and this is the first coach of tikhantsov, tatyana lansberg.he recalls how she began searching for promising guys, and she was lucky enough to see zhenya's potential, namely in weightlifting. zhenya was a talented child, it was immediately obvious, so to speak, i was just looking through the archive, i found a lot of his childhood photos, even from this school, his first competitions, where he won first place, by the way, there are even photos on... pedestals, he was still without weightlifting shoes in regular sneakers, and he was always different from his peers, it was immediately obvious that he was a talented child, but not all talented children, unfortunately, achieve greatness, he did it all, well, i am very, very happy for him. zhenya was a restless child, he you literally had to turn away, you had to take him off the wall of soshey, catch him with a ball somewhere, and for zhenya to do something, you had to stand over him and count. doing what others can't do, it seems, is embedded in the character of our hero, it started from childhood