World champion Dmitry Koltakov: “The Russian spirit and hardening help me win. Interview with Dmitry Koltakov Your son is going to be operated on

Dmitry Koltakov was born on August 18, 1976. At the age of 9, he was accepted into the Joy music studio, where he studied guitar for five years with V.V. Revin.

“...D I think that Viktor Vyacheslavovich Revin
influenced me in a way that is still felt to this day. Except the first
guitar skills he instilled in me the most important thing -
instrumental love...

From 1991 to 1995 he studied at the Sumy School of Culture, guitar class under GV Tolkachev.
"...IN I was not an excellent student at school. By the end of the ninth grade, I had no idea what to do next. My parents advised me to enter the school of culture, especially since I played the guitar ... "

"...G Ennady Vladimirovich Tolkachev
completely opened the world of classical guitar for me. Great guitarist and great person...

After graduating from college, he was accepted into the ranks of the armed forces in a military band.

"...N and military service
I got the orchestra by accident, without connections and money. I can’t say that I was happy with my stay in this institution, but during my service I began to play the guitar better. Yes, and experience in a professional orchestra has benefited. By the way, it was in the army that I prepared a program for entering an educational institution, then I didn’t know which one ... "

From 1997 to 2001 he studied at the State Musical College. Gnesins at A.V. Bardina.

“... I auditioned with a sufficient number of teachers in different cities of the country (Kyiv, Kharkov, Lvov, etc.). And I thought: "To Moscow would be ...". In Moscow, he appeared to Dmitrieva, Komoliatov, Fetisov, Laricheva and others. But the meeting with Anastasia Bardina determined everything at once. A charming person with a wonderful sense of humor, with charisma, an excellent professional, a brilliant teacher, a unique musician and just a good person. Bardina teaches not only notes, but also behavior on stage, the condition of a musician in different situations, energy, mood, style, etc. In 2001 we tried to play as a duet. Happened..."

We will start the story about the Kurgan speedway player from 2017. It was in this year that he became the absolute champion. The beginning of the World Series season was immediately set - the first start in Tolyatti - and immediately a gold medal. This was followed immediately by five silver medals at the World Cup, two golds in Berlin, one in Heerenveen. Before the last stage in the same Dutch Heerenveen, Koltakov is confidently the first, but this is not yet a victory. And here they are - there is still half of the race ahead, and Russian fans are stretching a huge banner "Dmitry Koltakov - World Champion 2017" in the stands.

- I did not expect this. It was as if they already knew that I would be the champion when I became the world champion ahead of schedule after the fourth series, half the race was still ahead. I finish and I see the fans standing on the podium, I raise my hand to thank them and watch the banner unwound from the floor of the podium that Dmitry Koltakov is the world champion in 2017. It’s simply inexpressible,” Dmitry shared.

It was then that our hero realized that he had done the impossible - he won all the gold awards of this season.

- It felt so good in my soul, there are no words. When the championship ended, I just exhaled, so much work was invested in this season, - said Koltakov.

- It is very pleasant that worthy athletes compete for the Kurgan region, even if, at the moment, they have moved to other regions. Anyway, these are our people. They were born and raised here. We put our soul into them, and our coaches have worked with them for many years. You feel a sense of pride, dignity and moral satisfaction when you see that our guys are rising to the podium, especially to the highest level, - said Sergey Chugunov, Deputy Head of the Office for Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Kurgan Region.

Our motorcycle racer does not forget about his team, admitting that none of this would have happened without their participation:

- My team is the strongest, my mechanic makes the strongest motors. I am grateful that I work with such people who help me in everything: both with the preparation of equipment and with the premises. I want to say a huge thank you to Ber Valery Stanislavovich and Artem Valeryevich for helping me with the premises.

For many years, Russian speedway riders have been trendsetters in motorcycle racing on ice, year after year rising to the highest step of the podium of the most prestigious world competitions, but few people know how hard it all comes. Foreigners have an advantage in terms of preparing equipment - they have the opportunity to prepare a motorcycle with better quality and for less money. The Russians have their advantages.

- We have natural ice in Russia, it's easier to fill it up and practice, the same rivers, swamps for training. This is not the case abroad, and artificial ice is very expensive, says Dmitry Koltakov.

- Sports, ice speedway, is very developed on the territory of the Kurgan region. We have stable high performance, high results. Well, the number of spectators that comes to the stadium during the competition, despite the bad weather, the stadium is always full. This species is in great demand, it is very spectacular, - said Sergey Chugunov, Deputy Head of the Office for Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Kurgan Region.

But what happens in the head of a motorcycle racer during races? What do you need to think about in order for everything to turn out the way it should?

