In just a few years, Evgeny Garanichev has grown from a newcomer to the Russian national team into one of its leaders. At the Olympic Games in Sochi, he achieved the greatest personal success among our athletes - he became a bronze medalist in the individual race.
Evgeny Garanichev was born in the Perm region in the Nytvensky district in the village of Novoilinsky on February 13, 1988. Since childhood, Evgeniy has been interested in skiing; at the age of eight, his parents sent their son to the skiing section. And in skiing Garanichev showed excellent results at the junior level. At the World Championships in Malse, Italy, Evgeniy won the 4x5 kilometer relay as part of the Russian team. Later, at another World Junior Championships, also in the relay race, Garanichev won silver.
However, in 2008, Evgeny Garanichev switched from cross-country skiing to biathlon. This happened largely due to the fact that in the Perm region skiing developed poorly: the promising athlete had no conditions for growth at all. In biathlon, things immediately went well for the hardworking athlete.
Excellent ski training Evgenia allowed him to quickly express himself in a new form. He learned not only to run, but also to shoot accurately. In his first start, “Izhevsk Rifle,” Garanichev took 4th place in the 20-kilometer individual race, after which he qualified for the European Cup.
The athlete’s results were on the rise and in 2011 Garanichev made his debut in Anterselva at the World Cup stage, taking 13th place in the sprint race. Also in 2011, Evgeniy Garanichev won two bronze medals and a silver medal at the Universiade. The following season, the Russian athlete’s first “gold” in biathlon appeared among the awards. In Holmenkollen, in the sprint, Garanichev rose to the highest step of the podium, ahead of Arnd Peiffer and Emil Hegle Svendsen.
In the 2012/13 season, Evgeniy proved himself to be a team fighter, winning his first victory in the relay. The Russian team, for which Alexei Volkov, Anton Shipulin and Dmitry Malyshko ran in addition to Garanichev, won the World Cup in Oberhof. At the same stage, Evgeniy climbed to the podium two more times - he became second in the sprint and pursuit race.
The Olympic season did not start very well for Evgeniy. The first victory came in December in the relay race, where Garanichev’s partners were Ivan Tcherezov, Alexander Loginov and Anton Shipulin. At the Olympics in Sochi, the sprint and pursuit race were unsuccessful for the athlete - 27th and 15th place. But in the individual race he came third, winning the only personal medal for the Russian men's team. In the mixed relay, Garanichev did not perform very well, and he did not make it into the relay four of the Russian team.
Evgeniy Garanichev is a physical education coach and teacher; he graduated from Tyumen State University. Evgeniy's hobbies include volleyball and football.
It is curious that Garanichev only tried alcohol once. Once the athlete admitted that he did not know the taste of vodka and beer. “In other people’s companies they often ask: “Are you coded? Did you drink too much?" no and no. I just don’t understand the taste or the benefits. I don’t want to drink and I won’t. Never,” declares the hope of Russian biathlon.
Russia
Personal information
Date of birth -
February 13, 1986
Place of birth - Novoilinsky
Citizenship - Russia
Marital status - married
Education: higher, Institute of Physical Culture, Tyumen State University
Height - 169 cm
Weight - 68 kg
Titles
Bronze medalist at the 2014 Olympic Games
World Cup Awards
Gold - 3
Silver - 6
Bronze - 4
Firing accuracy
Overall - 78%
Lying down - 76%
Standing - 80%
Due to the busy work schedule, the personal life of venerable athletes passes in a hurry and in a hurry. The famous biathlete knew his wife Lyudmila Garanicheva (Tyutikova) for six years before he proposed marriage to her.
By his own admission, even this long period of time was not enough to bore each other: rare meetings have an important advantage. “Every time you seem to get to know a person again, discover new, interesting features in him.”
Love in between starts
Lyudmila Garanicheva was born in 1986 in the city of Ocher, Perm Territory. Her life was not much different from the life of most provincial girls: after school, she entered the Perm State Institute of Art and Culture, which she successfully graduated from. While still a student, she went with a friend to a billiards club, where she met her future husband.
