A native of Donetsk, Liliya Podkopayeva, was brought up in a female environment - by her mother and grandmother. Despite the absence of men in the house, she grew up purposeful and hardy.
Grade
Profession: gymnast
Date of Birth: August 15, 1978
Height and weight: 162 cm. 48 kg.
Place of Birth: Donetsk, Ukraine
Best works:"Golden Lily"
Awards: World Artistic Gymnastics Champion
Social network: Facebook, Instagram
Lilya began to engage in sports from early childhood, preferring such a form as artistic gymnastics. From the age of five, little Podkopayeva stubbornly walked towards her goal, training daily and three times a day. Thanks to hard work and perseverance, Lilia Podkopayeva has established herself as a very promising athlete.
In 1996, already by that time an honored master of sports, she went from Ukraine to the XXVI Olympic Games in Atlanta, where she managed to win two gold medals at once - in the absolute championship and floor exercises. One of its elements is the "double forward somersault with a 180-degree turn" - until now, none of the athletes can repeat, including men.
A year later, the Ukrainian gymnast won the European Artistic Gymnastics Cup, and a year later she became the European Artistic Gymnastics Champion. She took part in more than one competition and almost always became the winner. In total, Podkopayeva has 45 gold, 21 silver and 14 bronze medals - and this is only at international competitions, not to mention national championships.
In 2001, Lilia Podkopayeva graduated with honors from the Kyiv Institute of Physical Education with a degree in coach-teacher. And a year later, in 2002, she entered the Donetsk State University of Management at the Faculty of Management.
Also, the Olympic champion founded and headed the International Charitable Foundation "Health of Generations". She organized the sports festival "Golden Lily", which takes place annually in Kyiv.
In 2004, Lilia Podkopayeva became the Council of Europe's National Ambassador for Sports, Tolerance and Fair Play. And in 2005, she assumed the obligations of the UN Goodwill Ambassador for AIDS. In 2007, she received the UN award for the fight against HIV and AIDS.
Now the athlete leads a secular lifestyle and is actively involved in charitable activities. She often appears on the pages of fashion magazines and in various television projects. In 2006, Lilia won the Ukrainian version of the Dancing with the Stars project, and two years later, together with Sergey Kostetsky, she represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Dance Contest 2008, where they took third place.
After graduating from her sports career, Lilia organized her own sportswear business in the United States and set about creating a network of gymnastic schools in the Donetsk region.
Personal life
She was married to Donetsk businessman Timofey Nagorny, with whom in 2006 they adopted an 8-month-old orphan named Vadik. At the end of that year, the couple had a daughter, Carolina.
Interesting Facts
In 2006 she won the Ukrainian version of the project "Dancing with the Stars"
Together with Sergey Kostetsky in 2008 she represented Ukraine at the Eurovision Dance Contest 2008, where they took third place
In 2011, she became one of the hosts of the sports and entertainment show "I'm a Hero!"
Her best friend is the singer Ani Lorak, who is also the godmother of her daughter Karolina
In 2005 she became the UN Goodwill Ambassador for AIDS
In 2007, in the national program "Person of the Year" she was recognized as "Woman of the Year"
Olympic champion in gymnastics, head of the Health of Generations Foundation.
Was born in Donetsk. She was raised by her mother and grandmother. In 2001 she graduated with honors from the Kyiv Institute of Physical Education with a degree in coach-teacher. In 2002, she entered the Donetsk State University of Management at the Department of Management.
She started doing gymnastics from early childhood. From the age of five to eight, she conducted three mandatory daily workouts. As a result, thanks to her talent and exceptional diligence, Podkopayeva became the owner of 45 gold, 21 silver and 14 bronze medals only at international competitions, not counting national championships.
1995 - absolute world champion (Japan, Sabae), winner of the European Cup. 1996 - the absolute champion of Europe (Great Britain, Birmingham). 1996 - the absolute champion of the Olympic Games (USA, Atlanta).
Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine (1994). Judge of the international category. She played for the Dynamo sports society.
At the end of her sports career, L. Podkopayeva launched her own business in the United States for the production of sportswear, set about creating a network of gymnastic schools in the Donetsk region. She became the founder and head of the International Charitable Foundation "Health of Generations". She organized the sports festival "Golden Lily", which in 2007 was held in Kyiv for the seventh time.
