Vladislav Rastorotsky

Who is Vladislav Rastorotsky?

Vladislav Stepanovich Rastorotsky is a Russian artistic gymnastics coach, Honoured Trainer of the USSR, who trained in Dynamo sports society. Sportswomen trained by him earned more than 50 Champion titles at the National championships, European championships, World championships and Olympic Games. Rastorotsky trained Soviet gymnasts for five Olympic cycles since the mid-1960s. The most famous his students were Ludmilla Tourischeva, Natalia Shaposhnikova, Natalia Yurchenko.

Rastorotsky liked sports since his childhood and had a propensity to gymnastics. He went to Voronezh and entered the Physical Education faculty. Rastorotsky began systematic training in gymnastics very late, in his twenties. But managed to earn the title Master of Sports of the USSR at age above 27. His teacher in Voronezh was another famous Soviet coach Yury Shtukman. In the 1960s Rastorotsky moved to Grozny and began to coach Ludmilla Tourischeva. According to Rastorotsky, Tourischeva initially had strong muscles but a weak gymnastics school, as compared to other his students; but he didn't meet more industrious and purposeful students neither before nor after her.