Natalya Zabolotnaya. Biography and sporting achievements

The weaker half of humanity nurses with children, braids plaits, grows flowers, makes manicure pedicures, arranges gatherings with girlfriends, exchanges news and recipes. But some girls just pull iron in gyms. About this unusual personality and will be discussed in this article. And though this woman does not enter the burning hut, because she builds it herself, but the horse can simply stop at a gallop.

Achievements

Natalya Zabolotnaya is an honored master of sports in weightlifting, twice silver medalist of the 2004 and 2012 Olympics, multiple vice-champion of the world and five-time European champion. And also the world record holder in the barbell boom of 135 kg and in the sum of two exercises of 296 kg. And all this with the growth of 165 cm and weight 75 kg (at the first President's Cup in Belgorod).

The way to sport

Natalia Zabolotnaya was born on August 15, 1985 in the small town of Salsk, which is located in the Rostov region. Since my childhood I was the smallest but strongest and active girl. I went to football, but I was physically stronger than even boys of my own age, so, not to stumble around the yards and not look for stupid adventures, I stopped on weightlifting. Mom around, of course, said that this sport is not for girls, as it will later give birth, but the mother was on the side of her daughter and not in vain.

The brightest wins

Natalia Zabolotnaya began to quickly reach prizes at the age of adolescence. Since 2000, she was taken to the Russian national team, and immediately she won the European Cup (two years later she again confirmed her superiority). But the decisive European Championship was in 2003 in Loutraki (Greece), where the selection for the Olympics took place. There, Natalia confidently won and deserved a trip to her first Olympic Games in 2004 in Athens, where she at the age of 19 earned her first significant silver medal in the weight category up to 75 kg. At the world championships, Natalia Zabolotnaya always lacked a little before the victory, and she became the silver medalist of the world championships in 2005 (Doha), in 2007 (Chiang Mai) and in 2010 (Antalya). But in the European championships, she was not equal. Natalia Zabolotnaya, five times the champion, became the European champion with big breaks from her rivals. And only in Kazan lost gold, becoming the second step of the pedestal.

For the 2012 Olympics in London, Natalia, unfortunately, did not qualify for the team (although she plowed full to training). But because of a colleague's injury on the team, she was still included in the main squad the day before the flight. Of course, this shocked both the athlete herself and her coach Ivan Chizh, who did not even have time to issue the documents. As a result, his ward flew to London alone without support and without proper preparation. She did not disappoint anyone, winning the second place at the Olympics. She lost to the athlete from Kazakhstan purely by body weight. Since the girls raised the same weight of the bar, the winner is determined by the one who has less body weight. Natalya was only 150 grams heavier than her opponent, and she was not given the victory. Of course, if she had been warned earlier than the day before departure, she would have prepared accordingly. Certainly the Olympics would have been won, and there would not have been a disqualification of the sportswoman for the fact that the norm in her body was higher than the requirements of the Anti-Doping Committee. But what happened does not return. Natalia deservedly received medals from the president of the Russian Federation for her services to the Fatherland of the 1st and 2nd categories. For participation in the Olympics, glorification of Russia in the international arena, worthy development, the spread of physical culture and sports in the country and beyond.

Natalia Zabolotnaya is loved and respected both in her native Salsk and far beyond. When she walks the streets, the little boys lower their heads bashfully, looking at her physique. What is Natalia Zabolotnaya dreaming about? Personal life for her does not come first. Today, the sportswoman prepares for new victories and independently completes her house.