The multiple world champion in gymnastics left the big sport a long time ago, but she did not remain idle. In search of her place in life after leaving big gymnastics, the athlete tried to work as a fitness instructor, took part in television projects and even wrote the book “Become Yourself”, in which she tried to give advice to everyone who still doubts their abilities, talking about how she came to her victories without breaking down or betraying herself. AND personal life of Irina Chashchina All this time she did not stand still - in 2011 she married businessman Evgeny Arkhipov. In his youth, Irina’s husband also went in for sports - kayaking, and his comrade in the section was none other than Dmitry Medvedev himself. That is why, when it became known about the wedding of Chashchina and Arkhipov, Medvedev, who at that time was the President of the Russian Federation, hastened to congratulate the newlyweds and even attended their wedding along with his wife.
In the photo - Irina with her husband
Evgeniy had been courting Irina for a long time, and proposed to her three times, and only his last attempt was successful. According to Chashchina, she liked her future husband for a long time, but the busy work schedules of both left almost no room for their relationship, but now Irina Chashchina’s personal life can be considered completely fulfilled. She lives in a country house with her husband, but has no intention of becoming a housewife - the former gymnast cannot imagine herself in this role, because she constantly needs to do something. Even now, when Evgeniy and Irina have started a family, they do not have much time to communicate - they are both business people with a lot to do. But Irina does not consider this a drawback; on the contrary, in her opinion, such a rhythm of personal life does not allow them to get bored of each other.
Irina graduated from the Academy of Civil Service, and now works as an adviser to the prefect of the Central District of Moscow and is responsible for the mass development of sports. Irina Chashchina’s personal life has been connected with sports since childhood. She was sent to the rhythmic gymnastics section at the age of six, and at twelve she already joined the Russian national team.
In the photo - a gymnast with her coach Irina Viner
Chashchina came to the famous Irina Viner in 1999 and began training under her leadership at the Olympic Training Center. From that same time, Irina began performing in the Russian national team. A huge achievement for the athlete was receiving a silver medal in the all-around at the Summer Olympics in Athens in 2004.
Categories Tags:Russian rhythmic gymnast Chashchina Irina Viktorovna was born on April 24, 1982 in the city of Omsk. She specialized in both individual exercises and team performances. She won gold medals at the European and World Championships, and received a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics. He is an Honored Master of Sports of Russia. After finishing her sports career, she was engaged in dancing, singing, worked in the Moscow prefecture, and took part in television shows. Works as a sports official - vice-president of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics. Height - 165 centimeters, weight - 51 kilograms.
Career
Biography of Irina Chashchina - childhood. The girl started playing sports at the age of six. I started with gymnastics, at the same time I went to a music school, where my mother Tatyana Vasilevna taught, and also went to swimming. But soon she focused on rhythmic gymnastics. The girl was taken to classes by her grandmother Tamara Valentinovna, who, together with her grandfather, supported Irina and came to watch her granddaughter compete.
The first coach was Elena Arais, with whom she studied until she was ten years old. Under her leadership, Irina, at the age of eight, became the champion of the Omsk region. The second coach was Honored Coach of Russia Vera Shtelbaums. Under her leadership, the girl’s rapid athletic growth began.
At the age of 12, Irina Chashchina became a member of the Russian national team and went to training camps in Moscow. She was the champion of the CIS Junior Spartakiad, and was twice the champion of the Junior All-Russian Championship. In 1996, Irina becomes so busy that she stops swimming. He finishes music school as an external student. She devotes all her free time to gymnastics. But, despite the busy schedule, the girl studies well at school and finds time to communicate with friends in the yard.
In 1999, the athlete joined the Russian national team and began training in Novogorsk under the guidance of Irina Viner. As part of the national team, she was ranked behind Alina Kabaeva and Yulia Barsukova. After Barsukova finished her professional career, Chashchina became second in the world ranking of rhythmic gymnasts.
In 1999 there were competitions - the European Championship in the Spanish city of Zaragoza (gold), the World Championship in the Japanese city of Osaka (gold), the Russian Cup (gold).
In 2001, a doping test showed the presence of furasemide in Alina Kabaeva and Irina Chashchina. This diuretic drug itself is not a doping drug, but it is used as a means for weight loss. Because lighter weight provides an advantage in rhythmic gymnastics, this drug is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The gymnasts were disqualified for two years, with the opportunity to compete in the second year.
