Sergey Bulygin is a famous biathlete. He is the gold medalist of the Olympic Games in Sarajevo, a master of sports, has repeatedly won world championships.
Sergey Bulygin is a famous biathlete. He became the champion of the USSR many times, as part of his team he won the relay of the world championships 4 times, is the Olympic champion in biathlon in 1984.
Biography
The progenitors of Sergei are from Belarus. His grandparents lived in this country in the village of Uhvala. And the future champion himself was born in July 1963 in the village of Solovyovka, in the Novosibirsk region. Then the family moved to the village of Tashar, as Sergei had to go to school, and in his native village there was no this educational institution. Perhaps there would have been no illustrious athlete if coach Ivanovskiy V.N. hadn’t come to Sergey’s school It was this man who opened a skiing club in the village.
Many schoolchildren decided to enroll here. Sergey and his brothers also went to study in the section.
But the routine was severe - you had to come to the sports club by 6 in the morning. Therefore, many guys could not stand such a schedule, left the section. And Sergey and his two brothers remained.
The young athlete had a difficult life in the family - as both parents drank. Therefore, they left their three sons in a boarding school. Occasionally, their grandmother and aunt, who lived there in the village of Tashara, visited the children here.
Sports career
Then coach Ivanovsky opened a biathlon club at the base of the ski section. The guys happily moved here. Sergey began to show sporting achievements at this stage. Seeing such successes of young talent, he was included in the junior team of the USSR. Then Bulygin Sergey Ivanovich was enrolled in the main team of the Union. At that time he was only 19 years old.
When the competitions were held in Kirov-Chepetsk, Bulygin managed to run 20 km perfectly and win with one penalty with a big advantage. Then he was taken to the world championship. This competition was held in Anterselva. The quartet of Soviet biathletes together with Bulagin took first place in the relay.
Victories and misses
At the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo, the team performed unsuccessfully in individual races. On the last day of the competition the relay race took place. At the first stage, Dmitry Vasiliev fled. He brought Yuri Koshkarov, put in the second stage, 67 seconds of advantage. Yuri also managed to maintain a leading position, as did Algimantas Shalna, who ran third. But this athlete missed twice at the last shooting, and Bulygin went to the last stage with an 18-second gap. But he already managed to reach the leading German athlete by the first frontier, again take the dominant place and bring his team to the gold medal.
