Alexey Tumakov

Made byAnastasia Matosova, 14Gymnasium №11, Vyborg

General informationAlexey Tumakov is Honored Master of sports,

tenfold champion of Russia, triple Paralympic champion. He was born on 28.08.1983 in Vyborg with a diagnosis of Cerebral palsy. Alexey began to play football in the club for disabled children in 1995. Then, in 2000, he joined football club «Olympia». Later, in 2000, he joined the Russian national junior football team. He was 16 then. Alexey is a World Champion 2007, a prizewinner of world and European championships and the best sportsman of Vyborg 2012 as well. Alexey went to school №6 in Vyborg and then he studied Instrument-making at the Technical University. Today he is married and he has a daughter Maya, who is 3 years old

The begining of the career

Alexey's football career started in the sports club «Favorit», when he was about 14 years old. It was his mother who led him to the football club. At first it was very difficult for Alexey to play football because of his desease. His first coach was Sergey Goriachkin. He interested Alexey in football, and Alexey started to believe in himself. Then he started to go to different competitions in Moscow. Thanks to constant trainings, Alexey got better and better results, and soon he became the best player in his team.

The player of the Paralympic football

teamAlexey Tumakov has played in the football

team «Olympia» since 2000. He is a defender. The coach of this team is Lev Chernov. The players in the team are aged 20-35 . They are from Moscow, Leningrad Region, Nizhny Novgorod, Ossetia. The team was formed on 18.04.1997. And in 2000, when Alexey came to «Olympia», the team won the first prize at the Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. Then, in 2007, they became World Champions among the junior football teams. Also, «Olympia» won the second prize at the Paralympics in 2008 in Beijing, China, and they became winners of Paralympics in London, Great Britain, in 2012. The players of «Olympia» are hardy, confident and cohesive. It is an incredible team with strong players.

AwardsAlexey has got a lot of different awards:

-Paralympic Gold medal, 2000, Sydney and 2012, London.

-Paralympic Silver medal, 2008, Beijin.

- 2 Orders For Merit to the Fatherland

- Order of Friendship 2012,

London

Alexey is also the youngest honourary freeman of

Leningrad Region.

Strong PersonalityAlexey Tumakov is a very strong

and confident person. Although his legs hurt, he strives, continues playing football and achieves striking results. Alexey is also very purposeful and modest. He doesn't like publicity. Football is the main, but not the only thing in his life. Alexey is also a biker and he loves motorbikes. He is neat and he has a great sense of humour. Alexey does not have much free time because of different meetings and flights, but if he has some, he prefers spending it with his family.

Future plans

Alexey spends nearly all his time training, and his results are great. Today he hopes that his team will take part in Paralympics in Brazil in 2016. Alexey thinks that they will be worthy representatives of their country and will win the Paralympic Gold medal in 2016.