It is well known that South Ural's sporting professions were determined by the climate. Chelyabinsk was skating capital despite the fact that there were no covered skating rinks and skaters had to train, compete and set their records in the open air. Mass involvement of people was perhaps the best achievement of the South Ural sports movement in 1960-1980s. It was popularly called «family is the cell of sports». There were always ways to call families for competitions. Before the Olympic games in Innsbruck in 1976 «Club 1500» was organised and to join the club one had to ski 1500 km, which was the distance from Moscow to Innsbruck.

Olympic champions. Chelyabinsk. Муниципальное казенное общеобразовательное учреждение «Первомайская СОШ» Olympic champions. Chelyabinsk. Русинов Андрей 10 класс Руководитель учитель английского языка Пережогина Г.К. 2014

We are proud of Olga Fatkulina

Olga Aleksandrovna Fatkulina (23 January 1990 is a Russian long-track speed skater. She competed for Russia at the 2010 and2014 Winter Olympics. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi she won silver medal in the 500 meters event

Famous sportswoman Lidia Skoblikova took part in the Opening Ceremony in Sochi

Lidia Pavlovna Skoblikova (1939-03-08) 8 March 1939 Zlatoust. Chelyabinsk region In February 1964 Chelyabinsk skater Lidia Skoblikova wrote in her telegram to the head of state Nikita Khrushcherv in the Kremlin from the Olympic village in Innsbruck that she had won all the four events and got four gold medals. Skoblikova's collection includes 72 sports awards. She was the brightest of the numerous Ural «stars», that were shining on the world's sporting sky.

Skoblikova’s Results in Olympic games gold 1960 Squaw Valley 1500 3000 1964 Innsbruck 500 1000

Tatyana Sidorova T. Sidorova had got bronze Olympic medal in Innsbruck in 1964 and took part in Olympic games in Grenoble (1968)

Svetlana Bazhanova Svetlana Bazhanova (born 1 December 1972 in Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union, now Russia) Olympic medal record Competitor for Russia Women’s speed skating Gold 1994 Lillehammer 3,000 m .

Ishmuratova Svetlana Irekovna (born 20.04.1972) Zlatoust. Chelyabinsk region gold 2006 Turin 15 km individual 4x6 km relay bronze 2002 Salt Lake City 4x7.5 km relay

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Vyacheslav Arkadevich "Slava" Bykov (Russian: Вячеслав Аркадьевич Быков, born 24 July 1960 in Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) 1988 Olympics (Gold) 1992 Olympics (Gold)

Sergei Mikhailovich Makarov (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Макаров; born June 19, 1958) Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union. At the Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in 1984 and 1988 and a silver in 1980 as a member of the USSR team.

Sergei Starikov Born December 4, 1958 Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union Played for Traktor Chelyabinsk Olympic medal record Men's ice hockey Gold 1984 Sarajevo Team Gold 1988 Calgary Team Silver 1980 Lake Placid

Sergei Aleksandrovich Mylnikov (born October 6, 1958 in Chelyabinsk, Soviet Union) He also played for the Soviet National Team, winning a gold medal at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Список сайтов и литературы Челябинская область в фотографиях 1960-1980 В.И. Богдановский Творческое объединение «Каменный пояс» 2003 Энциклопедия «Челябинская область» К.Н. Бочкарев Челябинск «Каменный пояс» 2008 http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki http://sport.mail.ru/sochi/news/16640750/ http://www.gazeta.ru/sochi2014/ http://megabook.ru/article http://afisha.yandex.ru/chl/events/371963/