In 2001, at the request of the Anti-Doping Committee, she was deprived of gold medals for the World Championships in Spain, the World Games in Japan, the Mobitel Grand Prix (Sofia, Bulgaria), and the Australian Goodwill Games. She retained awards for the European Championship in Geneva, the international tournament in Corbel (France), and the tournament in San Francisco.
In 2002, the athlete received gold for the all-around and jump rope at the Dutch Grand Prix stage (Deventer), and also received gold medals at the Berlin Grand Prix stage (all-around, clubs, hoop).
In 2004, Chashchina took second place at the Olympics in Athens. She did not become a champion, but the Olympics are the most prestigious competitions, with high competition; athletes with a minimal gap in points often end up on different steps of the podium. Olympic silver, of course, is a sporting success and a logical result of many years of daily work in the gym.
After a successful performance at the Olympics, Irina Chashchina decides to stay in the sport. In 2005, she came third at the World Championships. After this competition, she decided to part with professional sports.
Creative activity
After finishing her sports career, Irina tried herself in various areas of creative activity - she sang on stage, participated in various dance compositions, was a fashion model, and a model at High Fashion Weeks.
In 2005, she published the book “Become Yourself,” in which athletes can find a lot of practical advice on not only practicing rhythmic gymnastics, but also on effective time management, professional growth, and how to combine sports with their favorite activities. After all, the gymnast herself managed to do this for a long time. The book contains many excerpts from the gymnast’s personal diary, which makes it autobiographical.
In February 2006, she received a medal for services to the Fatherland, II degree.
In 2006, she took part in the show “Dancing on Ice”, performed with Ruslan Goncharov, and took third place. Also this year she took part in A. Nemov’s show “Legends of Sports”.
In 2007, she participated in the creation of the Flexible Strength fitness program. In this program, she showed in an accessible way how any woman can keep her body in good shape. There is no advice on how you can lose weight without doing anything. But for those who are willing to put in the work, the program shows how to achieve good results based on exercises that professional gymnasts have been using for decades. Also in 2007, she became a dance and fitness expert for the Maxi Sport fitness club network.
In 2007, she took part in the Radio Monte Carlo Grand Prix Horse Race and was a debutant at the Vienna Ball, which was held in Moscow. She took part in the show “Flights of Time”, which took place in the cities of Krasnoyarsk and Nizhny Novgorod.
In 2008, the athlete decided to work as a civil servant - she became deputy prefect of the North Moscow district for tourism and sports. While working, she studied at the Academy of Public Service, which she successfully graduated from. But the routine of an official’s work is very different from the sports life to which the gymnast is accustomed, so Irina Chashchina left the Moscow prefecture in 2011, resigning of her own free will.
In 2008, she won the show “Circus with the Stars” and performed with Valery Nikolaev.
In 2009, Irina Chashchina tried herself in cinema and played the main female role in the action film “The Path”. Director V. Pasichnik invited her to try herself in an acting role. In the film, she was a gymnast who was involved in an action-packed story involving fights and shootouts. For the sake of filming, she refused to participate in the elections of the Omsk Legislative Assembly.
Personal life
In 2011, she married Evgeny Arkhipov, a friend of Dmitry Medvedev, who at the time of the wedding was the President of Russia, and together with his wife attended the wedding ceremony. The young people dated for a long time, Evgeniy proposed to Irina several times, but she agreed to unite her fate with him only the third time. For so long, the lovers were unable to get married, not at all because of disagreements, the husband simply spent too much time at work, traveled a lot on business matters, Irina Chashchina herself was a very busy person. But love defeated the desire for a career, the young people got married and created family comfort, even despite the fact that the two of them devote a lot of time to work.
Husband Evgeny Arkhipov attended a sports school with Dmitry Medvedev for some time and practiced kayaking. Since 2008, he has headed the All-Russian Federation of Kayaking and Canoeing.
Irina Viktorovna Chashchina dreamed of opening her own gymnastics center for many years. Since 2012, she has held regional-level tournaments “Hope of Russia” in Omsk. In 2013, Irina Chashchina opened a rhythmic gymnastics school in the city of Barnaul, where children will be able to engage in this beautiful sport at the highest level, because the educational process is controlled and directed in the right direction by the world-famous champion, she is able to ensure athletic growth.
