Anatoly Alexejewitsch Beloglasow

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Anatoly Alexejewitsch Beloglasow , Russian Анатолий Алексеевич Белоглазов , (born September 16, 1956 in Kaliningrad ) is a former Soviet wrestler . He was Olympic champion in Moscow in 1980 in free style flyweight.

Career

Anatoly Beloglasow grew up in Kaliningrad and started wrestling there with his twin brother Sergei . Both athletes developed excellently because they were extremely talented and diligent in training and were delegated to the Dynamo Kiev sports club after their first major successes in the youth field . There they were trained by the young, ambitious Granite Taropin and in a short time led into the world elite in free style. Anatoly was always a little lighter than Sergei, so he always wrestled a weight class lower than Sergei to avoid himself. First in paper weight and then in flyweight.

In the junior division, Anatoly Beloglasow was a little more successful than Sergei, because in 1974 in Haparanda , Sweden, he was European junior champion in paper weight ahead of Bulgarian Nermedin Selimow and in 1975 in Haskovo also junior world champion in paper weight, again ahead of Nermedin Selimov and always in free style.

In contrast to his brother Sergei, who only came to his first appearance in an international senior championship in 1979, Anatoly Beloglasow made this jump in 1976. In Leningrad he became European paperweight champion that year with four premature victories . He also beat the young Italian Claudio Pollio , who should also be a great player in wrestling.

Beloglasov won his first world title in 1977 in Lausanne in the paper weight category. Five wins were enough for him. In the final he defeated the physically very strong South Korean Kim Hwa-Kyung safely on points.

1978 Beloglasow was again world champion in Mexico City , but this time in flyweight. He met the Japanese Olympic champion from 1976 and three-time world champion Yūji Takada in the first round and defeated him on points. After this sensational victory, he also defeated his other opponents, including Hartmut Reich from the GDR, and was deservedly world champion.

At the 1979 World Cup in San Diego , there was a great revenge between Beloglasov and Yuji Takada. This time Yuji Takada turned the tables and defeated Beloglasov, whom he met again in the first round, safely on points. Since Anatoli also lost against the American James Haines , he was eliminated after the third round and only finished 6th.

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , Beloglasov managed to win the Olympic gold medal with six victories . As his brother Sergei also succeeded in doing this a day later, the Beloglasov brothers were the first pair of twins in the world to become Olympic champions at the Olympic Games in the same year.

In 1982 Anatoli became world champion for the second time in Edmonton after he was not at any international championships in 1981. The special thing about it was that this happened in the bantamweight, so a weight class higher than he usually wrestled. But even in this weight class he dominated his opponents. He defeated u at this World Cup. a. also the Japanese former world champion Hideaki Tomiyama .

While Sergei Beloglasow continued his career until 1988 and was Olympic champion for the second time that year, Beloglasov ended his career in 1984 after he could not start there because of the boycott of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In 1983 he was at the World Cup in Kiev , so in his hometown, after defeats against the new flyweight superstar Valentin Jordanow from Bulgaria and the Japanese Toshio Asakura only third.

Anatoly Beloglasow completed a trainer training in Moscow and has worked as a wrestler trainer in Russia since then . As the successor to his brother Sergei, he is currently the national coach of the Russian freestyle team. In September 2010 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

successes

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Pa = paper weight, Fl = fly weight, Ba = bantam weight, at that time up to 48 kg, 52 kg and 57 kg body weight)

swell

  • 1) Div. Issues of the journals "Athletik" from 1974 and 1975 and "Der Ringer" from 1976 to 1988,
  • 2) International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zuaro first official from the US to be inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 11, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.wrestlinghalloffame.org  

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personal data
SURNAME Beloglasow, Anatoly Alexejewitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaliningrad