Two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics Natalya Lavrova died on Friday, April 23, in a car accident near Penza. Her younger sister Olga was driving. She didn't survive either.
The tragic news spread around Penza in a matter of hours. Natalya Lavrova is a well-known person in our city - although she worked in the capital in recent years, she still remained at home in her homeland.
Reporter correspondents went to the scene of the accident on the third kilometer of the Penza-Shemysheika highway. The restrictive tapes have already been removed here, and tow trucks have taken away the burnt cars. There were still deformed parts of the car on the side of the road, but soon they would be gone.
Not far from the accident site is the village of Zasechnoye - just one and a half kilometers away. We went there.
Zasechnoe
Local residents were the first to see what happened on the highway.
– “My windows just look out onto that road,” a village resident told Reporter correspondents, pensioner Zinaida Andreeva. – Around nine, I noticed dense black smoke from the side of the road.
– “I was on my way home from work by minibus,” adds a middle-aged local resident who introduced herself Innoy. – All passengers saw that an accident had occurred. When we drove closer, we saw two girls in burnt clothes at the side of the road.
– My husband and I were returning home from Kondol, just along this road,” she shared director of the local cultural center Lidiya Bondarenko. “We were still surprised - we were driving there, everything was clean, but here there were a lot of fire trucks and police cars. When we got closer, we saw a burnt-out car standing in a field, and a foreign car nearby on the side of the road. Her entire front part was crumpled, apparently swipe accepted. I didn’t look in that direction anymore, and my husband later said that the bodies of two girls were lying on the ground. When I arrived in Zasechnoye, I learned from my fellow villagers: it turns out that two Lavrov sisters had died. They said that when the car caught fire, oncoming cars stopped. To extinguish the flames, drivers pulled their seat covers off and took out fire extinguishers. And so they managed to pull the girls out of the car before it exploded. Our whole village is buzzing, this is all we talk about. We are all in shock. Such grief, especially for parents!
Signal at half past ten
– At about half past nine, the emergency department received a signal about an accident,” he explained. Senior State Traffic Inspector of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate for the Penza Region Vitaly IVANOV.– There were two girls in the car. They were moving towards the city from Shemysheyka. According to the preliminary version, the car turned into the oncoming lane. Then the Mazda crashed into her. Both the driver and the passenger died on the spot due to the strong impact. The car of the fourteenth model in which they were traveling caught fire. But the bodies were pulled out before the explosion. The driver of the foreign car was saved from death by a deployed airbag. With injuries, he was sent to the on-duty city hospital.
Reporter correspondents visited city hospital No. 1 on Friday, April 23; it was she who was on duty that day. By that time, the parents of the Mazda driver, 22-year-old Denis Mityaykin, who was injured in the accident, had already left the hospital. They were on duty in the emergency room all those hours while the doctors fought for the life and health of their son.
– The young man was operated on, explained surgeon of the surgical department of city hospital No. 1 Vladimir GRIDNEV. “After the operation, he was in serious condition in the intensive care unit.
Denis is indirectly related to Zasechny: his father is engaged in woodworking in this village.
"Difficult" place
– I get goosebumps when I start talking about this topic. It's a shame these girls are so young. “How can parents bear this?” she became upset in a conversation with reporters from “Reporter.” Olga Udavkina, a pensioner from Zasechny.“I found out about the tragedy in the morning when I was going to the store. The supplier who delivers goods to our stall said that the road was blocked due to a terrible accident. Yes, we have had accidents in this place before. This section of the road is “bad”. Something similar happened about two years ago. Then a young guy died. His car also drifted into the oncoming lane, overturned several times and caught fire in a field.
– The place where the accident took place is somehow enchanted,” continues the “semi-mystical” theme Lydia Bondarenko, director of the Zasechensky House of Culture. – They say that a very long time ago, when Penza had not yet been built, there was a cemetery here. And to this day, on God’s Mountain, where the Lavrovs now live, local residents sometimes find bones when they dig up their plots. The particularly superstitious of my fellow villagers believe that the ashes of their ancestors are disturbed by the road, and that’s why misfortunes happen. According to local beliefs, when driving through a problem area, you must throw grains of granulated sugar onto the road every time - in my opinion, this is something from ancient pagan rituals, but people believe...
