Viktor Innokentievich Sedykh - track and field athlete and Honored Coach of the USSR, who raised champions. A schoolboy who did not like physical education, but became an ace in training professional athletes.
An outstanding coach who made a valuable contribution to the development of athletics in the Soviet Union. A man who flew rather than run and taught this to his students.
A family
Victor Sedykh was born in a peasant family on January 12, 1930 in the village of Alan, Kachugsky District, Irkutsk Region. In the thirties, his father Innokenty Dmitrievich fell under dispossession, and in 1943 he died at the front. He was raised by his mother Krestinya Makarovna, with whom he brought from school cards for bread in his hungry years.
Viktor Innokentyevich himself had a full-fledged strong family - a wife and two daughters. He met his wife in the first year of the Pedagogical Institute, where he looked out at the lectures of the most beautiful girls until he saw her. Even before the end of the fifth year, Victor and Nelly managed to not only play a wedding, but also give birth to two daughters. All his life he lived together, from turbulent college youth to old age in the hinterland, and all his life he could rely on her support.
Education
He graduated from school in his native village. Studying was easy for him, he was an excellent student, without putting much effort into it. He did not have to cram lessons at home after school, and he devoted his free time to skiing and horizontal bar classes. The future champion and coach dreamed of becoming a pilot. Despite his passion for skiing, he did not like and did not understand physical education lessons. He was even suspended for two weeks from studies for missing lessons, but due to good grades in other subjects, he was accepted back.
The dream of becoming a pilot had to be postponed, and the still skinny and not loving physical education guy went to study for military equipment in Irkutsk. In college, to gain strength and pump up, I wanted to do weightlifting. Fortunately for Soviet athletics, the coach did not accept him, being afraid to take responsibility for such a skinny athlete. But the coach advised him to go in for athletics, and Victor went to the stadium.
There he saw the unsurpassed sprinter of the fifties - the famous Tambovtsev. Victor was delighted by the slender runner racing along the treadmill. And already in the mid-fifties he made his first achievement in his career - a record in the hundred-meter race in the Irkutsk region.
In 1954, already working as a technician in the road design office of the East Siberian Railway and coaching children in sports schools, he entered the most complex physical and mathematical faculty of the Irkutsk State Pedagogical Institute. A test arranged in this way to himself succeeded; in 1959 he completed his studies.
He never received any physical education, the champion and trainer Viktor Innokentievich Sedykh brought up and brought up in himself, although he said that physical and mathematical education greatly helped him in the coach’s activities.
Sports career
"Running is a flight with a short touch of the ground, " Viktor Sedov liked to say, and taught his wards this.
Starting his career as a coach in 1953, Victor Sedykh himself continued to engage in and achieve success in sports. Victor Innokentyevich was an athlete multi-stationer, and coached champions in various disciplines. He won a bronze medal in the relay 4x100 meters at the Second Spartakiad of the Peoples of the RSFSR in Leningrad in 1959. He achieved success in ten types of athletics: running 100, 200 m; 110, 200, 400 m with barriers; decathlon, pentathlon, eventing; pole vault, long jump.
In 1959, he began teaching sopromat at the Civil Aviation School and looking for talents during training. Viktor Sedykh had his own formula for success, which he used both for himself and for his students. At the beginning of work with the wards he was helped by talent. Looking at the athlete, he could determine his potential.
At the Aviation College, he met his two wards and future champions Tatyana Goishik and Alexander Stasevich. Tatyana Goishik prize-winner of the European Winter Championship, Olympic champion in the Games in Moscow. Alexander Stasevich is a three-time winner of the international tournament for the prizes of the Znamensky brothers, a participant in the Olympics-80.
When he was a professor at the Aviation College, Viktor Innokentyevich was in good standing and even received offers of promotion to the rector, but refused his teaching career. In 1970, he decided to completely immerse himself in coaching and left the Aviation College. Over the years of coaching, he managed to raise 12 masters of sports of the USSR and 4 masters of sports of international class. The most famous of them are: Nina Lykhina, Boris Gorbachev, Misha Prein, Alexander Stasevich, Olga Antonova, Tatyana Goishchik.
Victor Sedykh was not only an ambitious athlete, but also a stubborn and ambitious coach. He believed that in the world of sports, the coach is primary in the eternal question of what used to be a chicken or an egg and what is more important. According to Viktor Innokentievich, in the formula for success is four percent of the ability, and the rest is labor.
Battle for the Olympics
I always tried to the maximum with regard to my wards, squeezed out excellent results from them and fought for the opportunity to show them. He brought his two most famous students from scratch and to participate in the Olympic Games in Moscow.
Goishik easily got into the national team, but the competition was very high, almost two teams. Tatiana did not participate in the preliminary race, and there was nothing to rely on. Viktor Innokentievich was able to inspire Tatiana and convince the coaching staff that she should run in the finals. As a result, the Soviet team bypassed the favorite from the GDR and received Olympic gold.
Stasevich was not planning to be invited to the national team, and the coach had to bring him into shape. Viktor Sedykh “took him into custody” and at the Games - at the Znamensky brothers Memorial, Alexander showed at a distance of 200 meters the fifth result of the season in the world. This helped to get into the national team, and they even predicted that he would take a prize at the Olympics, but he was injured in the preliminary race and could not continue to participate in the competition.
