This spring, 23-year-old gymnast Aliya Mustafina divorced 24-year-old bobsledder Alexei Zaitsev. The athlete announced her separation from her husband on social networks. “There is no reason as such, it’s just that my ex-husband turned out to be not my person. We also have no complaints against each other. I love Alice very much and am very grateful to Lesha for our daughter,” the young woman shared on the microblog.
According to some reports, Mustafina was upset by the infidelity of her other half. As journalists learned, Zaitsev allegedly had a passing hobby. Having learned about this, Aliya decided to file for divorce. Alexey himself has not yet commented on the data, which has received wide publicity, and Mustafina is unlikely to speak out on this topic. In her resonant post, the young woman made it clear that she was not going to talk about her relationship with her ex-husband.
Now Mustafina is busy with completely different things. The sports star is preparing for the Russian Cup, training intensively in Penza. By the way, her former lover Pavel Pavlov is also there. So the gymnast has every chance to try to get back together with Aliya. Correspondents note that Pavlov still cannot forget her.
Journalists also contacted the father of the two-time Olympic champion Farhat Mustafin. The famous Greco-Roman wrestler said that he does not know the reasons for the separation of Aliya and Alexei.
“Oh, both of them are foolish. They are all immortal, they are knee-deep in the sea! And with character too. Aliya says that her love has passed,” said the gymnast’s father.
According to Farkhat Akhatovich, Zaitsev is “a normal guy with ambitions.” Aliya’s parent believes that Alexey behaves according to his age and does not know how to keep his distance. For example, he could easily pat his father-in-law on the shoulder encouragingly. “This is familiarity, amikosonism. He does this without any second thought. In general, he is a good young man,” says Mustafin.
Aliya's father was against her divorce. According to him, the young people have not lived together for six months now. Aliya's parents held a family council to discuss their future. According to Mustafin, Zaitsev asked his chosen one to return, but she did not listen to him.
“The whole family sat there - me, my wife Elena Anatolyevna and the two of them. We thought about what to do. Well, what is this – they killed the child and ran away?! Leshka wanted to save his family. But Aliya stuck to nothing. She is stubborn and always stands her ground. Apparently, he offended her in some way,” said Aliya Mustafina’s dad "Express newspaper".
On November 3, the wedding of two-time Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics Aliya Mustafina with Russian national bobsledder Alexei Zaitsev took place in Krasnodar. Aliya married Alexey Zaitsev, the wedding takes place in the groom’s homeland in Krasnodar. Aliya Mustafina got married! Her chosen one is bobsledder of the Russian team Alexey Zaitsev. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Aliya won the uneven bars exercise, and also won silver in the team all-around and bronze in the individual.
The athlete’s father, Farhat Mustafin, confirmed that Aliya’s wedding with a member of the Russian bobsleigh team took place on November 3 in Krasnodar. As Aliya Mustafina’s personal trainer, Penza specialist Sergei Starkin, said, the news of the famous gymnast’s wedding came as a complete surprise to him. A representative of the press service of the Russian Bobsleigh Federation also neither confirmed nor denied information about the wedding. She doesn’t take her phone to competitions, but at this time I write her warm words of support and praise.
I never expected this and was very touched,” Alexey recalled. You can find other news, materials and statistics on the gymnastics page, as well as in the sports department groups on the social networks Facebook and VKontakte.
The love story of Alexey and Aliya began in the fall of 2015. Both athletes ended up in the same Moscow hospital and very quickly realized that even after discharge they did not want to separate. We are thinking about a wedding, only a little later,” Zaitsev admitted in an interview with Woman’s Day. “We both agree that we don’t want a grandiose event or a lot of attention.”
The young couple kept their promise and did not have a grand wedding. Both Mustafina and Zaitsev decided not to attract the attention of numerous fans to such an important event. But their friends still shared photos from the celebration on social networks. The few photos of the happy couple immediately collected hundreds of likes and congratulations in the comments. He told TASS that he was very happy for his daughter, and the wedding was taking place in the groom’s homeland - Krasnodar.
Interestingly, they met in the hospital, where they were recovering from injuries. The romance developed rapidly, and a year later it came to the wedding. Aliya Mustafina is the main star of Russian women's artistic gymnastics. She competed at the Olympic Games twice, and both times she returned with full sets of medals. Mustafina also won the World Championships three times and the European Championships five times.
Alexey performs in fours in the crew of Alexander Kasyanov. At the last World Championships in Austria, this quartet showed the eighth result - the best among Russians. Zaitsev’s partner on the Russian national team Vasily Kondratenko announced the wedding. After a performance in Rio de Janeiro, Mustafina announced that she wanted to temporarily suspend her career.