At that time, Garanichev was a promising but not yet outstanding shooting skier. His main victories were still ahead.
According to the athlete, he immediately liked the pretty blonde, but they started dating after some time. The young people corresponded for a long time before they began an affair.
Unlike some other girlfriends and wives of athletes, Lyudmila did not accompany Evgeniy to competitions and training camps. Being a responsible and rational girl by nature, she devoted a lot of time to her studies, and the couple did not have the financial ability to pay for expensive tickets and accommodation at that time.
The attitudes in the Russian team are such that after three stages of the World Cup, athletes do not go home, unlike most foreign biathletes. Some experts believe that this state of affairs gives foreign biathletes a head start; some, on the contrary, are confident that the absence of distractions keeps athletes at their peak.
Be that as it may, many months the training and competitive process becomes a real test for girlfriends and wives of athletes. Lyudmila passed this test. “She just loves me very much, so she didn’t leave me,” Evgeniy comments on the situation.
Wedding on the run
In 2013, the Garanichevs had a wedding. Evgeny doubted for a long time whether it was worth organizing this event in the pre-Olympic year; athletes are superstitious people. But something took over, and the wedding took place.
The celebration took place in Tyumen, in the region that Garanichev represents at the request of the governor. He was provided with an apartment and all the conditions for a comfortable stay between competitions and training camps.
Apparently, Garanichev was right. No wonder he dedicated his Olympic medal to his wife and all his relatives. They were the ones who most strongly supported Evgeniy during the entire difficult stage of preparation for the most important start.
The wedding was modest, Garanichev simply did not have time to prepare for the magnificent celebration. A famous photograph from the registry office, where Evgeniy and Lyudmila are captured together with teammates Shipulin and Malyshko.
Few people know that the guys stopped by to register between training sessions. That year our athletes did not train only at night.
Interesting notes:
Ordinary family life
The Evgeniy-Lyudmila couple is classic ice and fire. Garanichev is impulsive, hot-tempered, emotional. Lyudmila is calm, reasonable, rational.
When fame fell on Garanichev Olympic medalist, he was faced with the emergence of fake accounts on social networks. The angry man was going to make every effort to identify and punish the swindler, but his wife convinced him not to waste his energy and nerves on this.
The only thing that exceeds Lyudmila’s spiritual strength is her husband’s competition. She is so worried that she refuses to watch the competition broadcast on TV.
The life of the Garanichev family is devoid of stardom and pathos. They have an ordinary apartment, a very inexpensive car. Lyudmila does not have a servant; by the way, Garanichev himself does not shy away from household chores; he can cook and wash the dishes.
The couple’s most important treasure is their son Evgeniy. Lyudmila did New Year's gift to my husband January 1, 2016. On that rare day when even biathletes don't have training.
Date of birth: February 13, 1988
Place of birth: village Novoilinsky, Perm region
Place of residence: Tyumen
Height/weight: 169 / 68
Education: student of Tyumen State University, specialty – physical culture and sports
Marital status: married. Son Evgeniy.
Hobbies: volleyball, football, music, computer
In the main team since 2011 (season 2011-2012)
First trainer: Snegirev Ivan Igorevich
Personal trainer: Kugaevsky Maxim Vladimirovich
Team coach: Ricco Gross
Club: TsSP Tyumen region
Rifle: Izhmash BI-7-4
Skis: FISCHER
Ski poles: One Way
Ski boots: FISCHER
In his profession, on the ski track, Zhenya is impudent, unyielding, “prickly”, and does not recognize authorities. The coaches note: “he respects his opponents, but is not afraid.” Still persistent and purposeful.
Evgeniy has been involved in sports since the first grade and says to himself that he always considered studying and training more important than games and pranks. Garanichev’s first cross-country skiing coach, Snegirev, agrees with him: “Zhenya knew that he could achieve something in racing, so he didn’t scatter himself. There were no difficulties with him at all, the guy is disciplined and responsible.”
