Anatoly Ivanovich Kolessov

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Anatoly Kolessow medal table

Wrestler

Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold 1964 Tokyo Welter
World Championship
gold 1962 Toledo Welter
gold 1963 Helsingborg Welter
gold 1965 Tampere Welter

Anatoly Ivanovich Kolessow ( Russian Анатолий Иванович Колесов ; born January 18, 1938 in Ossakarowka , Karaganda ; † January 2, 2012 in Moscow ) was a Soviet wrestler . He was Olympic champion in Tokyo in 1964 and three-time world champion in Greco-Roman style welterweight.

Career

Anatoly Kolessow, a Russian , grew up in Kazakhstan . He came from a family of athletes and began gymnastics even at a young age . His talent for wrestling, which he soon concentrated on, showed early on. After initial success in the youth sector, he was delegated to a sports school for wrestling in Alma-Ata, where he became a specialist in Greco-Roman. Trained style. At the age of 21, he caused a little sensation in 1959 when, as a completely unknown young wrestler, he won the middleweight division at the Second Spartakiad of the Soviet Union, ahead of Viktor Rekow and Nikolai Chuchalov .

After this victory he moved to Moscow. However, in 1960 he did not succeed in qualifying for the Soviet Olympic team for the Games in Rome . There started in the middleweight division Nikolai Tschuchalow for the USSR. In 1960 Anatoli Kolessow succeeded in an international match between the USSR and the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow, winning points over Georg Utz from Kornwestheim .

In 1961 he came to the Federal Republic of Germany with the Soviet national team and defeated Georg Utz again on points in an international match.

In 1962 it was first used at a world championship. As a result of a reform of the weight classification by the international wrestling association (FILA), he now started in the welterweight division. In this weight class he immediately became world champion in Toledo / USA with five wins and one draw. In 1963 he successfully defended this title at the World Cup in Helsingborg . It took him seven wins. Rudolf Vesper from Rostock was among the wrestlers he defeated .

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, Anatoly Kolessow won against three wrestlers, but fought against Ion Țăranu from Romania , Kiril Petkow from Bulgaria and Bertil Nyström from Sweden only in a draw. But these results were enough to make him an Olympic champion.

Finally, Anatoly Kolessow was at the World Championships in 1965 in Tampere for the third time world welterweight champion. He also defeated the German starters Werner Hoppe from Köllerbach and Rudolf Vesper. Against Kiril Petkow, a draw in the last fight was enough for him to win the title.

After this world championship, he retired from active competitive sports at the age of 27. He completed a university education as a sports teacher and then worked for many years as a coach of the Soviet national team in the Greco-Roman style. Anatoly Kolessow later devoted himself mainly to association work and also became a member of the Soviet Olympic Committee. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , he was head of delegation (Chef de Mission) of the Russian Olympic team. He was also assigned the same task for the 2012 Olympic Games in London . However, Kolessow died on January 2, 2012 after a long and serious illness. He was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in August 2016 for his services to wrestling .

International success

year space competition Weight class Results
1962 1. "Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow Welter before Ion Țăranu , Romania a . Marijan Malovic, Yugoslavia
1962 1. World Cup in Toledo / USA Welter with victories over Kenneth Ovsiannikov, Sweden , René Schiermeyer , France , Ion Țăranu, Bjarne Ansbøl , Denmark a . Georg Utz , FRG a. a tie against Yavuz Selekman, Turkey
1963 1. World Cup in Helsingborg Welter with victories over Harald Barlie , Norway , Hans-Jürgen Hirschbühl, Switzerland , Marijan Malovic, Ion Țăranu, Dimitar Dobrew , Bulgaria , Rudolf Vesper , GDR a . Bertil Nyström , Sweden
1964 1. "Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow Welter before Bolesław Dubicki , Poland a . Petar Krumow , Bulgaria
1964 gold OS in Tokyo Welter with victories over Shin Dong-Eui, North Korea , Bolesław Dubicki and René Schiermeyer and a draw against Ion Țăranu, Kiril Petkow , Bulgaria a. Bertil Nyström
1965 1. World Cup in Tampere Welter with victories over Werner Hoppe , FRG, Jiri Loukota, Czechoslovakia , Milan Nenadić , Yugoslavia, Rudolf Vesper u. Arto Savolainen, Finland a . a tie against Kiril Petkov

Soviet championships

year space Weight class Results
1959 1. medium before Viktor Rekow and Nikolai Tschutschalow
1964 1. Welter before Georgi Werschinin and Jan Roots
Explanations
  • all competitions in Greco-Roman style
  • OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
  • Welter weight until 1961 up to 74 kg, from 1962 up to 78 kg; Average weight up to 1961 up to 79 kg, from 1962 up to 87 kg

literature

  • Athletics magazine from 1959 to 1966,
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976, pages W-47, W-55, O-75, W-65

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ United World Wrestling to Induct 15 into 2016 Hall of Fame Class , accessed April 17, 2017 (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Kolessow, Anatoly Ivanovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH near Ossakarowka , Karaganda
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 2012
Place of death Moscow