Biography of Tamara Bykova
Tamara Bykova athletics - biography, news, personal life Age: 66 Tamara Vladimirovna Bykova. Born on December 21 in Azov, Rostov Region. Soviet athlete jump in height. The first world champion in high jumps, the first Soviet jump, overcoming the bar, see Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Tamara Bykov was born on December 21 in Azovo Rostov Region. In adolescence, she took up athletics.
After eight grades, she entered a sports boarding school, where she fulfilled the standards of the first category and master of sports. Its coach was Vladimir Timofeevich Prokhorov. The USSR set its first record in the year, jumping on see a member of the Olympic Games of the year in Moscow. Silver medalist of the European Championship of the year. In the year she won the Universiade in Edmonton Canada.
In the year, it became the world champion in Helsinki - the first in the history of the World Athletics Championship. In the same year, she set three world records: a record in the premises for cm in Budapest on March 6, the world record in London on August 21 and the world record in Pisa Italy on August 25.
She is considered an unconditional contender for Olympic gold in M, but because of the boycott she had to skip games in Los Angeles. At the same time, in the year she set another world record - on June 22 in Kyiv she jumped on see the winner of the games in Los Angeles won gold with the result, see Tamara Bykova: “I read the Nembiography of Nemski Ulric Maifart.
She was my main competitor. I won the world championship with her, but then at the tournament in London we both jumped on a world record - 2.03 m - but I lost by attempts. But then she felt not so confident. I doubted whether she should go to the Olympics. I was going to even quit. Suddenly, the USSR announces a boycott, and it changes a decision. As a result, she performed.
And he tells in her book that she then hung my portrait in her office at work and signed: “This blonde fairy gave me Olympic gold.” Imagine my condition. " In Seoul, on the third attempt, she took 1.99 m and took third place. A week, a week before leaving for the Olympic Games in Barcelona, Tamra Bykov left the stadium: the Achilles of the tendons were very sick, so that she could not even walk.
She later said: “That departure from the stadium became a real tragedy for me: at night I dreamed that I was jumping, flying and falling into some abyss. Further, the pain I left the sport, not completing, maybe the most important thing. The feeling of dissatisfaction tormented me for a very long time. But over time, the pain left and the wound was abused. ” She graduated from the University of Rostov.
After leaving sports, she worked as an administrator in India for 2 years. But in the end, her wife took to work. Then she got a job in a company selling Italian furniture. Later she opened her own company Mega-Pestizh-Interior, in the store "Your House" she has a salon of Italian furniture. The growth of Tamara Bykova: centimeters. Sports achievements of Tamara Bykova:.