Galina Kukleva: "A big component of victories is still talent." About the situation with Drachev

Galina Alekseevna Kukleva(November 21, 1972, Ishimbay, Bashkir ASSR) - Russian biathlete, Olympic champion and three-time world champion.

Member of the national team of the USSR (since 1990) and Russia (since 1993, coach L. Guriev).

Pupil of the republican sports school in biathlon, the city of Ishimbay. Coach V. V. Novozhilov.

Master of Sports of the USSR (1990), Honored Master of Sports of Russia (1998) in biathlon.

At the end of the 2002/2003 season, she announced her retirement from professional sports.

Sport

Winter Olympics

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Galina Kukleva became the Olympic champion in the 7.5 km sprint and also won a silver medal in the Russian relay. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the relay.

World Championships

Three times world champion (as part of the Russian relay) - 2000, 2001 and 2003. Silver in the mass start in 2000, Oslo and in the relay (1999). Bronze relay (1997).

World Cups

Winner of 9 stages of the World Cup (1996-2000, 2002-2003), silver (1996, 2000, 2002-2003) and bronze medalist (1993-94, 1996-99, 2002) stages of the World Cup.

Europe championship

European champion 1996 in the relay. Bronze (1996 in the sprint).

World and European Championships (juniors)

World Champion 1990. Bronze (1992) World Championship medalist. Silver at the 1991 European Championship.

Russian Championships

Silver medalist of the Russian Championship 1996.

Champion of Russia (1997) in summer biathlon.

Education

Graduate high school No. 2 Ishimbay

Graduated from Tyumen State University, 1998.

Professor of Tyumen state university.

Awards and titles

  • Order of Honor
  • Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (May 5, 2003) - for his great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high sports achievements at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
  • Honored Master of Sports of Russia
  • Honorary citizen of Ishimbay.

I have a normal mood, even despite the results. It is necessary to extract something positive from everything, and splash out less negative.

First of all, we must take into account that this season is post-Olympic. Some run at last year's level, but someone has not fully recovered. Rest is needed. In the Russian team, I saw progress only with Yurlova - the person is really growing.

Zaitseva and Sleptsova gave their all a year ago, and now they are trying. Sveta, of course, is now 60 percent ready - this, I think, is an echo of the Olympics. Everything was visible back in December-January. Zaitseva is also not perfect - 80 percent.

About consultations

Are you in contact with the team as a coach-consultant?

And in more detail?

“I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to make a mess.

Are you a member of the SBR?

- Not. It turns out that I work on a voluntary basis. Haven't done anything yet to be called a coach-consultant.

When was the last time you were contacted for training questions?

- We work collaboratively. I was present at the September training camp in Tyumen - I watched the training several times, talked. We called the headquarters, but there was no need for my arrival. There are already enough people there: doctors, massage therapists, psychologists. Who just did not work with the team. Other consultants - Drachev and Chepikov - also came as far as possible.

How exactly did you work?

- I paid attention to technical issues, functionality - all this was discussed with the coaches. I didn’t get into shooting, I was mostly on the track. Advised so as not to harm. The decision was still made by the coaches - they are also asked. If things are going well, then everyone is praised, if things go badly, it gets to the coaches first of all.

Have you seen the training plans?

- I saw it.

And how are they?

- Fine.

Fine?

– I would add more load. It seemed to me that it was not enough - precisely the intensity. A decent shape requires a certain volume. I can’t say for all the preparations - I saw one training camp and one plan. Who specifically wrote - I do not know. I think every coach has contributed. One head is good, but two or three is better.

About the situation with Drachev

In terms of organization, we are all on the level. There is no result - it is clear that they have not done enough, plus they are not psychologically ready to perform at the proper level. There are many elements of defect - maybe new program not perfect.

Maybe the athletes didn't do it?

- They did. You see, now the body is reacting to something new, proposed by the coaches. Maybe we will see the result in a year.

Can you comment on the situation with the removal of Drachev?

I don't know his situation.

But do you share his position?

- What is his position?

Athletes command, and coaches do not decide anything.

