Sukhoruchenko Sergey

Sukhoruchenko Sergei Nikolaevich was born 10 August 1965. in the Bryansk region. Soviet athlete (cycling), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1979). Champion Olympic Games 1980. in the group and road race. Two-time winner of the Peace Race in 1979 and 1984 in the individual competition. Recognized as a strong cyclist World Amateur French newspaper EKIP in 1979, in 1980 and in 1981. Champion of the USSR during the years 1979-83 in various types of races.

For twenty years before the Moscow Olympics, on a hot route Grattarossa in Rome, the Soviet cyclist won in the individual road race. It was Viktor Kapitonov. In Moscow, he-80 - a senior coach of the USSR. Seeing at the start of his students - Sergei Suhoruchenkova, Yuri Barinov, Anatoly Yarkin and Yuri Kashirina, he said: "To attack and only attack. After the first half of the distance you must go ahead! "

"And now - the race. 115 athletes from 32 countries gathered at the track in Krylatskom to fight for the medals of the Moscow Games in the individual race at 189 km. Less than half have reached the finish line. In the final protocol time stamped only after 52 names against the other - "gone" or "withdrawn". And it is not surprising: after all, track, built on hills Krylatskom extremely difficult. She resigned herself to only the strongest, most courageous, the most insistent. When it was built, cars and machinery were kept on the road with ropes to derail. It is interesting that the author of the project - a woman, a Moscow architect N. Voronina. "Apparently, she decided to check that the men really the stronger sex", - joked cyclists, first tested the route.

. In these dizzying circles of fourteen (78 artful turns, 1092 turns, elevation changes up to 50m) and a struggle between the strongest drivers of the planet
. In the third round from the main group broke away three: Yuri Barinov, Pole Czeslaw Lang and Italian Giuseppe Petito. Behind them, standing on the pedals, and ran Sergey Sukhoruchenkov. And after a few minutes before that there were four. Unexpectedly falls Petito, and three, climbing the steep hill, go farther. By the eleventh circle gap has reached 8.9 minutes. Before the finish was still more than 40 km, when Sukhoruchenkov, leaving the partners, began a prolonged surge. Alone, out of breath from the strong gusts of wind, he insists on twisting and turning the pedals, moving further away from the pursuers.

Sukhoruchenkov appeared in front of the stands at 2 min. 58 sec. before Lang Barinova. The new Olympic champion was greeted with a standing ovation this. Then Lang and Barinov held a kind of sprint race, and only a photo finish determined that the silver medal should belong to the Polish athlete, and a bronze - the Soviet.