- I try not to think about motorcycle races before the races, I remember something pleasant, something vital, about relatives, I keep something in my head. But when I sit on a motorcycle, you become one with the motorcycle, merge with the technique. And already during the ride, when you start, you forget about everything, - said the six-time world champion in motorcycle racing on ice Dmitry Koltakov.

Dmitry admits that during the race there is simply no time to think about something. The racer thinks about what trajectory to take, what tactics to choose - he reads the track completely, gives himself to him with his head.

- Four laps in the race are held in one breath. You hold your breath before the start, at the finish you exhale. I don’t even think about winning, about prizes. There is no such habit of thinking what will be there, what prize. There is a goal, I try to go to it, only straight ahead, to the finish line, - said Koltakov.

But, at the same time, it is impossible for a professional athlete not to think about this. All athletes are superstitious: someone talks to their equipment, someone puts a coin in their shoes. Dmitry Koltakov is no exception:

- I'm not that superstitious. But of course I have my keepers. I don't show them. They are always present with me at competitions. Someone there does not take pictures, does not give autographs before the race, they believe in some signs - I do not believe in this. We must believe in ourselves, in our strength, only in this.

In motocross, Dmitry Koltakov was brought by his father, by the way, a professional race car driver. He showed little Dima a motorcycle, and he immediately fell in love with this business. Dad had to sell his personal car to buy his son a motorcycle. To this day, Koltakov is in love with motorsport, with his garage.

- Every day I come to the motorcycle club. Anyway, I find work here: tweak something, do something. I live this all my life, - said our champion.

Of course, it also happened that Dmitry wanted to quit motorcycle racing, forget it all, when nothing worked out, when there were some financial difficulties. But he overcame himself, went to the track and won again:

“Today I am the happiest person in the world. I am the world champion. Three gold medals this season - not everyone can achieve such a result. I managed to do it. My family is next to me, my girlfriend is next to me, she supports me. Always waiting at home, and I'm very grateful... to everyone.

- I did not expect this. It was as if they already knew that I would be the champion when I became the world champion ahead of schedule after the fourth series, half the race was still ahead. I finish and I see the fans standing on the podium, I raise my hand to thank them and watch the banner unwound from the floor of the podium that Dmitry Koltakov is the world champion in 2017. It’s simply inexpressible,” Dmitry shared.

It was then that our hero realized that he had done the impossible - he won all the gold awards of this season.

- It felt so good in my soul, there are no words. When the championship ended, I just exhaled, so much work was invested in this season, - said Koltakov.

- It is very pleasant that worthy athletes compete for the Kurgan region, even if, at the moment, they have moved to other regions. Anyway, these are our people. They were born and raised here. We put our soul into them, and our coaches have worked with them for many years. You feel a sense of pride, dignity and moral satisfaction when you see that our guys are rising to the podium, especially to the highest level, - said Sergey Chugunov, Deputy Head of the Office for Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Kurgan Region.

Our motorcycle racer does not forget about his team, admitting that none of this would have happened without their participation:

- My team is the strongest, my mechanic makes the strongest motors. I am grateful that I work with such people who help me in everything: both with the preparation of equipment and with the premises. I want to say a huge thank you to Ber Valery Stanislavovich and Artem Valeryevich for helping me with the premises.

- We have natural ice in Russia, it's easier to fill it up and practice, the same rivers, swamps for training. This is not the case abroad, and artificial ice is very expensive, says Dmitry Koltakov.

- Sports, ice speedway, is very developed on the territory of the Kurgan region. We have stable high performance, high results. Well, the number of spectators that comes to the stadium during the competition, despite the bad weather, the stadium is always full. This species is in great demand, it is very spectacular, - said Sergey Chugunov, Deputy Head of the Office for Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Kurgan Region.

But what happens in the head of a motorcycle racer during races? What do you need to think about in order for everything to turn out the way it should?

- I try not to think about motorcycle races before the races, I remember something pleasant, something vital, about relatives, I keep something in my head. But when I sit on a motorcycle, you become one with the motorcycle, merge with the technique. And already during the ride, when you start, you forget about everything, - said the six-time world champion in motorcycle racing on ice Dmitry Koltakov.

- Four laps in the race are held in one breath. You hold your breath before the start, at the finish you exhale. I don’t even think about winning, about prizes. There is no such habit of thinking what will be there, what prize. There is a goal, I try to go to it, only straight ahead, to the finish line, - said Koltakov.

- I'm not that superstitious. But of course I have my keepers. I don't show them. They are always present with me at competitions. Someone there does not take pictures, does not give autographs before the race, they believe in some signs - I do not believe in this. We must believe in ourselves, in our strength, only in this.