Professionalism in sports teaching activities is very important, because parents are always afraid to send their child to such a complex and dangerous sport as gymnastics - despite its grace, there are injuries, including complex ones, in this area of sports life. So we can wish Irina Chashchina not only an influx of talented athletes, but also coaches who love their job, who will be able to safely train the younger generation.
Years of work in the Moscow prefecture came in handy for Irina - she now works as vice-president of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics.
The life of a gymnast can be an example of how an ordinary girl, whose parents were not coaches at all (as is often the case in sports), made her way to the top of the sport. Moreover, as a child, she combined music school, classes in the pool, studied successfully at school, and managed to go out with friends. And at the same time, my sports career did not suffer in any way.
She can be used as an example for coaches who are very jealous of their sport, actually prohibiting children from developing in any direction other than sports. As a result, it often happens that a child is physically and psychologically exhausted from sports activities, he has nothing to switch to, and he leaves sports, having behind him only years of pain, injuries, and a childhood without walks in the yard with friends. And using the example of Irina Chashchina’s biography, we can see that her childhood non-sports activities helped her a lot in adult life - she successfully engaged in various types of activities - both those that are related to sports and those that are far from physical activity.
Irina Viktorovna Chashchina. Born on April 24, 1982 in Omsk. Russian athlete who competed in rhythmic gymnastics. World and European champion, silver medalist at the 2004 Olympic Games. Honored Master of Sports of Russia.
She started playing sports at the age of five. As Irina recalled, she was fat then, “there was no data at all, no stretching, no flexibility.” At first I just did it for myself. Her grandfather brought her into sports. It was he who forced her to constantly improve and gradually she became the best in her group.
Despite playing sports, she graduated from high school with honors.
Initially she studied gymnastics and music, later Irina settled on rhythmic gymnastics. The first coach is Elena Nikolaevna Arais. After four years of training, Irina began training under the guidance of Honored Trainer of Russia Vera Efremovna Shtelbaums. At the age of twelve, she joined the Russian national team and began going to training camps in Moscow.
While still a junior, Irina took first place at the CIS Spartakiad and won the Russian championship among girls two times in a row.
Since August 1999, she began training at the Olympic Training Center with Irina Aleksandrovna Viner. From that time on, her performances began as part of the Russian national team.
After Yulia Barsukova’s performances ended in 2000, Irina Chashchina firmly established herself in second place in the global rankings (after).
Doping scandal:
In 2001, the leaders of world rhythmic gymnastics, Russians Alina Kabaeva and Irina Chashchina, were caught using furosemide, as a result of which both were disqualified for two years.
The athletes were stripped of all awards from the Goodwill Games and the 2001 World Championships.
From August 2001 to August 2002, gymnasts were not allowed to take part in any competitions. The second year of disqualification was given conditionally, that is, the athletes were allowed to compete in official tournaments, but the strictest control was established over them.
In 2004, at the XXVIII Summer Olympics in Athens, she won a silver medal in the all-around.
Sports achievements of Irina Chashchina:
Gold medal at the European Championships in Zaragoza, Spain, 1999;
Gold medal among the Russian team at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan, 1999;
Absolute championship in the fight for the Russian Cup, 1999;
Deprived of: Gold medal at the World Championships in Spain, 2001 in the hoop exercise and silver medals in other events;
Lost: Absolute championship at the VI World Games in Japan, 2001;
Lost: Absolute championship in Sofia (Bulgaria) at the Mobitel Grand Prix tournament;
Lost: First place at the Goodwill Games in Australia 2001;
Gold medal in exercises with a skipping rope and silver medals in exercises with a hoop, ball and clubs at the European Championships, Geneva 2001;
First place at the prestigious international tournament in Corbel, France, 2001;
First place at the tournament in San Francisco, Invitational 2001;
Gold medals in all-around and jump rope exercises (Grand Prix Deventer 2002, Netherlands);
Gold medals in all-around and exercises with hoop and clubs (Grand Prix Berlin 2002);
Silver medal in all-around (XXVIII Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, 2004)
She has repeatedly starred for men's magazines, in particular, for the Russian version of the Maxim glossy magazine.
In 2005, Chashchina released the book “Become Yourself.”
In 2006 she took part in the show “Dancing on Ice”. Together with Ruslan Goncharov she took third place.
In 2007, Irina presented the Flexible Strength fitness program to the public.
