Brief biography of the Sautin

The plottywort to live without splashes on March 15 turned 50 years old, Dmitry Soutin, an athlete, who is even far from the competition, people Andrei Uspensky, the correspondent of the Olympics in Sydney in Sydney in the water Dmitry Sautin, G. and the matter, of course, is not in the titles, although he is the only holder of eight Olympic awards in the water jumps.

Just the modest Dmitry Ivanovich in any circumstances always, no matter how pathetic it sounds, fought for the honor of the country for almost two decades and never demanded anything for it ... such a unique patriot, acrobatically flying to the medals from Barcelona to Beijing, still need to look. Although why look for him if he lives among us? And you will be surprised when you find out the results of my mini-survey, which I decided to hold an incomparable master on the eve of the anniversary.

So. I showed a photo with the image of the Sautin, I showed fifteen citizens not interested in sports and asked: “What kind of character is this? Three thought that on the card actor Fedor Lavrov, he really at a certain angle is very similar to the athlete. Two said that the “bald man” is some kind of football player or hockey player without specifying it. But five respondents were very confident in the picture of Dmitry Sautin.

I emphasize once again: all the respondents are far from physical cultural hobbies just like me from ballet. And the hero posed in the photo not in swimming trunks and not on the tower ... In short, for our unsportsmanlike power, such recognition of an absolutely not media comrade personally amazes me and pleases me. So, everything that the wonderful water magician did was not in vain.

The Swedish writer Fredrick Bakman once said that "the best fairy tales never really happened, but everything in them is true." So the athletic path of the Sautin is an incredible fantastic detective. And so truthful that I can’t even believe. The beginning of his adult career coincided with the collapse of the USSR and the formation of a new state.

At that time, even players and hockey players, people with another salary planet had to be tight. What can we say about those who "played Tarzan." He trained in the pool from morning to evening and won at international starts the Voronezh boy had no penny of soul. And they promised me the dollars unthinkable at that time. But from Greece, the national team returned, in fact, to a completely different country.

The previous agreements no longer acted. We were told: “Guys, we have a revolution. Forget about the money. ” In m on the world forum he took gold on the tower and silver on the springboard. But the situation with the premium repeated ... For the bronze at the Olympics in Barcelona, ​​I got dollars. I bought jeans and a couple of sweaters ... There was such a life ... ” - so with sadness, Dmitry Ivanovich later described the hungry years.

On the street of his hometown, he was attacked with a knife. The wounds were serious, the doctors did not give any guarantees. However, Sautin not only rose from the bed, but also tried on the form of a united team, the so -called CIS national team. And he did not fail. But few people know that the summer student “caught” as a result of his award in Fernando Platas's swimming trunks by the Russian forgot his hotel, and the generous Mexican granted his reserve “kit”.

And when the bronze medalist went to give the debt to the real Olympic, he did not take his good back and gave the happy attribute of the Clothing Sautin as a keepsake. Each somersault from a ten -meter tower and the entrance to the water delivered unbearable pain. However, the German Jan Hampel and Chinese Xiao Khaylyany, he did not provide a chance and “ozolled” contrary to the forecasts of experts.

And then the operation found out that the inflammation reached the elbow ... Do you think that the barely recovered Sautin missed the continental championship in Seville? I went and soaked my third European gold. This will happen in metro. And the eleven-time champion of the Old World, the sewn-shifted monster will turn into m, in Eindhoven. At 34 years old.

And this will not be his last tournament. Dmitry Sautin in the center confidently won the jumps from the meter, silver at Jan Hampel Germany, bronze - at the Chinese athlete Xiao Khaylyan on the right. XXVI Summer Olympic Games, G. G. at his first world championship Dima took position after the third attempt to jump from the tower. They waved his hand at him. But the nugget with an iron character and extraordinary willpower managed to break into the Roman finale, overshadowed the then king of the pirouettes Sun Shuway and forced everyone to listen to the solemn melody of Mikhail Glinka.

In m, in Perth, our charming AC will devote masters from the Middle Kingdom and on the tower and on the three -meter springboard. Moreover, his dexterous maneuvers of the judge will appreciate, 99 points, which will be a new unofficial record. Sautin will block the achievement of the famous Greg Luganis. The same four -time Olympic champion from the United States, which once gave his summer Soviet pioneer his rag for wiping the body.

The pioneer, as you guessed, was Dima, who carefully kept the relic for many years. The stack behind the shoulders had three Olympiads and five awards four gold and one silver.But Sautinsky achievements, in my opinion, are cooler: from five games he will bring eight medals - two gold, two silver and four bronze. And in Sydney, an inventive stunt was completely medally firing in all four disciplines.