In 2004 she was National Ambassador to the Council of Europe for Sports, Tolerance and Fair Play. In 2005 - UN Goodwill Ambassador for AIDS. In 2007, she was awarded by the UN for the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Winner in the nomination "Athlete of the Year" (1996). In 2006, she was awarded the title of "Sports Manager of the Year". In 2007, in the national program "Person of the Year" she was recognized as "Woman of the Year". Then she won the popular TV project "Dancing with the Stars - 2" on the channel "1 + 1". In 2008, the name of L. Podkopayeva was immortalized in the World Hall of Fame (USA, Oklahoma City).
Awarded with the Presidential Distinction, the Cross for Courage, the Order of Merit II and III degrees, the Medal for Active Public Work, the Order of the City of Sabae (Japan), certificates of honor from the governments of the United States, Russia, China, Romania, Belarus, Poland , Japan. Cavalry Lady of the Order of St. Stanislaus.
Books have been written about her life and sporting achievements, films have been made in many countries of the world. Poems, songs, paintings and even sculptures are dedicated to her. The author's element of L. Podkopayeva - "double forward somersault with a turn of 180 degrees" - has not yet been repeated in the world. Admiring her talent, skill, diligence and charm, at the suggestion of the Americans, fans in different parts of the world call her Lady Pod.
Astakhova Polina Grigorievna
Soviet gymnast. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1960). Cavalier of the Order of Princess Olga III degree (2002).
She was born on October 30, 1936 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. She was engaged in gymnastics from the age of 13, when, due to being late for the beginning of the school year, she decided to leave school and enter the Donetsk College of Physical Culture and Sports. In 1954, she participated in the USSR championship for the first time. She has been performing at the world level since 1956, when she was the youngest member of the Soviet gymnastic team at the Melbourne Olympics. Astakhova is the owner of 10 Olympic medals, including five gold ones.
In addition, she is the world champion in the team championship (1956, 1962); European champion in floor exercises (1959), uneven bars (1959, 1961), balance beam (1961), silver medalist in all-around (1961), floor exercises (1961). Absolute champion of the USSR (1959). Winner of the USSR Cup in the all-around. Champion of the USSR in exercises on uneven bars, balance beam (1961), in floor exercises, repeated silver medalist in all-around (1965), in exercises on uneven bars, balance beam (1959, 1960), in floor exercises (1961, 1963).
Polina Astakhova on a 1965 USSR stamp.
Astakhova was considered the most graceful gymnast of her time, her nickname in the Western media was "Russian Birch".
After completing her sports career in 1972, Polina Astakhova coached Ukrainian gymnasts.
The president of FC Shakhtar, Rinat Akhmetov, financed her funeral at the Baikove cemetery.
Bubka Sergey Nazarovich
President of the NOC of Ukraine, ex-president of Rodovid Bank. Born in Lugansk. In 1987 he graduated from the Kyiv State Institute of Physical Culture. In 2002 he became a candidate of pedagogical sciences.
S. Bubka is a legendary track and field athlete (pole vault). In 1983 he became an honored master of sports. From 1983 to 1997 six times won the title of world champion. Winner of the World and European Cups (1985), European champion (1986). In 1988 he became the champion of the XXIV Olympic Games in Seoul.
He is a multiple winner of the Grand Prix of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). During his sports career he set 35 world records. In 1984, he set his first world record at a competition in Bratislava, taking a height of 5 m 85 cm. He was the first in the history of athletics to overcome a height of 6 m (July 13, 1985 in Paris).
The famous jumper is the owner of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1988), the Order of Lenin (1989). In 1997, in the rating of the newspaper "Ekip" (France), he was recognized as the "champion of champions". In 2001, S. Bubka was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. In 2003, he became the winner of the nationwide campaign "Stars of Ukraine" and was recognized as a UNESCO champion in sports. Included in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of world achievements in athletics. Three times recognized as the best athlete in the world.
Since 2002, S. Bubka has been the chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In 2007, he was elected Vice President of the International Athletics Federation and First Vice President of the IAAF.
In June 2005, at the XVIII Extraordinary General Assembly of the National Olympic Committee (NOC), he was elected president of the committee. In November 2006, he was re-elected President of the NOC for 2006-2010. On October 7, 2010, he was re-elected until 2014. He was the only candidate in the elections and received the votes of all 107 registered members of the NOC by secret ballot.
The champion is the president and founder of the Sergei Bubka Club. Since 1990, under his leadership, annual international competitions among the strongest athletes in the world in pole vaulting "Pole Stars" have been held.
From 2002 to 2006 he was a People's Deputy of Ukraine. Worked in the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Youth Policy, Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism.
