Boris Orlov

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Boris Georgievitsj Orlov ( Russian Борис Георгиевич Орлов Boris Georgijewitsch Orlov ; born February 20, 1945 in Moscow ; † July 3, 2018 in Nijmegen ) was a Russian sports trainer who worked in Western Europe, primarily in the Netherlands , from 1986 .

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Orlov taught gymnastics in Moscow and was trained as a trainer there. During his military service he also worked as a circus artist. In the 1980s, Orlov headed the gymnastics team of the Soviet Union as a trainer and later, until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the association " Spartak Moscow ". In 1981 he was coach of Olga Bitscherowa , who became world champion, among others . Orlov moved to the Netherlands in 1986 through an exchange with the Russian Gymnastics Federation. Shortly afterwards he worked for a time in France, so Orlov was head coach for four years at the " Nationaal Sportcentrum Papendal " in Arnhem . After a dispute with the board of the Dutch Gymnastics Association, he moved to Stuttgart in 1993 . From 1994 to 1999 he was again a trainer at the Koninklijke Nederlandse Gymnastiek Unie (KNGU) . Between 1996 and 2008 he was head coach at GTV "De Hazenkamp" in Nijmegen . Among other things, he was the coach of Suzanne Harmes (* 1986) and Verona van de Leur . Orlov often worked with the choreographer Esther Heijnen . From 2008 to 2010 Orlov worked as a trainer at the "Turn Center Sports Heerenveen".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Markante turncoach Boris Orlov (73) overleden , nos.nl, July 3, 2018, (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Een nomade met een passie voor turnen , NRC Handelsblad, December 24, 1999, (Dutch)
  3. ↑ Whatever happened to Olga Bicherova? ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , gymn.ca, (Dutch) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gymn.ca
  4. ↑ Het stille verdriet van Boris Orlov , Trouw, December 24, 1999, (Dutch)
personal data
SURNAME Orlov, Boris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orlov, Boris Georgievitsj (full name); Орлов, Борис Георгиевич (Russian-Cyrillic); Orlow, Boris Georgievich (Russian-Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Dutch sports coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 2018
Place of death Nijmegen