Inga Grigoryevna Voronina
Inga Voronina 
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| Full name | Inga Grigoryevna Voronina | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| birthday | August 29, 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 177 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||
| date of death | 4th January 1966 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| society | Dynamo Sports Club | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Inga Grigorjewna Voronina ( Russian И́нга Григо́рьевна Воронина , née Artamonowa [Russian Артамо́нова]; born August 29, 1936 in Moscow ; † January 4, 1966 ibid) was a Soviet speed skater . Although she never took part in the Winter Olympics, she is considered one of the best and most successful speed skaters of her time and was the first woman to win four all- around world championships .
Career
Inga Artamonowa started skating on the ice rink as a young girl to distract herself from the daily suffering and health problems. Soon she joined the Dynamo Sports Club and ran in the Dynamo Stadium . When she was twelve years old, however, she was assigned to the rowing section within the club . The sport strengthened her chest muscles and improved her lung health to such an extent that long-standing tuberculous diseases could be treated with appropriate therapy. Artamonova quickly achieved first successes in rowing and became Soviet junior champion. At the age of 17 she was already a two-time senior champion. Only a little later, however, she switched to speed skating on her own initiative and against the advice of her coach.
She finished her first Soviet all-around championships in the new sport in 1955 in 21st place. But just a year later she won the championship title and in 1957 the gold medal at the all-around world championship. In the following years she celebrated numerous international successes, but missed the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck due to a stomach disease . The following year, however, she won the all-around world championship for the fourth time. In addition to her international successes, Woronina was a total of five times (1956, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1964) Soviet champion in all-around competitions and secured 26 Soviet championship titles over individual distances. In addition, she won the Kirov Prize, a prestigious speed skating Grand Prix in the Soviet Union, eight times, and was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sport of the USSR (заслуженный мастер спорта СССР) in 1962 .
Private life
Inga Artamonowa was not yet five years old when the German-Soviet war was unleashed and brought much suffering to the Soviet population. She too often went hungry with her mother Anna, her brother Vladimir and her grandmother. In addition, as a result of the deprivation, she was in very poor health and became infected with tuberculosis , which was not to heal completely for seven years.
In 1959 she married her speed skating colleague Gennady Andreevich Voronin (* 1934; † 2004), who competed shortly afterwards at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley . In preparation for the all- around world championship of the same year , Woronina was diagnosed again with tuberculosis, which was successfully treated. After the all-around world championship in 1962 , various ulcers had to be removed again. In 1965 she joined the CPSU .
The athlete was also exposed to domestic violence on the part of her husband, who, because of her numerous sporting successes and her popularity, as well as his own unfulfilled career expectations, developed a steadily growing jealousy and became alcoholic. On January 4, 1966, he received a summons before the board of the Dynamo Sports Club, who wanted to talk to him about the family problems - and possible negative effects on the performance of his model speed skater. However, he did not keep this appointment, but drove to his wife and attacked her with a knife. Multiple stabs straight to the heart were fatal. Thousands of Muscovites accompanied the funeral procession for their idol Inga through the city before she was buried in the Vagankovo cemetery . Gennady Voronin was sentenced to ten years in prison.
World records
Woronina set the following world records during her career.
| discipline | Time / points | place | date |
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| Mini combination | 206,016 p | Ekaterinburg | February 6, 1956 |
| 500 m | 00: 44.90 min | Medeo | January 27, 1962 |
| 1500 m | 02: 19.00 min | Medeo | January 27, 1962 |
| 3000 m | 05: 06.00 min | Medeo | January 28, 1962 |
| Mini combination | 189,033 p | Medeo | January 28, 1962 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Caviar in the luggage" ; in Der Spiegel , issue 1/1979; Retrieved from spiegel.de ( Spiegel Online ) on December 5, 2012
Web links
- Detailed article about Inga Voronina on chtoby-pomnili.com , accessed on December 5, 2012 (Russian)
- B. Valiev: "Дело Артамоновой" ; in Sowetski Sport , August 30, 2003, issue 159/2003; Retrieved from sovsport.ru on December 5, 2012 (Russian)
- Vladimir Artamonov: Article written by her brother about Inga Woronina on aarticles.net/biographies , accessed on December 5, 2012 (English)
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| SURNAME | Voronina, Inga Grigoryevna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Artamonowa, Inga Grigoryevna (maiden name); Артамонова, Инга Григорьевна (Russian spelling of the birth name); Воронина, Инга Григорьевна (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Soviet speed skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 1966 |
| Place of death | Moscow |