Alexey Prokurovov Biography

Senior coach of the juniors team of the Russian national skiing team. In childhood, the village boy Lesha prosecutors from the village of Mishino, Muromsky district, never thought and wondered that fate will bring him to the Olympic pedestal in Kalgar, and millions of viewers who observed the exciting thirty-kilometer race will scream directly into the screen: “Pros-ko-rh-hr! Pro-ku-ROV!

.. In the year, he became the first at a distance of 30 kilometers in the classic style, and as part of the country's national team- the second in the relay race of 4 to 10 kilometers. It all started very prosaically - what else to do in the winter at leisure in the village to local boys, how not to ski in the surrounding fields and ravines! In the native village of Mishino, the guys played football in the summer, in winter they flooded rollers themselves - no one organized sections for them.

In the winter of the year, older neighboring boys told Alexei that they signed up in the ski section in the village of Verbovsky, under Murom. That the section has a magnificent coach of Muratov and what is great there. I decided to go to a sports ski school and prosecutors. A year later, returning in the evening with one of the training, Lesha turned on the TV and saw the broadcast of the ski relay from the Olympics in the Innsbruck.

Everything went to the fact that the favorite team of the USSR, accustomed to always leading, could remain outside the podium. Nevertheless, at the fourth stage of the race, thanks to Ivan Garanin, the team managed to rise from sixth place to the third. The spectacle so captured the boy that he determined for himself - that’s what he should strive for. So sport has become the main meaning of his life.

The skis supplanted everything. The main task was to achieve a star result. Even then, before the school graduation and admission to the institute, the coach of Prokurorov Viktor Aleksandrovich Muratov characterized his pupil as an accurate and disciplined ward, purposeful and promising athlete. It took several years of hard work to achieve the first significant results. In the winter season of the year, a year later, at the Faculty of Physical Education of the Vladimir Pedagogical Institute, prosecutors go to the championship of the USSR among young men and older boys.

At a distance of 10 kilometers, it takes “bronze”. Alexei is included in the country's youth team. And he goes as part of the team for the world championship among juniors and the World Universiade, won there the championship title in the relay of 4 for 10 kilometers and becomes a winner at distances of 15 and 30 kilometers.

It seemed to Alexei that he was moving upward, preparing himself for Olympic medals. However, skiing is unpredictable. An important component of success is ammunition, ski ointment. It is not always possible to choose what is necessary in a particular situation. This happened in the year at the World Cup in the German town of Obersdorf. At a distance of 50 kilometers of prosecutors, only m.

But Alexei did not give up, and a year later he achieved outstanding success became the Olympic champion. In the year, at the World Cup in the Finnish city of Lahti, he took Bronze at a kilometer distance. In years, he became a repeated winner and a winner at the stages of the World Cup, and at the World Cup in the city of Tronheim Nachegia, Alexei Prokurov won a gold medal at a distance of 30 kilometers with a free style, and in the persecution race for 10 and 15 kilometers takes the second and third places.

Not everything was so smooth in the sports career of an outstanding athlete. But that is the power of real leaders who can turn themselves away, forcing him to declare themselves again. Alexey adopted the tactics of independent training of his colleague Vladimir Smirnov. This helped to achieve stable high results. The most significant and significant prosecutors to this day consider the victory in Trondheim in the year: “The Olympiad was in his youth when there was a lot of strength, and there was already the victory of a mature person who survived a lot of ups and falls of the century of a professional athlete on everyday standards is short -lived: thirty years - and the completion of a career, a pension.

Prosecutors "stopped" at 38 years old. In the year, Alexei Prokurov announced the completion of a sports career and leaving big sport. In recent years, he served as the senior coach of the Russian women's ski race.