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Father of the dead girls Alexander Nikolaevich Lavrov- a well-known and respected person in the city. For a long time he worked as a surgeon at the Ternovskaya central regional hospital. Then he took charge of it. A few years later, he took the position of chief physician of the regional hospital. N.N. Burdenko. Currently he works as Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development of the Penza Region.
– Alexander Nikolaevich is a very good surgeon. “I know this first-hand, he treated my husband,” she clarified. Lyudmila Filinkova, artistic director of the cultural center of the village of Zasechnoe.“Everyone here knows the Lavrov family; not so long ago they built a house here not far away, on God’s Mountain, and recently they lived mainly there. We perceived their tragedy as a personal grief, we mourn with them.
– This Friday, April 23, I came to see my daughter Alena, she lives on the street next to the Lavrovs,” she said Lydia Bondarenko.– From the bedroom window I saw cars driving up to their gate one after another.
In the very first hours after the tragedy in country house Relatives and relatives of the Lavrovs began to arrive. Alexander Nikolaevich himself was no longer at home - he had left to organize the funeral. Two men stood in the courtyard near the porch - the husband of the deceased Olga Stanislav and his father. The men stood depressed. Stanislav was already in formal suit, but still in home slates. There was clearly no time for talk; Stanislav clarified that “the funeral will take place on Sunday at the New Western Cemetery”...
Goldfish
Natasha Lavrova started playing sports from an early age. The flexible, slender baby was brought to the Penza gymnastics school by her mother Natalya Anatolyevna. Today, the main place of training for young graces is the Burtasy Sports Palace, and then, almost twenty years ago, all the children trained in the gymnasium on Kirov Street.
This hall greeted the Reporter correspondents with silence: the gymnasts’ classes were canceled that day.
– Yes, it was from this hall that Natasha Lavrova went to her first Olympics, she told us Valentina Tugusheva, employee of the gymnastics complex.– I remember her well. I took my eldest granddaughter here for classes. She was in the junior group, and Natasha was already in the senior group. Affectionate, kind, sympathetic - Natasha helped the younger ones, showed how to do the elements correctly.
The appearance of the hall has not changed much since the time when the Olympic champion trained here. Big gym, equipped with parallel bars, rings, crossbars, mats, trampolines, and today it becomes an arena for daily training. On the second floor there are two mirrored choreographic halls where girls practice flexibility.
We met with Natalia’s Penza coach Tatyana Alekseevna Vasilyeva on Saturday, April 24th. Despite the grief, she was at her workplace at the Burtasy Sports Palace: she had to judge the competition. However, due to mourning, the competition was canceled.
Tatyana Alekseevna and Natalya were close for many years - it was Vasilyeva who led Lavrova to the Olympic gold podium. They have been together in different situations, the coach remembers various little things and details that are not important
by and large, but life usually consists of such details, and who knows their true value?..
– Natasha’s father, Alexander Nikolaevich, met us from all the competitions,” recalls Tatyana Alekseevna, “he, too, was involved in sports in the past, was a boxer, he was very proud of the sporting successes of his eldest daughter. He picked us up in his old Zhiguli straight from the airport in Moscow. And we all went to Penza together. It was a bit cramped because we usually had a lot of luggage. But we were happy that we were all returning home together. I especially remember returning from the Olympics. That time, Natalya’s father came to pick us up in a Gazelle. We were already met at the entrance to Penza. The festive tables were set, because we were returning with victory. And when our entire small delegation got out of the car, the officers unanimously shouted three times “Hurray!” And then, in a column with flashing lights, we drove up to the gymnastics school on Kirov Street, where we were also greeted with thunderous applause.