Despite the fact that at the Junior World Ski Championships he became the world champion in the relay race, he was not accepted for centralized training. In fact Perm region there were no conditions for the development of cross-country skiing, and there were not enough sponsors. And in 2008, it was decided to switch to biathlon, which was greatly facilitated by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Alikin, who comes from the same village. So Evgeniy switched to biathlon and began competing for Tyumen.
Achievements:
Honored Master of Sports
Olympic Games
Bronze (industrial race) – Sochi-2014
World Winter Universiade 2011, Erzurum, Türkiye:
- Silver (mixed relay)
- Bronze (sprint)
- Bronze (grazing)
World Cup stages:
- 1st place (sprint) – 7th stage of Holmenhollen, 2011-2012.
- 2nd place (sprint) – 6th stage Anholz, 2011-2012
- 2nd place (sprint) – 4th stage Oberhof, 2012-2013
- 2nd place (pursuit) - 4th stage Oberhof, 2012-2013.
- 2nd place (sprint) – stage 9, Holmenhollen 2013-2014.
- 3rd place (pursuit) – 7th stage Holmenhollen, 2011-2012.
- 3rd place (mass start) – 7th stage of Holmenhollen, 2011-2012.
- 3rd place (pursuit) – 5th stage, Ruhpolding, 2013-2014.
- 2nd place (sprint) - stage 9, Holmenkollen, 2013-2014
- 2nd place (sprint) - stage 6, Antholz, 2014-2015
- 3rd place (pursuit) - 6th stage, Antholz, 2014-2015
- 2nd place (individual race) - stage 9, 2014-2015
IBU Cup stages:
(2010-2011 season)
- 1st place (sprint) – 4th stage Nove Mesto
- 1st place (pursuit) – 5th stage Altenberg
(season 2011-2012)
- 1st place (sprint) – 3rd stage Obertillach
- 1st place (pursuit) – 3rd stage Obertillach
European Championship:
- Gold (Tyumen, 2016), mixed relay
- Gold (Tyumen, 2016), sprint
- Silver (Tyumen, 2016), pursuit
- Silver (Duszniki-Zdrój, 2017), pursuit
- Gold (Duszniki-Zdrój, 2017), single mixed relay
Russian Championship:
- Gold (relay) - Uvat, 2010-2011 season.
- Gold (sprint) – Uvat, season 2012-2013.
- Gold (grazing) - Uvat, season 2012-2013.
- Gold (mass start) – Khanty-Mansiysk, season 2013-2014.
- Gold (relay) - Khanty-Mansiysk, season 2013-2014.
- Bronze (mass start) - Uvat, season 2009-2010.
- Bronze (marathon) - Uvat, season 2010-2011.
- Bronze (relay) - Uvat, season 2012-2013.
Having switched to biathlon in 2008, already in the next season 2009-2010. he won two sprint races at the Russian Cup stages - in Izhevsk and Novosibirsk. And in the individual race on the Izhevsk rifle he became fourth. In the same season, Zhenya also performed at the IBU Cup stages, but not very successfully, best place became 6th in the individual race in Nove Mesto.
The fact that the most successful race was the individual race, which is considered the “shooters” race, is a very interesting detail, because Zhenya’s hit percentage that season was low, somewhere around 65%, which is quite understandable for a novice biathlete.
In the 2010-2011 season. Garanichev underwent pre-season training as part of the reserve team. In the fall, just before the start of the season, he fell ill with a sore throat and was treated for a long time, so in December at the IBU Cup stages he ran only one sprint race - in Italian Martel at the second stage, finishing 47th place.
But January turned out very well for him, he won two races at the fourth and fifth stages, winning the right to participate in the World Cup. Afterwards Zhenya said: “When I IBU Cup won the pursuit, Sergei Kushchenko called and asked if I was ready to run in the World Cup. What could I answer? Of course: ready!
In the first race in Anholz, a sprint, he finished 13th and qualified for the mass start. He performed less successfully in it, taking 24th place, but the coaches trusted him to run in the relay, where Russian team took fourth place. After that, they started talking about Zhenya seriously.
