Ardalion Ignatiev Athlete Biography

Athletes are the most memorable in the season of the year for A. Ignatiev - of course, participation in the Olympic Games in Helsinki. Already in the first race on M, he blocked the record of the USSR - showed 48.1 sec. And he soon reduced this indicator by another one tenth seconds 48.0 seconds. And here is the semifinals. Just began to accelerate - a whistle in the case of a falsestart athletes thus returned to their original position.

But they whistled from the rostrum! An instant stop led to the loss of speed. There is only the fourth at the finish of Ardalion. The only consolation is the result of 47.4 seconds. Ardalion did not rest on his laurels. He understood how many more, have to work intensely in training in order to achieve higher peaks in sports. Not only fast legs solve the outcome of the case, but also a strong base of theoretical knowledge.

In a word, we must study. And he became a student at the Lesgft of the Leningrad Institute of Physical Education Training continued. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Zaitsev noted with satisfaction how the achievements of the student are growing, and approaching the line of international ones. The following year, the IV World Youth and Students festival was held in Bucharest. The celebration was not without competitions.

In the Romanian capital, dozens of national records in athletics were recorded. In the year, the European Athletics Championship was held in the Swiss city of Bern. Ignatiev immediately found himself in the focus of the press. And then the words surprised everyone sounded: "I will try to run with him in the final." Haas in those years was the strongest among European sprinters and did not know the defeat of the stadium froze in anticipation of the starting signal.

The long -awaited moment came for Ardalion. At the finish line, Ignatiev runs out 3 meters earlier than a German and quickly rushes for victory. Nothing is able to stop him. The opponent is broken. It is bypassed by two more, and the Chuvash runner for the first time becomes the European champion. In the same season, at competitions in Kyiv, Ardalion ran for 46.1 seconds.

With respect, they began to pronounce the name of the Chuvash runner in many stadiums of the planet.

Their best results - 46.0 seconds. And in M ​​at the Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR, Ardalion won three gold medals: at distances m, m and in the relay of 4x m. Ignatiev was the champion of the USSR 15 times. Until now, he remains the record holder of our republic in running to and m. In the rank of record of the USSR, its achievement is 46.0 seconds.