Natasha has always been a courageous girl, she never became limp and did not show it if things got difficult. I remember when we arrived at the Sydney Olympics, she complained of severe pain in her big toe. As it turned out later, it turned out to be broken. Despite the pain, Natasha just waved it off, saying, “I can do it,” and performed the routine brilliantly. At the Olympic Games in Sydney, Natalya Lavrova won her first gold. At that time she was only sixteen years old.
Before the second Olympic Games in Athens, Lavrova underwent serious surgery on the meniscus. In general, after such injuries, people leave big sports. But less than two weeks after the operation, Lavrova reappeared in the gym. All the movements were extremely difficult for her; she only did the elements while lying down. But a month later she was already on the team and went to the next training camp. We know the results of the Athens Olympics - gold again.
Lavrova was the leader Russian team By rhythmic gymnastics. She came to the national team as the youngest of the girls, but despite the age difference, her teammates respected her and obeyed her. She instilled faith in victory. During the entire time our compatriot was in the national team, the girls never lost. That’s what they called their Natasha – “goldfish”.
After a triumphant victory at Olympic Games, Natalya Alexandrovna decided to try herself in a new capacity. Irina Viner, head of the Russian Gymnastics Federation, invited Lavrova to become the senior coach of the Dynamo sports society.
– At 25, she was the only girl to become a double Olympic champion, explained President of the Penza Region Gymnastics Federation Valery STARKIN. – Her last position was head coach of Dynamo. The other day she was supposed to become the head coach of Moscow.
– She was a good coach, she worked for a year with Dasha Kolobova, who this year won five gold medals at the International Cup in Cairo. - continues his story Tatiana Vasilyeva,– in a short time she greatly improved her and prepared her for serious competitions.
On April 23-26, rhythmic gymnastics competitions among juniors were held in Penza. On April 23 at ten in the morning the grand opening of the competition was planned. Natasha how head coach I really wanted to be there in time for the opening. Together with her sister Olya, she left her parents’ country house in the morning. However, they never managed to get there...
– This news was a shock for coaches and athletes,” she said. Olga Stebeneva, Lavrova’s very first coach even for the younger group, - We canceled the grand opening, but decided to start the competition. We asked all participants to dedicate their performances to the memory of Natalia Lavrova.
Sister
Unlike her older sister, Olga Lavrova was far from big-time sports. For a long time, the family lived in the area of the greenhouse plant, and both girls went to secondary school No. 75. Olya Lavrova entered first grade in 1993. She was a diligent student, she grasped everything on the fly. Most of all she loved the humanities. Without thinking about what she would be after school, she answered – a doctor. Her peers were drawn to her; she had no shortage of friends. In the class she always turned out to be the ringleader and leader.
– Olya sat on the first desk of the first row, she remembers former classmate Svetlana Kazakova.– Together we always solved physics problems. Olya did the first step of the task, Irina did the second, Natasha did the third. And so we wrote a test in physics together.
– “I was Olya Lavrova’s class teacher,” she said. Vera Klopyzhnikova, computer science teacher at school No. 75“I’ve known her literally since kindergarten. My son went to kindergarten with her. A bright, cheerful girl, she loved to help others. In high school, the family moved to Ternovka, but Olya did not want to change school. Therefore, every day her parents took her to classes at our school.
In 2003 she entered the medical faculty of the Polytechnic University. The girl’s future husband, Stas, also studied at the same university. As friends say, the young people dated for quite a long time. And the year before last we got married.
– A very family-oriented, affectionate girl, she loved her parents and husband,” says friend Irina.
According to Olga's close friends, the girl was preparing to become a mother, and perhaps there were not two, but three victims in the car accident...
Parting
As soon as the terrible news about the death of the Lavrov sisters spread across Russia, she flew to Penza, canceling an important trip. Irina Viner. Just for a few hours. In order to say goodbye to Natasha. Irina Vyacheslavovna did not wait for the day of the funeral, and, arriving at the Lavrovs’ house, said goodbye to her alone.
