Sergey Izotov (trainer)
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| name = Sergey Aleksandrovich Izotov
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|4|25}}
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| nationality = {{flagicon|RUS}} Russia
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| occupation = Coach in swimming
| spouse = {{Honoured Master of Sport}} Danila Izotov
| awards = {{Honored Coach of Russia}} Honored Coach of Russia{{Cite web |url=https://msrfinfo.ru/people/5924|title=Statistics and analytics of sports development in Russia. Sergey Aleksandrovich Izotov. |access-date=2025-05-08 }}
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Sergey Aleksandrovich Izotov (born 25 April 1964) is a Russian swimming coach, Honored Coach of Russia, specializing in training freestyle swimming athletes. He works in Krasnodar and has been a coach for the Russian national team since 2012.{{Cite web|url=https://russwimming.ru/data/list/treneri_specialisti.html|title=Coaches and specialists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518233028/https://russwimming.ru/data/list/treneri_specialisti.html |access-date=2025-05-08 |archive-date=18 May 2022 }} He is the father and first coach of Olympic bronze medalist and Honored Master of Sports of Russia Danila Izotov.{{Cite web|url=https://tass.ru/sport/632521|title=Father of Russian swimmer Danila Izotov donated blood to provide enhanced nutrition for his son|date=11 July 2013|website=tass.ru|access-date=2025-05-08 }}
Biography
Sergey Aleksandrovich Izotov was born on 25 April 1964. Since the 1980s, he has been engaged in coaching swimming.
For over 45 years of coaching, he worked at the sports school "Energia" in Narva, where he taught children swimming, developing their physical fitness and improving their health.{{Cite web|url=https://www.stena.ee/blog/plavanie-kak-put-k-uspehu-i-zdorovyu-narvskaya-komanda-snova-na-vysote|title=Swimming as a path to success and health: Narva team is on top again|date=2025-05-03|website=stena.ee|access-date=2025-05-08 }} He also worked as a coach in the Krasnodar region, raising a number of well-known athletes.{{Cite web|url=https://swimming.reduit-company.ru/achievements|title=Achievements of the State Swimming School|website=swimming.reduit-company.ru|access-date=2025-05-08 }}
In the 1990s and 2000s, he was the personal coach of his son Danila Izotov, who under his guidance became a bronze medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics, multiple European champion, World Championships medalist, and world record holder in relay.
Since 2012, Sergey Izotov has been part of the coaching staff of the Russian national swimming team. In addition to coaching his son, he has advised other Russian athletes in preparation for the Olympic Games, collaborating with Viktor Avdienko, Honored coach of the USSR and Honored coach of Russia.
Achievements
- Awarded the title of Honored Coach of Russia (order dated 28 June 2016 No. 78-ng).
- Coach of Olympic bronze medalist, world and European champion Danila Izotov.
- Coach of the Russian national team since 2012.
Notable athletes
Danila Izotov – Honored Master of Sports of Russia, two-time Olympic Games medalist in relays, 9-time World Championships medalist, 2010 World Champion (short course), multiple European and Russian champion, member of the national team since 2008, former world record holder;
Jelena Poljakova-Všivtseva – Estonian biathlon athlete, participant in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer;
Vladimir Latin – Estonian rower, member of the Estonian national rowing team. European Championships silver medalist, national regatta winner, participant at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.