Igor Bobrin

Legendary figure skater Igor Bobrin became famous in single skating. An artistic athlete, even in free skating, showed a real performance on ice.

The future figure skater was born in late autumn, November 14, 1953, in Leningrad. The boy was brought up in the family of Maria Ilyinichna and Anatoly Pavlovich Bobrin. My father went through the war, then worked with a team of electricians. Mother worked with a mixer in the cinema. The eldest son Vladimir was already growing up in the family. After leaving school, Igor's brother became a sailor.

Like most children, Igor Bobrin often caught cold. At the age of seven, his mother took the boy to the ice. The first coach of little Igor was Tatyana Loveiko. Five years later, he began to train with Igor Borisovich Moskvin.

The road to fame has been long and difficult. The career biography of Igor Bobrin did not take shape immediately.

The first successes in sports came to the young man in 1972. Eighteen-year-old Igor performed at the USSR Championship in Minsk and took the third place on the podium. This was followed by the autumn season. At the trade union competition of the USSR in Rostov, he again became the third. But the road to the national team was still closed for the guy.

Two years later, the selection for the main tournaments took place at the January USSR Cup. Then Bobrin again took 3rd place. And in the next 1975 the young man did not make it to the national team. But he won the spring USSR Cup.

Igor Bobrin attracted attention by creating artistic images on ice. By the Olympic selection, he created at that time a progressive program and in Riga at the end of 1975 he became the third. But they took Vladimir Kovalev to the European and international championships.

The breakthrough came at the world championship in 1976, where he entered the top ten. The peculiar style of the skating was appreciated by the jury and noticed by the audience. But at the USSR Championship, Bobrin again took the third step of the podium.

In the same year, the famous Sleeping Cowboy number was created, which was included in the golden fund of world figure skating. At the concert in honor of his 50th birthday, Bobrin danced exactly "Cowboy" in the final part.

In the coming season 1976-1977, the young man achieved victory in the tournament in memory of Nikolai Panin. But at the stage of the formation of the national team, he became the fifth and fourth. Therefore, instead of Bobrin, they took Konstantin Kokora. The skater, in turn, ended the season with a victory at the USSR Cup.

The next series of competitions began with a victory in Lipetsk. In December 1977, he became the third on the Moscow News. A month later, at the national championship, he again closed the top three, after which Bobrina took to the Soviet national team. At the European tournament, the athlete entered the top five champions, at the World Championship he earned tenth place.

In the next season, Yuri Ovchinnikov began to train the young man along with Moskvin. Together they created a number to the music of Paganini. And again Bobrin was an innovator, making jumps without visible preparation. At first it was a novelty, but now the leaders of world sports cannot do without such techniques.

The initial Olympic stage put Bobrin on the second step of the podium. This was followed by victories at the trade union championship and at the Panin memory tournament. In December 1980, the young athlete won the Moscow News competition. Next he became the owner of a silver medal at the USSR Championship.

At the European Championship, Bobrin finished fourth, a little short of the podium. The world championship brought the athlete the seventh place. At the spring USSR championship, he secured his second victory. For "Paganini" Bobrin received 5.9 points for artistry.

Bobrin entered the 1980 season with a new coach, Yuri Ovchinnikov. At the autumn London tournament, the athlete closed the top five. This was followed by a series of victories at the championship of trade unions, in memory of Panin, "Moscow news".

Igor Bobrin met the European Championship without a coach, since Ovchinnikov was banned from leaving the country. The athlete performed the free program without errors. It was clear that the young man enjoyed the program. As a result, Bobrin became the champion.

At the World Championships, the athlete took third place. In 1981, Bobrin lost the victory at the Moscow News tournament, but a month later he won back the championship at the national championship, becoming the winner of the USSR championship.

At the world championship, Bobrin took seventh place. After the competition, the athlete was invited to tour Europe. But at the end of the season, the management advised Bobrin to leave the national team, because the decline in sports results did not contribute to success. Which is what the skater did. At the age of 27, he left the big sport and went headlong into work in the Theater of Ice Miniatures.

For the first time, Igor Bobrin was married to figure skater Natalia Ovchinnikova. They met while studying in the same group. Soon Natalia applied to the university and left the sport. In 1977, an addition happened to the family - a son, Maxim, was born. The young man became a surgeon.

In 1980, the athlete met Natalia Bestemyanova. It so happened that by lot at demonstration performances they had to skate together. Natalia at that time was in love with Igor. She once saw a young man on TV, and feelings appeared immediately. And so the first date of the couple happened - on the ice. Igor, seeing Natalya, fell in love.

The novel caused outrage among sports leaders and friends. Bobrin rushed between the two cities. But in the end he left the family and played a wedding with Bestemyanova in 1983. Maxim was very upset by the breakup of his parents, but he had an excellent relationship with his father. Bobrin calls his second wife and son the main people in his life.

At first, Maxim did not get along with Natalia, but then he became a frequent guest in the family. Photos from home evenings suggest that in the relationship between Natalia and Maxim, the resentment is behind. Bobrin never had children with his new wife.

In 2012, Igor Bobrin's personal life attracted attention again. A girl named Veronica Pitkevich said that she is the illegitimate daughter of an athlete. There was no public response from the celebrity.

Now Igor Bobrin is the chief director of the Ice Theater. He does not sit still for a minute, puts on new programs and goes on tour around the world.

1972 - USSR Championship, 3rd place 1976 - USSR Championship, 3rd place 1978 - USSR Championship, 1st place 1979 - USSR Championship, 2nd place 1980 - USSR Championship, 1st place 1981 - World Championship, 3rd place 1981 - European Championship, 1st place 1982 - European Championship, 3rd place 1982 - USSR Championship, 1st place 1983 - USSR Championship, 2nd place 2002 - Honored Coach of Russia

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