On April 25, Natalya Lavrova again brought a full house to Burtasy. But the residents of Penza came not to watch her graceful performance, but to see her off on her last journey. At the entrance there were portraits of girls, and on the table there were telegrams of condolences to loved ones. In particular, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent a telegram to the relatives in support. The grief-stricken parents did not even raise their eyes to the stream of people who came to say goodbye to their daughters. Natalya Anatolyevna, the sisters’ mother, kept stroking Natasha’s face and straightening her veil. The father tried to maintain composure, but his nerves could not stand it even for such a strong man.
When the removal of the body began, it was frankly crowded on the street, it seemed as if the whole city had gathered to see off the Lavrov sisters. Portraits, medals and orders were carried by young gymnasts - Natalia's students. Cars passing by honked their horns, and then it started to rain.
According to popular belief, it rains at funerals when bright people leave.
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The editors of the Reporter newspaper expresses condolences to the family and friends of Natalia Lavrova and Olga Popova.
She started playing sports at the age of 5, her first coach was Olga Stebeneva.
She studied at Penza secondary school No. 75. She graduated from Penza State Pedagogical University named after. V.G. Belinsky.
Member of the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team since 1998. Coach - Tatyana Vasilyeva. In 1999, at the World Championships, she took 1st place in group exercises.
On September 30, 2000, at the Olympic Games in Sydney (Australia) she won gold medal in rhythmic gymnastics competitions in group exercises. In 2004, in Athens, Natalya again won a gold medal, becoming the first two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics.
Repeated winner international competitions Grand Prix series in group exercises.
She was the head coach of the Dynamo sports club in rhythmic gymnastics, as well as a coach at the Olympic training center for rhythmic gymnastics.
On April 23, 2010, at the age of 25, she died in a car accident near Penza on the Penza-Shemysheika highway along with her younger sister, 23-year-old Olga. The accident occurred at 10:00 Moscow time; the champion’s sister was driving the VAZ-2114. The car in which Lavrova was traveling skidded into the oncoming lane, where it crashed into a Mazda car. The impact threw Lavrova's car off the road, after which the car caught fire. Lavrova’s sister also died at the scene of the accident; the driver of the foreign car was not seriously injured.
Natalya and Olga were buried together on the Walk of Fame at the New Western Cemetery of Penza.
On April 26, 2010, the Penza authorities announced that a monument to the deceased first two-time Olympic champion would be erected in the regional center, and it was also decided to organize a rhythmic gymnastics tournament in memory of Natalya Lavrova. It is likely that the competition will receive international status.
Awards
- Order of Honor - For great contribution to development physical culture and sports, tall sporting achievements at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad 2004 in Athens
- Order of Friendship - For great contribution to the development of physical culture and sports and high sporting achievements at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad 2000 in Sydney
Relatives and colleagues came to say goodbye to two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics Natalya Lavrova and her sister Olga.
For Russian sports Natalia's departure - big loss. Relatives and friends still cannot believe her tragic death.
The hardest thing now is for her parents, who lost two daughters at once,” says Mr. Chief coach of the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team Irina Winner. - They raised strong man. Natasha was like a rock...
In Natalia’s homeland, it was decided to erect a monument in her honor.
The accident, which resulted in the death of the coach of the Russian Olympic Training Center and the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team, two-time Olympic champion Natalya Lavrova, occurred on Friday at 9.30 am on the 3rd kilometer of the Penza-Shemysheika highway.
A VAZ-2114, driven by the 24-year-old sister of the Olympic champion Olga, jumped into the oncoming lane and collided with a Mazda. The car spun, the impact of the foreign car fell on the middle of the car on the passenger seat side. Both girls died on the spot. The driver of the foreign car, a 23-year-old man, was hospitalized with a concussion and blunt abdominal trauma.
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25-year-old Natalya Lavrova was the first two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics. She received Olympic gold in 2000 at the Olympic Games in Sydney in group exercises. For the second time the title Olympic champion she received in Athens in 2004.
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Natalya was a multiple winner of international Grand Prix competitions in group exercises. In 2001 she was awarded the Order of Friendship.
Recently, Natalya worked as a trainer-teacher in Moscow at the Irina Viner Olympic Training Center. Natalya came to Penza for the Dynamo Central Council Championship.