It is not the first year that S. Bubka is not only a famous athlete and sports functionary, but also a businessman. The great jumper was one of the key owners of Rodovid Bank, one of the largest banks in Ukraine (he was also its president). In July 2009, as a result of the financial crisis, Rodovid Bank was nationalized.
According to some experts, S. Bubka, despite the fireworks of world records, did not fully reveal all his capabilities. The champion himself said that he did not want to remain in history the hero of one jump. And the Ukrainian athlete succeeded in full.
Turkevich Mikhail Mikhailovich
Honored Master of Sports of the USSR in mountaineering, master of sports of international class (1982), multiple winner of the championships and championships of the USSR in mountaineering and rock climbing, multiple organizer of expeditions to the Himalayas.
Born in 1954 in with. Utishkovo, Lviv region. Graduated from the Kyiv State Institute of Physical Culture, worked as the chairman of the Donetsk Regional Mountaineering Club "Donbass". He did a lot for the development of mountaineering and rock climbing, worked with young people, initiated the construction of a mountaineering base in the Donetsk region.
He began to go in for mountaineering in 1973. He himself believed that he got into the climbers by chance: they issued a ticket, it turned out - in the a / l "Shkhelda". Since 1979, he has made about 30 ascents on routes of the highest category of difficulty. 1982 - Member of the First Soviet Himalayan Expedition. In conjunction with Bershov, for the first time in the history of conquering Everest, he climbed to the top at night, May 4, 1982. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, awarded the titles of ZMS and MSMK. Repeated champion and prize-winner of the Union championships. He won first places and gold medals in 1984 for climbing Chatyn, in 1986 for climbing Ushba South. 1986 - participated in the first winter ascent of the peak of Communism, which was carried out as a training ascent before leaving for the Himalayas.
Then he participated in the traverse of four eight-thousandth peaks of the array. On April 30 and May 1, in the Bershov group, he successively climbed the Western summit (8505 m), the Main (8586 m), the Middle (8478 m) and the South. 3, for these ascents he was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples. 1990 - again in the Himalayas, this time - deputy leader of the expedition "Lhotse-90", organized by the Trade Union of the USSR. The task of the expedition - climbing the legendary southern face of Lhotse - was carried out by two members of the expedition - Bershov and Karataev. Turkevich, together with G. Kopeyka, climbed up to 8250 m. They were completely aimed at the summit, they did not use oxygen up to 8200 m, they had excellent acclimatization and technical readiness. Having met Bershov and Karataev descending, the deuce immediately began the descent, helping the frostbitten and exhausted comrades.
1992 - led the Ukrainian expedition to Everest along the SW st. We climbed to 8760 m. Brilliant climber, MS in rock climbing - 1976. He was the champion of the USSR in individual climbing and pair races in 1977 and in combinations in 1979.
Repeated winner and champion of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and international climbing competitions. Deputy Chairman of the Donetsk Regional FA and member of the coaching council.
In the last years of his life, becoming the deputy head of the Rescuer Training Center of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, he lived in Moscow. During this period, he wrote the book "Rescue Work" (Publishing House of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia), where there is even a chapter - "First Medical Aid".
On the morning of July 1, 2003 in Sochi, he was taken to intensive care. He was in a coma for two days, and on July 3 he died. His pancreas failed him. His body on a plane on the morning of July 5 was taken by special flight to Moscow. On the same day he was cremated.
Ponomarev Ruslan Olegovich
Ukrainian chess player, FIDE world champion. Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine.
Was born on October 11, 1983 in Gorlovka, Donetsk region. In 2000 he graduated from secondary school No. 26 in Kramatorsk. In 2005 - Faculty of Law of the Donbass Institute of Technology and Law. In 1990 he learned to play chess. 1992 - chess champion of the city of Gorlovka, as well as the Donetsk region (among teenagers under 10 years old). 1993 - chess champion of the Donetsk region (among teenagers under 12).
1994 - champion of Ukraine in chess, as well as 3rd place in the world championship (among teenagers under 12 years old). 1995 - European chess champion (among teenagers under 12 years old). 1996 - Ukrainian chess champion (among boys under 16 years old); European chess champion (among boys under 18); winner of the international chess tournament in Sevastopol, as well as 2nd place in the club championship of Ukraine.
