Master of Sports of international class in cross-country skiing.
Born on August 20, 1973 in Vorkuta.
Graduated from Vorkuta Secondary School No. 23., SPTU No. 12, Faculty of Physical Culture and Sports of Syktyvkar State University.
From the age of 8 to 14, Andrey tried himself in various sports sections (boxing, weightlifting, volleyball, Greco-Roman wrestling, swimming, chess), after which he joined the skiing section to a young coach Sergey Anatolyevich Kryuchkov.
The first big victory was won by Andrey in 1990, when he won 10 km of the Labor Reserves CS in Syktyvkar. Then there was a transition to the category of men, where he made every effort to join the Russian national team.
At the World Championships, Nutrikhin showed the following results: 18th place at a distance of 30 km skating (1997 Trondheim, Norway), 4th place in the 50 km speed skating race (2001).
In 1998, as a member of the Russian national team, Andrey took part in the XVI Winter Olympic Games in Nagano (Japan) and took 15th place at a distance of 50 km skating.
A.Nutrikhin is a multiple champion of Russia in the 4x10 km relay race (1996-2002) and in the 70 km super marathon race (2000).
Since 2007, he switched to coaching. Currently he works in the same team with the famous skier, Honored Master of Sports, Olympic champion Vasily Pavlovich Rochev.
In the life of Andrey Nutrikhin, two main hobbies get along peacefully – sports and music. Famous skier, participant of the XVIII Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, master of sports of international class, head coach of the Komi national ski racing team. He plays classical and bass guitar, sings and composes songs, performs both solo and in various collectives: as part of the rock band "Region 11", in the folk choir "Gorenka", and also recently in the duet "Meeting" with the soloist of the Republican Opera and Ballet Theater Nadezhda Batalova. Isn't it a kind of business card? We talked with Andrey Nutrikhin about his path in sports, love of music, children and childhood spent in Vorkuta.
– Once, at an open lesson for schoolchildren, you said that you had been looking for yourself in sports for a long time, humorously recalled visiting the wrestling section, where you were "constantly thrown like some kind of bag."
– Indeed, I tried a lot of sections as a child, and I also remember boxing... how I got knocked out. That's probably why I didn't stay there. I realized that martial arts is not my thing. There were also swimming, aircraft modeling and ship modeling circles, go-karting. The fact is that we had a magnificent Pioneer Palace in Vorkuta, where all this was in one place. I went from one section to anot
her and gradually came to ski racing, where my friends called me, as it often happens with any boy. It was somewhere in the seventh grade.
– Figuratively speaking, Andrey Nutrikhin skied from Vorkuta to Nagano. After all, you studied with Sergey Anatolyevich Kryuchkov, from whom Larisa Novoselskaya, who became the European champion in biathlon, also started her sports career.
– Yes, we trained together in the same group. She is also from Vorkuta, but then she entered the Smolensk Academy of Physical Culture. Now I recommend all our athletes to go there, because they treat ski racers well there. For example, Yulia Belorukova also studies there, Natalia Nepryaeva, Yana Kirpichenko. These are all members of the Russian national team. Larisa Novoselskaya started with cross-country skiing, but during her studies in Smolensk she made a choice in favor of biathlon.
My first coach Sergey Anatolyevich Kryuchkov now works in the Smolensk region, he is from there. We often contact him. In general, I was lucky in the sense that cool specialists were engaged with me – both at school and in the ski racing section. I got a good overall physical development. Our physical education teacher was wonderful. Excellent coaches, young and energetic, worked with me in ski racing, and I still maintain relations with them. The fact is that at a young age, a person does not have a little idea how his development in sports takes place. But it all starts with a physical education teacher who notices some abilities, with the first coach, with the fact that they communicate together. The physical education teacher at the vocational school Elena Albertovna Miller also supported me, she saw that I was an athlete who could go further and show results. Then there was the coach of the national team of the central council of the sports society "Labor Reserves" Vladimir Danilovich Timofeev, who now works as a senior coach of the youth national team of Russia, and we also continue to cooperate with him. Well, in the end, coach Yuri Viktorovich Borodavko once in 1995 attracted me as a candidate for the Russian national team. Sometimes we don't even understand and forget that all these people, seeing talent in an athlete, carefully transfer it from "hand to hand" to each other, thus bringing it to the international arena. This is how the system was built in the Soviet Union, and this is how it works now.
– But your path to the big sport was difficult, and one day you seemed to want to give up everything, follow in your father's footsteps – to work as a welder…
– By the way, I do not regret the acquired skills of a manual welder in Vorkuta SPTU No. 12. There I learned to understand what a welding arc is, a welding bath, I learned to distinguish metal from slag, I remember all these terms. And I'm always interested when I encounter welding somewhere, I always want to try to cook. I have already done some useful things for myself, for example, in a metalwork garage.
There was no desire to quit skiing, but there was a turning point, which happened just during practice at a vocational school. Then I had some kind of spring apathy, accumulated debts on credits. And then it turned out that you need to go to Syktyvkar for competitions. I told the coach that I wasn't ready, I hadn't trained for a few weeks after all, but he insisted. As a result, then at the competitions in the Ezhvinsky district I won the race, which became a key one in my career. It was a ten-kilometer freestyle race. After the victory, Vladimir Danilovich Timofeev came up to me and asked if I was ready to train as part of the junior national team. After returning to Vorkuta and passing all the tests, at the end of May he went to a gathering as part of the central council of "Labor Reserves". There were a lot of fees, departure every month. We traveled not only to Russia, but also to Lithuania, visited Ukrainian Sumy and Ivano-Frankivsk. There were good ski training centers there.
Then sports societies began to fade, and national teams of regions began to form. I was included in the Komi national team. Vasily Pavlovich Rochev and Nina Petrovna Rochev noticed me and took me to their group. Nikolai Nikolaevich Volkov also coached at that time, unfortunately, he died last October. Under the leadership of Vasily Pavlovich, literally two years later, the results went up, and in 1995 I was enrolled as a candidate for the Russian national team, and the following year I was already in the main squad.
Of course, my progress was helped by the results, because there is no other way in sports. We, the skiers, do not have such judges who can overestimate or underestimate the score. Everything is objective and clear: whoever is faster wins. Despite the fact that this sport is not very popular now, everything is fair in it. The most strict judge is essentially a chronometer, you can't fool time.
– How did you react to the fact that Inna Kostyuchenko moved from the Komi ski racing team to the Belarusian biathlon team in the summer?
– As the head coach, of course, I am against it. But I honestly admit, when she came to me and said that they were paying for tickets to and from home, making dual citizenship, arranging accommodation and temporary residence, that she was signing a contract, and she was already being declared for the IBU Cup and the Universiade to be held in Krasnoyarsk, that is, she was already a one-hundred-percent participant in these competitions Then I just humanly can't forbid her. And legally, too, it is impossible to prohibit, because here she is essentially a mid-level skier, we could not guarantee such prospects for her. Therefore, of course, she has the right to choose the best.
– Do we have long-term employment contracts for skiers?
– Yes, we have such a system, basically it is implemented point-by-point with leading athletes, they have individual contracts in which everything is clearly spelled out, and they, at least to this day, are fully respected. As for other skiers who are a little lower in the class, the management and coaching council, in accordance with the rating of the athlete, try to consider his candidacy for a bet at the Sports Training Center of the national teams of the Republic (TSSPSK), so that when he arrives from his district, say, from Izhemsky or Ust-Tsilemsky, he will have there was at least some certain small amount for existence.