- Every day I come to the motorcycle club. Anyway, I find work here: tweak something, do something. I live this all my life, - said our champion.

“Today I am the happiest person in the world. I am the world champion. Three gold medals this season - not everyone can achieve such a result. I managed to do it. My family is next to me, my girlfriend is next to me, she supports me. Always waiting at home, and I'm very grateful... to everyone.

Bashkortostan
CSKA 2008/09-2009/10
2010/2011-2014/15
2015/16 Personal victories

Champion of Russia (juniors)
Cup of Russia
World Championship

2011
2011
2015

Team wins

Champion of Russia (juniors)
Champion of Russia
World champion

2010
2014, 2015
2013, 2014, 2016

Awards and titles

Dmitry Sergeevich Koltakov(born December 6, Kurgan, USSR) is a Russian racer who competes in motorcycle racing on ice. Master of Sports of Russia of international class. World champion in the individual event, three-time world champion in the team event, two-time Russian champion in the team event. The team of CSKA (Moscow) performs.

Biography

Dmitry Sergeevich Koltakov was born on December 6, 1990 in the city of Kurgan, Kurgan Region.

Together with his older brothers Sergey (born July 26, 1987) and Maxim (born July 21, 1989), Dmitry Koltakov has been involved in motocross since the age of 10, later the brothers switched to ice racing, training in the city of Shadrinsk, Kurgan Region. Already at the age of 15, in 2006, he performed in the semifinals of the Personal Championship of Russia among juniors.

In the 2007/2008 season, he became the bronze medalist of the Russian Team Championship among juniors, from the 2008/2009 season he began to play in the adult championship of Russia for the Torpedo-SHAAZ team in Shadrinsk, twice (2009 and 2010) the silver of the Major League (2nd division of the Czech Republic).

In 2009 he graduated from school number 40 in the city of Kurgan and entered the Kurgan Technological College named after N. Ya. Anfinogenov, from which he graduated in 2012.

Before the 2010/2011 season, a promising racer was invited to the Ufa club "Bashkortostan", where the multiple world champion Nikolai Krasnikov began to develop the athlete. In the same year, Dmitry Koltakov won the personal junior championship of the country.

The following season in 2012, Koltakov became the winner of the personal championship of Russia for the first time and made his debut at the World Championship, finishing 4th in the final classification. In the 2013 and 2014 seasons became the second, second only to Daniil Ivanov, but in 2015 he took revenge, becoming the world champion.

By order of the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation No. 32-ng dated October 30, 2012, he was awarded the sports title "Master of Sports of Russia" (Motorcycle sport) .

By order of the Ministry of Sports, Tourism and Youth Policy of the Russian Federation No. 49-ng dated November 28, 2012, Dmitry Sergeevich Koltakov (motorcycle sport) was awarded the sports title "International Master of Sports of Russia". Koltakov played for the G. Kadyrov Technical Sports Center (Republic of Bashkortostan).

In addition, in 2013, 2014 and 2016 as part of the Russian national team, he won the World Team Championship, and in 2014 and 2015. - Championship of Russia in the "Bashkortostan".

Since 2013, Dmitry Koltakov has been a student (branch) of the Ural State University of Physical Education.

Before the 2015/16 season, he moved to the newly created team CSKA (Moscow). In the 2016 season, he lost the world title to Dmitry Khomitsevich.

World Series Grand Prix

Season	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Place	Glasses
2012	Krasnogorsk 15	Krasnogorsk 12	Ufa 15	Ufa 14	Assen 15	Assen 11	Uppsala 12	Uppsala 14			4	108
2013	Krasnogorsk 18	Krasnogorsk 17	Tolyatti 19	Tolyatti 20	Assen 21	Assen 20	inzell 15	incel 16	Uppsala 15	Uppsala 17	2	178
2014	Krasnogorsk 18	Krasnogorsk 16	Blagoveshchensk 18	Blagoveshchensk 16	Assen 17	Assen 20	inzell 19	incel 16			2	140
2015	Krasnogorsk 15	Krasnogorsk 20	Tolyatti 17	Tolyatti 16	Alma-Ata 18	Alma-Ata 14	Assen 21	Assen 20	inzell 20	inzell 19	1	180
2016	Krasnogorsk 18	Krasnogorsk 19	Alma-Ata 16	Alma-Ata 16	Berlin 17	Berlin 14	Assen 18	Assen 20	inzell 17	inzell 18	2	173

Achievements in Russia

Junior competitions

in the individual event - 1st place (2011), 2nd place (2009), 3rd place (2010) in the team event - 3rd place (2008), 1st place (2010)

