Sometimes a person lives, tries and suddenly leaves this world. Today we will talk about the athlete, who may not have achieved great world fame, but for many she will remain in bright memory. Unfortunately, you should not expect a happy end from this story.
Julia Balykina. Biography
The path of the outstanding Belarusian runner began in the steppe of Mongolia. On April 12, 1984, a future athlete was born in the city of Bulgan. In young years, parents, taking with them their beloved and only daughter, moved to live in Ukraine, in the city of Zaporozhye. At a fairly late age (18 years), as for professional sports, Julia began athletics.
Even the first coach Bodnar Vasily Yaroslavovich was not very inspired, but the girl’s perseverance and desire to engage and conquer the peaks did not leave her for a moment. Training hard, Yulia Balykina overtook the junior age according to the results of her peers. She sincerely rejoiced at what she did, and continued to train hard.
But then her coach received a favorable invitation to train Iranian athletes, it was necessary to leave the team in Ukraine and move. Since Julia trained hard and did not want to quit the sports queen, the coach helped her. He asked his good sports friend from the time of the USSR, who lived and coached a team of sprinters in Minsk (Belarus), to take her to his place. So she got to her second and last coach in her career - Viktor Myasnikov.
Personal life
Then the athlete met her future husband - Nikolai Shubenk from Belarus, who was involved in athletics in the all-around discipline. Yulia liked to train in Minsk, but unfortunately, things did not work out with her family. After five years of marriage together (from 2008 to 2012), the couple broke up. Everyone was informed that they simply did not agree on the characters. There were no children.
Yulia Balykina (photo of the athlete reflects her stubbornness and desire for the goal) was number one in the short-distance running in the team of Belarus after 2010.
She even performed at the Olympic Games in London in 2012 at a crown distance of 100 meters, and fled for the Belarusian team in the relay 4 by 100 meters. Repeatedly winning national starts, she was able to overtake even the legend of the Belarusian sprint, the champion of the 2014 Athens Olympic Games at a distance of 100 meters, Yulia Nesterenko. The namesake was her idol, as the athlete herself admitted in an interview. Of the foreign sprint stars, she liked Carmelita Jetter.
Julia Balykina is an athlete with a strong spirit, but a modest disposition. She never complained about anyone from the team, with the coach there was always a complete understanding. In a word, everything in her career was going great.
End of sports career
As often happens with athletes of the most prestigious distance, their doping tests are positive. So, in 2013, on June 11, the first unpleasant news came, and Julia was disqualified for two years for detecting a prohibited substance in the blood. Because of this, Julia made the final decision to leave the big sport and end her career. The athlete’s years were not the same, the sport requires young and fresh, and her age was already approaching 30.
Personal achievements of Yulia Balykina with an increase of 165 centimeters and a weight of about 60 kilograms were 11.25 seconds per 100 meters (2010). When running 50 meters - 6.26 seconds and 60 meters - 7.24 seconds (installed in the 2012 Olympic year). In Belarus, the athlete was awarded the title of international master of sports.
Tragic fate
After completing her career, in 2014 Yulia Balykina got a job as a specialization trainer at the school of Olympic reserve No. 2 of the Dynamo sports club (Minsk city), where she taught children sports skills until her tragic death.
On October 28, 2015, Julia disappeared. She left after work, and no one else saw her (except her killer). The body has long been sought by many hundreds of employees of various instances. On November 16, he was finally found in a forest near Minsk in a plastic bag. After a criminal investigation, they found a suspect - Dmitry Vishtalyuk (a citizen of the Russian Federation, a native of Ukraine).
In the course of the investigation and in court, a guy who was three years younger than Julia herself confessed to a felony. The attacker met Yulia on social networks a year before the deed, had no permanent job, and used drugs. Leaving Dmitry a certain amount for the repair of her apartment, Julia left for Ukraine to visit her parents. Upon arrival, not seeing the promised repairs, finding the loss of savings, the hostess was unhappy and expressed this to her former boyfriend, for which she received 12 hammer blows (11 of which were hit in the head).
Julia, who was barely breathing, was thrown in the bathroom of her apartment, after some time the offender returned, took the already dead body of the girl, her personal belongings and the car. The criminal asked the court for forgiveness from his parents, relatives and friends, realizing that it is difficult to forgive. Mom Julia said with tears in her eyes: "God will forgive." Parents asked permission to bury their daughter in Ukraine.
Yulia Balykina is an athlete who will forever remain in the Olympic history of Belarus.