Brusnikina Olga Biography

Father - Brusnikin Alexander Alekseevich. Mother - Brusnikina Anna Mikhailovna. Husband is Sergey Evstigneev, a waterplane. The roots of the family come from the village of Gornyak, the Bogoroditsky district of the Tula region. Olya's mother dared to leave the Russian hinterland to Moscow, where she began to work in a shoe factory and study at the master. Olya spent the first three years of her life in her mother’s native village.

Many memories are connected with this beautiful place. The girl was brought up by grandparents, for whom she was a beloved granddaughter. Olga’s grandfather - from the Zavolzh Germans, during the war for this reason he was not taken to the front. In the war years, and then in peacetime, he worked at mines in Bogoroditsk. Mother wanted Olya to be engaged in gymnastics, but she would not be accepted due to high growth and advised to try her strength in rhythmic gymnastics.

But when they came to sign up for the section, the day was unacceptable, and they accidentally remembered the story of the neighbor that she was leading the child to the pool of the Water Sports Palace. Then they decided that we had to learn to swim - the girl was afraid of water. So she began to engage in synchronized swimming. Elena Vyacheslavovna Chumakova was the first coach of Olga - Brusnikina trained with her for almost 2 years, and then moved to Maria Vladimirovna Vovan, a young coach, who, after 2 years of study, passed on children who present special hopes.

Subsequently, Elena Nikolaevna Polyanskaya, who is still a personal coach of the athlete, has become her mentor for many years. At school, Olya studied well, she graduated from 3 classes “excellent”. When the sport began to be paid more and more attention, there was practically no time to study, so I had to make maximum efforts to keep up everywhere. And the first successes were not long in coming.

After graduating from the 5th grade, Brusnikin began to get into the national teams of Moscow, and soon she was transferred to a specialized school? Many of her students performed as part of Pyatnitsky’s choir or Moiseev ensemble, danced, sang, worked on television, and played sports. In this school, the guys always walked towards, given their huge workload.

Coach Elena Nikolaevna Polyanskaya and choreographer Lyudmila Filippovna Tarasova saw that the girl was highly hopes, and were seriously engaged in her. Olga always says that these talented people go hand in hand with her in life - Polyanskaya teaches sports equipment, and Tarasova helps in revealing a creative person and creating an image. The first significant title of Olga Brusnikina in sports is the title of world champion among the year among juniors.

This year has become a significant year for the athlete - while still in the youth team, she had already trained in the adult team and played for both: in the Youth - in the solo, duet and group, and in the eldest - only in the group. In the same year, for the first time in the history of synchronous voyage, Russian athletes won 2 gold medals at the Youth World Cup in Lidsa England.

Brusnikina performed in Solo and in a duet with Julia Pankratova. Then this event for everyone was a great surprise, and victory was truly deafening. In the same year, Brusnikina also became the European champion in group exercises among adults in competitions in the English Sheffield. In the year, in the Russian national team, the athlete performed at the World Cup in Rome, but there they took only 4th place in the group and 5th place in the duet.

In the year, Olga began preparations for the Olympic Games in Atlanta. At the same time, she becomes a student at the daytime department of the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture now - the Russian University of Physical Culture. Brusnikina hoped that after the Olympic Games she had free time to study. In Atlanta, I did not have to count on the highest steps of the pedestal.

According to the results of preliminary competitions, the team could only claim bronze. But, unfortunately, it was not possible to take even 3rd place, the athletes in group performances showed the fourth result. Everyone was upset. But the synchronous voyage has its own laws - the path to the stairs leading up is very long and requires maximum return and patience.

The athletes did everything in their power, the coaches were satisfied, but the judicial commission decided differently ... And in the life of Olga a new stage began - she began to study at the Academy, but soon realized that the double load would not pull: it turned out that it was impossible to combine daily classes and serious training. Therefore, the athlete transferred to the correspondence department, to the department of rehabilitation.

In the year, partner Brusnikina Julia Pankratova, for health reasons, left the sport, and Olga faced the problem of searching for a replacement. Then she was offered to try to make a program with Maria Kiseleva, whom Olga has known since the year. But Brusnikin and Kiselev were on different sides of the barricades and were considered rivals. At that time, Maria had already left the duet and even wanted to finish his sports career.

But Polyanskaya unexpectedly decides to create a new duet.For synchronized swimming, an important fact is what you work with a pair with: a tremendous time is devoted to training, and it is very important to feel and understand the state of the partner. By that time, Brusnikina had already become promising and giving hoping athlete, and for Kiseleva this proposal was tempting - to work in a duet with a soloist, who already occupies certain positions in the team, meant to become the main duet of the country in the future.

Polyanskaya at one time trained another famous athlete - Olga Sedkova, who was considered a beautiful soloist and always took first places. At that time, Sedakova independently worked in Switzerland and played for Russia Solo.