1998 - 1st place in the VI Ukrainian Chess Championship among clubs; 3rd place in the national team of Ukraine at the XXXIII World Olympiad in Elista, Russia; 1st place at the zonal tournament of the World Chess Championship in Donetsk; obtaining the title of international grandmaster, as a result of which he becomes the youngest grandmaster in the world.
2001 - 1st place at the Rector's Cup tournament in Kharkov; 2nd place in the individual European Championship in Macedonia; title - vice-champion of Europe; 1st place in the Ukrainian national team at the 5th World Team Championship in Armenia; title - world champion as part of Ukraine.
2002 - at the age of 18 he becomes the world chess champion according to FIDE. 2004 - Olympic champion in the Ukrainian team at the World Chess Olympiad in Spain.
2005 - won the 16th category tournament in Pamplona (Spain), the Moscow Golden Blitz tournament and the Pivdenniy Bank Efim Geller Memorial international tournament in Odessa. 3rd place at the international super tournament of the XX category in Sofia, as well as 2nd place at the FIDE World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk.
2007 - winner of the rapid chess tournament in Villarobledo (Spain), the tournament in Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), Champion of Ukraine in the Kiev club Keystone (first board), third place in the European Club Championship. He was awarded the Order of Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class (2002) and Order of Merit, 3rd class.
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Solovyanenko Anatoly Borisovich
People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Lenin Prize, People's Artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko Prize, commander of the Italian Republic, holder of orders and medals.
Born on September 25, 1932 in Donetsk, in a hereditary mining family. In 1954, Anatoly Solovyanenko graduated from the Donetsk Polytechnic Institute, and in 1978, already being a People's Artist of the USSR, from the Kiev Conservatory.
Music for Anatoly Borisovich was the constant companion of life with all its joys and sorrows.
From a very early age, Anatoly was in the atmosphere of a song - Russian, Ukrainian. Interest in opera classics came to him later, when he met the famous Ukrainian singer, Honored Artist of the RSFSR A. N. Korobeichenko, who recognized the talent of an opera artist in a young man. Since 1950, Anatoly Solovyanenko took singing lessons from him. Ten years of stubborn joint studies were the prologue to the sensation that A. B. Solovyanenko made in 1962 at a show of folk talents in Kyiv. A very competent jury, which included outstanding Ukrainian singers, listened with amazement to the performance of the young mining engineer. He confidently and professionally performed works belonging to the world tenor repertoire - the aria of Radames from "Aida" by G. Verdi and the arioso Canio from Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci", conquering all those present with his manner of performance and voice, the incomparable lightness of the upper notes. And the invitation of an amateur singer to one of the best opera houses in the country - in 1962 Anatoly Solovyanenko was accepted as an intern at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after T. G. Shevchenko - looked quite natural.
His victory in the competition of young vocalists for the right to train at the Milan theater "La Scala" became quite natural. Since 1963, A. B. Solovyanenko, under the guidance of the famous maestro Barra, learned the school of Italian bel canto. For three years (1963-1965), the maestro developed his taste, improved the culture of performance, revealed the brightness and originality of his voice, which more and more crystallized as a lyrical tenor. And although the roles of Radames and Canio had to be abandoned, the Duke ("Rigoletto" by G. Verdi) and Edgar ("Lucia di Lammermoor" by G. Donizetti) soon became the highlights in the repertoire of the Ukrainian singer. He performed them in Kyiv, and during tours on the stages of other Soviet and foreign theaters. Thus, the listeners of Germany met his Edgar during the tour of the Kiev Opera in Wiesbaden, and the audience of the New York Metropolitan Opera met the Duke. Anatoly Solovyanenko was the first Soviet tenor to receive an invitation to sing in this leading US theater. During the 1977/1978 season, he participated in 12 performances of the Metropolitan Opera, with great success also performing roles in the operas "Der Rosenkavalier" by R. Strauss and "Country Honor" by P. Mascagni.
For 30 years of work as a soloist of the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after T. G. Shevchenko (1965-1995), Anatoly Borisovich Solovyanenko sang 18 parts. The singer's repertoire included many concert programs composed of works by Russian, Ukrainian and foreign authors. He recorded 18 records (arias, romances, songs).
At the Dovzhenko Film Studio, a musical and feature film "Challenge to Fate" was shot with the participation of A. B. Solovyanenko. In 1982, A. K. Tereshchenko's book "A. Solovyanenko" was published, dedicated to the creative and life path of the singer and republished in 1988.
Khaldey Evgeny Ananyevich
Soviet photographer, military photojournalist.
Evgeny Ananyevich Khaldei was born in the village of Yuzovka, now it is the city of Donetsk.
