In 1974, on March 15, the world famous Dmitry Sautin was born. His biography began in the city of Voronezh, where there is no person who has not heard this name. But he is popular not only at home, because the whole world knows Dmitry Sautin, who has become a symbol of diving.

Childhood and youth

Dmitry was born in the family of Ivan Petrovich and Anna Mikhailovna Sautin. The child was gifted with excellent physical characteristics, but was not at all flexible. For the first time, the future champion got into the section at the age of 7, by the age of ten he had already performed in diving competitions, and at the age of seventeen he was included in the USSR national team. And barely gaining a foothold in the main team, Dmitry Sautin won gold at the European Cup. Diving eventually brought the young athlete the title of king of this sport.

Honored coach of the USSR Tatyana Aleksandrovna Starodubtseva saw the future champion in a strong boy. An interesting fact is that from the first days until the end, Tatyana Aleksandrovna was the only coach of Dmitry.

The path to glory

Dmitry Sautin burst into big sport lightning fast, as a jumper from a tower enters the water. The young athlete immediately attracted the attention of many professionals. His jumping technique amazed the country's leading experts. The coaches of the national team were so impressed by the success of the young Voronezh resident that they sent young man for its first international competitions, not paying any attention to Then the European Cup ended for Dmitry, not having time to start, because he was too young for these competitions, and the organizers simply did not allow him.

Steep climb

In 1991 Dmitry Sautin entered the national team. In the same period, at the European Cup, a young athlete wins gold in jumping from a 10-meter platform. Following at the European Championships in Athens, he becomes the silver medalist.

• in 1992 gold at the European Cup in Milan;
• in 1993, gold on a 10-meter platform and silver on a 3-meter springboard at the European Championships in Sheffield;
• in 1994, the silver on the 3-meter springboard of the World Championships in Rome, as they said then, with a golden tint, because no one expected that the Russians would be able to impose a fight on the Chinese "kings" of diving. And then there was a real sensation when, having hardly made his way to the final of jumping from 10 meters, Dmitry defeated Sunn Shuei, who then “reigned” on the platform;
• in 1995 the gold of the European Championship in Austria. In the same year, for the first time in the history of domestic jumping, Dmitry Sautin won the competition on the 3-meter springboard at the World Cup in Atlanta;
• 1996 Olympic gold medal in Atlanta (USA);
• in 1997 the gold of the world championship in Spain;
• in 1998, at the World Championships in Australia, the absolute championship was won. Sautin surpassed the closest pursuer by as much as 90 points and then became the first jumper in the world to gain more than a hundred points in one jump;
• in 1999 the gold of the world championship in Turkey;
• in 2000, an Olympiad was held, which made Dmitry a prize-winner in absolutely all disciplines of men's diving. He became the first together with his partner Igor Lukashin in platform jumping, the second with Alexander Dobroskok in ski jumping, earned bronze medals in individual platform and springboard jumping;
• in 2001 the gold of the World Championship in Japan;
• in 2002 the gold of the European Championship;
• in 2003, gold at the World Championships in synchronized diving from 3 meters;
• 2004 Olympic bronze medal in Athens;
• in 2006, Southin became European champion again;
• in 2007 at the World Championship Dmitry won 3;
• in 2008, the hero of our story earned Olympic silver in Beijing together with Yuri Kunakov.

Other achievements, titles and awards

• In 1995 for high sports achivments was awarded the "Order of Honor".
• In 2001, Dmitry Sautin was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.
• In 2006 he received the 1st class medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.
• In 2008 Dmitry received the distinction "For Services to Moscow"
• In 2009, the athlete was awarded the Order of Friendship.
• Dmitry Sautin is an honorary citizen of the city of Voronezh.
• The athlete has the Order of the Government of the Voronezh region "Gratitude from the land of Voronezh".
• Dmitry is the best Russian jumper of the 20th century.
• Another informal achievement is the fact that he was the first in the history of diving to score more than 100 points per jump.
• Sautin is also a deputy of the Voronezh Regional Duma.

Through hardship to the stars

Not everything went smoothly for Dmitry Sautin, as it might seem at first glance. With his complexion, the future champion was more like a thunderstorm of gateways, and only Tatyana Alexandrovna Starodubtseva knows how in this stocky boy she guessed the star of diving.

Many admired his technique and manner of performing jumps, his frantic twisting in the air. But there were also skeptics who were convinced that nothing good would come of a guy with such jumps.

In 1995, the athlete developed problems with his hand. This is a typical trauma for all professional divers, caused by constant stress on the hands when entering the water. And this disease happened on the eve of the Olympic Games. Dmitry simply could not afford the operation and the subsequent months of rehabilitation at that moment. He continued to train and prepare, despite the fact that every jump and entry into the water turned into real torture. A Soviet doctor who emigrated to America, Semyon Stebunov, came to the rescue then. Dmitry was offered to undergo a month's course of treatment. This allowed the jumper to compete at the Olympics and win with a colossal advantage. But then the pain did not allow to enjoy such an important victory.

In 2000, for the first time, synchronized jumping was included in the program of the Olympic Games. Then a very reasonable question arose about whether Sautin could take part in this type of program. After all, the jumping style of the Voronezh athlete was unique, and there were fears that it would be unrealistic to find a partner for him. However, the trainers took the risk and paid off. That year, Sautin won medals wherever possible, and simultaneously from the platform and from the springboard, he jumped with two different partners. In the same place in Sydney, individual gold “floated away” from Dmitry because of the desire to perform a super difficult jump, but this did not prevent him from becoming a sensation in those games.

Family and personal life

Once walking through Voronezh, Dmitry met Ekaterina Bakhmeteva, who did not suspect that a bald guy resembling Bruce Willis was Olympic champion and a world famous athlete. Five years later, the young people got married. In the same 2008, Dmitry Sautin became a happy father. The athlete's family grew even larger three years later. Then the couple had a second son.

Dmitry Sautin, whose personal life is very eventful, is a loving father and husband, and, according to friends and acquaintances, he is a very sociable and cheerful person who loves outdoor recreation. And besides aquatic species sports, the hero of our story is fond of trampoline, freestyle, hockey. He also loves music and Soviet films.

Dmitry Sautin is one of the most titled divers in history, and for Russia a truly legendary personality. While the power of domestic sports was falling, the Voronezh athlete invariably kept the highest bar set by him back in the days of the USSR.

Dmitry Sautin

Born 03/15/1974

Achievements:

• Two-time Olympic champion (Atlanta 1996 - 10 m tower, Sydney 2000 - synchronized tower).
• Two-time Olympic silver medalist (Sydney 2000 - 3 m springboard synchro, Beijing 2008 - 3 m springboard synchro).
• Four-time bronze medalist of the Olympic Games (Barcelona 1992 - 3 m springboard, Sydney 2000 - 3 m springboard, 10 m tower, Athens 2004 - 3 m springboard).
• Five-time world champion (Rome 1994 - 10m platform, Perth 1998 - 3m springboard, 10m platform, Fukuoka 2001 - 3m springboard, Barcelona 2003 - 3m synchronized springboard).
• Silver medalist at the 1994 World Cup in Rome - 3 m springboard.
• Three-time bronze medalist of the world championships (Fukuoka-2001 - 3 m springboard synchronized, Barcelona-2003 - 3 m springboard, Melbourne-2007 - 1 m springboard).
• 11-time European champion.

In spite of everything

But Sautin's career in the pool did not start as smoothly as he himself liked to go into the water. The boy was completely different from the future champion - he did not possess the flexibility you need and didn't even know how to swim. Nevertheless, Tatyana Alexandrovna Starodubtseva saw in Dmitry necessary qualities... Sautin entered the sport at the age of seven.

The student tolerated the load well and pleased his coach. At first, Dima in the pool, one might say, had fun, but having mastered the jumping technique, he began to perform in competitions. However, despite the already begun professional career, Sautin almost left the pool, and the reason for this is banal fear. After one of the unsuccessful entries into the water, Dmitry was scared to jump, and only Starodubtseva was able to restore her student's confidence in her abilities.

Having overcome difficulties, Sautin continues to develop his skills and gets into the USSR junior team. A series of successful performances - and Dmitry knocks on the basis of the adult team of the country, for which he manages to debut before the collapse of the great empire.

Meteoric rise

In 1991, he became the winner of the European Cup and took second place in the European championship on the ten-meter springboard. The young athlete is gaining momentum, but a tragedy happens to him - in Voronezh, Sautin is attacked. Stabbing not only endangers his sports career, but also his life.

Fortunately, the young sports organism copes, and after the operation, Dmitry begins to recover and is selected for the first Olympics in his life. Flying under the flag of the United Team, Southin wins the bronze medal on the three-meter springboard.