In 2008, she took part in the “Circus with the Stars” project. Irina Chashchina shared the victory in this show with actor Valery Nikolaev.
In 2009, Chashchina played in the full-length feature film “The Path.”
Irina Chashchina. Demonstration performances
“The main thing for me is to think positively. It is very important to set goals, preferably achievable ones. I am grateful to big sports - gymnastics helped me develop an inner core: willpower, punctuality, awareness. But the most valuable thing is that I have acquired inner peace. I am interested in esotericism and I sincerely believe in what is happening to us, what we want to achieve. That’s why we need to learn to accept our fate, while analyzing events and drawing conclusions from them.”, - said Irina.
At the age of 26, Irina became deputy prefect of the Northern District of Moscow for sports and tourism. On February 28, 2011, she was relieved of her position and dismissed from the state civil service of the city of Moscow “on her own initiative.”
Vice-President of the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics.
Irina Chashchina's height: 165 centimeters.
Personal life of Irina Chashchina:
Married. The husband is businessman Evgeny Arkhipov (born 1965), a friend who was at their wedding, which took place at the end of 2011. “I liked Eugene right away, but our relationship did not develop quickly. I only agreed to the marriage proposal the third time,” she said.
In his youth, Arkhipov was involved in the same kayaking section with D. Medvedev, and since December 2008 he has headed the All-Russian Federation of Kayaking and Canoeing.
On October 25, 2013, a Land Rover Range Rover SUV worth about 6.7 million rubles was stolen from Chashchina. The car was stolen from house number 4 on Bryanskaya Street in Moscow.
Filmography of Irina Chashchina:
There are many legendary athletes in Russian sports, one of them is the magnificent gymnast Irina Viktorovna Chashchina. For our country, she won many awards and, although she was known as “Princess Nesmeyanaya,” she was truly a sparkling star in rhythmic gymnastics. However, Irina remains a bright personality today.
What was Chashchina's childhood like?
The city where Irina Chashchina was born in 1982 was Omsk, a very large Siberian metropolis. The girl's mother was in love with music. Being a teacher at a music school and working part-time as an accompanist, I wanted to instill in my daughter the same love for my work. But Ira also had beloved grandparents. Grandfather preferred sports, and Tamara Valentinovna supported him. Taking into account the character of Irochka, a rather energetic child, and the preferences of her mother, the family council decided: the girl will engage in swimming, music and gymnastics.
Despite the fact that Ira was more muscular and well-fed than expected for rhythmic gymnastics, she refused to engage in its sports direction. At the age of 6, her grandfather took her to her first training session, and then her granddaughter was accompanied to classes by her grandmother, who was the most devoted fan of the future gymnast named Irina Chashchina. The photos mostly show the athlete with a smile, but her concentration on her classes was so strong that during her performances, Ira smiled extremely rarely, for which she was nicknamed “The Unlaughable One.”
Chashchina's first coach was Elena Arais. She greatly contributed to the development in the child of the desire for excellence, perseverance in achieving goals and tirelessness in training. Without them, she had nothing to do with the girl’s physical qualities in rhythmic gymnastics. At the age of eight, Ira won her first victory in competitions in the Omsk region. And two years later, Vera Shtelbaums, an honored coach of our country, began to lead it.
Although Irina’s life consisted of many activities: music - gymnastics - swimming - school, she also managed to play with the children in the yard. In interviews she always talks about how she had a childhood. And remembers him with kindness and tenderness.
Chashchina in the Russian national team
Vera Efremovna, who trains her pupil with complete dedication, as Irina Chashchina herself admits, became her second mother. At the age of 12, the athlete joined the Russian youth team to represent our country at world competitions in the rhythmic gymnastics discipline. She submitted to the Spartakiad of the Union of Independent States and the Russian women's championship. At the age of 14, training became so intense that I had to give up combining it with swimming lessons. Ira graduated from music school as an external student.
The year 1999 became a new milestone in what Irina Chashchina was doing. The personal life of the seventeen-year-old gymnastics student was completely subordinated to her favorite sport. And for good reason. Inclusion in the activities of the Olympic Training Center and the mentorship of Irina Viner led to Chashchina’s entry into the world arena. In 1999, with her characteristic stubbornness and willpower, she walked towards her first personal gold medals, won in 2001 at the World and European Championships. As part of the team, Irina Chashchina became the world champion in the first year of training with Wiener. Since then, she has won many team and individual silver and bronze medals at various championships, won world cups and international tournaments, and became the absolute champion of the country.