From the age of 13 he worked at a factory and at the same age he took his first picture with a self-made camera. He rented a local church, which was soon destroyed. Perhaps then young Eugene felt the full significance of photography for history.
Soon he bought his first real camera, Fotokor-1, on an installment plan, and soon he was already collaborating with the factory circulation. He also took photographs for wall newspapers.
For several years, Eugene simultaneously gained experience and achieved fame by publishing in various publications and participating in creative competitions. As a result, in 1936 the young photographer moved to Moscow. He traveled a lot around the country on business trips, filmed the leaders of production, as well as the construction of the five-year plan. But then the war began...
Yevgeny Khaldei turned out to be a front-line photojournalist already on June 22 and spent all 1418 days of the war on different fronts, without parting with the faithful Leika. Last but not least, the country judged the war from his photographs, and some of them were presented as evidence to the Nuremberg Tribunal.
And it was he who took one of the most symbolic photographs of that war - the hoisting of the banner over the defeated Reichstag. The photo was replicated in millions of copies, but only relatively recently, Evgeny Khaldei told the true story of this picture.
"The banner of victory over the Reichstag". Legendary photo of Evgeny Khaldei
As it turned out, the photo was still completely staged. Moreover, although Yegorov, Kantaria and Berest actually hoisted the main banner over the Reichstag (there were more than forty of them in all by different units) on May 1, they are not at all in the picture! And the banner in the hands of the soldiers has nothing to do with the 150th Infantry Division - it was made from a tablecloth and brought by Yevgeny Khaldei himself.
On May 2, Yevgeny Khaldei arrived at the Reichstag with his banner and stopped several soldiers, asking them to help. Three of them helped him hoist the banner as high as was possible, given that the building was on fire. It was these soldiers who appeared in the picture - Alexei Kovalev (Ukraine), Abdulkhakim Ismailov (Dagestan) and Leonid Gorichev (Belarus). The photograph itself took on a life of its own - in the press it appeared as a reportage, not a staged one, and its heroes were given other names.
After the war, Yevgeny Khaldei continued to work as a photographer and participate in exhibitions. He was an excellent photojournalist, although the country and the world knew him, first of all, as the author of "that very photograph of the banner over the Reichstag."
In 1995, at the International Festival of Photojournalism, Evgeny Khaldei was awarded perhaps the most honorable award in the world of art - the title "Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature." Two years later, Evgeny Ananievich died.
The future star was born in an ordinary family of workers on August 15, 1978 in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk, where she spent her childhood. Who knows what the fate of the famous athlete would have been if the grandmother of Lilia Podkopayeva had not brought a five-year-old girl to the Dynamo society. It was in this gym that she took her first sports steps. Lily was supported not only by her grandmother, but also by her mother. Her father did not take an active part in the upbringing of the child, since they broke up with their mother when little Lily was barely two years old. Podkopayeva, like many children, studied at an ordinary secondary school No. 3 and lived on the outskirts of the city, not even suspecting that she would someday be the champion of the Olympic Games.
Lilia Podkopayeva
Sport has become an excellent "school of life" for a gymnastics star since childhood. Evelina Mikhailovna (grandmother of Lilia Podkopayeva) constantly convinced her granddaughter that her sports activities were not at all jokes and not at all another "circle" after school. The girl herself liked to disappear for hours in the gym, but she was skeptical about her abilities. According to Lily, she was never flexible and plastic, but she fell in love with gymnastics from the first workout. The coaches saw in her not just potential, but real talent. The secret of her success lies in diligence, perseverance, hard work and faith of loved ones. She always loved to be in the center of attention, she was a very active child, she knew how to set goals and achieve them, no matter what, because it’s not in vain that Lily’s zodiac sign is Leo. Gymnastics and masculine character traits helped her on the way to victories. Unlike other girls, she climbed trees, rode bicycles with boys and climbed onto rooftops. In one of the interviews there is a description of a funny incident when Lilia ran away from kindergarten.
It is worth noting that all the successes and any progress in the craft never came easily to her, each new step was given, as they say, "with blood and sweat." At the training camp, training sessions lasted eight hours, and instead of holidays, while ordinary children frolicked, Lilia followed a strict regimen. The rise was at five in the morning, and after half an hour the training began, which lasted until eight in the evening. Plus, it was necessary to prepare lessons, like all her peers.
The first sporting achievements of the Ukrainian gymnast
In 1993, the girl enters international competitions for the first time. Two years later, in 1995, she takes the European Cup, now her world championship. Before the World Cup, the young athlete almost leaves the sport. A nervous breakdown caused by strong tension led to the fact that Podkopayeva lost her fighting spirit. She told the coaches that she could no longer and did not want to fight, and made a choice in favor of a normal life. As a result, she was given two days off and the athlete got a second wind. Then in Japan, she still won, despite fatigue and moral breakdown. Ahead of her is one of the main events in the life of every athlete - participation in the Olympic Games. In 1996, the European Championship was already behind her, but just a few weeks before the main event in the life of every athlete, namely the Olympics, the girl was overtaken by a new test. She falls and breaks two ribs. It was a difficult period: treatment, special nutrition and daily workouts three times a day. Incredibly, a month later she performs in Israel and takes gold.
Lilia Podkopayeva at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
However, the series of failures does not end there and Lilia has a great personal grief - her beloved grandmother dies. Thanks to which the girl reached the heights, continuing to fight for the title of "best" in gymnastics every new day. Gathering all her will into a fist, despite the pain and oppressed morale, she did not let down either the country, or her coaches, or her family, or her late grandmother's faith in her granddaughter's talent. Then in Atlanta at the XXVI Olympic Games, Lilia takes two gold medals. One for floor exercises, and the second in the absolute championship. At the same time, she sets a record that no one has been able to repeat until today - Lilya does a double forward somersault with a 180 ° turn. A year later, after the competition in Atlanta, the girl was forced to undergo surgery. She did not succeed in returning to the sport with all her desire. A sports career had to be replaced by coaching in the United States, where Podkopayeva now lives.
Lilia Podkopayeva
Family, husbands and personal life of the Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine
For seven years, the Olympic winner lived with a businessman from Donetsk, Timofey Nagorny. Subsequently, he became her first husband. A high-profile wedding was played in December 2014, where there were all the possible "cream" of society, and two years later the couple took their adopted son Vadim from the orphanage, who at that time was eight months old. By the end of the year, Lilia gave birth to a daughter, naming her in honor of her best friend and godmother Karolina (real name Ani Lorak). The couple's happiness did not last long, the couple's legal marriage lasted only four years. In 2009, the former spouses broke up with scandals and quarrels. Mutual claims, Lilia's accusations that she interferes with her father's meetings with the children, a dossier on each and dozens of mentions of their names in the yellow press. Over time, they managed to find a compromise, and the ex-lovers made every effort to build a normal relationship. Timofey still takes part in education today, including helping children financially.
Lilia Podkopayeva and Timofey Nagorny with children
The second official spouse of the gymnast was the capital businessman and restaurateur Viktor Kostyrko. Lilia met him in 2009, and all because he was her partner in the Health of Generations charity foundation. An office romance arose after friendly relations, but the champion hid them from everyone for a long time, because she was difficult to experience the topic of divorce from her first husband and did not want the hype around her name. Without frills and a magnificent wedding in 2012, she signed with Victor. It is known that before marriage with Lilia, Victor was married three times. His third wife died, leaving an 11-year-old son. Only the closest relatives and children were at the wedding, and Lilia Podkopayeva and Viktor Kostyrko began to raise children together.
Podkopayeva Liliya is the absolute champion of Ukraine in artistic gymnastics. The talented athlete became an Honored Master of Sports at the age of sixteen, and throughout her career, Podkopayeva earned 14 bronze, 21 silver and 45 gold medals in various championships, including international competitions. At the age of seventeen, the girl becomes the world champion and in the same year receives the European Cup. After completing her sports career, Podkopayeva did not disappear from sight: she participates in various television projects, does charity work, and attends social events.
The artistic gymnast was born in Donetsk, in August 1978. There were no men in the family of the young champion, but Lily's mother and grandmother gave the girl everything they could - not only a good upbringing, but also care. Lilya was very small and thin, so her mother decided that the girl would like to do gymnastics. The coaches immediately drew attention to Podkopayeva and worked with her according to an individual program for several hours every day. Lilia did not miss a single workout, and became a master of sports at a very young age. At international competitions, the gymnast performed from adolescence, and at the age of 18 she took part in the Olympic Games. In Atlanta, she became an absolute triumph, having received two golds at once in floor exercises and in the absolute championship. Podkopayeva is the record holder and the only athlete (even men could not “get around” her) who performed a double somersault with a 180-degree flip.
