Boginskaya Svetlana - the famous Belarusian gymnast

Svetlana Boginskaya - one of the most artistic, graceful athletes of the world and just a beautiful woman. Her skills and achievements delight many fans of this sport all over the world. And what is done today by the famous Belarusian gymnast?

Svetlana Boginskaya: Biography

She was born in Minsk on February 9, 1973. Since childhood Svetlana has grown into a harmful, closed and persistent child. Constant complaints about the girl in the kindergarten prompted her mother, Anna Danilovna, to direct the energy of the child in the right direction, and at 4 years she took her to the gym. The girl was not taken because of her age. Then there was figure skating, Sveta was accepted, but she did not study long.

Once, when I went to the gymnasium of a local school, the girl saw the uneven bars. The child's heart froze, and she told her mother that she wanted to become a gymnast. Mom did her best to arrange Sveta in the sports section. The girl began to change before our eyes. Since 6 years she has been doing gymnastics professionally. In those years a new star appeared on the sports sky - Svetlana Boginskaya. The gymnast will prove more than once to the whole world that she has come to this sport seriously and for a long time.

First achievements

Her first coach was Love Savina. Started daily classes, junior competitions and the first medals won. In 14 years for conscientious work and success Boginskaya Svetlana was in the national team of the USSR. In 1987, in Rotterdam, she received her first adult medal - it was bronze in the exercises on a log.

At the age of 15 she first participated in the Olympics in Seoul. These competitions brought into its treasury 4 medals: 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze. Her achievements at this Olympiad were not appreciated by the country, and the coach of Boginskaya, Lyubov Maksimovna Miromanova, committed suicide because of such injustice to the sportswoman.

Olympic awards

On this the achievements of the great athlete did not end, she persevered. In 1989, the first places were taken at the World Championships in Stuttgart and three times at the European Championship. In Athens, in all disciplines Boginskaya Svetlana took all the first places. In 1992, she conquered the Olympics in Barcelona, took gold in the team.

After the Barcelona Olympics, Svetlana took a break in her career and resumed it only in 1995 as part of the national team of Belarus. Preparations for the European Championship began, and for her work Boginskaya received a well-deserved second place.

In the life of Boginskaya was the third Olympiad in Atlanta, where she received only 5 prize places and 6 in the team classification of the Belarusian team.

Japanese Fiancé

When the gymnast was only 18 years old, she was courted by a Japanese man from the genus of the founders of Suzuki Motor Corporation. Arriving in Minsk, he gave Svetlana an expensive piece of jewelry worth 4 thousand dollars, indicating this amount on a piece of paper.

The second time he came with a proposal to choose a car, and a year later - with an engagement ring and a marriage contract. They spoke different languages, he was not at all in her taste, so further relationships did not work out. Svetlana Boginskaya - gymnast, for which at that time in the first place was the sport.

Life in America

After the Olympics in Barcelona, the heroine of our article left her native land and moved to her permanent residence in Houston, USA. In America Boginskaya Svetlana met her future wife, William. Three months after the acquaintance, William made the girl a beautiful offer of hands and heart in Paris, on the Eiffel Tower. Svetlana accepted the ring, but refused to marry. They still live in a civil marriage!

A few years later, the athlete was born her first-born daughter Anna. Five years later, Boginskaya presented her husband with Brandon's son. The spouses' children did not go to the big sport and only occasionally, but they are happy to play golf on weekends.

In America, you can not work, so Svetlana Boginskaya and her husband took up business. I must say, they get it. The family lives comfortably and at a good level by American standards. Svetlana has her own shop selling gymnastics, but this does not prevent her from working with children. She is the organizer of training camps for young gymnasts. From May to September, she travels several states to work with children. In each city rents a comfortable hall and invites well-deserved coaches. A week's training of one young gymnast brings to the family budget up to $ 1000. It should be noted that about 100 people participate in one camp.

William worked for a long time at a recruitment agency. He helped oil companies to select suitable candidates. His income was fickle, and everything depended on the number of people arranged. So he decided to quit and do the restaurant business. Why restaurant? The proposal came from a close friend of William, who had a good experience in the profile, but there was no initial capital. They opened a network of pizzerias for gourmets. Svetlana likes to help her husband in a pizzeria. If one of the employees is sick, then she goes out and is happy to work for the cashier or the waiter.

Minsk Vacations

In 2013, Boginskaya flew for the first time in 15 years to her homeland in Minsk. Here lives her mother, brother Igor and nephews. Every day she strolled along her native streets, recalled her childhood.

Now Boginskaya is an American reserved business lady and a legendary sportswoman, who in 2005 was included in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame!