Tyumenev Viktor Soviet hockey player: biography, family, sports career, the cause of death

Victor Tyumen - Soviet hockey player, who played as a central striker, Honored Master of Sports. It is a three-time world champion, three-time European champion, Olympic champion and winner of Challenge Cup. This article will get acquainted with the details of biography and sports career of this remarkable man.

Childhood

Victor Tyumenev born June 1, 1957 in Moscow. The family lived in a future champion in Tushino ordinary Soviet communal apartment. Boy from an early age was familiar with the sport. He successfully played football and was even invited to the youth team, "Spartacus", but chose a hockey game.

The first acquaintance with the sport came when the father tied to blade dvuhpoloznye Victor felt boots and sent him to the rink. The boy went on this design from the fifth floor, passed through the tram line and crossed two roads to get to the stadium, "Red October". There in the winter ice rink arranged.

trained team "Wings of the Soviets" At the same stadium. Seeing them play, Victor became interested in hockey. He often went there to look at these workouts.

In Soviet times it was hard to get a hockey gear. Victor and the other boys were breaking branches of trees that were a bit like hockey sticks, sharpened them on the one hand a plane and ran with them in the snow. Sometimes they were lucky - they picked up the broken old putter that throwing team players, "Wings of the Soviets", to train on the "Red October".

The first good skates appeared in Victor, clicking on the succession from Sergei Kapustin, who brought them from abroad.

Youthful years, and the first to achieve

Victor Tyumenev managed to combine sport, study and work. The young man went to vocational school for radiomontazhnika profession. At the same time, he worked at the "Buran" on the specialty. Somehow, he found time to train and ride to the tournament "Golden Puck", despite the fact that he often had problems with the admission to the competition by reason of employment.

Victor attracted the attention of professionals, playing in the junior "Wings of the Soviets' command. The young athlete was enrolled in the junior national team, playing for that, for the first time became the champion of Europe in 1976 at the age of eighteen. Speaking in the striker role, he was able to score three goals in the past four games, that was important for the team's victory. The following year, Victor Tyumenev goodbye to junior hockey - it's time to play in the Premier League.

Sports career

In 1977, Victor Tyumenev entered the bulk of the "Wings of the Soviets' command - that of the team, followed by training with bated breath watched as a child. But in 1981 a talented player interested in the club "Spartak". The young man, without thinking twice, moved into its structure.

Soon CSKA wanted to get a long-term player in their ranks. To this end, Victor drafted. It did not prevent even a young man studying at the Institute of Physical Culture. For Victor watched intently, waiting, when he failed session. Once an athlete has started a little study, he immediately received a summons. The plan was to hockey player signed a contract with CSKA Moscow in order to avoid military service.

The young man was summoned for a medical examination, was assigned to his companion that he did not leave, and threatened to call in a construction battalion. Viktor miraculously managed to escape from the recruiting office. CSKA plans were not fulfilled, because the leadership of "Spartacus" defended his player.

At the top of the success of

Subsequent years were in the professional biography of Victor Tyumeneva very fruitful. Success accompanied him to his home team games and team games, of which the hockey player entered. He won three gold in the World and European championships. One of the medals Tyumeneva handed directly to a hospital bed, where an athlete was admitted with severe trauma. In 1984 in Sarajevo Viktor Tyumenev he played at the Olympics with an injured leg. He wore an iron knee, which was very inconvenient to move. Athlete heroically all issued and missed only one match of the tournament. For it was always the main sport, and their health was on the secondary positions. In these competitions Tyumenev brought enormous benefits to his team, and the result was the victory at the Olympics.

In 1987, hockey Tyumeneva drafted "Vancouver", but the competitor does not even know about it. At that time he was preparing for the Olympic Games in 1988. As a result, Victor will not hit for health reasons. About the NBA Draft Tyumenev learned by chance that in 2001, when he saw his name in the hockey handbook.

End of career,

As part of "Spartacus" Viktor Tyumenev played for ten years. During his career, he participated in 524 games, scoring 135 goals. In the USSR team he played 94 meetings, on account of his 15 goals.

Sportsman always was more successful transfer than goals, for which he often received criticism from their coach. He always blamed striker in the absence of sports aggressiveness. For this reason, the best player of the season became the other players, who used his masterful passes to its destination.

At the end of his sports career Viktor Tyumenev spent several seasons in Finland as part of the SCC. He played in a familiar position of center forward. For three years he Tyumenev twice became the champion of Finland. These medals athlete transferred to the Museum of hockey. Then Tyumenev briefly played in Sweden and Austria. His career he has completed 41 years of age, where it began - in the "Wings of the Soviets."

Follow-up

For a long time Viktor Tyumenev worked as a scout for the Los Angeles, holding the case on the advice of Ari Vuori, which previously played in the SCC. Thanks to his efforts, "Kings" drafted by Alexander Frolov.

The death of

Outstanding athlete died the evening of August 2, 2018 at the age of sixty-one years. What was the cause of death of Victor Tyumeneva?

Legendary hockey player mentioned in one of his last interviews, that has health problems and survived two difficult operations, but more to dwell on this subject did not. We know that he was seriously ill in recent years. This prolonged illness and caused the death of Victor Tyumeneva.

The last years of his life he lived in seclusion athlete. Its diamond jubilee met casually, none of it has not congratulated hockey officials. Viktor died in poverty, almost on the street.

Funeral hockey legends engaged in "Spartacus." The club has expressed condolences to Viktor and his fans. many warm words in memory of this extraordinary man was said. Among other things, they noted the great contribution made by the common cause Tyumenev home team. It is through this player, many boys took the stick and came into the sport.

Viktor Tyumenev was buried August 5, 2018 at the Mitino cemetery.

Life

About me Victor Tyumeneva very little information. What is known is that the legendary hockey player was married. He did not share with the public and the media the details of his personal life, preferring to talk to the sports theme.

Victor Tyumeneva wife, Anna, gained fame due to the very different circumstances of far impartial nature. More recently, it became known that 61-year-old woman, a pensioner, for the past ten years conducted fraudulent activity.

It represents an employee of the company "Don Story" and offer customers to buy luxury housing discount fifty percent. Credibility caused Anna, saying it has the right to enter into contracts given to her by the company director, who was a friend of her husband - a hockey player Victor Tyumeneva.

Woman engaged in criminal activity since 2007, in 2010 it has attracted two assistants. Anna drove buyers to construction sites and showed them their future apartments, lulling suspicions that the victims of his fraud. It is obvious that the buyers did not get their homes. Fraudsters have appropriated this way for about 650 million rubles. Anna Tyumeneva admitted committing. To date, the court is considering the case.