Senior competition

Russian Ice Racing Championship:

in the individual event - 2nd place (2014, 2016), 3rd place (2013) in the team event - 1st place (2014, 2015), 2nd place (2011, 2012, 2013, 2016)

Cup of Russia - 1st place (2011)

Achievements in international competitions

Champions League - 6th place (2009), 5th place (2010) Champions League - 6th place (2011) Champions League - 2nd place (2013, 2014, 2016), 1st place (2015) KChM - 1st place (2013, 2014, 2016)

Other competitions

Rolof Theis Cup (Assen) - 1st (2011)

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There was a struggle and Sonya's dissatisfied voice: "After all, the second hour."
Oh, you're just ruining everything for me. Well, go, go.
Everything fell silent again, but Prince Andrei knew that she was still sitting there, he sometimes heard a quiet stir, sometimes sighs.
- Oh my god! My God! what is it! she suddenly cried out. - Sleep like sleep! and slammed the window.
“And it doesn’t matter to my existence!” thought Prince Andrei while he listened to her conversation, for some reason waiting and fearing that she would say something about him. “And she again! And how on purpose! he thought. Such an unexpected confusion of young thoughts and hopes, which contradicted his whole life, suddenly arose in his soul, that he, feeling unable to understand his state of mind, immediately fell asleep.

The next day, having said goodbye to only one count, without waiting for the ladies to leave, Prince Andrei went home.
It was already the beginning of June, when Prince Andrei, returning home, drove again into that birch grove in which this old, gnarled oak struck him so strangely and memorable. The bells rang even more muffled in the forest than a month and a half ago; everything was full, shady and thick; and young spruce trees scattered throughout the forest did not disturb the general beauty and, imitation of the general character, tenderly turned green with fluffy young shoots.
The whole day was hot, somewhere a thunderstorm was gathering, but only a small cloud splashed on the dust of the road and on the succulent leaves. The left side of the forest was dark, in shadow; the right one, wet and glossy, shone in the sun, slightly swaying in the wind. Everything was in bloom; the nightingales chirped and rolled now close, now far away.
“Yes, here, in this forest, there was this oak, with which we agreed,” thought Prince Andrei. “Yes, where is he,” thought Prince Andrei again, looking at the left side of the road and without knowing it, not recognizing him, admired the oak he was looking for. The old oak, all transformed, spread out like a tent of juicy, dark greenery, was thrilled, slightly swaying in the rays of the evening sun. No clumsy fingers, no sores, no old mistrust and grief - nothing was visible. Juicy, young leaves broke through the tough, hundred-year-old bark without knots, so that it was impossible to believe that this old man had produced them. “Yes, this is the same oak tree,” thought Prince Andrei, and a causeless, spring feeling of joy and renewal suddenly came over him. All the best moments of his life were suddenly remembered to him at the same time. And Austerlitz with a high sky, and the dead, reproachful face of his wife, and Pierre on the ferry, and the girl, excited by the beauty of the night, and this night, and the moon - and all this suddenly came to his mind.
“No, life is not over at the age of 31, suddenly, Prince Andrei decided completely, without change. Not only do I know everything that is in me, it is necessary that everyone knows this: both Pierre and this girl who wanted to fly into the sky, it is necessary that everyone knows me, so that my life goes not for me alone so that they do not live so independently of my life, so that it is reflected on everyone and that they all live with me together!

Returning from his trip, Prince Andrei decided to go to Petersburg in the fall and came up with various reasons for this decision. A whole series of reasonable, logical arguments why he needed to go to Petersburg and even serve, was every minute ready for his services. Even now he did not understand how he could ever doubt the need to take an active part in life, just as a month ago he did not understand how the idea of leaving the village could come to him. It seemed clear to him that all his experiences in life must have been lost in vain and be nonsense if he had not put them to work and had not again taken an active part in life. He did not even understand how, on the basis of the same poor rational arguments, it had previously been obvious that he would be humiliated if now, after his lessons in life, he would again believe in the possibility of being useful and in the possibility of happiness and love. Now my mind was telling me something else. After this trip, Prince Andrei began to get bored in the countryside, his previous activities did not interest him, and often, sitting alone in his office, he got up, went to the mirror and looked at his face for a long time. Then he turned away and looked at the portrait of the deceased Lisa, who, with curls a la grecque [in Greek] fluffed up, tenderly and cheerfully looked at him from a golden frame. She no longer spoke the former terrible words to her husband, she simply and cheerfully looked at him with curiosity. And Prince Andrei, with his hands folded back, paced the room for a long time, now frowning, now smiling, rethinking those unreasonable, inexpressible in words, secret as a crime thoughts connected with Pierre, with fame, with the girl at the window, with the oak, with female beauty and love that changed his whole life. And at those moments when someone came to him, he was especially dry, sternly resolute, and especially unpleasantly logical.
- Mon cher, [My dear,] - Princess Mary used to say entering at such a moment, - Nikolushka cannot go for a walk today: it is very cold.
- If it were warm, - at such moments, Prince Andrei answered his sister especially dryly, - then he would go in one shirt, and since it is cold, you need to put on warm clothes, which are invented for this. That’s what follows from the fact that it’s cold, and not just to stay at home when the child needs air, ”he said with special logic, as if punishing someone for all this secret, illogical inner work that took place in him. Princess Marya thought in these cases about how this mental work dries men.

