Sasha was born in the outback of Penza. In a village that did not seem to stand out with anything other than a picturesque area. In height, she looked like her father - Pavel Ivanovich - a forester, and with feminine charm - into her mother - Polina Grigorievna - a teacher.
As for her high growth - by no means a "virtue" for girlish beauty - Alexandra never had complexes. Moreover, it soon came in handy: at the age of 11, she became interested in basketball.
Champion
When the family moved from the village to neighboring Kuznetsk, a tall, fast, dexterous and quick-thinking girl on the court was noticed at school competitions and invited to the city youth sports school in the basketball section, where coach Anatoly Mikhailovich Khromchenko took her under guardianship. Probably, albeit for children, but the most important coach in her life. Khromchenko proved that the successful sports biography of Alexandra Ovchinnikova is not an accident. When Sasha was just starting out, in 1971, another of his pupils,Zinaida Kobzeva became an Honored Master of Sports by winning the World Championship.
And Alexandra Ovchinnikova became the champion while still a tenth grader: Spartak Penza (coach Zinoviy Semyonovich Shvam) won the RSFSR championship among women's teams. Ovchinnikova scored 50-60 points per match. And this is in women's basketball, and even in the absence of three-point shots at that time.
The girl could not but be taken to the junior team of the USSR, which won the European Championship with her. Ovchinnikova is again the most productive in the team.
Leningradka
It was logical to move to one of the strongest teams in the USSR and move to Leningrad. Which, by the way, had a negative impact on the daily life of parents in their native Penza region, where Sasha was declared a traitor. However, it was in the local "Spartak" that she became a real star of the Soviet women's basketball of the 70s. It is unlikely that this would have been possible in the Penza club. We will not describe all the victories of the women's team and Leningrad "Spartak" in the European Cup tournaments, but let's say that they all took place with the direct participation of Alexandra Ovchinnikova.
Alexander and Alexandra
The story of the "basketball" love of the two most popular players of the 70s deserves a separate description. The leader of the men's "Spartak" Alexander Belov stood out not only by playing on the court, but also by the external two-meter blue-eyed male beauty. In general, he did not suffer from the lack of female attention. They say that one who fell in love during the tour of the USSR national team inThe American American not only attended all the games of the national team throughout the country, but even came to the Soviet Union.
However, Alexander chose basketball player Alexandra Ovchinnikova as his life partner. Sasha could hardly be called a burning beauty, but thanks to her special charm and femininity, in the sense of attractiveness, she could give odds to many. Belov confessed his love not like a true Casanova. He sent a friend, basketball player Mikhail Korkia, to check Alexandra's reciprocity, and confessed his love in a letter, and even then not directly: "I don't subscribe. I think you guessed who is addressing you."
The couple was considered perhaps the most beautiful in Leningrad. However, they were not together for long: at the age of 26, literally in six months, Alexander "ate" cancer.
Alexandra Pavlovna
Ovchinnikova at the end of her career worked as a coach in Novovoronezh. Lives in St. Petersburg. Sometimes he enters the court in matches of women's amateur teams. Takes part in the activities of the Kondrashin and Belov Basketball Development Fund. It often happens in his native Penza region. Life goes on…
False "Movement"
Before the release on the big screens of the famous film "Upward Movement", which tells about the historic victory of the USSR men's team over the absolutely invincible American team in the final of the 1972 Olympic Games, Alexandra Ovchinnikova and the widow of the head coach of that team Vladimir Kondrashin - Evgenia - gathered press conference at which they announced that they were suingfilmmakers.
Alexandra Pavlovna, who was played in the film by actress Alexandra Revenko, was outraged that historical facts were seriously distorted for the sake of drama. So, her ex-husband Alexander Belov was depicted in the film as terminally ill already during the Olympics. Although he really was like that only five years after the match. In 1972, Belov was at the peak of his career, no one had any idea that in six years he would be taken away by cancer. And they simply wouldn't have taken a sick person to the Olympic team.
Outraged by Ovchinnikova and a fictitious game with a yard team in the USA, which apparently took place in order to fail and get drunk in a bar because of this.
She was against the film adaptation of Alexander's personal life. It turned out to be a lot of things that did not correspond to reality: thought out and distorted.
Added facts of distortion of reality and discredit of the heroes of the Olympics-72 Evgeny Kondrashina:
"The only truth in the film is the final match in Munich - the rest is wrong."
The explanation of the "edits" by the fact that without them the film will turn out to be uninteresting, Ovchinnikov and Kondrashin are not satisfied: they believe that this is not acceptable for the sake of commercial success. How do you like that? Kondrashin's son, disabled since childhood, after winning the final of the Olympics began to walk to celebrate, although in reality he was always chained and still chained to a wheelchair.
The filmmakers actually ignored the claims regarding the script, having essentially satisfied only one thing: at the request of the applicants, theyrefused the filmmakers to use their names. Because Alexandra Ovchinnikova appears there as Ekaterina Sveshnikova.
Litigation continues.
The photo below is another one of the many untruths of "Moving Up". On the right is a photo of the real Ovchinnikova, on the left is a frame from the film where Alexandra Revenko, as the girlfriend of basketball player Alexander Belov, is on the podium during the final match, but in reality she was not there: women's basketball came to the Olympics only in 1976. Not true, but how dramatic and dramatic! Judge for yourself how justified it is to distort history for the sake of it.
Dossier
Ovchinnikova Alexandra Pavlovna.
Born on 1953-06-07 in the village of Tekhmenevo, Kuznetsk district, Penza region.
Basketball player, coach.
Career:
- 1970-71 - Spartak (Penza);
- 1971-86 - Spartak (Leningrad);
- 1972-80 - USSR national team.
Achievements:
- ZMS (1978).
- Champion of the RSFSR in 1970.
- European Junior Champion 1971
- Champion of the World Universiade 1973, 1977, 1979.
- European Champion 1974, 1978.
- World Champion 1975.
- USSR Champion 1974.
- "Silver" USSR 1972, 1973, 1975.
- "Bronze" USSR 1976.
- "Bronze" Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR in 1975.
- 1972-74 European Cup Winners
- Owner1975 Lilian Ronchetti Cup.
- The best female basketball player of the European Championship in 1978.
Awards:
- Order of the Red Banner of Labor;
- Order of Honor.
Personal life:
The wife of the famous Soviet basketball player Alexander Belov, who made the decisive throw in the final match of the 1972 Olympics. The official family life of the couple due to the fatal illness of Alexander was short-lived: from 1977-30-04 to 10/3/1978. 31 years after Belova's death, she married basketball observer Sergei Chesnokov.
Daughter Polina, born out of wedlock. Granddaughter Vasilisa.