Parents last time saw our daughters this morning. Natalya's father was informed of their death by telephone while he was at work.
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“Nothing foreshadowed trouble,” Natalya Lavrova’s grief-stricken father, Alexander Nikolaevich, tells Life News. - In the morning they were cheerful, had breakfast... Who would have thought that I would see my girls for the last time...
I knew Natalia as a professional high level, - Artur Panteleev, deputy chairman of the Committee for Physical Education and Sports of the Penza Region, told Life News. - He was a very sympathetic and kind person... Young, promising... Natalya’s death is a huge loss...
The history of Russian rhythmic gymnastics in recent years is rich in outstanding champions who outwardly easily defeated all their rivals. Many fans believe that the beginning of the golden times was laid by Alina Kabaeva, who won bronze and gold medals at the Olympics in 2000 and 2004. However, almost everyone forgets that already in 2004 Kabaeva was surpassed.
At the Games in Athens, Natalya Lavrova became the first two-time Olympic champion in the history of rhythmic gymnastics.
And at the age of 25 she died tragically in a terrible car accident...
A fracture is a good omen
Natalya started doing gymnastics in Penza at the age of five. The girl was very lucky with her coach, and her mentor Olga Stebeneva with her student. They worked with each other with pleasure, Natalya literally absorbed knowledge and progressed very quickly. The idyll was disrupted when the Mentor went on maternity leave. At some point, Natalya even wanted to give up everything, but her love for sports still forced the girl to continue going to training.
In 1998, when the young gymnast was only 14 years old, she was recruited to join the national team. It took a year to prove her worth, but Natasha managed to do it. In 1999, she went with the team to the World Championships and won her first major title. Before the Games in Sydney there were no longer any questions about getting into the squad. The athlete was firmly in the base.
After her first performances as a member of the national team, Natalya received the nickname “ goldfish" When she competed, the team always took first place in group exercises. Moreover, it was a good omen, oddly enough, when something happened to the athlete herself. Coach Tatyana Vasilyeva said that in 1999 the girl was hit in the nose with a mace. After winning gold, this was jokingly considered a good omen. But then there was no time for jokes: at the Olympics in Sydney, Natalya competed with a broken toe, before the World Championships in New Orleans she twisted her leg, and before the Games in Athens, a tape got into the athlete’s eye. Needless to say, Russia won all these starts.
First double in history
In the four years that passed between the Olympic Games in Australia and Greece, the composition of the Russian team has changed almost completely. Only Natalya remained in the updated team. And she was the leader of the team: both as a champion who won many titles, and as a strong-willed person, kind, responsive and reliable. Girls who had just joined the team could always turn to her for advice or help - Natasha did not refuse.
On August 4, on her 20th birthday, Lavrova flew to the Olympics in Athens for her second gold medal and the laurel wreath that was given to champions. The Russian team performed flawlessly in the group all-around, and Natalya became the first two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics in history. Considering how young the sport is, this is a remarkable achievement. Even in 2018, such athletes can be counted on one hand.
Having won the second gold of the Games at the age of 20, Natalya ended her career as an athlete and switched to coaching work. In that field, the talented girl also succeeded quickly: she became the coach of the Olympic training center and the head coach of the Dynamo sports club. The pupils were happy to go to training with Natalya Alexandrovna. With her talents and desire, she could very well raise an Olympic champion herself...
But everything ended in an instant.
There was no chance to survive
April 23 Natalya in hometown was supposed to open a rhythmic gymnastics tournament at the Burtasy Sports Palace. But she was not destined to get there.
Natalia was taken to Penza by her younger sister, 23-year-old Olga. She had recently gotten married and was pregnant. And the more tragic are the circumstances of the accident that occurred at about 10 am on the intercity highway. Olga lost control on the slippery road, the Lada drifted into the oncoming lane, and a Mazda crashed into the passenger side, where Natalya was sitting, at full speed. The girls had no chance of surviving the collision. Rescuers who arrived at the scene of the incident pulled out two lifeless bodies from the burning car.
Natalya was only 25 years old.