Prince Andrei arrived in St. Petersburg in August 1809. It was the time of the apogee of the glory of the young Speransky and the energy of the coups he carried out. In this very August, the sovereign, riding in a carriage, was thrown out, injured his leg, and remained in Peterhof for three weeks, seeing Speransky daily and exclusively. At that time, not only two decrees, so famous and alarming to society, were being prepared on the destruction of court ranks and on exams for the ranks of collegiate assessors and state councilors, but also a whole state constitution, which was supposed to change the existing judicial, administrative and financial order of Russian government from the state council to the volost board. Now those vague, liberal dreams with which Emperor Alexander came to the throne, and which he sought to realize with the help of his assistants Czartoryzhsky, Novosiltsev, Kochubey and Strogonov, whom he himself jokingly called comite du salut publique, were now realized and embodied. [committee of public safety.]
Now Speransky for the civilian part and Arakcheev for the military have replaced everyone together. Prince Andrei, soon after his arrival, as a chamberlain, appeared at the court and went out. The sovereign twice, having met him, did not honor him with a single word. It always seemed to Prince Andrei even before that he was antipathetic to the sovereign, that his face and his whole being were unpleasant to the sovereign. In the dry, distant look with which the sovereign looked at him, Prince Andrei found confirmation of this assumption even more than before. The courtiers explained to Prince Andrei the inattention of the sovereign to him by the fact that His Majesty was dissatisfied with the fact that Bolkonsky had not served since 1805.
“I myself know how powerless we are in our likes and dislikes,” thought Prince Andrei, and therefore there is nothing to think about personally presenting my note on the military regulations to the sovereign, but the matter will speak for itself. He passed on his note to the old field marshal, a friend of his father. The field marshal, appointing him an hour, kindly received him and promised to report to the sovereign. A few days later it was announced to Prince Andrei that he had to appear before the Minister of War, Count Arakcheev.

Sport

Contrary to the doctors' forecasts, thanks to the character and in the name of a dream... Motorcycle racer Dmitry Koltakov won the gold of the personal ice speedway world championship for the first time. The day before, he returned home. Our correspondent Yevgeny Ivanov met with him.

Here it is - the victorious finish on the German track, which brought Dmitry Koltakov the First personal gold of the World Championship ...

- I succeeded - thanks to my team ... We fought with all our might - we proved that we were the first this season, and I managed to achieve ...

This season for the Ufa graduate of the Zaural ice speedway is without a doubt the most successful in his sports career. However, it didn't start well. At the finals of the national championship, he seriously injured his knee.

DMITRY KOLTAKOV, WINNER OF THE INDIVIDUAL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN MOTOR RACING ON ICE (KURGAN):

- The doctors said that everything - you can forget for this season, you will miss it. But I say - I can’t do it, I need to go to the World Championships, I have a World Championship starting in a month ...

With an unhealed injury, the Kurgan ace successfully started at the first finals of the personal world championship in Krasnogorsk and Togliatti, and also helped the Ufa team win the national team championship. In the Kazakh and Dutch finals of the world championship, he won gold for the first time. And now - a triumphant finish in the German Inzell, which took the final, ninth and tenth finals. Already on the first day, Dmitry Koltakov secured the title of the strongest on the planet, and on the second day he confirmed it, ahead of the silver medalist Daniil Ivanov by 27 points! According to the champion, this is the overall success of the entire team represented by the driver and mechanics - Marat Ganeev and Sergey Koltakov.

SERGEY KOLTAKOV, MECHANIC AND FATHER OF DMITRY KOLTAKOV (KURGAN):

- A lot of our entrepreneurs from the city of Kurgan helped us - with materials, paints, there are good turners ... Ie. motorcycles were prepared in the city of Kurgan, everything, by our own hands. And we have the best bike in the world - it's been proven...