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Know our ... 4-time Paralympic champion Irek Zaripov!
Four-time Paralympic champion skier and biathlete Irek Zaripov became disabled at age 17. September 13, 2000, he raced around the track on a motorcycle and got into a terrible accident - a huge MAZ drove over his legs.
According to the sportsman, he began to study at home, then - in the gym and pool, and then went out and the snowy slopes. Each day began with Irek exercise. Life for the future athlete has ceased to be monotonous, there was a strong desire to maximize sporting heights.
In a serious sport Zaripov came in 2003 in his native Bashkiria and started doing athletics, swimming, table tennis, and two years later - cross-country skiing and biathlon. It is in these two types of managed to achieve major victories. In the season-2004/05 Irek was in Bashkiria Paralympic team in athletics, and then on the advice of specialists switched to cross-country skiing and biathlon, which since then has been led by Irina Thunder and Amir Gumerova. "The easiest in life - to drink a glass of vodka, lie down on the sofa ... and forget. The most difficult thing - to overcome the feeling of worthlessness, be fit, "stand up" - said in an interview Irek.
With his wife Irek more friends when they were teenagers. "I was fifteen, she was - fourteen - said the champion about his acquaintance with his wife in an interview with" Soviet Sport ". - In winter, the Palace of Culture - City Hill. Lena with her rolling, I put her bandwagon. Met last month. And in 2006, eight years later, met on the street, I was an invalid & quot ;.
Irek and his wife have two children - Ainur and Diana. By the way, Diana was born in the fall of 2010 - the same year when her father became a four-time Paralympic champion.
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According to the sportsman, he began to study at home, then - in the gym and pool, and then went out and the snowy slopes. Each day began with Irek exercise. Life for the future athlete has ceased to be monotonous, there was a strong desire to maximize sporting heights.
In a serious sport Zaripov came in 2003 in his native Bashkiria and started doing athletics, swimming, table tennis, and two years later - cross-country skiing and biathlon. It is in these two types of managed to achieve major victories. In the season-2004/05 Irek was in Bashkiria Paralympic team in athletics, and then on the advice of specialists switched to cross-country skiing and biathlon, which since then has been led by Irina Thunder and Amir Gumerova. "The easiest in life - to drink a glass of vodka, lie down on the sofa ... and forget. The most difficult thing - to overcome the feeling of worthlessness, be fit, "stand up" - said in an interview Irek.
With his wife Irek more friends when they were teenagers. "I was fifteen, she was - fourteen - said the champion about his acquaintance with his wife in an interview with" Soviet Sport ". - In winter, the Palace of Culture - City Hill. Lena with her rolling, I put her bandwagon. Met last month. And in 2006, eight years later, met on the street, I was an invalid & quot ;.
Irek and his wife have two children - Ainur and Diana. By the way, Diana was born in the fall of 2010 - the same year when her father became a four-time Paralympic champion.
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