A street was named in honor of Natalia in Penza. A children's and youth tournament named after her is also held in her hometown. But the person cannot be returned. In 2018, she would have turned 34 years old.
“One day my mother gave me a teddy bear...” Unknown details from the biography deceased Natalia Lavrova [VIDEO]
On April 23, two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics Natalya Lavrova died in a car accident in the Penza region.Two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics Natalya Lavrova
“If something happens to her, it means the team will be lucky...” So on October 16, 2004, our correspondent Vladislav Blagoobrazov began a note in the “Unfamiliar Star” column about Natalya Lavrova.
It just so happens that the life of the gymnast-“artist” is short-lived. Twenty-something and you're off the mat, a veteran. Therefore, participation in two or more Olympics is akin to a feat.
In 2004, Natalya Lavrova became the world's first two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics.
A pupil of a Penza school, whose portrait adorns the Honor Board on the central street of the city, received the title of “goldfish” from journalists - after Lavrova was included in our main team team I have never lost in group exercises. Moreover, our heroine’s “talismanism” manifested itself in a very unique way. We can say that she sacrificed herself for overall success. Team coach says Tatiana Vasilyeva :
– Before the 1999 World Championships, during one of the training sessions, one of the girls threw a mace, and it hit Natasha on the nose. Thank God there was no fracture. We were very worried, but Japan performed superbly and became world champions. Since then, paradoxically, if anything happened to Lavrova, it means we won. Natasha performed in Sydney with a fracture thumb legs, at the World Championships in New Orleans before the final she twisted her ankle, and finally, before the Athens Games, she got a tape in her eye. We are all already laughing: “This is for victory!” Natasha herself had her own talisman:
– When I was little, my mother gave me a teddy bear, and since then he has been with me at all competitions. I believe he is helping me. In rhythmic gymnastics, many people have talismans - soft toys. Fans give us them instead of flowers, and very often we bring a whole bag of “animals” from some tournament.
Winner of 25 gold and six silver medals at World Championships and Cups in group exercises Yanina Zatuliveter
At the end of 2004, having completed her historical mission, Natalya said big sport"Goodbye!". And she became the coach of the Russian national team. On April 23, this career was interrupted - in a terrible car accident in the Penza region...
GYMNASTS WHOSE LIVES WERE INTERRUPTED BY A TRAGIC ACCIDENT
On April 23, two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics Natalya Lavrova died in a car accident in the Penza region. The car the gymnast was driving was driven by her pregnant sister, who also died from her injuries.
The tragedy occurred on April 23 at 10 am (Moscow time) on the Penza-Shemysheika highway, along which Lavrova and her sister were traveling. Their VAZ-2114 collided with a Mazda, the driver of which was not seriously injured.
On August 16, 2005, Yanina Zatuliveter, winner of 25 gold and six silver medals at World Championships and Cups in group exercises, died on the Don federal highway near Voronezh. The car in which the gymnast was traveling along with two other passengers collided with a bus. At that time, she was 33 years old.
On October 20, 2009, world all-around bronze medalist Yuri Ryazanov died. He was returning from Moscow to his native Vladimir after his triumph at the world championship and unexpectedly drove into the oncoming lane. His Chevrolet Lacetti crashed into an Audi and the 22-year-old athlete died from his injuries.
World all-around bronze medalist Yuri Ryazanov
Honored Master of Sports, member of the national team teams Russia in rhythmic gymnastics since 1999,
club "Dynamo" - MGFSO.
Champion Olympic Games 2000, 2004,
Natalya Lavrova was the first two-time Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics. In 2000, at the Olympic Games in Sydney (Australia), a Russian woman won a gold medal in the rhythmic gymnastics competition in group exercises. In 2004, in Athens, Natalya again achieved the championship in group exercises. On at the moment her success could only be repeated by Elena Posevina, who won Olympic gold in Athens and Beijing.
multiple world and European champion,
awarded the Order of Friendship.
« Soviet sport"Expresses sincere condolences to the family and friends of Natalia Lavrova.
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