After the Olympics in Sydney in 2000, a period of timelessness began in Russian gymnastics. Former leaders left the stage, and new guys have not yet been raised. This turned into a failure at the Games in Athens, when the team was left without medals. Anton Sergeyevich Golotutskov, whose biography will be described below, became the representative of a new generation of champions, he became a two-time Olympic medalist, a repeated European champion and world medalist. The champion’s departure from the sport turned out to be difficult, but he did not break down and opened his own gymnastics club, becoming the pioneer of this business at home.
Biography
Anton Golotsutskov was born in July 1985 in the city of Seversk, in the Tomsk Region. His dad was engaged in weightlifting and instilled a love of sport for his son, so that for Anton there was no problem to push out or pull himself up on the horizontal bar. So he passed the selection in the sports school in the section of gymnastics at the age of five, having pulled himself up 10 times.
In favor of the boy there was also physical data - short and stocky, he ideally fit into the framework of the requirements for the most difficult sport. The biography of Anton Golotsutskov in gymnastics could go a completely different way. As a child, he was not always serious about training; he could skip several classes in a row. His first coach Galina Ganus suffered a lot from him, repeatedly meeting with his parents and persuading them to influence his son. After moving to the senior group, Anton Sergeyevich Golotsutskov began to practice under the leadership of Leonid Abramov, who subsequently coached the athlete throughout the entire period of his active career.
Breakthrough
Having moved to the junior level, the gymnast is trying to break out of the Tomsk region. For a while he traveled to Moscow to the central gymnastics training base “Krugloye Lake” for his money, trying to attract the attention of trainers. Anton got into the national team in a dramatic way. Catching a favorable moment, he attracted the attention of the head coach of the national team Leonid Yakovlevich Arkaev.
In the eyes of an authoritative specialist, the young athlete performed a complex gymnastic element, which led him to admiration. Before he even managed to leave the hall, the stunned Anton Golotsutskov found out about his inclusion in the youth team and the design of a scholarship in his name. Once among the favorites of the head coach, it was necessary to justify his confidence. There was a sharp turn in the biography of Anton Sergeyevich, he left the old diffused way of life and began to work like a madman in training. Sibiryak won the all-around competitions at the then team leader Maxim Devyatovsky, got to the European Youth Championship, where he won a whole scattering of medals.
First victories
For the adult team of the country, Anton Golotsutskov began to speak at the age of 16 years. Leonid Arkaev was not afraid to take yesterday's junior at the World Championships in Anaheim, where the fate of the licenses for the Athens Olympics was decided. During the tournament, Evgeny Krylov, the main member of the national team, was injured by Achilles tendons, and Anton Golotsutskov was forced to replace an experienced friend in exercises on the uneven bars. For two months he did not approach this shell, paying attention to other species, but at the decisive moment he got together and carried out the program with the maximum rating. Arkaev did not hesitate in emotions and shouted for the whole hall with joy, shaking his fists.
However, the first serious victories for the athlete began to come after the Athens Olympics. Having matured, the Siberian began to take a more responsible attitude to the matter and gradually made his way into the elite of the world gymnastics. In 2006, in the World Cup finals in São Paulo, Anton Golotsutskov took silver in the vault, in the same year he won a bronze medal in Glasgow. At the European Championships in Amsterdam, Anton rode in the status of one of the favorites and confidently won there in his favorite form.
Beijing feats
In 2007, Anton Golotsutskov for the first time begins to conflict with the leadership of the team. He went to the World Cup with a broken leg and, having the right to refuse to go out on the carpet, performed the program, which allowed the team to qualify for the Olympics. Nevertheless, instead of gratitude, he heard reproaches that a month before that he had been late for a day at the training camp due to family circumstances.
The proud athlete broke out, and this became the basis for future misunderstandings. However, then Anton Golotutskov was the leader of the team, and he had to reckon with his position. At the Games in Beijing, the gymnast came up in great shape and managed to take the first Olympic awards after a long break. He was again irresistible in his crown form, and added a similar award in floor exercises to bronze in a vault. In general, 2008 was the most successful in the career of Anton Golotsutskov. He won two gold at the World Cup in Moscow, became the champion of Europe in floor exercises. At the World Cup finals in Madrid, he became a bronze medalist in his favorite vault.
Short end career
The new Olympic cycle for Golotutskov was not so bright, but he managed to get medals of the European championships and the planet into his collection of awards, and won the stages of the World Cup. However, the year of the Olympics in London was a serious test for the gymnast. Years in professional sports were not in vain, numerous injuries and injuries accumulated. At the pre-Olympic European Championship, Anton Golotsutskov failed and did not speak at the full strength of his capabilities.
A serious back injury knocked him out of the rut, but the Siberian was trying to recover for the main starts of the four-year period. He had already practically gained form for the London Games, but at the very last moment he learned that he had been left behind the team. Moreover, Anton received this information not from the coaching staff and not from the leadership of the federation, but from sports journalists. After the Olympics, he was completely expelled from the team and deprived of a sports scholarship. Anton Sergeyevich Golotutskov, whose awards and titles were immeasurable, was elementarily left without a livelihood.
Coach and businessman
At first, the former champion and leader of the national team hardly mastered the new realities. He tried his hand at timber trade in Siberia, worked as a trainer in a fitness club, but all his undertakings failed. Golotutskov was supported by the Minister of Sports of Russia, who helped him get a coach at the Sports Training Center, where Anton could calmly search for sponsors for his ambitious plans. He dreamed of organizing the first gymnastic club in Russia, the doors of which would be open for people of all ages.
A business plan for this project was prepared back in 2005. After all the difficulties and the upholstery of the rapids, Anton Golotsutskov brought his idea to life and became the head of the Olympic club. The plans for the titled athlete to open a whole network with common standards and training programs. In addition to managing the club, Anton is also engaged for a fee with students on an individual program, realizing his skills as a coach.