Garanichev then, according to the coaches, qualified for the World Championships in Khanty-Mansiysk as a reserve, but did not run in the races. But he took part in the World Winter Universiade in Turkish Erzurum, where he won a silver and two bronze medals. Something happened to him in the pursuit race unpleasant situation: He finished first and could have become the winner, but he broke the rules at the start, leaving a second before his time.
For this he was fined 30 seconds and, alas, he only received a bronze medal. It’s a shame, but situations like this teach athletes to be more attentive to small details, Zhenya himself spoke about this. At the end of the season, Evgeniy became 8th in the RBU ranking and was included in the main team for pre-season training.
The start of the season was not impressive - 10th, 63rd, 30th, 32nd places. And by the third stage, a castling followed: Zhenya went to the IBU Cup, he was replaced by Dmitry Malyshko and Timofey Lapshin. But at the IBU Cup, Garanichev performed brilliantly, out of two races he won two - sprint and pursuit, and in January he returned to the WC again.
And then came 2nd place in the men's relay in Oberhof, 2nd in the sprint in Anholz and, finally, an impressive stage in Holmenkollen, where Zhenya won the sprint and became third in the pursuit and mass start. At the end of the entire season, he became second in the SBR ranking, behind only Anton Shipulin.
Season 2012—2013 turned out less successfully than the previous one: two second places in the Oberhof sprint and pursuit. In the overall World Cup standings, Zhenya became 14th. The World Championships in Nove Mesto also did not bring any medals (19-28-25 places), and the men's relay turned out to be especially ill-fated: after prone shooting, he came out second behind Arnd Peiffer with a gap of half a second. But the shooting obviously didn’t go well at the standing position, and Evgeniy took two penalty loops. As he himself said after the race: “After the first two shots, my legs were shaking incredibly.” As a result, the Russian team took fourth place.
Of course, this can happen to any biathlete, although Zhenya noted that it is doubly offensive due to the fact that this happens to him at the second World Championship in a row. But at the Russian Championships in Uvat he won two gold medals in the sprint and pursuit.
If we consider the 2013-2014 season. in general, it turned out less successfully than the previous two. In the overall standings, Garanichev took 26th place. Compared to 12th and 14th places, this is a step back. At the beginning of December he had problems with his skis and during the season he had to switch to a new brand - FISCHER. Perhaps the lackluster results were partly due to this, because it takes some time to get used to the features of the new skis. Zhenya barely qualified for the January KM stages, but already in Ruhpolding he had his first podium race - a pursuit, in which he took 3rd place. But at the Olympic Games in Sochi, Garanichev became the only Russian biathlete who won a personal medal: bronze in the individual race. One miss separated him from gold. But he did not get into the men's relay because he had an unsuccessful leg in the mixed relay, which took place before the classical relay. The coaches did not take risks and this is understandable. On final stage season, in Holmenhallen, Zhenya took second place in the sprint.
The 2014-2015 season ended in seventh place in the overall standings. In Antholz he had second place in the sprint and third place in the pursuit. In Holmenkollen, Evgeniy managed to win silver for the second year in a row - this time in the individual race.
In the 2015-2016 season, at the World Cup stages, Evgeniy had two bronze medals in personal races and two golds in relays. In the 2016-2017 season, Evgeniy was not entirely healthy for a long time and missed quite a few races. One prize (bronze in the relay in Antholz). In individual races, the best were two eighth places (sprint and mass start) at the stage in Holmenkollen.
Evgeniy Garanichev – Russian biathlete, who won third place at the 2014 Olympics at the individual stage. In addition to Olympic bronze, the athlete became the European champion three times and stood on the podium at World Cup stages many times.
Garanichev Evgeniy Aleksandrovich was born on February 13, 1988 in the small village of Novoilinsky, Nytvensky district of the Perm Territory. The boy's childhood was ordinary. Evgeniy was interested in the same things as his peers. But still, his older brother, who attended the sports section, the only one in the village at that time, was an example for him. Following in the footsteps of their eldest son, parents sent eight-year-old Evgeniy to the same school. It was from then on that Evgeny Garanichev became interested in skiing. In the future it will become clear that the choice was made correctly.