By the beginning of the 90s, Chinese athletes became the leaders of world diving. All the more unexpected was the appearance of a young Russian among the favorites. The specialists immediately drew attention to Sautin's technique and the complexity of his program. Dmitry confirmed the non-coincidence of his Barcelona success at the 1993 European Championship. A year later, at the world championship in Rome, in good sense shocked the public by winning gold on the platform and silver on a three-meter springboard.

World leader

From now on, Southin is one of the main favorites in all competitions. Dmitry gained experience and approached the 1996 Olympics in excellent condition, even despite a serious hand injury. Enduring pain, he trained, performed, became the winner of the World Cup in Atlanta, and nevertheless decided to undergo surgery. Again, as before Barcelona, ​​Sautin shows miracles of recovery and flies to the Olympics in full alert. In the United States, Southin is making a splash, convincingly winning the tower and confirming his status.

Dmitry Sautin - 1996 Olympic champion

Dmitry reached his peak, winning one start after another and becomes the undisputed world champion in 1998, celebrating triumph in both types of the program and strengthening his popularity around the world. Before the Sydney Olympics, there were less than two years left when Sautin again goes under the knife - it was already impossible to endure the pain in the spine. Long-term jumps from the tower did their dirty deed; nevertheless, Dmitry does not refuse them.

What's more, Southin surprises the world again when he takes part in all four disciplines in Sydney. One and a half years before Australian start synchronized jumping is included in the program of the Olympic Games, and the coaches are wondering who to pair with Dmitry. As a result, Sautin is declared in all types of jumping programs, and Dmitry becomes the owner of a unique record and four medals: gold in the synchronized platform, silver in the three-meter synchronization and two bronzes in personal jumps.

Sydney finally confirms Sautin in the status of a legend and a true multi-source. Dmitry does not care where and with whom to perform - everywhere he fights for the highest awards, while giving his teammates a chance for a medal. So, Igor Lukashin became the Olympic champion with him, and Alexander Dobroskok became the silver medalist.

Legend

Together with Alexander, Dmitry wins bronze at the 2001 World Cup and gold in Barcelona two years later. In singles in Fukuoka, Sautin celebrates victory, and at the 2003 World Championships he becomes a bronze medalist. The duo could have had a medal at the Athens Olympics, but Sautin misses one of the jumps, clinging to the side and getting injured.

Numerous injuries make themselves felt, and after Sydney, Dmitry refuses to jump from the platform, focusing on a three-meter springboard. This decision extends his athletic longevity and Sautin wins bronze in Greece. At the fourth Olympiad in a row, he becomes a prize-winner - an outstanding result!

South is thirty years old, but he does not quit jumping, although at that age it is almost impossible to be a leader in water sports. In this regard, Dmitry is similar to his colleague-swimmer, but, unlike him, he does not leave the Olympics without awards.

Sautin risked his reputation by staying in the sport, but Dmitry was confident in himself. At the 2007 World Championships, he becomes a bronze medalist, at European championships, the number of victories exceeds a dozen, and Sautin approaches his fifth Olympics and does the almost impossible in Beijing - together with Yuri Kunakov, he takes second place. Five Olympics - and at each Dmitry becomes a medalist; such an achievement can be safely called fantastic!

Dmitry Sautin and Yuri Kunakov - silver medalists of the 2008 Olympics

But even after such a triumph, Sautin continues to perform, delaying the end of his career. As if savoring the flurry of applause that will accompany his announcement of his retirement from the sport, Dmitry is waiting for the recognition of the International Aquatics Federation, which declares him the best diver in the first decade of the new century.

FINA's decision is hard to argue, Sautin is a legend. Despite the many injuries, Dmitry always found the strength and returned to the pool. He is the only diving to win awards at five Olympics, the only one to win medals in all four events at one Olympics. In addition, Sautin was the first in history to receive over 100 points for a jump.

Dmitry Sautin has been training since the age of 7 under the guidance of one mentor - Tatyana Alexandrovna Starodubtseva. Only she knows how she guessed the future magnificent master in Dima. After all, Dmitry was physically strong from childhood, he could easily pull himself up on a horizontal bar and hold a corner for a long time, but he was extremely inflexible and did not know how to swim at all.

