Every year, maybe even a month, sports news pleasantly delights and surprises us with new heroes, awards, victories. It remains only to be proud and rejoice at the achievements of our athletes, who do not stop working, working on themselves. They do not stop there, conquer new heights, achieve better results. They can rightly be called well-deserved. The article will focus on one of these athletes - Sergey Chepikov.
Sports achievements
Chepikov Sergey is the pride of the country, honored athlete, Russian and Soviet skier and biathlete, two-time Olympic champion and two-time world champion in biathlon. Participated in six Olympic Games, played for Dynamo. Currently, he is a coach-consultant of the Russian biathlon team.
Sergey Chepikov has a lot of sporting achievements:
- Awarded a bronze medal for participation in the Winter Olympics insprint, and a few years earlier won a gold medal in the same discipline.
- Two-time world champion in the mixed relay and team race, Sergey has only about 8 world championship silver medals and 3 bronze medals in his arsenal.
- One of the most worthy awards of an athlete is the Biathlon World Cup. Sergei is one of those who were the first to receive this award. Before him, Alexander Tikhonov won it in 1977.
The young man was brought up by the honored coach Pavel Bersenev, for which the biathlon world champion Sergei Chepikov is still grateful to him.
Sergey participated in cross-country skiing for some time, but, having not achieved some success there, he returned to biathlon again.
In 1990, Sergei announced his retirement from sports and the end of his career as an athlete.
After the end of an athlete's career
Completely leave the sport, Sergey Chepikov could not refuse it, because from early childhood his father instilled in his son a love for sports, taught him to be courageous, strong, strong and hardy, and Sergey himself loved very much, knew his job well, was attached to him. Therefore, after leaving, he continued his work, but of a different plan.
Currently, Sergei is a deputy of the Regional Duma of the Sverdlovsk Region, a member of the Regional Duma Committee on Social Policy. He also works as a consultant coach for the Russian biathlon team.
Sergey has a lot of things to do and hardly has time to rest. In addition to all of the above, Chepikov is a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovskareas. This person is always energetic, so he has enough time for other work. Today he is Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Social Policy. The athlete devotes his time to dealing with issues of physical culture, sports, tourism and youth policy.
Private life
In the biography of Sergei Chepikov, a significant role is assigned to the story of his personal life. As Sergey himself says, he was very lucky with his wife, who gave him five wonderful children, as he and his wife call them “the mixed biathlon team”. And the wife, in turn, says that she never thought that she would meet a male athlete who would later become a politician.
The couple has been together for 17 years. As family photos on social networks and the number of likes under them show, complete idyll and harmony reign in the family. His wife Elena is Sergey's strong rear and his support in everything. For example, once he decided to move from a city apartment to a cottage. The wife, without hesitation, agreed, especially since she always dreamed of having her own country house, and the kids would have somewhere to roam.
And this is just one of the examples showing Elena's love and devotion to her husband. Sergey spends all his free time with his family. Children love him very much for his kindness and care. Spouses never swear, as they match each other in terms of energy and perception of the world.
Hobby
In addition to his main work and household chores, the athlete finds time for his leisure. big connoisseur,lover and connoisseur of music of various directions, in a word, a music lover. Loves to collect. Has a large number of vinyl discs and CDs. Sergey also has his own library, where there are a lot of books. He is fond of philosophy.
Parting words to the younger generation
Chepikov Sergey is a wonderful person and a strong personality. During his career, he has survived more than one generation of athletes, many of them are now world champions, masters of sports in biathlon.
Today, he wishes future athletes to never give up in anything, boldly go to victory, as the winners are calm people in life, and on the track, they are not sparing rivals. Sergei Chepikov, not only in his youth, but even now remains a strong, strong-willed person, a wonderful husband and a wonderful father, setting an example not only for his wonderful children, but for the entire younger generation.
All pupils of Sergei thank him for the fact that he once invested his patience in them and gave them a ticket to a secure future. Chepikov Sergey is a man with a capital letter.
