Inga Voronina Biography

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At that time she was only 29 years old. She was the first in the history of speed skating was able to become a four -time absolute world champion, moreover, at all distances. Inga Grigoryevna was intensely preparing for the Olympics of the year, and had every chance to replenish her collection of rewards with Olympic “gold”, however, she was not destined to take part in the games.

The stars of Soviet sports fell a lot of tests, and her personal life has developed tragically. Artamonova was not allowed to connect fate with his beloved man, because he was a citizen of a foreign state, and the “right” Soviet husband and colleague - the skater Gennady Andreevich Voronin killed his wife when she decided to divorce him. Inga Artamonova: Biography, early years, the future skating fuel was born in Moscow, in August, in a simple family that was not related to sports.

Inge has not yet turned five years old, when the war broke out, so her childhood was in difficult and hungry war years. She grew up by a weak and very painful child, and soon, even at all, the girl was made a terrible diagnosis - tuberculosis. Over time, the ailment gradually began to retreat, and in order to strengthen Inga’s health, they decided to introduce it to sports.

True, she herself once dreamed of becoming a ballerina, but she was not taken to the ballet school due to the inconsistency of the required parameters. By that time, the marriage of the girl’s parents had broken up, so her mother and grandmother were brought up by her brother Vladimir. After the war, the parent was able to get a job on the river ship, so there was no at home for a long time, but received a good salary for that time.

And the children have always been under the supervision of grandmother. Not far from their house was the Dynamo stadium, where his brother and sister regularly visited the skating rink. Nevertheless, the relatives insisted that the girl seriously engaged in academic rowing, since this sport allows you to develop a chest and improve the work of the lungs. She fulfilled the standard for the title of master of sports, twice won the “gold” at the All -Union Championships, could well take a place in the national team and go to international competitions.

However, Artamonova was unable to fully imbued with this sport and love it. At some point, she decided to throw a rowing and return to the ice, because the skates remained her passion. The mentors convinced her to change her mind, citing the fact that in the skating sports the girl had no chance, but she was adamant. A career on ice, initially the girl did not want to take any of the coaches under her guardianship, believing that she has no future in skating sports.

Due to the too high growth, which made up centimeters, it was assumed that it could not develop high speed.

At first, Inga really showed depressing results, but the girl was not one of those who surrender. In the year, she became the champion of Moscow in high -speed run on skates, and a year later she received the title of master of sports, became the absolute champion of the Soviet Union, and set a world record in the all -around. A year later, Artamonov at the age of twenty became the absolute world champion.

In the year, she again became the absolute champion of the USSR and the world. Then there was a new record at a distance of one and a half thousand meters, a number of brilliant victories at the All -Union and World Championships, and the best time in the world at a distance of a thousand meters. In the year, she became the absolute world champion for the fourth time, and this event happened for the first time in the history of women's skating sports.

And Inga Grigoryevna for the time became the champion of the country at various distances, and received the title of Master of Sports of the USSR International Class. However, her victorious procession was interrupted by the tragedy that cut off the life of a young woman. A doomed romance with a foreigner in the year, at the world championship held in Sweden, X summer Artamonova met a man, in whom for the first time in her life she really fell in love.

It turned out to be an organizing committee employee named Bengt - a prominent, attractive and very non -poor man. He conquered the Soviet athlete with his manners, beautiful signs of attention and courtesy. Inga tried to keep their connection secret, but everything was revealed by accident, when during one of the collective campaigns of the team in the cinema, the girl simply disappeared.

She naively believed that she would not be enough, but when she returned to the hotel in the morning, she was already waiting. The scandal struck, Artamonov was summoned to a very unpleasant conversation in the KGB, and such a conversation turned out to be uneasy.For several years, one of the strongest skaters made a lack of traveling, which is why she even missed the Olympic Games of the year.

In addition, the girl was under the constant close control of the special services, she was prohibited from any contacts with the Swedish lover, under the threat of a prison term. Later, relatives recalled that Inga could only complain about unbearable longing and pain. According to the girl, she was ready to walk to her lover, but, ultimately, over the years she accepted her fate and reconciled.

They never met Beng, and letters, if he sent her, lost somewhere in the archives of the Almighty KGB. The thing is that they turned out to be neighbors in the apartment belonging to the Dynamo sports society. And in those years, in a conservative country where morality and morality were strictly boiled, to settle two heterogeneous, not marriage people in the same apartment, was something out of the ordinary.

There is an opinion that Vronin was to look after an unreliable colleague, to report on all her actions, and to prevent a possible escape abroad. But, be that as it may, and forced cohabitation turned into a marriage, which, however, brought no happiness to anyone. He himself did not achieve much success, although he took part in the Soviet team in the Olympic Games of the year, but there he performed unsuccessfully, taking only the twelfth place.

The couple were completely different people in nature, temperament and views on life. True, at first they managed to impress a happy married couple. But Inga was completely absorbed in her career, won one medal after another and sought to conquer the top of the sports Olympus. Her success was touched by Voronin’s pride, who frankly envied his wife, and did not even try to hide it. Gennady Andreevich addicted to strong drinks, began to insult his wife and raise his hand on her, and also plagued her with his causeless jealousy.

Artamonova for a long time suffered mockery and did not complain about the problems in the family. The scandals and beatings became their usual at home, in addition, the man actually lived at the expense of his successful wife, and he also drank on her money. The woman could not stand it, and at the end of the year she told her husband that she intended to divorce him.

After that, she collected her things, and moved to her parental apartment. However, after the celebration of the New Year, the fourth of January, the drunken Voronin came to his mother -in -law home, under the pretext that he needed to explain himself with Inga. The man was let in, despite the fact that he was drunk, and this decision turned out to be fatal.

The tragedy played literally in front of her mother and brother of the skating. After a small verbal skirmish, the man simply grabbed a knife that prudently brought with him, and struck directly into the heart of his wife. Inga herself, being in a state of shock, pulled out a knife from her chest, and went out into another room. According to Vladimir’s memoirs, he then decided that since his sister could go, then the wound is not serious.

In fact, the injury was deadly, just a young woman was in a state of affect. With the help of loved ones, she was still able to reach the neighboring apartment where the doctor lived, but after that she fell, wheezed, and no longer moved. Arriving Forest, which was called from the street-by-road phone, could no longer help Artamonova. Inga Grigoryevna passed away at the age of Tie.

She was buried with honors at the metropolitan Vagankovsky cemetery. Despite the irrefutable evidence and the presence of witnesses, Voronin himself tried in every possible way to expose himself to a victim. He did not regret the deed at all, told the investigator that the wife herself provoked him to this, and did not forget to mention at every interrogation that Inga was a “treason” for almost exchanging his homeland for his foreman-foreman.

Ultimately, an article on intentional murder was re -qualified to murder in a state of affect provoked by the actions of the victim. So the highest measure, which was discussed at the very beginning, was replaced by ten years in prison. But later, this measure was softened, so that the killer served only a year and a half, and spent three more years in a free settlement. The man never felt any guilt behind himself, but the contempt of athletes and colleagues was a real punishment for him.

He gradually continued to sleep, and when he saw one of the old acquaintances on the street on the street, and tried to start a conversation, he was always surprised why he was ignored and did not even give his hands. Voronin did not live to his summer anniversary for a couple of months, despite the fact that almost his whole life abused alcohol. In his native Dzerzhinsk, the friends of the former athlete in the declining years were, for the most part, his drinking companions.

He was buried in the city cemetery, but almost no one knows about where his grave is located.