Dmitry Sautin's ascent to the title of the best Russian diver in the water of the 20th century began in 1991, when, barely getting into the national team, he immediately won the European Cup on a ten-meter platform and took 2nd place at the European Championship in Athens. The young Voronezh was rapidly gaining points in the international arena.

In 1992, there were victories at the European Cup in Milan, 3rd place on the springboard in the Olympic Barcelona. The 1993 European Championship brought Dmitry gold on a ten-meter platform and silver on a three-meter springboard.

Sautin showed his fantastic character and will to win to everyone at the World Championships in Rome (1994). At that time, Chinese athletes were already dominating in diving. However, some of Dmitry's jumps were so good that the coaches and spectators immediately jokingly changed the name of the Russian in the Chinese manner with an emphasis on the last syllable. At this world championship, Dmitry won on a ten-meter platform, and took second place on a three-meter springboard.

In 1995, at the World Cup in Atlanta, Southin won the first-ever domestic diving victory on the 3-meter springboard. In the Atlanta Olympics, his victory on a ten-meter platform was unconditional. After the second attempt, the gap was already at 10.68. After another round - 30.24, then - 49.05. This reserve made any further resistance to Southin pointless.

In 1997, Sautin won another gold at the World Championships, and at the 1998 World Championships, he won the absolute championship for the first time in his life. Dmitry's victory on the tower was especially impressive: he beat his closest rival Tian Liang by 90 points and surpassed the unofficial record of ten years ago by almost 40 points, gaining 750.99 points. During free program the Russian athlete received the highest mark 11 times - "ten". And he set another unofficial record: Dmitry became the first jumper in the world who managed to score more than 100 points in one of the jumps. This triumph seemed incredible against the backdrop of the hardest hand surgery suffered immediately after the Atlanta Olympics.

At the 1999 European Championships Dmitry Sautin won gold on a ten-meter platform, and in 2000 at the European Championships in Helsinki he took 1st place in platform jumping, ski jumping and synchronized platform diving, 2nd place - in synchronized jumping from the springboard.

Dmitry Sautin's performance at the Sydney Olympics ended with a unique achievement. Before him, not a single athlete in the world at any competition took part in all four types of the program. But Dmitry not only performed, but also won medals in all four types: gold - in synchronized jumping from a platform, silver - in synchronized jumping from a springboard and two bronze - in jumping from a springboard and in jumping from a platform.

But Sautin was not going to stop there. There were still many victories in various tournaments ahead. In September 2001, he won his next gold medal- in jumping from a three-meter springboard at the Goodwill Games in the Australian city of Brisbone. After Olympic Games In Sydney, Dmitry continued to perform in synchronized jumping, where he also achieved success, winning the 2003 World Championship paired with Alexander Dobroskok and becoming a multiple winner of the world and European championships.

Dmitry won his next Olympic medal in Athens, where he took third place in jumping from a three-meter springboard.

The 2008 Beijing Olympics became the fifth in the biography of Dmitry Sautin. Not so many athletes can boast of such an achievement. In Beijing, in synchronized jumping from a three-meter springboard, Sautin and Kunakov won silver.

Spring 2010 The International Federation water sports (FINA) Dmitry Sautin was recognized as the best diver in the world of the first decade of the XXI century. He is rightfully called the king of diving, a symbol of this sport.

Dmitry Sautin is a Russian diving jumper who has twice become an Olympic champion. He became the only winner of eight Olympic awards in diving history. In 2000 he was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of Russia. He is also a lieutenant colonel of the Russian Armed Forces, played for the Voronezh CSKA.

Currently Dmitry Sautin is the vice-president of the All-Russian Federation for diving. And you can invite Dmitry Sautin to speak at your event. He is rightfully called the king of diving. And his lightning-fast career is simply amazing. In Russia, he became a real legendary person.

Biography of Dmitry Sautin

According to the official website of Dmitry Sautin, he was born in Voronezh in 1974. He graduated from the state institute physical culture in his hometown. He began to train at the age of seven, he had one mentor - Tatyana Alexandrovna Starodubtseva. His specialization is jumping from a springboard of 3 meters, jumping from a platform of 10 meters. He performs both individually and in shihron with other athletes.

He achieved his first success at the age of seventeen, playing for the USSR national team. Then at the European Championships in Athens, he won a silver medal. Dmitry performs despite injuries and pain - and he has achieved truly outstanding results. In 2000, at the Sydney Olympics, he was able to win medals in all numbers of the men's diving program.

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