Ruslan Katyshev

Ruslan Katyshev
Ruslan Katyshev at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
nation	Ukraine
birthday	April 18, 1983
place of birth	Odessa ,  Soviet Union
size	175 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	Wheelchair athletics
society	Invasport Odessa
Trainer	Eduard V. Kuschnirowitsch, Tetyana H. Orlowa
Medal table
Paralympic Summer Games gold 2012 London Long jump - T11 bronze 2012 London Triple jump - T11 bronze 2016 Rio de Janeiro Long jump - T11 World Athletics Championships for the disabled gold 2013 Lyon Triple jump - T11 bronze 2015 Doha Long jump - T11 silver 2017 London Long jump - T11 IPC European Athletics Championships gold 2014 Swansea Long jump - T11
last change: February 6, 2020

Ruslan Wassylowytsch Katyschew ( Ukrainian Руслан Васильович Катишев ;. English transcription Ruslan Vasyliovich Katyshev ; Russian Руслан Васильевич Катышев ; born on 18th April 1983 in Odessa , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian athlete . Because of his inherited blindness, he starts in the Paralympic starting classes T11 ( long jump , triple jump ) and F11 (pentathlon).

Life

Ruslan Katyshev grew up in difficult social circumstances in Odessa . He was born blind and has retinal dystrophy and an iris defect inherited from his blind mother. Katyshev attended a school for the blind in Odessa and studied at the South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University "KD Uschinski" . He graduated as a PE teacher in 2009. Katyshev lives in Odessa with his visually impaired wife Kateryna, their blind firstborn daughter Anna and their non-disabled son Maxim in a dilapidated rented apartment.

Athletic career

In 1999, Katyshev was invited by the trainer Eduard Kuschnirowitsch to a trial training session in the disabled sports club Invasport in Odessa. When Kuschnirowitsch retired in 2003, Tetyana Orlowa became his trainer. Katyshev regards an equally blind teammate as his personal role model, the athlete Wassyl Lishchynskyi, who died in 2015 .

Katyshev's first international competition was the 2005 IPC European Athletics Championships in Espoo, Finland . At the World Athletics Championships for the disabled in 2006 in Assen Katyshev achieved seventh place in the long jump in class F12 and fourth in pentathlon class P12. The 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing should be a highlight of his career . However, Katyshev suffered a leg injury, so that he only reached eighth place in the long jump and seventh place in the pentathlon.

At the Summer Paralympics 2012 in London , Katyshev won gold in the long jump and bronze in the triple jump. In addition to a bronze medal in the long jump at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , Katyshev won a medal at the World and European Championships for the disabled every year until 2017. He is planning his fourth participation in the Paralympics for the 2020 Summer Paralympics in London.

Awards

• International sports champion of Ukraine
• Order of Merit of Ukraine 3rd Class (2012)
• Order of Merit of Ukraine 2nd Class (2016)

Web links

Commons : Ruslan Katyshev  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Історії ТСН. Без обмежень: незрячий паралімпієць Руслан Катишев розповів про важке дитинство , video from TSN with recordings of training and family (Ukrainian, 6:29)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ruslan Katyshev. In: paralympic.org. Retrieved February 8, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Паралимпийский чемпион Руслан Катышев: "На ремонт аварийного жилья мы потратили висисю мою олендийсу. In: facty i commentary . November 20, 2012, accessed February 8, 2020 .