MY FIRST TRAINER

The work is done

Leonteva Ekaterina,

8th form

My name is Leonteva Katya. I`m a student of the

8th form. My hobby is sport. I play volleyball, and basketball. But my favourite sport is table tennis.

I think, sport helps people to become

strong, makes them more organized. I have played table

tennis since I was 8 . I often take part in

different competitions.

A wonderful man and a famous trainer of

Smolenskii district, Khimichev Alexandr

Ivanovich brought me into tennis. I would like

to say a few words about this man.

Khimichev Aleksandr Ivanovich was a

candidate master of sports of the USSR. He

graduated from the Altai State Agricultural

Institute.

He graduated from the faculty of social professions «A

Trainer of the table tennis".

In 1976 he started working in

Linovskoye.

Tennis players from our school took part in all tennis competitions during 33 years. Our team became the champion of the region among rural sportsmen, among students and among adults twenty times.

During his work he prepared 9 candidates for masters of sports and more than 25 first-class

sportsmen.

He was a trainer in the children’s sports school.

Alexandr Ivanovich was a champion of the Altai krai in individual event in 1978. He was a champion of Altai krai among veterans and a participant of the championship of

Russia. He was a champion among veterans of Biisk.

He took part in competition in Irkutsk in 1992, in Volgograd in 1995, in Azov in 1997.

Aleksandr Ivanovich was

awarded diplomas.He was “Master of national education”

and «Master of physical culture and

sports»

Alexandr Ivanovich died in 2009.

Tennis tournament in honor of Alexandr

Ivanovich take place every year. I will never

forget Alexandr Ivanovich. He was a

cheerful, responsible, an active man.