Winner(s) of the Paralympic Games Arsentev Viktor Volga

Winner(s) of the Paralympic Games Arsentev Viktor Volga Region State Academy of Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism

Paralympic games - the largest sports competitions among people with disabilities. Every year the number wishing to participate in the Paralympic games increases. In 1960, the Games were attended by 400 athletes from 23 countries, already at the Paralympic games 2012 in London will perform 4200 athletes from 160 countries. Over the years the number of disciplines in Paralympic sports have increased from 57 to 471. For the participants of the Paralympics are no age restrictions.

The idea of creating the Paralympic games by the German neurologist Ludwig Guttmann. In 1948, in the Centre of rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injuries in Stoke Mandeville (UK), he organized a sports competition for veterans of the Second world war. By 1953 the number of participants at the Stoke Mandeville has grown to 130, which attracted the attention of representatives of the Olympic movement. The term "Paralympic" derives from the Greek preposition "para" is "beside, beyond, in addition to" and "approximately parallel" and the words "Olympics", that is, along with the Olympic games are held in parallel Paralympic games.

The Paralympic Games 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, Great Britain. 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia. 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Participants and Champions of the Paralympic games from Tatarstan If before the Paralympic games was just a background of the Olympic games and the successes of the Paralympians were in the shadow of the performances of the Olympians, but today the situation is changing. Reward Champions and winners of the Paralympic games is comparable to a premium Champions and medalists. Tatarstan in the Paralympic team for Boxing in Vancouver was represented by the participant in three Paralympics, cross-country skier and biathlete Irina Polyakova. This is already the 4th Olympic games for Tatarstan athletes. In the Treasury of the athletes already have a medal in the team event: silver in salt lake city and the "gold" of Turin. Irina Polyakova, honored master of sports of Russia, winner of the medal of the Republic of Tatarstan "For valiant labor". The experience of three previous Competitions helped her to perform well in Vancouver, and although she did not win medals - the best result Polyakova was fourth place, the performance was decent.

Another champion is from Tatarstan Ayrat Zakiyev. At the XIII summer Paralympic games in Beijing Zakiev Ayrat won a silver medal in powerlifting. Held in April 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk the Russian championship on powerlifting among athletes with lesions of the musculoskeletal system Ayrat Zakiev won "gold" in weight category to 60 kg.

18-year-old native of Rich Subs Rushan Minnegulov took part in competitions on ski races and biathlon at the Olympics in Vancouver. Rushan works in the UFMS of Russia in the Republic of Tatarstan in the position of inspector. He became disabled in 2005, once in a car accident. In disability sports but brought in 2007, his uncle, Radik Minnegulov, who later became the personal coach of the athlete. He fully dedicated himself to the sport. After hard training, the result has not kept itself waiting long: already in March 2008, he becomes a double champion of Russian Championship among youth with disabilities with lesions of the musculoskeletal system.

It was his first sporting achievement of such level - gold medal in the discipline "Ski race in the race in the sprint and freestyle" and silver classic style on the course in 5 km. In March 2009 he won the champion of Russia among men with disabilities with lesions of the musculoskeletal system. This time he won gold in the discipline "cross-country Skiing classic style" (5 km). After that it automatically enrolled in the composition of the Paralympic national team of Russia.

At the Paralympic games 2010 in Vancouver Rushan Minnegulov shows fifth result in skiing at the distance of 20 km, behind the winner, which became his compatriot Kirill Mikhailov, for 3 minutes. Now he is prepared, under the strict guidance of his personal trainer Radhika Milogolova, world Cup 2011 and the XI Paralympic winter games in Sochi in 2014.

The success of the Tatarstan athletes will give impetus to the development of the Paralympic movement in the country. But the problems in this area a lot and the most painful is absence in Tatarstan the specialized sports complex, which could become not only a major arena of competition, but also a place where disabled people of different categories and ages have been able to receive training for a particular sport, to improve their skills. To resolve this problem accepted. On the basis of the football stadium for 45 thousand seats, which will be built for the world summer Universiade-2013 in Kazan, planned to build a training Center Tatarstan Paralympians