Achievements in big sports
Undoubtedly, photographs are the best way to visualize the beauty of what Irina Chashchina chose as her way of life for many years. But the importance of the work done by the “artist” can only be realized by seeing the list of all her achievements.
When Yulia Barsukova left the world sports arena in 2000, Irina managed to take second place in the planet’s ranking after A. Kabaeva. In 2001, she conquered the Spanish World Cup, the 4th World Games held in Japan, the world tournament in Bulgaria and the Australian Goodwill Games. These were absolute championships and gold medals. Unfortunately, Chashchina was deprived of these awards due to a doping scandal. But she retained the gold of the European Championship and the championship in international tournaments in France and San Francisco, won in the same 2001.
The disqualification did not break the athlete, and already in 2002, at the Grand Prix in the Netherlands (Deventer) and Berlin, she received first places in the all-around and exercises with a skipping rope, hoop and clubs.
Silver at the 2004 Olympics in Athens could have been a bright final stage of the gymnast’s sports career, but she decided to stay. Unfortunately, the World Championships in Baku the following year brought her only after which Chashchina still chose to take the path of “turning away” from the sports track. At the age of 25, she was faced with the problem of choosing a future life scenario.
Life after sports
When her sports career came to an end, the former athlete did not go unnoticed - she received many tempting offers. But Chashchina was not ready for them yet. Firmly convinced that life does not end and new goals need to be set, she, however, has not yet seen her goals.
Trying to start something exclusively of her own, Irina began preparing a new fitness program (introduced in 2007 under the name “Flexible Strength”).
In general, having realized that life was no longer directly connected with sports, Irina accepted the opportunity presented by fate, and since 2008 she has taken a significant position in the prefecture of the Northern District of the capital for tourism and sports. This activity prompted the girl to enter the Academy of Civil Service, where she learned many of the nuances of bureaucratic service. Chashchina sat in the chair of deputy prefect until 2010; she left there of her own free will.
As Irina Chashchina dreamed at the age of 17, children were to become the main visitors to the gymnastics center she created. It was not possible to realize the dream right away, but the former gymnast did not give up on it. In 2013, Chashchina’s own rhythmic gymnastics department was opened at the regional children’s and youth sports school in Barnaul. And since 2012, open regional tournaments named after her under the name “Hope of Siberia” have been held in this sport.
Today Irina Viktorovna is the vice-president of the All-Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation.
What else did the “artist” do?
While still an active gymnast, Irina Chashchina was fond of singing, dancing, participated in photo shoots for glossy magazines and even acted as a model at High Fashion Week.
In 2005, the book “Become Yourself” was published, which the athlete dedicated to everyone who doubts their own abilities, but is still ready to strive for their goal. The success of the book is largely due to the fact that it contains excerpts from Irina’s personal diary, which makes the narrative lively and real.
For three years after leaving the sport, Ira enjoyed taking part in numerous television shows, such as “Dancing on Ice”, “Circus with the Stars” and others. She was interested, but over time the realization came that “it wasn’t hers.”
Already in public service, in 2009 Chashchina accepted the invitation of director V. Pasichnik to star in the film “The Path”. In the film, she was destined for one of the main roles - a gymnast, forced to make a choice between her unloved husband and her beloved young guy. And although, in fact, the film was an action movie, for Irina it was a completely new experience, for the sake of which she even refused the opportunity to become a deputy of the Omsk Legislative Assembly.
Family life
In 2011, Chashchina accepted a marriage proposal from a businessman whose first two attempts were unsuccessful.
The young people had been dating for two years, but busy schedules did not provide the opportunity to fully develop the relationship. As Irina Chashchina says, her husband was in no particular hurry with the proposal, disappearing for a long time on his business affairs. This was the reason that he was refused twice.
Today, the life of spouses has not become less eventful, but this makes it possible not to get tired of everyday life and miss each other. Ira and Evgeniy, of course, also have common interests - sports. Evgeniy is the head of the All-Russian Federation of Kayaking and Canoeing.
Determination, the will to win, stubbornness and incredible charm - this is what made Irina Chashchina a recognizable and very significant person in the sports history of our state. Surely we will hear more than once about her achievements and new projects.
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