Biography of the Lobacheva skater

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. In the personal collection of this illustrious skater includes a huge variety of awards won in various competitions both in domestic and international competitions. But whether this is making a life path this athlete is so unique. Of course not. After all, the life of every person consists of a huge set of events and facts that are formed together like the myriads of the bricks.

The early years, childhood and family of the skater Irina Lobacheva Irina Viktorovna Lobacheva was born on February 18 in the town of Ivanteevka, located seventeen kilometers from Moscow. However, the athlete lived most of childhood in another village - the village of Kokoshkino. Therefore, it is often that it is mistakenly indicated as the place of birth of the athlete. Irina Lobacheva and Dmitry Martyanov on the show of the glacial period of the family of our today's heroine was the most ordinary Soviet family.

Ira’s father worked as an electrician, and mother spent most of her life as a gynecologist. In addition to Irina herself, there is also another child in her family - the youngest son Alexander. Returning to the personality of the athlete herself, we note that in some sources it is often mentioned that in childhood the athlete was often ill with a sore throat, and therefore, at one point, doctors advised her parents to send her to a sports school in order to strengthen immunity.

So at the age of six, our heroine today was in the figure skating section. She liked it, and therefore subsequently Irina Lobacheva was methodically involved in her favorite sports, despite the hardships and life difficulties. She got up at six in the morning to have eight in Moscow for sports training. The girl often did school lessons right in the locker room, and was returning home in a dark.

However, such works did not go in vain. Her coach - Natalya Dubinskaya - identified her among other students, and therefore always made a special bet on her. From the age of twelve, the girl often went to various competitions, and from thirteen - she lived in the hostel of the sports center along with other peers. But obstacles and difficulties still did not leave the girl.

At the age of fifteen, Irina Lobacheva received a serious knee injury. For a long time it was about the fact that the girl would have to leave sport completely. However, in the end, everything turned out well. Irina was often forbidden to jump, and therefore at a certain moment she left a single skating and moved to a section of dancing on the ice, where she began to engage in paired with Oleg Onishchenko.

The anniversary of Irina Rodnina. Averbukh Lobachev - a blizzard but their tandem turned out to be short -lived. Oleg exchanged sport for business, and therefore Irina began to perform paired with another skater - Alexei Pospelov, who, however, soon also left the sport. As a result, only at eighteen years old Irina Lobacheva managed to find a permanent partner on the ice. Ilya Averbukh became such, in pairs with which our today's heroine managed to achieve all her most vivid sports victories.

Irina Lobacheva’s career in sports and outside him, along with the new partner, Irina Lobacheva was able to declare herself loudly. At the World Cup, a Russian couple of athletes took a modest thirteenth place that year. However, real successes were still ahead. The next two seasons for young skaters also turned out to be ambiguous.

Lobacheva and Averbukh managed to win bronze twice at the Russian championship, but the Russians were still not lucky at the world and European championship. A little brightened the picture of bright performances at various stages of the Grand Prix. But the ambitious skaters were not enough. A year later, Lobachev and Averbukh took only second place in this competition, but managed to win two silver medals in the American and Russian stages of the world Grand Prix, as well as to get into the top five at the Olympics.

In addition, the Russian couple managed to take third place also in the final of the Grand Prix series and get into the top three of the winners at several stages. At this moment, our heroine today and her partner began to be clearly affirmed as the favorites of any sports competitions in which they took part. It was possible to justify the status of the favorite almost regularly.

In the period, Ilya and Irina managed to win the Russian national championship three times in a row, as well as win two bronze at European championships, as well as silver at the Olympic Games in the American Salt Lake City. Ilya and Ilya, the owners of bronze and gold medals at two world championships. This period has become the most striking time in the career of Russian skaters.

This year, Russian athletes ascended the second step of the podium in the World Cup, and also managed to win gold at the European Championship, in the final of the world Grand Prix, as well as in its two stages. After that, Lobachev and Averbukh completed a professional career.A bright path in world sports brought the Order of Friendship, the title of Honored Masters of Sports of Russia, as well as some other state awards.

In addition, she also participated as a contestant on various television projects “Ice” themes. Currently, Irina Lobacheva is working as a coach in her school of figure skating. Irina’s personal life Lobacheva Lobacheva with Ilya Averbukh existed not only on the ice platform, but also in ordinary life. The athletes met for a long time, and in the year they announced marriage. In the year, the couple broke up, but the former lovers remained friends.

Today, they together raise the son of Martin, and also implement some commercial projects related to figure skating. Irina Lobacheva with her son.