The biography of Evgeny Garanichev has since been closely connected with cross-country skiing. As time has shown, the effort was not wasted. At the world championship, Evgeny Garanichev won first place along with biathletes Andrei Feller, Pyotr Sedov and Raul Shakirzyanov.
In Italy, Garanichev became second at the World Junior and Youth Championships. The race included Ivan Ivanov, Dmitry Vasiliev, Evgeny Garanichev and Andrey Parfenov. Then Russian skiers lost to the Swiss by 0.3 seconds. The most highlights of that period are depicted in personal photographs of Evgeny Garanichev.
Biathlon
Garanichev came to biathlon in 2008. By this time, Evgeniy was convinced that skiing would not bring great achievements in the Perm region, where the conditions did not correspond to high-quality training. The section's skiers did not participate in the competitions because the region's budget did not have enough sponsorship funds. Evgeniy strove for heights, and the desire was so irresistible that the only way out was to go to a biathlete school, whose coach was Maxim Vladimirovich Kugaevsky.
In the single race, the athlete achieved a high result at the Russian Cup stage of the 2009/2010 biathlon season “Izhevsk Rifle”. Traditionally this race was attended by best biathletes countries. Then Evgeniy won 4th place in the individual 20-kilometer race. At the 10-kilometer distance he entered the top ten. With this result, Evgeny Garanichev received a ticket to the European Cup.
In 2010, at the Russian Championships, the biathlete showed enough good result in sprint and pursuit, the result of which brought Evgeniy 4th place in the final standings. In the mass start, the young biathlete won a bronze medal.
For the first time, Evgeny Garanichev took part in the 2011 World Cup in Anterselva. First sprint race It was not easy for the athlete, and he took 13th place. As a member of the Russian national team, the biathlete competed in relay races in 2011.
The intense struggle led to Garanichev making 2 mistakes in the first shooting range. On the second, the biathlete used one additional cartridge. Evgeny Garanichev passed the baton to Andrey Makoveev with a gap of 9.5 seconds over the famous biathlete. On the last lap the difference increased by another 0.2 seconds. The results of the competition showed 4th place for the Russian biathlon team. Then Russian athletes lost the championship to German, Italian and Norwegian biathletes.
Evgeny Garanichev was included in the Russian biathlon team to take part in XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. Already on February 8, 2014, Zhenya participated in the Olympic race for the first time in his career. In the sprint, Garanichev made an unfortunate mistake, which led him to 27th place.
The real success and finest hour of the biathlete came on February 13th. Coming to the start of the individual race, Garanichev, to the surprise of many, came third, winning the only personal Olympic medal in the Russian biathlon team.
The coaches approved the candidacy of the young biathlete for mixed relay, but Evgeniy entered the penalty loop, so the Russian team received fifth place. After the German team was disqualified, final result Russian team – 4th place.
The Russian biathlete took sixth place in the sprint at the 2014/2015 Biathlon World Championships. The Russian national team biathlete claims that he showed everything he was capable of at that time. The athlete was confused by the weather conditions of Finnish Kontiolahti. During shooting, the wind appears and disappears. Following the Czech, I hoped that it would be easier to shoot, so I did not overtake him. But the wind, on the contrary, persistently blew in my face. On the whole, I was pleased with the progress; on the last lap I tried to overtake those in front. In an interview, the athlete said that sixth place is a good result and he, in principle, is happy with it.
In general, during this season at the World Cup stages the athlete won two gold, silver and bronze medals, which allowed him to take seventh place overall standings. The following season, the biathlete improved his position on points, gaining one silver medal less. But further on at the World Cup competitions, Garanichev was haunted more often by failures than victories. Together with his colleagues, Evgeniy brought Russia only third place at the relay stage in Antholz.
Personal life
The personal life of Evgeny Garanichev developed romantically and predictably. In 2013, the athlete married his girlfriend Lyudmila Tyutikova. Luda was also born in the Perm region in 1986. By the time she met Evgeny, the girl was studying at the Perm State Institute of Art and Culture. The wedding took place in the pre-Olympic year in Tyumen, where Garanichev trained. Even the superstitions common in the sports community did not stop the newlyweds. The bride and groom arrived at the registry office during a break between Evgeniy’s training sessions. They only accompanied the couple. Photos of Evgeny Garanichev and his wife after the wedding scattered all over the Internet.