Lily has been married once. Together with her husband Timofey Nagorny, a well-known businessman from Donetsk, Podkopayeva decided to adopt a little boy. A few months after Vadim found new parents, his own daughter was born in the family. Carolina was born in 2006. Lilia chose the name for the girl not by chance: she is her best friend and godmother to her daughter. When Podkopayeva finished doing gymnastics, she began to develop sections for this sport in her hometown and opened a production of sports uniforms abroad.
The gymnast has been active in the community for many years and is a Goodwill Ambassador for AIDS and a European Ambassador for Fair Play and Sports. Eight years ago, Lilia received an award for her active fight against AIDS. Every year in the capital of Ukraine there is a sports festival "Golden Lily", the organizer and creator of which is Podkopayeva. After the end of her sports career, Lilya received a good education. She studied at the Faculty of Management at the University of Management in Donetsk, and also received the specialty of a trainer-teacher at the Physical Education Institute in Kyiv.
Currently, Podkopayeva can often be found at social events. The girl is also a frequent guest on television. In 2008, she participated in the Eurovision Dance Contest, where she became the third, performing with Sergey Kostetsky. Two years earlier, Podkopayeva won the Dancing with the Stars project. Lilia is very fond of photographers and editors of glossy publications. Photo shoots with a slender athlete can be seen in many popular magazines.
A few months ago, Podkopayeva finally told reporters about her divorce from Timofey Nagorny. According to Lilia, she was not going to file for divorce - her husband did. Moreover, Timothy informed Lilia about his desire in a letter! At that moment, the couple were at home, and Lilia saw a message from her husband in her email. Nagorny never dared to talk to his wife about the reasons for the divorce. Podkopayeva did everything in her power - she persuaded Nagorny to leave for a while to think everything over, but the businessman was adamant. The gymnast was very upset by the breakup, and found the strength to talk about it only five years later.
Lilia recently revealed in an interview that she has a soft spot for expensive accessories. In her wardrobe there are several dozen different stoles, shawls and scarves. According to the athlete, such unpretentious wardrobe items can be used to create unique and elegant looks. Podkopayeva never passes by departments with handmade scarves and admits that she tries to buy the brightest and most unusual models.
In January of this year, Lilia was vacationing in the Caribbean. After a trip to an exotic resort, the athlete posted several pictures on the Internet. Users immediately noted that at the age of 36, Podkopayeva remains slim and fit. Lily doesn't need photoshop to remove figure flaws, because they simply don't exist. Despite the fact that the gymnast ended her career in sports a long time ago, she continues to devote a lot of time to training.
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Lilia Podkopayeva, whose biography is described in the article, is a woman whose name has gone down in history. More than one generation will be proud of the victories of the athlete. The ingenious tricks of the gymnast will not soon be repeated by her followers.
Childhood
Podkopayeva Lilia Alexandrovna was born (biography is given below) on August 15, 1978 in the city of Donetsk in Ukraine (then still the Ukrainian SSR). Her family was not rich. The future Olympian was raised by her mother and grandmother, since her father abandoned them, as soon as little Lily had time to be born. From childhood, the future gymnast was very restless, the energy in the little girl was in full swing. As Lilia herself later said: “My mother didn’t know what to do with me, all the time I ran away from kindergarten, raced on a bicycle, I had to be taken off the tops of trees every now and then, I ran all the time on the roofs, played with the boys in pursuit and could not sit in one place for a second.
After conferring, the Podkopayeva family decided that it was impossible to waste such a charge of energy. Therefore, they decided to send the girl to the sports section. In 1983, when little Lilya was already five years old, her grandmother Evelina Mikhailovna took her granddaughter to the Dynamo sports club to the gym. It was from that day that the sports life and biography of Lilia Podkopayeva began. “When I first entered the hall, I felt that it would become an integral part of me,” recalls Lilia herself. “We came to work for the result,” the grandmother of the future champion addressed the coach with these words. Hearing these words, the little girl took them to heart and promised herself not to betray the hope and faith of her relatives in her in any case.
Workout and sports
Lilia Podkopayeva, whose biography is of great interest to her fans, is Leo by the sign of the zodiac. A distinctive feature of Lviv is the desire to be the first, the desire to win everyone, to prove to everyone that they are the best, to occupy a pedestal in life. It was these qualities that Lilia Podkopayeva possessed from early childhood, her biography confirms this. She always gathered her will into a fist and strove for her goal.
Although the little five-year-old girl who came to her first gymnastics training did not surprise the coaches with her talent, she soon impressed everyone with her diligence and perseverance. After a very short time, sport became one of the main components of the life of a gymnast.
