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VALENTIN BALAKHNICHEV
Date of birth: April 23, 1949
Place of birth: Lutsk, Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine
In 1975 graduated from the Moscow Institute of Energy as a specialist in thermal physics. Dr. Sc. (Education). Author of more than 10 research works.
1970-1977 - instructor of the Moscow City Council of the students’ voluntary society “Burevestnik”;
1977-1983 - coach-instructor, than a senior coach-instructor at specialized school of higher track and field athletics sportsmanship;
1984-1987 - senior coach-instructor at the experimental school of higher sportsmanship under the Moscow Council Executive Committee;
1987-1991 - USSR national team track and field athletics coach of the Republican inter-agency Olympic Training Centre of the RSFSR Physical Training and Sport Committee;
From December, 2000 - vice-chairman of the Russian Physical Training, Sport and Tourism State Committee (in summer 2002 the Committee was reorganized, with abolished tourism functions);
From July, 2002 - a vice-chairman of the Russian Physical Training, Sport State Committee (in March, 2004 the Committee was abolished);
Mr. Balakhnichev is a member of the Russian Olympic Executive Committee, a vice-president of the European Track and Field Association. He was a member of the Physical Training and Sport Council under the President of the Russian Federation. With the Russian President’s decree he was appointed as a member of newly formed Committee under the Russian President on September 26, 2007. It deals with the development of physical training and sport, higher sport achievements, preparation and organization of the 2014 Winter Olympics (XXII) and Paralympics (XI) in Sochi;
Master of sports in track and field athletics (1970);
RSFSR Honoured coach (1980);
Given the title “Honoured physical training worker of the Russian Federation”;
Decorated with Medal of Honour (2006), Medal “For work distinction”. |
