Skates, gymnastics, judo: how sport returned to the South Urals with disabilities a full -fledged life, people with disabilities were able to achieve numerous victories in Russia and abroad.

Skates, gymnastics, judo: how sport returned to the South Urals with disabilities a full -fledged life

People with disabilities were able to achieve numerous victories in Russia and abroad.

Fedor Merkulv did not immediately conquer the ice, for skiing I had to get a more suitable prosthesis

Limited health opportunities are no reason to abandon an active and diverse life. And the South Urals with disabilities successfully prove this. Sports help many: skates, gymnastics, judo, powerlifting and even climbing. Today, December 3, on the International Day of the Disabled, we talk about those who were able to achieve recognition not only in Russia, but also abroad. But perhaps the main victory of these guys is a victory over themselves.

Powerlifting

Sport gave the power of spirit, new goals in life and motivation to the South Urals Sergey Shvets. Five years ago, a resident of Korkino lost his leg due to a knife wound.

Sergei says sport helped him be distracted and not go crazy

Photo: Andrey Vinnikov

– A month lay in the hospital. When I arrived home, I did not go outside for two months at all. There was depression, the moods are decadent: both the dishes fought and cursed with his parents, ”the young man recalls.

Before the tragedy, Sergei went in for sports, worked with Libra, but did not go to the competition. In the society of the disabled, he was offered to take part in the competitions on powerlifting, where without preparation our hero took first place in the region. Now the young man poses new tasks.

– I have a lot of regional medals, but I want more. The bench press enters the Paralympic sport, and there is something to strive for, ”he says.

Powerlifting also helped the young Chelyabinets Arthur Kinzhabaev, who was diagnosed with “children's cerebral paralysis” at birth. Until five years, he could not walk at all, and when he was sitting, support was required.

The diagnosis of Arthur now resembles only speech disorders

Photo: Oleg Kargapolov

The extraordinary power of will and sport allowed the young man not only to stand on his feet, but also to start engaged in along with healthy athletes.

“One of the guys then laughed at me, but it was then that I wanted more-to win with healthy guys,” says Arthur.

Today, the 32-year-old Chelyabinets is the winner of the regional competitions in powerlifting or the power three-shirt. Lying in a touch, the athlete squeezes 125 kilograms, with a standing traction – 180. In the future, he intends to pass the standards and get the title of master of sports among healthy athletes.

Skates

Fedor Merkulv, who lost his leg three years ago while working on the railway, stood on skates.But before I tried myself in several sports at once.

– Questions why this happened, and why I did this, I did not ask myself then. In general, I am a rationally thinking person, so I did not spend time on this – the fact itself is already there, and there is no getting away from it. Then I started looking for information on the Internet, there was no time to despair – I had to go through rehabilitation, ”he says.

Fedor has already tried himself in several sports, including rock climbing

I started with wakeboarding, then took up rock climbing, sledge hockey, tried to drift in a car, did cyclocross, high jumps. In athletics, the guy already has two bronze medals. Now he is preparing for the championship of Russia.

In March, our hero took part in the championship and championship of the Chelyabinsk region among the disabled in speed skating. The young man spoke in a group with a lesion of the musculoskeletal system. He competed with Denis Kochubeikin, who suffers from cerebral palsy. In the races of 100 and 500 meters, Denis was faster, Fedor won silver.

Gymnastics, judo and dance

The name of the sunny gymnast from Chelyabinsk, Arina Kutepova, has long been known outside the region. The young athlete has repeatedly performed at international competitions and became a champion. Among other awards, she has medals of the Olympic Games for people with Down syndrome, Trisome Games 2016 World Games for people with Down syndrome and others.

Arina is the strongest gymnast in the country among athletes with intellectual disabilities

Chelyabinsk judoists, visually and hearing impaired, also achieved great success in sports: Sergey Nikolaev, Alexander Parasyuk. Natalia Drozdova, Alina Pozdeeva.

While some find strength in sports, dancing helps others. So, for example, members of the Our Place club starred in a unique dance video directed and directed by Miguel, the mentor of the Dancing project. The task of the production is to prove that people with disabilities can create on an equal basis with healthy ones. In it, young people in wheelchairs, with hearing loss, with a serious form of cerebral palsy, professional dancers and the best choreographers of the country dance on equal terms – a total of 90 people.

The clip was filmed in the ChTPZ Vysota 239 shop

Photo: Organizers of the Peer to Peer project

And the Paradox team works at the Nashe Mesto club, it includes wheelchair users and volunteers. At the V International Charity Dance Festival Inclusive Danc, Chelyabinsk residents took first place. Our team became the best among 75 participating teams from all over the world, performing the number “On the verge of fun”. The production won the hearts of strict judges from the Netherlands, Great Britain, Belarus and Russia. Now the plans of dancers with disabilities are to get into the Paralympic team.

The team plans to perform at the Continental Cup and take first place there

In total, there are just over 235,000 people with disabilities in the South Urals today. In addition to various kinds of support, South Urals disabled people receive a monthly pension. According to the Chelyabinsk region branch of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, people with a third disability group are paid a state pension in the amount of 4,920 rubles, plus a monthly payment of 2,022 rubles is provided for this category. The size of the state pension for the second disability group is 5,789 rubles, the monthly cash payment is 2,527 rubles. The first group of disability gives the right to receive 11,578 rubles as a pension and 3,538 as a monthly payment. Disabled children are prescribed 13,894 rubles per month plus 2,527 rubles. The average disability insurance pension is 8,546 rubles.

In the infographic, we compared payments with the subsistence level per capita established in the Chelyabinsk region.