Biography of Tikhonov Alexander

Alexander Tikhonov Photo: Council. Love for sports by the boy was instilled by his father-frudener, he taught physical education at school and won regional skiing.

Alexander himself at skiing competitions and skating sports began to perform while studying at the school and working at the Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant. His first coach in skiing was Oleg Gorokhov, under whose leadership Tikhonov won the championship among young men of Perm and the USSR championship in Monchegorsk, showing the best time in a relay race. The promising junior was noticed and invited to perform as part of the national team at the second Winter Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in the year.

Tikhonov became the real discovery of these competitions, winning “gold” at distances of 15 and 10 kilometers among men, “silver” in the relay race and the unofficial title “Hopes of Russian Skiing”. True, he himself preferred Biathlon with ski races, moving to the USSR national biathlon national team in the same M - at the request of its senior coach Alexander Privalov.

As a biathlonist, Alexander Tikhonovo debuted at international competitions in Romania as part of the youth team, showing an excellent result and falling into the main composition of the national team. Then there was a trip to the World Championship in the city of Altenberg Germany, where the USSR team won Silver in a relay race. For the first time at the Olympic Games, Tikhonov spoke in the year in Grenoble France, winning the “silver” in an individual race of 20 kilometers and “gold” in the relay race, he fled the first stage of the relay.

The second Olympic “gold” - again in the relay race - Tikhonov in the team brought the Olympics of the year to Sapporo. This race went down in history by the fact that almost a kilometer Tikhonov moved ... On one ski the second broke. In the year - the third Olympiad in Inbruisk - and again "gold"! Winter Olympic Games-fourth-in Lake Placide in the year became for Alexander Tikhonov a beautiful end to the sports career.

He not only again won the gold medal, but also honored to carry the banner of the Soviet Union. In total, during the performances in big sport, Alexander Tikhonov won four Olympic “gold” and one “silver”, became a multiple of the world champion and the multiple champion of the USSR. At the age of 33, Alexander Tikhonov left a great sport and devoted himself to coaching.

Since the year, he was the senior coach of the USSR youth team, from the years-the coach of the country's experimental team, in the years-the president, and in years-the vice-president of the Union of Biathlonists of Russia. During his leadership at the Olympiads, and the years of the Russian national biathlon team won four gold, two silver and five bronze medals; At the world championships from the years - 24 gold, 27 silver and 15 bronze awards.

In the year, the International Biathlon Union awarded Tikhonov as the best president of the National Biathlon Federation. Since the years, Alexander Ivanovich represented Russia in the leading structures of IBU, being the vice president of this organization. In addition to numerous state orders and medals, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR and Honored Coach of the RSFSR Tikhonov also has a number of honorary titles: in the year the world community called him “Mr.

Biathlon”, the international biathlon Union officially called him the best biathlonist of the 20th century. Currently, Alexander Ivanovich Tikhonov is actively engaged in business and social activities, and he is also the author of several books. Persons of the day March 17: - Gotlib Daimler German engineer, designer and industrialist.