She was also offered to represent the country in a duet - according to the plan of the coaches, the unification of the two strongest soloists of the world made it possible to count on victory. As a result, Sedakova became a partner Brusnikina in an arbitrary program, and Kiseleva in the technical. When Olga was just starting her sports career, she came to the pool to look at the training of the famous Sedakova, in which she saw her idol.

And if she was told then that she would speak with this eminent athlete in a couple, it might seem unrealistic. But fate ordered this: two Olga, two bright soloists of one coach begin to work in a duet - and this event becomes a sensation. After all, sport is the same policy where everything needs to be calculated on a few moves ahead. In this composition - Brusnikin, Sedakov, Kiselev - they went to the World Cup in China - the first serious tournament after the Olympic Games.

Elena Nikolaevna Polyanskaya still worked with them. The result of the performance became truly sensational - Russian athletes occupied the entire pedestal of honor. From this moment, the triumphal procession of the Russian team begins. In the year, Olga Sedakova at the Russian championship loses to Brusnikina Solo. For her, this event became a real shock - Brusnikina becomes the first soloist of Russia.

But the coach realized that again I needed to hit everyone with the names of Brusnikin - Sedakova. This combination became a real explosion, and the whole world followed their struggle. Thus, all 3 athletes received the award. In parallel with this, other competitions are held, including the Russian Championship, where Brusnikina successfully performs in all types of synchronized swimming.

After the World Cup, Sedakov leaves the sport, Brusnikina becomes the first soloist, and Kiseleva - her only partner. Two years that led to the Olympics, they worked together and proved to everyone that they are capable of a lot. At that time, Brusnikin was already a two -time world champion, repeated European champion, they knew and loved the duet. In the year, they won the World Cup, at goodwill games and in the European Cup.

Thus began their victorious procession to Sydney. At the European Cup, Olga Brusnikina also performed in Solo. The season of the year was opened by a performance at the European Championship in Turkey, where Russian athletes were again the strongest. Brusnikina at this time was already considered the recognized leader of the national team and performed in all three programs - Solo, duet and the group.

Then followed the World Cup in Seoul, on which the athlete again becomes an absolute champion. Brusnikina continued to perform in all types of program. Starting from the year, she constantly works in a duet with Kiseleva, where they have no equal. In Solo, Olga always had serious rivals - first Sedakova - a leader, rival and partner, behind whom Olga always stretched, then the rising star - Frenchwoman Virginia Didier - a very bright and technical soloist.

Everyone followed their performances with interest, Brusnikina won, and Tatyana Nikolaevna Pokrovskaya, who was preparing the team for the Olympics, stood at the head of the national team. But the unexpected happened: on the eve of the Olympic Games, partner Brusnikina Kiselev did not go through a doping test, as a result of which the duet’s performance was in question. It is difficult to convey in the words what the athletes survived.

But they managed the tension, pulled themselves together, continued to train, and it all ended safely: the day before the end of the application for the participation of the disqualification, the last collection expired before the Olympics took place in Adelaide, the Australian town, where the Russian nobility community was located, which provided considerable assistance to Russian athletes in the organization of training.

Olga remembers severe acclimatization, the depressed state of many athletes. But as soon as they arrived in the Olympic village, everything fell into place. The performances began. Then Brusnikina did not fully realize what they did for Russian sports-Russian athletes simply had a goal, they fought in 1st place, and when they received it, they appreciated how well done work.

And when they returned to their house in the Olympic village, a feeling of emptiness appeared because the long -awaited moment had already passed and it will never be again ... The importance of awareness of this victory came only over time. From the moment, in the year, the Great Sport left Sedakova, Olga Brusnikin has never become a world champion in solo program.

She won the European championships, won the world and the Olympic Games, but this honorary title was not in her collection. After the Olympics, Kiselev leaves the sport and begins work on television. Brusnikina, on the other hand, decides to stay for another year and try to win at the world's upcoming championship, although she realized that the struggle was a serious struggle.

Olga decided to direct all her strength to victory in Solo, refusing to participate in a duet and group performances. The coach offered Olga an interesting image of Shaherezada to the music of Rimsky-Korsakov. Prior to this, there were already images of Carmen in her career, she -wolves from the popular film “Wolf”, even a composition on the most difficult music “Spring Spring” Igor Stravinsky.

Olga began to work on Shaherezada with a good and combat mood, Solo was made very scrupulously, and at the World Cup in Japan everyone agreed that this program became the best - in the production, and in execution, and in the bright self -expression of Brusnikina. The athlete ended her solo career brilliantly! In the year, Olga Brusnikina meets her future spouse - also an athlete. The first time they saw each other at the World Cup in Rome.