Roman Aleksandrovich Petushkov Biography

Artem Igorevich Maltsev another life during the treatment in the hospital was constantly came to the novel by relatives and loyal friends. One day, they included a TV in the man’s ward, along which the Paralympic Games were broadcast in Italian Turin. With this act, friends sought to express support to Petushkov and demonstrate that disability is not a sentence.

The mother of the future champion really wanted to help her son and gain information that in one of the cities of the Moscow Region there is a fitness club for the disabled. She went there and found out that the novel could become a member of the collection near Moscow, in which people with the same fate will take part. Initially, the novel did not want to take such a step, because he doubted his abilities, but still his mother was able to convince him.

The future showed that he made the right choice. In Dmitrov, the novel was acquainted with Irina Gromova, who was the head coach of the Russian Paralympic team in skiing and biathlon. She managed to make out a significant potential in Petushkov and decided to invite him to fees, which soon in the Yaroslavl region in the city of Rybinsk. An exhausting training process, the desire to achieve success and support from Thunder contributed to the fact that Roman Petushkov became a famous athlete.

Sports achievements of the Paralympics in the Canadian Vancouver, held in the year, brought the first medals to the novel - bronze in biathlon and silver in skiing. The first step of the pedestal Petushkov managed to conquer four years later at the home paralympics in Sochi. And he did it in a brilliant style: six gold per city - three on skiing and biathlon. In addition, the athlete also participated in other tournaments for people with disabilities and almost always managed to return with medals and diplomas.

Later, Roman told reporters that he was surprised by the support that was present from the stands in Sochi. As the rules, in his biography, he had to compete in complete silence, but at the Russian paralympiad the fans expressed sincere emotions, rejoicing in every exact shot from a rifle and disappointedly buzzing with a mistake. Such a factor gave strength to the athlete and bullets heapedly laid down on the target.

At the end of March, the novel became the winner of the Biathlon sprint race in the Russian championship, where seats athletes participated. The athlete could not close two targets, but even this did not stop him from coming to the finish ribbon first. Ivan Golubkov took silver in that race, and Alexander Davidovich became the third. If we talk about honors and titles, then Roman Petushkov was awarded the medal in March and the Order of Merit to the Fatherland of the second degree.

At the beginning of the winter and in February, the International Paralympic Committee awarded the Russian title “Athlete of the month”. Personal life about the athlete’s personal life has no information in public access. Regarding communication with people, Roman told the press that before Sochi competitions he practically did not communicate and did not intersect with healthy athletes, but then everything fundamentally changed.

It turned out that the Paralympicians are the same interesting and charismatic personalities, and they can be approached and communicate freely. Roman Petushkov and his wife recently athlete became the owner of his own car, which he controls on his own using manual control. He is far from Petushkov not to ride, but at the same time praises his own means of transportation of American production, clarifying that the machine requires addiction.