Biography of Borzakovsky briefly

Kratovo Ramensky district of the Moscow region. His father worked as a driver, his mother was a janitor. In the city of Zhukovsky, Moscow region Malakhovka of the Lyubertsy district of the Moscow region. The sports career at ten years old Yuri Borzakovsky began to engage in running athletics disciplines. His first coaches were Vladimir and Lyubov Miroshnichenko, with G. Yuri Borzakovsky began to perform at the All -Russian competitions, won the country's championship among young men at a distance of m.

At the World Youth Games, after youth games, the athlete chose the athlete as the main running distance M. In the future he achieved most of his international successes in this discipline. Even in adolescence, Borzakovsky began to use his own tactics, which subsequently became a distinctive feature: for most of the distance, he stayed behind the main group of athletes, only closer to the finish line making a decisive breakthrough.

In February, the Russians managed to go through the qualifications and get to the final in running at a distance of M, where he took sixth place. Thanks to this achievement, he became the sixth in the history of Russia an athlete who won Olympic gold in men's athletics competitions, as well as the first and currently the only Russian champion of the Olympic Games in running disciplines.

In the next Olympic cycle, Borzakovsky won the medals of world championships three times - silver of the World Cup in the Finnish city of Helsinki - the bronze of the Winter World Cup in Moscow - the bronze of the World Cup in Japanese Osaka. Borzakovsky won the Winter Championship of Europe in Turin Italy, in the city of the year of the Olympic Games in the summer of G.

Yuri Borzakovsky won the Russian Championship and was selected for the Moscow World Championship, but was forced to abandon the performance at the home tournament due to illness. In the fall, G. Borzakovsky said that he was not going to end his career and was preparing to resume performances in the summer of next year. In June, he officially completed his career on February 1, coaching and administrative activities with the city of Yuri Borzakovsky was the head coach of the Russian national athletics team.

From G. in the gg. Since December, participation in the election campaigns member of the All -Russian political party "United Russia". According to the results of the vote, he did not go to the Duma.

He was not elected. Recognition Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation Yuri Borzakovsky was awarded the Order of Friendship of the Laureate of the National Sports Prize "Glory" in the nomination "Best Athlete" Honorary Citizen G. Zhukovsky life and career of the athlete is dedicated to the documentary "Yuri Borzakovsky. Climbing", director Taisiya Kurskaya.