Everyone knows that the life of athletes is incredibly difficult, and the biography of Lilia Podkopayeva was no exception. Every day, the girl was forced to wake up at five in the morning, rush to get ready and run to the morning workout, then have breakfast on the go and run to school. After school, the girl had lunch in the school cafeteria and ran to the evening workout. Home, tired and exhausted, she returned only at nine in the evening, and yet she still had to do school homework. Late in the evening, Lilia went to bed, and from early morning everything was running in circles again. Many of the then environment of the teenager were surprised: “How has she still not fallen exhausted from such loads, where does she have so much endurance and perseverance?”
Later, the gymnast admits that she herself does not know how she managed to combine so many things, but perseverance and hard work invariably led her to success. Lilia Podkopayeva worked at the Olympic base, which was not only very honorable for any athlete, but also very difficult. Only on New Year's Eve the athletes were allowed to rest. They were allowed to go home for a week and spend time with their families. But it was the only weekend of the year.
The rest of the time Podkopayeva trained. Training lasted 8 hours a day, but the future champion, gritting her teeth, went to her goal. At a time when her peers began the time for summer holidays and carefree rest, the young athlete left for a sports base in the cultural capital. She was very fond of the St. Petersburg training camp. During this period, the girl had a birthday. The coaches took the group to the museums of the city, walked and admired the beautiful architecture of St. Petersburg.
Debut
She made her debut on the big sports arena in 1993, Liliya Podkopayeva. Her biography was replenished with a new significant event. These were international competitions in artistic gymnastics. There, for the first time, great horizons opened up for her, for the first time she spoke to a large audience and proudly, with dignity, presented herself at these competitions. What else will the brief biography of Lilia Podkopayeva tell about? Interesting facts from her life are described below.
Achievements and awards
In 1995, Lilia Podkopayeva became the owner of the European Cup and won the title of absolute world champion in artistic gymnastics.
In 1996, this Ukrainian gymnast won gold at the European Championships.
After all these accomplishments and victories, Lilia set herself the next goal - the Olympic Games. The goal of the young athlete was supported by her coaches: Lilia Pugacheva, Galina Losinskaya, Oleg Ostapenko and Svetlana Dubova. It was a very serious step. After all, Lilia had to represent on the world stage not only herself, but also her country. The gymnast went to this great achievement for 13 years through hard training, hard work on herself and huge moral and physical costs.
The XXVI Olympic Games were to be held in Atlanta, USA. For the young athlete, this was the most important achievement in life. But a month before leaving for Atlanta, Lilia Podkopayeva's grandmother died. It was Evelina Mikhailovna who brought a five-year-old girl into big-time sports 13 years ago, it was she who believed in Lily the most and supported her throughout the journey, and it was she who, no less than the athlete herself, was waiting for her granddaughter to go to the Olympic Games. Despite the family tragedy, Podkopayeva did not give up, she nevertheless went to the USA. In the Georgia Dome hall, where the competitions were held, the young Olympian was greeted with a standing ovation by 45 thousand spectators, among whom was the President of the United States with his family.
At the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Lilia Podkopayeva won two gold medals. The exercise "double front somersault with a 180 ° turn" is Lilia Podkopayeva's signature exercise. Until now, not a single athlete in the world can repeat it! Standing on a pedestal, the gymnast thanked her late grandmother for her success, hoping that she saw her triumph from heaven.
Life after sport
What does Lilia Podkopayeva do after leaving the sport? Biography, the personal life of a famous athlete is of interest to many. It is known that she began to work as a coach. She teaches children gymnastics in different countries of the world. Among her students were Antonio Banderas. She brings up in children not only sports skills, but also willpower and spirit.
Lilia launched her sportswear brand in America. She was recognized as "Woman of the Year". The gymnast also takes an active part in the fight against AIDS and has become
On television
Lilia Podkopayeva starred in the entertainment television series Lesya + Roma. Played herself in the movie Hold Me Tight.
Personal life
She was married to businessman Timofey Nagorny. Lilia Podkopayeva has two children. Adopted son Vadim Nagorny and daughter Karolina Nagornaya. Ani Lorak became the godmother of little Carolina, as they have been friends with the gymnast for a long time. from the age of 3 they began to do gymnastics, in addition to this, they study foreign languages and go in for dancing.
That's who Lilia Podkopayeva is. A short biography, family, sporting achievements - all this is written in the article.