One of the most promising swimmers of today's Russian national team - Vladimir Morozov - has made a dizzying sports career. With all the opportunities available, he chose the path of the Russian athlete and successfully defends the colors of our flag in the competitions of the highest rank.
Childhood and family
June 16, 1992 in Novosibirsk, Vladimir Morozov was born, a swimmer in the future, and at the time of birth the most ordinary boy. When the baby was only a year old, his parents broke up, and the child remained in the care of his mother. She left her grown-up son with her grandparents in Koltsovo, near Moscow, where he began swimming at the age of 9. His first coach is Igor Vladimirovich Demin, who not only discovered talent in the boy, but also became his adviser and mentor in life. After all, Vladimir did not have a father, and he needed a male example and support, he found all this in the person of a coach.
First successes
In order to get high results, you need to start playing sports very early, then a real champion biography can develop. Vladimir Morozov starts swimming quite late, and the first achievements also come later than other children. At age 14, he even seriously wants to quit swimming, because the training system was unbearable for him. He had to swim for many hours, but it did not bring results. Achievements begin to appear only after changing the training system at 16 years old. In the USA, Morozov conquers the first peaks, on his account several US records in swimming at a distance of 50 m among young men, in 2010 he won the title "Best swimmer of the year" among schoolchildren.
American history
In 2006, Vladimir Morozov moved to the United States. His mother remarried and took the child to Los Angeles. The boy had a very difficult time, especially at first. He did not know the language at all, he had no friends, he had nothing to occupy himself with, and Volodya went to the local swimming section. The coach asked to demonstrate his skills and after the swim Morozov immediately took him to the section, because he swam better than anyone who was then in the pool. He began to train with David Salo according to the new system, and it was the combination of Russian and American schools that allowed him to break ahead.
Vladimir Morozov says that the Russian school was built on grueling swimming training, the emphasis was on honing the technique of swimming. While in the US, training is based on the development of endurance. Every day, the athlete is engaged in the gym for two hours, develops muscles, trains the heart and therefore can make enormous loads easier.
Special Morozov technique
Vladimir Morozov is a swimmer who was able to absorb all the best from both systems and achieve high results. Today he trains at the Volga club (Volgograd) with Viktor Avdienko and at the American club Trojan with David Salo. He says that there is a big difference in approach. In the USA, the results depend on the athlete himself, the trainer develops a training program, but does not check the results, does not monitor the honing of the equipment. The swimmer himself must invest and fight for the result. The spirit of competition is very strong in the USA, athletes look at each other, and other people's success motivates them to new achievements. In America, sport is a business, stars can invest a lot of money, but to achieve this level, an athlete needs to achieve a lot. At the same time, the American system seems more interesting and diverse to him, but the Russian school helps to achieve high results.
In Russia, a trainer works individually, gives specific advice to an athlete, and helps increase productivity. Here, the renowned trainer Viktor Avdienko works with a swimmer, through whose hands more than one Russian champion passed, as well as a unique specialist Sergey Koygerov, candidate of pedagogical sciences, he developed a unique training system specifically for Morozov. It includes a comprehensive analysis of the athlete’s indicators and physical form, testing swimmer’s movements in water and on land using video cameras, tracking imperfections in technique and unnecessary movements. All this allows you to significantly improve Morozov’s athletic performance.
Achievement list
Morozov had every chance to play under a star-striped phage, but he decided not to change his citizenship and since 2011 he has been playing for the Russian team.
Vladimir Morozov, whose photo was adorned by all the world sports media, became a celebrity. Athlete specialization: crawl, backstroke, complex. By the age of 23, Morozov has a large list of awards and achievements. He is a bronze medalist in the baton of the London Olympic Games, the owner of two gold and one silver medal of the World Cup 2012 in Istanbul, 7 medals of the European Championship 2012 in Chartres. The European Championship of 2013 in Denmark also became a triumph for Vladimir, at which he won seven medals at once and set several team and one personal record. He won 6 medals at the Universiade in Kazan in 2013, 3 medals at the 2013 World Cup in Barcelona, 4 medals at the 2013 World Cup in Beijing, and became the second at the 2014 World Championships.
Since 2012, Vladimir Morozov has been a Honored Master of Sports of Russia, in 2012 he was awarded the medal "For Services to the Fatherland" and the Certificate of Merit of the President of Russia. In 2014, Vladimir was recognized by the All-Russian Swimming Federation as the best athlete of the year, with great expectations for the upcoming Olympic season.
Disqualification
The season of 2014 was not very successful for Morozov, he was ill, but still was able to show good results, but 2015 brought real pain. On August 5, 2015, the world media spread the news: Vladimir Morozov was disqualified! The leader of the Russian team, the hope of Russian swimming, was suspended from participating in the semifinals and finals of the World Championship for a false start. This immediately crossed out all the hopes of the Russian four for medals. The athlete explains the reason for the incident by psychological factors, he says that he was very nervous at the start, and the signal was delayed, so it broke a second earlier than necessary. Experts say that the stage of the semi-final is the most difficult and exciting for athletes: you must definitely get into the eight, but at the same time do not spill all your strength and leave a reserve for the final. Swimmers really do not like this stage, and Morozov had something to worry about, because in Berlin at the European Championships for the same reason he did not make it to the finals at the 50 and 100-meter distances. But if in Berlin Vladimir was not in the best shape, then he was brilliantly prepared for Kazan and seriously hoped for medals. After the championship, the athlete worked with psychologists and said that he would not change anything in the preparation program for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The only thing that prevents him is his nerves, but he intends to cope with them in the main competitions.
Personal life
Vladimir Morozov, whose personal life is the subject of close attention of millions of girls around the world, today says that his heart is free. He does not yet have time for a serious relationship, he is young and serious about a career in sports. In his free time, Morozov loves to surf, meet friends, play video games on the console, loves to sleep. So far, he is only seriously interested in sports, but he says that he is grateful to all the fans who write to him on social networks and cheer for him in competitions.
