Seek the secret of the Russian team synchronized swimming champion

Style swimming has always been a traditional strength of Russian sports, and Russia has truly realized the goal of "starting from childhood" in synchronized swimming.

Russia has swimming training centers all over the country, and St. Petersburg, the "capital of the north," also has the country's largest youth synchronized swimming school and sports clubs specializing in the training of synchronized swimming talents; this school alone has about 1,500 girls between the ages of 6 and 23 learning synchronized swimming.

Ishchenko, for example, has been learning synchronized swimming since she was 5 years old and came to Moscow at 14 to train professionally at the nationally renowned Olympic Aquatic Center. The solid foundation she laid at an early age, coupled with her specialized training, made her stand out in many major competitions, earning her the nickname "Queen of Synchronized Swimming".

As Tatyana Danchenko, the coach of the Russian synchronized swimming team, pointed out, synchronized swimming "should start with children, and it is important to lay a good foundation", "we have experts and coaches who can produce champions of all kinds".

The level of coaching first-class

The training of synchronized swimming talents can not be separated from the coach, in Russia, active in a world-class level of synchronized swimming coaching team. It is worth mentioning that Tatyana Pokrovskaya, the head coach of the Russian synchronized swimming team and vice-president of the Russian Association of Synchronized Swimming, is 61 years old and a graduate of the Russian State Institute of Physical Culture and Sport, the highest educational institution of Russian sports, and has been coaching the Soviet national synchronized swimming team since the Soviet era in the early 80's of the last century.

Over the past 30 years, she has received numerous honors for her outstanding coaching, including the title of "Honorary Coach of Russia"; under her guidance, the Russian team won all the gold medals in synchronized swimming events at the Sydney, Athens and Beijing Olympics.

Another young coach in the Russian team, Tatyana Danchenko, is also well known, and the 40-year-old Danchenko was the champion of synchronized swimming in the Soviet Union, and also won the title of "Honorary Coach of Russia". The famous teacher of the senior students, the Russian synchronized swimming team active players Davydova, Yermakova, Ishchenko and so on are from his disciples.

The new wave of the Yangtze River pushes the previous wave, Davydova and Ishchenko has repeatedly said that after retirement intends to engage in coaching. Yermakova is now actually involved in coaching. It's not hard to imagine how such champion coaches could fail to produce outstanding synchronized swimmers.