- There is such a thing - both in the men's and in the women's team. We used to say: there are no irreplaceable ones. If you don't deliver results, you will be fired. Random people in the team did not come across.

Now some athletes, not giving results, are there for a long time. I won't name names, they'll figure it out themselves. They don’t even participate in domestic competitions - they are protected. For some reason.

About athletes and coaches

You can see how our juniors perform. The reserve is excellent, you just need to work with them.

- Drachev said that youth is being destroyed.

Who is ruining? Coaches? Or maybe the athletes themselves are to blame? We have created such greenhouse conditions that they are not able to go through any stressful situation. Any collection can afford to miss the competition, because it is not ready purely psychologically. And do not hesitate to openly declare it. Why do we need weaklings in the national team? I run here, I don't run there. Let's put the young one in.

Weaklings would not manage coaches.

- Coaches have recently joined the team, they are looking closely. The composition of the athletes has not changed. Naturally, they can manage the newly arrived coaches.

That is, for example, Khovantsev did not have enough authority? He has merit.

- He is a strong specialist, but he is not used to working with women, even in such numbers. The women's team is a completely different environment. I don’t want to say that Khovantsev swam, but somewhere he was definitely too soft. Even my personal trainer, Leonid Guryev, had this problem. He knows how to work with women, and once he took the guys - it didn’t work out very well.

Doesn't it seem significant to you that one of the two personal medals from the Russians was taken by Maximov, who actually spent a month in self-training?

- Firstly, he was in self-training only the last 1.5 weeks before the World Championships and with the consent of the coaches, but, in any case, there is something to think about. And coaches, and management, and the athletes themselves. I am also worried that experienced athletes do not know themselves. How to prepare yourself for the season. The work must be collaborative.

To put it simply: did the athletes fail to do their job?

– They are tired and, perhaps, have lost vigilance, control over themselves. This happens - it is after difficult seasons. It was with me too.

Is there anything I didn't ask, but would you like to say?

- To be honest, I would not answer anything at all, so as not to harm anyone. And so too much negativity for the whole team. They were striving for the best. Everyone was working towards the same goal. But it didn't work out. No one needs to be executed. You just need to draw conclusions at the end of the season - think about it, comprehend what was done wrong and correct it.

world Cup Career (World Cup) victories

23 (of which 9 are personal)

catwalks

20 (9 - 6 - 5) (individual) 28 (13 - 8 - 7) (relays), 1 (1 - 0 - 0) (team race, 1997)

Medals
Winter Olympics
Gold Nagano 1998 sprint 7.5 km
Silver Nagano 1998 4x7.5 km relay
Bronze Salt Lake City 2002 4x7.5 km relay
World Championships
Bronze Osrblier 1997 4x7.5 km relay
Silver Kontiolahti 1999 4x7.5 km relay
Gold Holmenkollen 2000 4x7.5 km relay
Silver Holmenkollen 2000 mass start 12.5 km
Gold Pokljuka 2001 4x7.5 km relay
Gold Khanty-Mansiysk 2003 4x6 km relay
European Championships
Bronze Val Ridanna 1996 7.5 km individual race
Gold Val Ridanna 1996 3x7.5 km relay
State and departmental awards

Galina Alekseevna Kukleva(November 21, 1972, Ishimbay, Bashkir ASSR) - Russian biathlete, Olympic champion and three-time world champion.

Member of the national team of the USSR (since 1990) and Russia (since 1993, coach L. Guriev).

Pupil of the republican sports school in biathlon, the city of Ishimbay. Coach V. V. Novozhilov.

Education

Awards and titles

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An excerpt characterizing Kukleva, Galina Alekseevna

- Well, what, my Cossack? (Marya Dmitrievna called Natasha a Cossack) - she said, caressing Natasha with her hand, who approached her hand without fear and cheerfully. - I know that the potion is a girl, but I love it.
From her huge reticule, she took out yakhon earrings with pears and, giving them to Natasha, who was beaming and blushing on her birthday, immediately turned away from her and turned to Pierre.
– Eh, eh! kind! come here,” she said in a mockingly quiet and thin voice. - Come on, my dear...
And she rolled up her sleeves menacingly even higher.
Pierre came up, naively looking at her through his glasses.
"Come, come, dear!" I told your father the truth alone, when he happened to be, and then God commands you.
She paused. Everyone was silent, waiting for what was to come, and feeling that there was only a preface.
- Okay, nothing to say! good boy! ... The father lies on the bed, and he amuses himself, he puts the quarter on a bear on horseback. Shame on you, dad, shame on you! Better to go to war.
She turned away and offered her hand to the count, who could hardly help laughing.
- Well, well, to the table, I have tea, is it time? said Marya Dmitrievna.
The count went ahead with Marya Dmitrievna; then the countess, who was led by a hussar colonel, right person, with which Nicholas had to catch up with the regiment. Anna Mikhailovna is with Shinshin. Berg offered his hand to Vera. Smiling Julie Karagina went with Nikolai to the table. Behind them came other couples, stretching across the hall, and behind them all alone, children, tutors and governesses. The waiters stirred, chairs rattled, music played in the choir stalls, and the guests settled in. The sounds of the count's home music were replaced by the sounds of knives and forks, the voices of guests, the quiet footsteps of waiters.
At one end of the table, the countess sat at the head. On the right is Marya Dmitrievna, on the left is Anna Mikhailovna and other guests. At the other end sat a count, on the left a hussar colonel, on the right Shinshin and other male guests. On one side of the long table, older youth: Vera next to Berg, Pierre next to Boris; on the other hand, children, tutors and governesses. From behind the crystal, bottles and vases of fruit, the count glanced at his wife and her high cap with blue ribbons and diligently poured wine to his neighbors, not forgetting himself. The Countess, also, because of the pineapples, not forgetting her duties as a hostess, threw significant glances at her husband, whose bald head and face, it seemed to her, were sharply distinguished by their redness from gray hair. There was a regular babble at the ladies' end; voices were heard louder and louder on the male, especially the hussar colonel, who ate and drank so much, blushing more and more that the count already set him as an example to other guests. Berg, with a gentle smile, spoke to Vera about the fact that love is a feeling not earthly, but heavenly. Boris called his new friend Pierre the guests who were at the table and exchanged glances with Natasha, who was sitting opposite him. Pierre spoke little, looked at new faces and ate a lot. Starting from two soups, from which he chose a la tortue, [turtle,] and kulebyaki, and up to grouse, he did not miss a single dish and not a single wine, which the butler in a bottle wrapped in a napkin mysteriously protruded from his neighbor’s shoulder, saying or “drey Madeira, or Hungarian, or Rhine wine. He substituted the first of the four crystal glasses with the count's monogram, which stood in front of each device, and drank with pleasure, looking more and more pleasantly at the guests. Natasha, who was sitting opposite him, looked at Boris, as girls of thirteen look at the boy with whom they had just kissed for the first time and with whom they are in love. This same look of hers sometimes turned to Pierre, and under the look of this funny, lively girl he wanted to laugh himself, not knowing why.
Nikolai was sitting far away from Sonya, next to Julie Karagina, and again, with the same involuntary smile, he spoke something to her. Sonya smiled smartly, but apparently she was tormented by jealousy: she turned pale, then blushed, and with all her might listened to what Nikolai and Julie were saying to each other. The governess looked around uneasily, as if preparing herself for a rebuff, if anyone thought of offending the children. The German tutor tried to memorize the categories of foods, desserts and wines in order to describe everything in detail in a letter to his family in Germany, and was very offended by the fact that the butler, with a bottle wrapped in a napkin, surrounded him. The German frowned, tried to show that he did not want to receive this wine, but was offended because no one wanted to understand that he needed wine not to quench his thirst, not out of greed, but out of conscientious curiosity.