Evgeniy says that he met his betrothed back in 2007, when the athlete had been skiing for the last year. After getting ready, Evgeniy and his sister relaxed at a billiards club, where the guy first saw Lyudmila.
The athlete admits that every time he returned from training camp, he noticed new qualities of his beloved and seemed to recognize her anew. Lyudmila patiently waited for him from all the competitions. The first son was born on January 1, 2016. The newborn was named Eugene. Two years later, on January 2, 2018, Lyudmila gave her husband her second son, Andrei.
Now the family lives in Tyumen. Evgeniy Garanichev free time loves to spend time with his wife and children. Touching pictures and videos appear on his account in “ Instagram" The athlete is open to communication with fans, therefore, on his behalf, “
Evgeny Garanichev was born on February 13, 1988 in the village of Novoilinsky, Perm Region. He came to biathlon only at the age of 20, and before that he made progress in ski racing. His parents brought him to the ski section when Zhenya was 8 years old. By the way, this was the only sports section in the village, besides, his older brother was already working there.
It was from then on that Evgeny Garanichev became interested in skiing. In the future it will become clear that the choice was made correctly. As time has shown, the effort was not wasted. At the World Championships he won first place together with biathletes Andrei Feller, Pyotr Sedov and Raul Shakirzyanov. In Italy he became second at the World Junior and Youth Championships.
Garanichev came to biathlon in 2008. By this time, Evgeniy was convinced that skiing would not bring great achievements in the Perm region, where the conditions did not correspond to high-quality training. The section's skiers did not participate in the competitions because the region's budget did not have enough sponsorship funds. Evgeniy strove for heights, and the desire was so irresistible that the only way out was to go to a biathlete school, whose coach was Maxim Vladimirovich Kugaevsky.
In the single race, the athlete achieved a high result at the Russian Cup stage of the 2009/2010 biathlon season “Izhevsk Rifle”. The country's best biathletes traditionally took part in this race. Then Evgeniy won 4th place in the individual 20-kilometer race. At the 10-kilometer distance he entered the top ten. With this result, Evgeny Garanichev received a ticket to the European Cup.
At the Russian Championship in 2010, the biathlete showed fairly good results in the sprint and pursuit, the result of which brought Evgeni fourth place in the final standings. In the mass start, the young biathlete won a bronze medal.
For the first time, Evgeny Garanichev took part in the 2011 World Cup in Anterselva. The first sprint race was not easy for the athlete, and he took 13th place. As a member of the Russian national team, the biathlete competed in relay races in 2011.
The intense struggle led to Garanichev making 2 mistakes in the first shooting range. On the second, the biathlete used one additional cartridge. Evgeniy Garanichev passed the baton to Andrey Makoveev with a gap of 9.5 seconds over the famous biathlete Ole-Einar Bjoerndalen. On the last lap the difference increased by another 0.2 seconds. The results of the competition showed 4th place for the Russian biathlon team. Then Russian athletes lost the championship to German, Italian and Norwegian biathletes.
Evgeny Garanichev was included in the Russian biathlon team to take part in the XXII Winter Games Olympic Games in Sochi. Already on February 8, 2014, Zhenya participated in the Olympic race for the first time in his career. In the sprint, Garanichev made an unfortunate mistake, which led him to 27th place.
The real success and finest hour of the biathlete came on February 13, 2015. Coming to the start of the individual race, Garanichev, to the surprise of many, came third, winning the only personal Olympic medal in the Russian biathlon team.
The coaches approved the candidacy of the young biathlete for the mixed relay, but Evgeniy entered the penalty loop, so the Russian team received fifth place. After the German team was disqualified, the final result of the Russian team was fourth place.
Zhenya combines active sports with studies at Tyumen State University. Studying to be a trainer. In addition to biathlon, he enjoys playing football or volleyball.
