Happy birthday.
On December 18, Ukraine will celebrate the 70th anniversary of well-known coach of Trampoline and Acrobatic Gorzhyy Volodymyr.
He is coaching for 48 years! During this time, his personal athletes, his « children », as he says, took more than 200 medals in international competitions. …
From 1991 to 2005, Volodymyr became the Ukrainian National Coach for Trampoline. His athletes Oksana Tsyguleva and Olena Movchan won together 3 world titles in 1996, 1999 and 2001.
His highest and most beautiful achievment is the Olympic Gold medal of Yuri Nikitin at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the Olympic Silver medal of Oksana Tsyguleva at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
Volodymir achieved as a coach a total of 2 Olympic medals, 7 World games medals, 39 at
world championships, 24 at European championships and about 100 in totalThis outstanding coach and nice person is now preparing the 2008 Olympic Games. Olena Movchan and Yuri Nikitin are two among the most serious pretenders for the Olympic titles.
What about two medals, Volodymyr?
I think they are more “contenders” than “pretenders”.
There’s hope for me yet, too. He’s 70-years-old and still coaching at the highest level in the world. Here with Olena Movchan after she won the Olympic test meet:
I saw this mentioned some time ago on GYMmedia.com.
Leave a comment if you know other coaches on the Floor at international competition past age 70.
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