Murder or accident? The mystery of the death of the Queen running the Soviet Elena Romanova

In the late 80s, the athlete Elena Romanov knew the entire Soviet Union. The athlete from Volgograd was struck by not only their results, but also a special running technique — easy and rapid. It seemed that she wins the decisive second effortlessly, without strain. The main triumph was waiting for the athlete at the 1992 Olympic games in Barcelona, where Romanov has earned a gold medal. No one could have predicted that Elena's life is interrupted after only fifteen years, some 43 years.

Death overtook the Queen of running in January 2007. At that time the sport was already over, and Romanov increasingly noticed the influence. Relatives and friends tried to influence Elena, asked her to take up the mind, but in vain — she was confident to the end. The last time a female was seen alive in his hometown of Volgograd, in the hotel "South".

In one of the rooms of the former champion participated in the feast with some friends, and two days later her body from a traumatic brain injury was found in her apartment, where Elena Romanova lived with her son. That's all we know for sure about the tragic case. Then begins the confusion.

One version says that Helen found the older sister Natalie and she was still alive. But the ambulance arrived on a call, could only state the death. The body was examined and, like, besides the obvious head injury found damage to the abdominal organs, inflicted with a blunt object.

This is just one version. Second, Elena's body was found by her son Alexander. The young man took a key position in the investigation, becoming the main and only suspect. A close friend of Romanova, the athletics coach Lyudmila Zadorozhnaya said in an interview about the strangeness of this business:

Zadorozhna said that to the press were voiced version, in which mortally wounded Elena stumbled sister Natalia. And the son of the murdered at the funeral said that the body of the mother found it. A friend of the murdered said that neither nine nor forty days and the other coaches, who knew Romanov, was not invited.

Mentioned Ludmila Zadorozhnaya and that the persons of the son and of sister Helen could not see any sorrow, or even sadness. They looked like people, who felt relieved. Alerted by a colleague Romanova and the fact that on offer athletes to adequately organize the funeral, sister just said that she doesn't have the money for it.

The relative was enough to give permission and a sports school she would have everything organized and paid, but such permission was not given to them. Romanova, who in life loved well and tastefully dressed, lay in the coffin in some unimaginable black jacket, shapeless and that rumpled. While Elena had many good, expensive things that she bought in retail stores abroad.

Champion never forgot about her sister and brought her and her family a beautiful branded stuff from trips abroad. Zadorozhnaya was sure that Natalia is jealous of her younger sister. After the death of a Helena woman was repeatedly seen in the things of the deceased, which she in good conscience, inherited, saving on the funeral of a loved one.

To the bottle it brought a chain of personal tragedies that began with her divorce from her husband, also an athlete, who could not forgive Romanova her success and fame. While Elena went to the training camp and Championships, the husband was waiting for her at home and get drunk. The decision of athletes to divorce wasn't even affected by the fact that she was left alone with a small son to endure the "joy" of family life a woman could no longer.

After the divorce, it took quite a bit of time and Romanova learned that her ex-husband died right on the street of a heart attack. Following the former husband's father died, and soon after cancer took woman's mother did not save even the most expensive drugs, which they bought for her, Elena.

As she walked away from their losses, as it waited for the new — died Gennady Naumov — her favorite coach, whom she was owes much of its achievements. Sports coach died at his post of duty, his heart stopped when he spent training with young athletes. Say Naumov treated Romanova so that his ward was jealous of his own daughter, receiving less attention.

The deserved trainer Gennady Sergeevich Naumov

In a very short period of time, literally 2-3 years, Romanova lost the closest and most dear to her. The death of a beloved coach, just finished her off. The instructor of the Volgograd school of Olympic reserve Nelli Blinova said that the funeral coach at Helena were:

Since the death of the Queen the run of Elena Romanova 14 years have passed and we will likely never know what happened in her apartment. Was it an accident a fall or treacherous killing — for some reason the police was not interested to investigate this death, perhaps because no one is needed.