At the male end of the table the conversation became more and more lively. The colonel said that the manifesto declaring war had already been issued in Petersburg, and that the copy, which he himself had seen, had now been delivered by courier to the commander-in-chief.
- And why is it difficult for us to fight with Bonaparte? Shinshin said. - II a deja rabattu le caquet a l "Autriche. Je crains, que cette fois ce ne soit notre tour. [He has already knocked down arrogance from Austria. I'm afraid our turn would not come now.]
The colonel was a stout, tall and sanguine German, obviously a campaigner and a patriot. He was offended by Shinshin's words.
“And then, we are a fat sovereign,” he said, pronouncing e instead of e and b instead of b. “Then, that the emperor knows this. He said in his manifesto that he cannot look indifferently at the dangers threatening Russia, and that the security of the empire, its dignity and the holiness of alliances,” he said, for some reason especially leaning on the word "unions", as if this was the whole essence of the matter.
And with his infallible, official memory, he repeated the introductory words of the manifesto ... “and the desire, the sole and indispensable goal of the sovereign, is to establish peace in Europe on solid grounds - they decided to send part of the army now abroad and make new efforts to achieve“ this intention “.

Member of the national team of the USSR (since 1990) and Russia (since 1993, coach L. Guriev).

Pupil of the republican sports school in biathlon, the city of Ishimbay (Bashkortostan). Coach V. V. Novozhilov.

Master of Sports of the USSR (1990), Honored Master of Sports of Russia (1998) in biathlon.

At the end of the 2002/2003 season, she announced her retirement from professional sports.

Sport

Winter Olympics

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Galina Kukleva became the Olympic champion in the 7.5 km sprint and also won a silver medal in the Russian relay. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the relay.

World Championships

Three times world champion (as part of the Russian relay) - 2000, 2001 and 2003. Silver in the mass start in 2000, Oslo and in the relay in 1999. Bronze in the relay in 1997.

World Cups

Winner of 9 stages of the World Cup (1996-2000, 2002-2003), silver (1996, 2000, 2002-2003) and bronze medalist (1993-94, 1996-99, 2002) stages of the World Cup.

Europe championship

European champion 1996 in the relay. Bronze 1996 in the sprint.

World and European Championships (juniors)

World Champion 1990. Bronze (1992) World Championship medalist. Silver at the European Championships 1991.

Russian Championships

Silver medalist of the Russian Championship 1996.

Champion of Russia (1997) in summer biathlon.

Education

Graduated from Tyumen State University, 1998.

Professor at Tyumen State University.

Awards and titles

  • Order of Honor
  • Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (May 5, 2003) - for his great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high sports achievements at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
  • Honored Master of Sports of Russia
  • Honorary citizen of Ishimbay.

Member of the national team of the USSR (since 1990) and Russia (since 1993, coach L. Guriev).

Pupil of the republican sports school in biathlon, the city of Ishimbay (Bashkortostan). Coach V. V. Novozhilov.

Master of Sports of the USSR (1990), Honored Master of Sports of Russia (1998) in biathlon.

At the end of the 2002/2003 season, she announced her retirement from professional sports.

Sport

Winter Olympics

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Galina Kukleva became the Olympic champion in the 7.5 km sprint and also won a silver medal in the Russian relay. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the relay.

World Championships

Three times world champion (as part of the Russian relay) - 2000, 2001 and 2003. Silver in the mass start in 2000, Oslo and in the relay in 1999. Bronze in the relay in 1997.

World Cups

Winner of 9 stages of the World Cup (1996-2000, 2002-2003), silver (1996, 2000, 2002-2003) and bronze medalist (1993-94, 1996-99, 2002) stages of the World Cup.

Europe championship

European champion 1996 in the relay. Bronze 1996 in the sprint.

World and European Championships (juniors)

World Champion 1990. Bronze (1992) World Championship medalist. Silver at the European Championships 1991.

Russian Championships

Silver medalist of the Russian Championship 1996.

Champion of Russia (1997) in summer biathlon.

Education

Graduated from Tyumen State University, 1998.

Professor at Tyumen State University.

Awards and titles

  • Order of Honor
  • Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (May 5, 2003) - for his great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports, high sports achievements at the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
  • Honored Master of Sports of Russia
  • Honorary citizen of Ishimbay.

 

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