Alexey Cherepanov: life and death of the athlete

The tragedy that occurred a few years ago in the sports complex near Moscow Chekhov still fresh in the memory of the fans of Omsk "Vanguard". The death of Alexei Cherepanov did not leave anyone indifferent. How this could happen remains unclear to this day.

The way to great hockey

It's no secret that the chance to make a career in big sports is opened primarily for those who were destined to be born in the capital or large cities. Alexey Cherepanov is not included in this list. He was born on January 15, 1989 in the village of Ozerki, Talmen District, Altai Territory. His childhood was spent in a deeply provincial Barnaul. On ice, he first came out at the age of three. It happened on the initiative of his father, a hockey and football coach. Before the age of eleven, Alexey Cherepanov trained in Barnaul, in the sports school of the club "Motor". It was here that the talented young hockey player was noticed by the coach of the club "Avangard" Igor Semyonov. The further life of Alexey passed in Omsk, in children's and youthful school of hockey club "Avant guarde".

Omsk Avangard

We should say a few words about that city and about the team where Alexei Cherepanov got. In the Siberian city of Omsk, hockey is certainly more than just a popular form of winter sports. People who are indifferent to hockey in Omsk are not so easy to find. And the hockey club "Avangard" enjoys unquestioned authority in the city. He many times confirmed his victories in the Continental Hockey League. Far beyond Omsk "Vanguard" many like for the ability to win, it would seem, in desperate situations. Omsk club is known throughout the hockey world and many eminent hockey players consider it an honor to speak for it. In Omsk, accustomed to seeing on their ice the stars of world hockey. And the financial position of the team allows them to join their ranks. In particular, in the 2008 season, the great Jaromir Jagr played for the Omsk club.

In the "Vanguard"

The young athlete, of course, was lucky that he was in the "Vanguard". It is with this famous hockey club that the entire short and bright biography of the athlete is connected. Here he managed to open up in full force. Since 2006, Alexei Cherepanov is in the first team, in the role of attacking the second link. He played with Popov and Kuryanov. It was the brightest debut in the history of the Continental Hockey League. In the spring of 2007, the record of the effectiveness of the debutant of the Super League was broken. Alexey Cherepanov became its owner. The hockey player scored seventeen goals in the debut season, which exceeded the achievement previously owned by the famous Pavel Bure. From the hockey regalia, Alexei managed to earn only Youth and junior titles of 2007 and 2008 and a bronze medal of the 2008 Russian Championship.

Features of style

Forward Alexei Cherepanov played in an open dynamic and high-speed hockey. He knew how to see the field magnificently, interact with partners on the link Popov and Kuryanov, immediately make decisions that later led to the correct result. Most importantly, he knew how to learn, his skill steadily increased. Alexei was an adherent of the bright, combinational style of the game. Of great importance was the opportunity to communicate with the superstar of world hockey Jaromir Jagr, who spoke several seasons for the Omsk "Vanguard". Without the slightest exaggeration, Aleksey Cherepanov was the most promising young athlete of the country and a candidate for the national team. But the fate developed in such a way that in its expanded composition it was turned on literally a few hours before its tragic death.

The fate of the hockey player

The career of the rising star of Russian and world hockey was interrupted in a moment of rapid take-off. Nothing foretold such an outcome. The match with Chekhov's "Vityaz" was for Omsk "Vanguard" is far from the most important. Nevertheless, in The last match in his life, Alexei managed to celebrate an abandoned puck. Death overtook the young hockey player on the bench. The young hockey player suddenly stopped his heart. The doctors of both hockey teams tried to help him on the spot. Already after all that happened, when the experts analyzed the incident, it was stated confidently that Alexei could be saved if the doctors had a special electric appliance. But the defibrillator was only in a resuscitation machine called. When she arrived at the sports complex, the precious minutes were already lost. Officially, the death of Alexei Cherepanov was recorded only in the emergency hospital. Reanimators have long tried to fix the irreparable.

Information Resonance

The tragic event in the Moscow region of Chekhov shocked the hockey world. The death of a young hockey player has become a central news for all the world's leading news agencies. A lot of newspapers, even quite far from sports, came out the next day with the name of the Omsk hockey player on the front page - "Alexei Cherepanov - death on ice." In Omsk, a lot of fans of the "Vanguard" and just indifferent people all night watching the messages on the Internet and refused to believe what had happened.

Parting

The funeral of Alexei Cherepanov took place on October 15, 2008. The solemn ceremony was held at the base arena of the hockey club "Avangard" in the left-bank district of Omsk. Such a funeral was not seen by the Siberian city in its nearly three hundred-year history. Despite the weekday, to say goodbye to the young hockey player came more than sixty thousand people. The funeral motorcade passed through the whole city. Buried Alexei Cherepanov was on the honorable alley of the Old-Northern cemetery. Official condolences to the family and friends of Alexey expressed all the clubs of the Continental Hockey League and the hockey club "New York Rangers" from the NHL. On the Internet, a memorial site dedicated to the memory of Alexei Cherepanov was created and exists to this day. In honor of the hockey player an official trophy was created - a prize for the best debutant of the Continental Hockey League season.

Investigation of the circumstances of death

The tragic death of a young hockey player could not but cause a powerful public response. Many people, even very distant from hockey and Professional sports, was interested in the answer to the question about why the nineteen-year-old Aleksei Cherepanov died. The cause of death was announced in the official conclusion of the medical commission. According to the forensic experts, the young hockey player was sick with myocarditis. In other words, with such a cardiac pathology, a person could not engage in big sports for medical reasons. At the same time, the athlete never complained about health and felt great on the last day of his life. During the game with Chekhov's "Vityaz" he did not receive any blows or damage, except for an easy collision with the player of his own team. According to experts' conclusions, a cordiamin was found in the athlete's blood. This drug belongs to the category of doping. But he was officially appointed to the hockey player to maintain the heart muscle in the necessary tone. This fact rejects all charges against the athlete in the application of doping, but leaves open many questions. In particular, about who should make decisions about admission to the big sport of a person with diseases in which a sports career becomes deadly dangerous.