Nikolai Kolomenkin Biography

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kolomenkin was born on December 27 January 8 in the village of Khrenovaya Voronezh province. His father was the director of the plant of agricultural vehicles. From childhood, Nikolai fell in love with skates: at first he rode on home -made devices, carved from wood and equipped with an iron outlet. Later, his mother brought him real skates from Moscow.

After the divorce of his parents, Nikolai, together with his mother and two sisters, ended up in St. Petersburg.

There he continued to engage in his hobby: at first he rode on the frozen ponds of the city, and later moved to the rink of the Yusupovsky garden, where many athletes trained. Having become a student of St. Petersburg University, the young man also was engaged in bicycle, athletics, rowing, swimming, football and hockey. But his main passion remained skates. In the year, Panin decided to participate in the All -Russian championship in this sport - and successfully completed all the tasks, receiving the title of the best skater in Russia.

The next big competition in the biography of Nikolai Panin was the World Cup in the year, where the young man took second place, losing the Swede Ulrich Salhova. And the Russian skater won the first victory at the international level at a cup dedicated to the tragically deceased athlete Alexander Panshin. At the Olympics of the year, Nikolai Panin performed not only mandatory and arbitrary skiing, but also in the so -called “special figures” of this sport in the modern program.

The main task is to perform a variety of figures on one leg. The rivals of the Russian athlete were nine people, including the Swede Ulrich Salkhov. However, when other skaters saw the drawings of what difficulty Panin declared, many of them withdrew from the competition. Despite the fact that the ill -wishers called the Nikolai Panin program impossible, he performed flawlessly and earned the first “gold” of the Olympics for Russia.

True, the competitions did not do without a scandal: Ulrich Salkhov said that it was impossible to award the first place to the Russian, since there were only three participants, after several athletes, including the Swede himself, took a “self -industry”. Nevertheless, the International Union of Skate residents decided the issue in favor of Nikolai Panin. Nikolai Panin also participated in the Olympic Games of the year, and not only in figure skating here he took second place, but also in shooting from a pistol.

On this career, Panin-Sportsman ended, the career of the coach and teacher began. In particular, already in the Soviet Union, he managed a seminar of figured ski instructors, headed the school of figured skating masters and the higher coaching school of figure skating at the Institute of Physical Culture. During the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Panin, who established himself as an excellent shooter, taught the fighters of partisan detachments.

He wrote several textbooks on the honored master of sports, his methods were used in many sports schools in the country. Nikolai Panin was awarded the title of associate professor and the degree of candidate of pedagogical sciences. Nikolai Panin-Kolomenkin died on January 19 in Leningrad. In the year, his name entered the hall of fame of world figure skating. Persons of the day March 17:-Iren Zholio-Kuri French physicist, Nobel laureate.