Ekaterina Lobysheva - two-time winner of the Olympic Games in speed skating

After leaving the great sport of the legendary Svetlana Zhurova in 2006, the place of the leader of the national speed skating team had to take on the young athlete Ekaterina Lobysheva. About it and will be discussed below.

In Search of Yourself

One of the most beautiful athletes at the Olympic Games in Sochi was Ekaterina Lobysheva. Photos of the prizewinners in team competitions were flaunted in many sports publications. However it could turn out so, that she could and not come in speed skating.

Ekaterina Lobysheva was born in the Moscow region of Kolomna in 1985. The family did not have professional athletes, but her parents loved an active lifestyle. Father participated in various amateur football competitions, and my mother went skiing very well. Therefore, parents have always approved the sport of his daughter.

Catherine was looking for a long time in the area where she could fully reveal her talents. She went to ballroom dancing, went in for basketball, volleyball. Because of the relatively low growth for these sports, Lobysheva turns into speed skating. At some point, she was bored, and she seriously took up badminton.

However, the coaches managed to persuade her that badminton is not the future for such an athlete as Ekaterina Lobysheva. Speed skating was eventually her main occupation. The first mentor athlete was Vladimir Rubin.

Sport of high achievements. Awards

Specialization of Catherine - sprint distances from 500 to 1500 m. For the first time in large tournaments, she begins to participate in the 2004/2005 season. Since the beginning of her career, Lobysheva has spent more than a hundred races on the World Cup stages. The athlete took part in the World and European Championships.

During her career she repeatedly wins at the championships of Russia. Ekaterina Lobysheva did not achieve much success in the personal standings at international tournaments. The best result of it was getting into the second ten of the strongest. Nevertheless, the high average level of the entire national team allows an athlete to compete for prizes in team competitions. Twelve times at the World Cup stages, Ekaterina Lobysheva, along with her friends, rises to the podium, including three times the girls become the first.

Regular seasonal tournaments are certainly important, but the Olympic Games always serve as an indicator of the success of any athlete. The most valuable of their awards Ekaterina Lobysheva wins at the main competitions of the fourth century. The first time this was done at the Olympics in Turin. Then in the team competitions fast Russian girls took the third place.

After 2006, Svetlana Zhurova ends her career. Her place and the position of the leader of the team is Ekaterina Lobysheva.

The next Olympic Games in Vancouver turned out to be a failure for the entire Russian team. Not an exception was the team of domestic skiers. Catherine and her partner remained far beyond the line of winners.

At the Olympics in Sochi, Russian athletes simply did not have the right to fail. With the wild support of the stands, rushing past like the wind, Lobysheva and her friends ran up to the third step of the pedestal. So she became a two-time bronze medalist.

The explosive nature of the impetuous Catherine

Like any talented athlete, Lobysheva has a very uneasy character. Everyone for a long time remembered the grandiose conflict between her and one of the girls from her team. After the scandal Abramov before the decisive World Cup race refuses to play for the team. This leads to forced replacement. An unprepared athlete fails her stage, and the team takes the last place in that race. After that, the whole team retreats far from the first place overall standings of the World Cup.

Followed by penalties from the Union of Skaters of Russia. Abramov was excommunicated for the whole year, and the second participant in the conflict got off with a severe reprimand.

Ekaterina Lobysheva: personal life

Fans are always interested in what their idols breathe outside the arena. Especially if the athlete is an attractive girl. Ekaterina Lobysheva graduated from the Kolomna State Pedagogical Institute. In the future, she does not exclude the occupation of coaching. In 2014 she is getting married. Lucky Alexei Naumov became a famous motorcycle racer.

In social networks there was a stormy discussion of the wedding of Catherine and Andrew. As a wedding limousine, the newlyweds used a three-wheeled motorcycle of protective color.

Today, in speed skating, athletes from Holland are unquestionably dominant. To wedge in between them is an unthinkable task. However, gathering in the team, Russian girls are able to compete with other teams and take prizes. Ekaterina Lobysheva is one of the main leaders in this fast-paced team.