At the championships in Igls he took eighth place in the four-man bob competition. The lovers got married in the groom's hometown of Krasnodar. The famous gymnast and bobsledder met last fall.
He did not hide his feelings, and therefore tried to do everything to see Mustafina’s happy face. At the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina made a splash. In the individual championship, the athlete won bronze.
As the head coach of the Russian national team, Valentina Rodionenko, admitted, Aliya had a back injury, and therefore the 21-year-old girl had to overcome pain in order to brilliantly perform all the exercises. The whole country was rooting for Mustafina, but her chosen one, bobsledder Alexei Zaitsev, was most worried.
And Aliya wants children more than anything in the world right now. Oh, I hope no one strangles me for this secret when I return from Rio!” — the gymnast’s lover admitted. But their sports centers in the capital are very close - 40 minutes away, so they spend all their free time together. It’s clear that she can’t read all this, but she says that she feels my support every second.
For example, I tell Aliya that I have urgent business and training, and I fly to her base incognito to surprise her. Select the text with the error, press Ctrl+Enter and inform the editor.
And the father of the Olympic champion does not believe in the seriousness of the intentions of her chosen one - 22-year-old bobsledder Lyosha Zaitsev
They met at a clinic in the capital, where they were recovering from injuries. We met in the corridor, knowing nothing about each other. Both were limping, Aliya even on crutches. The novel was to a certain extent akin to a detective story. When Aliya flew to Krasnodar, she said that she missed Daria Skrypnik, her friend from the national team, and Alexey explained his visit to the capital by meeting with his brother.
On his first visit to the Krugloye Lake base, where the gymnastics team trained, Zaitsev managed to amaze the sorceresses of difficulty with his acrobatic skills. Aliya is a person of rare composure, but also of desperate courage. Just imagine... And how she jumped on the trampoline on Red Square in Krasnodar! Extravaganza. Aliya went to the training camp in Sochi, accompanied by Alexey Zaitsev and his bobsleigh friends Alexey Pushkarev and Vasily Kondratenko.
“I’m very happy for my daughter,” admitted Mustafin. Alexey Zaitsev is a member of the Russian bobsleigh team. The triumphant Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro Aliya Mustafina today married her chosen one Alexei Zaitsev. Aliya Mustafina is a two-time Olympic champion, five-time Olympic medalist, three-time world champion, five-time European champion, multiple medalist of the World and European Championships.
On Thursday, on one of the pages about artistic gymnastics on VKontakte, a photo of the newlyweds appeared, accompanied by the caption:
“Great news! got married! Her chosen one is the bobsledder of the Russian team Zaitsev. Congratulations to the newlyweds and wish them happiness!”
The photograph was presumably taken by one of the ceremony guests.
Despite the fact that due to different training schedules, athletes are not able to pay enough attention to each other, they still remain in touch, regardless of any distance.
Aliya lives in Moscow, and Alexey lives in Krasnodar. But their sports bases in the capital are very close - 40 minutes away, so they spend all their free time from training together. However, Zaitsev was unable to fly to his beloved for the 2016 Games in Brazil, and therefore found other ways to cheer Aliya up - by phone and Skype every day.
“She doesn’t take her phone to competitions, but at this time I write her warm words of support and praise.
Only now I realized how hard it is to worry about a loved one at big competitions,” the athlete told the Woman’s Day portal.
The gymnast's love inspired the bobsledder to become creative - he began to compose poems about his tender feelings and dedicate them to Aliya. Young athletes also try to arrange various romantic surprises for each other. Because lovers spend most of their time training, their greatest gift to each other is the time they spend together.
“For example, I tell Aliya that I have urgent business and training, and I fly to her base incognito to surprise her. One day I got it with my own weapon: I flew to a training camp in Moscow, Aliya had a training day, and I knew about it. And she was in such a hurry for me that she combined two training sessions into one, just to come to me at the airport as quickly as possible! I never expected this and was very touched,” Alexey recalled.
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Alexey Zaitsev is a Russian bobsledder who occupies the position of an accelerator. The athlete, although young, has already managed to loudly make himself known not only in his homeland. Alexey has silver from the European Championship and the World Cup.
Childhood and youth
Zaitsev's biography began on September 17, 1993. Alexey was born in the Krasnodar region in the small village of Starotitarovskaya. The boy was the youngest of four sons in the Zaitsev family. According to the stories of Larisa Alexandrovna’s mother, little Lesha was distinguished by hyperactivity from early childhood - he could not sit still for a minute.
The future bobsledder grew up as a sickly child, easily contracting viruses and catching colds. The parents decided that only sports would help strengthen the immune system. So 5-year-old Lesha ended up in the acrobatics section, and a little later he went to learn the basics of Latin American dances.
Natural activity manifested itself even more clearly during my school years. The playful boy demonstrated the wonders of handling a soccer ball. The athlete noticed Alexey and began to insist that the boy play football. Soon Zaitsev was part of three teams. When the future bobsleigh star turned 13, he was attracted to athletics - Sergei Boyko became his first coach.
In a word, Lesha did everything at once. However, grueling training quickly turned into a way of life, the young man could no longer imagine another day without them. It is interesting that the guy had no gaps in his studies. Zaitsev knew all subjects with an “A”, only mathematics and the Russian language were not given “excellent” - his knowledge only reached B levels.
Bobsled
The high school graduate decided to connect his life with sports and applied to the Kuban University of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism. As a student, he became interested in bobsleigh and began training under the guidance of the Honored Coach of the USSR Evgeniy Martianov. Together with Alexey, his friend Vasily Kondratenko practiced this sport.
One day, the comrades went to the qualifying test taking place in Orel and outdid the beginning bobsledders from 44 regions of Russia. The guys proved that they are capable of making a career as first-class overclockers.
Alexey Zaitsev plays for the Sports Training Center for Winter Sports of the Krasnodar Territory (Sochi), and in 2012 he joined the ranks of the Russian national team. His sports career took off rapidly. Two years after becoming a member of the national team, Alexey won the title of Russian champion as part of the fours.
In the winter of 2014, Evgeniy Pashkov’s team, in which Zaitsev played the role of an accelerator, went for the European Cup to St. Moritz (Switzerland), where they took first place. Then the main rivals of the guys were worthy quartets from Latvia and Germany.
2015 brought Alexey Zaitsev silver, won at the European Championship as part of the team of pilot Alexander Kasyanov. And in his homeland, the young man was awarded the title of international master of sports.
The bobsledder never ceased to delight his family and fans with his successes, and next year he performed brilliantly at the Russian championship as part of the four. The piggy bank of achievements was replenished with silver.
In January 2016, Russian bobsledders did not meet the expectations of fans. Alexey went to the World Championships in Austria with Alexander Kasyanov, Ilvir Khuzin and Alexey Pushkarev. The guys only managed to reach eighth place.
A year later, in March 2017, Russian bobsledders had a breakthrough in their careers. The crew piloted by Kasyanov won the World Cup. This is the first award for the team, which included Zaitsev, Pushkarev and Kondratenko. The same four came second in the combined competition.
Personal life
On November 3, 2016, Alexey Zaitsev got married. The bobsledder's chosen one was three-time world champion in artistic gymnastics. A magnificent wedding was held in the groom's homeland.
The young sports stars met and became close a year earlier while recovering from injuries in the same hospital. Then long months of long-distance relationships followed - Lesha lived in Krasnodar, and Aliya in Moscow. When we were at the training camp, we tried to spend all our free time together. During such periods it was easier to do this, because the sports centers were only 40 minutes away by car.
The couple delighted fans through social networks with romance. Zaitsev, for example, suddenly began to compose poems dedicated to his beloved. In 2017, the couple had a daughter, who was named Alice. In an interview, the athlete shared his impressions of his first parental experience:
“For Aliya and me, the birth of a child is the most important event in life. Of course, it's a little hard to cope with at first, but that's what all parents expect. Having a baby is very motivating. It's really empowering."
Going to the Olympic Games in South Korea, Alexei Zaitsev promised that if luck smiled, he would dedicate the medal to his daughter.
Alexey Zaitsev now
2018 turned out to be a hot year for Alexey. The young man attended the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang in February, but his team failed to win. Zaitsev called these competitions the most difficult in his life - they were exhausting both mentally and physically. In an official address, he apologized to the fans for not living up to expectations:
“Thank you everyone and forgive me, we are very sorry that the result was not what many expected and hoped for. One mistake sealed our fate. But this is the Olympics, this is a sport! As always".
But Zaitsev ended the winter season with flying colors. At the end of March, at the Russian Championships held in Sochi, the bobsledder in a duet with Maxim Andrianov took third place. And as part of the quartet (Maxim Andrianov, Alexey Zaitsev, Yuri Selikhov, Ruslan Samitov) - the second.
Alexey Zaitsev regularly maintains the page in "Instagram". He shares photos from his sports life with fans, and sometimes pampers him with photos with his family. Recently, fans were touched by a photograph in which the athlete posed with his growing daughter.
Achievements
- 2014 – first place at the Russian Championship (fours)
- 2015 – silver medal at the European Championships
- 2016 – silver medalist at the Russian Championship (fours)
- 2017 – World Cup (fours)
- 2018 – silver and bronze medalist at the Russian Championship (twos)