a leading position. In the same year she received the gold medal of the world champion in the relay. From the 1987 World Championship held in Germany, Anfisa brought gold for victory in the relay and two silver for distances of 5 and 20 km.

At the first ever Olympics in Calgary, Reztsova won a gold medal in relay races and silver in the crown "twenty". The skier considered her own performance to be unsuccessful, as she hoped to take the award of the highest standard. Perhaps, the fact that during the preparation for the Games the athlete did not fully recover from her illness played a role. And intensified training at the qualifiers led to leg problems: Anfisa ran on injections.

At the end of the Olympic season, Reztsova went on maternity leave, but returned after only 8 months. Then there was a conflict, which the press diplomatically refers to as inconsistencies with the coaching staff. But the sports world knows Anfisa Anatolyevna as a direct, sometimes harsh person. Thanks to her candid interviews, fans are aware of many behind-the-scenes events.

During the absence of Reztsova in the national team, new faces emerged - Elena Vyalbe, Larisa Lazutina, Lyubov Egorova. And each - with its own ambitions. The girls were not happy about the return of Anfisa. Team coach Alexander Grushin was unable to extinguish the starting fire, and the titled skier thought about leaving the sport altogether and plunging into family concerns. Her husband Leonid, who by that time was finishing his sports career, and his former coach offered to try his hand at biathlon.

A distinctive feature of Reztsova in biathlon was the combination of poor shooting and good move. To achieve a result, Anfisa needed to hit at least half of the targets, the athlete made up for the gap with interest in the distance running.

In this sport, already in the second season of performances, the biathlete was holding the Big Crystal Globe in her hands according to the results of the World Cup tests. The same award went to the athlete in the 1992-1993 season, after 7 personal victories and 5 prizes.

Anfisa prepared for the 1992 Olympics in the men's biathlon team of the Council of Trade Unions under the leadership of her husband. Then she moved to the men's biathlon team of the country, agreed to transfer the appropriate loads and, according to the coach, plowed so that everyone was amazing. As a result, Reztsova won the gold medal and the title of the first biathlon champion in the history of the Winter Games. They were supplemented by bronze in the relay, as well as silver from the subsequent World Championship.

Later, the coaching staff decided to focus on skiing, paying less attention to shooting, which was already a weak point for Reztsova. The erroneousness of the decision was revealed in subsequent competitions, the results of which tended to zero. At the 1994-1995 World Cup, Anfisa failed all personal performances and only once climbed the podium for a bronze medal in the relay.

At the Olympics in Norway, the individual races also ended in failure, but Reztsova still won the gold medal in the relay. But the stormy celebration of this victory was the reason for the exclusion of the multiple champion from the national team.

Anfisa made good use of this time: she gave birth to a child and graduated from the Academy of Physical Education. In 1996, she tried to return to biathlon, however, according to the athlete, she was offered to get into the national team not at all on a sports principle. Then the biathlete changed her role, turning again to skiing.

The ambitious athlete planned to go to the next Olympics, in Nagano, but the Federation directly refused the skier. In defense, the head coach of the national team said that Reztsova's non-inclusion was due to her poor shooting results and constant violations of the regime. Nevertheless, in the “new old” sport, Anfisa received another medal of the highest standard at the World Championships in Austria.

The skier swung to the 2002 Olympics, but two years before the Games, she and her husband suffered hepatitis and decided that "going into the same river five times is an extreme case."

Anfisa Reztsova is a mother of four children, which is considered a feat for a former athlete, and Masha gave birth to her fourth daughter at 44, already being a grandmother. The head of the family, Leonid Reztsov, is a former athlete and coach of his own wife, who runs the family business, a sporting goods store in Moscow. The family lives in Khimki near Moscow and adheres to a non-public lifestyle: interviews and photos of mostly Anfisa and Daria's daughter are distributed on the Web.

The couple got married in 1985, they waited three years for their first child. When they finally learned about the happy event, they had to sacrifice a child for the Olympics.

Reztsova does not hide the fact that for the sake of sports victories, the eldest daughter Daria Virolainen had to make such concessions. Dasha, like her sister Christina, is engaged in biathlon. According to Anfisa Anatolyevna, the eldest daughter was not taken to the national team for a long time, remembering the harsh nature of the mother and her habit of telling the truth, despite the regalia and atmosphere.

So, the athlete was one of the first to admit to the use of doping when she tried to return to biathlon after the break, and sees no reason to hide it.

The champion, by her own admission, has no friends, except perhaps Raisa Smetanina. Since childhood, Reztsova talked more with boys, but does not believe in female friendship. Anfisa Anatolyevna from 2011 to 2015 headed the Biathlon Federation of the Moscow Region.

In January 2018, Anfisa Reztsova said that she was “neither cold nor hot” from Vladimir Putin's apologies to Russian athletes who were not allowed to participate in the Olympics in Korea. The famous athlete believes that sports officials are also obliged to personally apologize to the athletes.

The Olympic champion implements an active life position as chairman of the Control Commission of the Council of Deputies of the Khimki city district. In the same city there is a children's and youth biathlon school named after the athlete.

1985 - gold medal of the World Championship 1987 - gold and 2 silver medals of the World Championship 1988 - gold and silver medals of the Olympic Games 1992, 1993 - Biathlon World Cup 1992 - silver medal of the World Championship, gold and bronze medals of the Olympic Games 1999 - gold medal of the World Championship

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