Friday Alexander Biography

Alexander Friday: “A few years ago, he worked as a night watchman at the stadium” This is the first Olympic award of Ukraine in a spear throwing in the last 52 years. The last time Viktor Tsybulenko, who became a champion at games in Rome, rose to the Olympic pedestal in this sport. It is symbolic that Alexandra is trained by one of the former students Tsybulenko - Nikolai Gurnevich.

Our Olympic winner would relax properly after a tense struggle. But no - the very next day after returning to his homeland, Alexander Friday conducted a training session. Our athlete takes the second place in the overall standings of the series, having already won two victories in Paris and Monaco on the Diamond League. Despite the dense sports schedule, Alexander willingly talked with the “facts”, openly telling about the difficulties that he had to overcome on the way to the Olympic pedestal.

Yes, I'm not used to resting. It is more familiar to me to get into work and plow, I still can’t believe what I did in London. He did not really realize that he became a winner of the games. He left in the room, because we still take mobile mobile at the entrance to the arena. Already in the evening, after the award, I carefully read all the SSMES - from the wife of Yulechka, my relatives believed that at least I would get to the final.

After he went through the qualifications, something was shouted in his soul. One could, of course, in the last attempt to improve the result. It was hard psychologically. Squeezed, everything around was in a fog and even a leg was sick. About ten days before London, the old injury worsened - he pulled the muscle. Mazal with analgesic ointments, did massage. I was careful in the sector.

In addition, the corn burst in the palm of his hand, blood went. The coach had to tie a lot of hand about his teacher Viktor Tsybulenko. For me, this is a great achievement-to climb the Olympic pedestal, as he once. Previously, it flew away by meters and did not stick into the ground, but fell, flying another meters, it happened that the audience was injured. It was precisely for these security reasons that the shell improved.

Such spears are produced in Sweden. Nordic company. One spear costs about a thousand euros. Photo France Press - Wow! Who buys them? I saved for a long time to buy two spears - competitive and training. In general, you need to have at least four spears of different stiffness. Or I tie a red thread. In London, I bought a new bracelet for seven pounds in a souvenir shop. And before leaving, a friend gave me a bastard of garlic.

The garlic, it turns out, has helped. Probably, "Robinson Crusoe" Daniel Defoe is a table book? This is my favorite book, even in London took it. Before the competition, I read it to get distracted. And I like to watch a film about Robinson and his friend on Friday. He teaches how you can survive in the most difficult situations. I admire the man who got to the uninhabited island and did not disappear - he survived.

Friday is dad's surname. Where did she get from, I don't know. Parents divorced when I was five years old. Mom lived with a stepfather, and I - with my grandparents. He came to visit mom. Baba Nina raised me my grandfather died six years ago. She felt sorry for me, pampering me. And what granny dumplings with cherries and potatoes cook! And so rejoiced for me when I became the Olympic winner.

He died in the year. It so happened that we were not at the funeral. Father did not come to us with my grandmother for a long time. He alone lived, and no one told us about his death came to the stadium in the year. I was 16 then. Skinny is such, lanky. I asked me to write me down in the section. The coach first gave me a disk, then a hammer. But I'm not far from metal.

For a long time I could not decide on the projectile. Two months later, he accidentally picked up an “adult” spear and threw it 36 ​​meters. This is very good for the first time. And he went out, he studied on the spears of the old-style, which was laid 50 years ago. At first I did not really understand how to scatter correctly. The tail of the shell himself beat himself on the head and back.

All in bruises went. But after a couple of months already 45 meters of metal. Photo from a family album - how many attempts do you make in one training? But this is wrong, as the hand quickly gets tired, the spear weighs grams. Now for one training session I make thirty throws. It happened that I did not immediately look for a spear in the snow or in high grass - sometimes I had to comb the whole field.

Three years later, he took fourth place at the adult championship of Europe, and in m.