Anatoly Alexandrovich Roschtschin

Anatoly Roschtschin medal table
Wrestler
Soviet Union
Olympic games
silver	1964 Tokyo	Heavy
silver	1968 Mexico City	Heavy
gold	1972 Munich	Heavy
World Championship
silver	1962 Toledo	Heavy
gold	1963 Helsingborg	Heavy
silver	1967 Bucharest	Heavy
gold	1969 Mar del Plata	Heavy
gold	1970 Edmonton	Heavy
silver	1971 Sofia	Heavy
European Championship
gold	1966 Essen	Heavy

Anatoli Alexandrowitsch Roschtschin ( Russian Анатолий Александрович Рощин , scientific transliteration Anatolij Aleksandrovič Roščin ; born March 10, 1932 in Gawerdowo , Ryazan Oblast ; † January 5, 2016 ) was a Soviet wrestler .

Career

Anatoly Roschtschin began wrestling as a teenager. When he was nineteen he was drafted into the Red Army . Since he found good training conditions in the Red Army and saw good opportunities for advancement, he became a professional soldier. The Army Sports Club in Leningrad, where he was stationed, had excellent coaches who slowly led Anatoly to the top of the Soviet heavyweight wrestlers in the Greco-Roman style. He celebrated his first successes as a sambo wrestler, a wrestling based on judo. In 1956 and 1960 he was Soviet heavyweight champion in this sport. From 1957 to 1959 he was unable to train very much due to an injury and stagnated during these years. It was not until 1960 that he was able to train fully again and soon reached the top Soviet class. His coach at the time was Nikolai Below (wrestler) . In the early 1960s he had competitors in Ivan Bogdan , Anatoli Parfenow and Sergei Zaluski at the national level, which he was not yet able to defeat. It was not until 1962, at the age of 30, that he became Soviet champion for the first time and that year began his international career, which was to be very successful. His main competitor in the Soviet Union in those years was Nikolai Shmakov .

Anatoly Roschtschin won six world championship medals and achieved his greatest triumph at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich when he became Olympic heavyweight champion. At that time he was already 40 years old. At the Olympic Games in 1964 and 1968, he had already won a silver medal behind the Hungarian István Kozma , who later died in a traffic accident. Roschtschin fought a total of six draws against Kozma, also in 1964 and 1968, but Kozma had a slightly better point relation than Roschtschin each time and thus became Olympic champion in those years. Roschtschin was also on the mat four times against Wilfried Dietrich , the German Olympic champion in 1960, won twice and drew twice against him.

After 1972 the officer in the Soviet Army Anatoly Roschtschin resigned from active wrestling. He died on January 5, 2016 at the age of 83.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1962	1.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	Heavy	before Bohumil Kubát, Czechoslovakia and Milic Stojkow, Yugoslavia
1962	2.	World Cup in Toledo / USA	Heavy	with victories over Ragnar Svensson , Sweden , Francisc Balla , Romania and Radoslaw Kasabow , Bulgaria and a draw against István Kozma , Hungary and Wilfried Dietrich , FRG
1963	1.	World Cup in Helsingborg	Heavy	with victories over Bohumil Kubát , Czechoslovakia , Wilfried Dietrich, Bekir Aksu , Turkey , Ragnar Svensson and James Raschke , USA and a draw against Istvan Kozma
1964	1.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	Heavy	before Petr Kment and Radoslaw Kasabow
1964	silver	OS in Tokyo	Heavy	with victories over Ștefan Stîngu , Romania, Ragnar Svensson, Taisto Kangasniemi , Finland , Petr Kment , CSSR and Wilfried Dietrich and a draw against Istvan Kozma
1965	2.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	Heavy	behind Nikolai Schmakow, Soviet Union, in front of Roland Bock, Federal Republic of Germany
1966	1.	EM in Essen	Heavy	with victories over Bekir Aksu, Ragnar Svensson, Petr Kment, Osmo Hekkala , Finland and a draw against Roland Bock , FRG and Istvan Kozma
1967	5.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	Heavy	behind Anatoli Kuchniew and Wladimir Susietsch, both Soviet Union, Radoslaw Kasabow and Anatoli Motin, Soviet Union, in front of Istvan Kozma and Heinz Eichelbaum, FRG
1967	2.	World Cup in Bucharest	Heavy	with victories over Stefan Petrow , Bulgaria, Osmo Hekkala and a draw against Petr Kment and Istvan Kozma
1968	silver	OS in Mexico City	Heavy	with victories over Edward Wojda , Poland , Roland Bock, Stefan Petrow, Robert Roop , USA and Petr Kment and a draw against Istvan Kozma
1969	1.	World Cup in Mar del Plata	Heavy	with victories over Merv Holden, Canada , Hugo Bravo, Argentina and Petar Donew , Bulgaria and a draw against Wilfried Dietrich
1970	1.	World Cup in Edmonton	Heavy	with victories over Edward Wojda, József Csatári , Hungary, Omar Topuz, Turkey, Nicolae Martinescu , Romania and a draw against Roland Bock
1971	2.	World Cup in Sofia	Heavy	with victories over Omar Topuz, József Csatári, Franz Labjon, GDR, Petr Kment and a draw against Victor Dolipschi , Romania and Alexandar Tomow , Bulgaria
1972	gold	OS in Munich	Heavy	with victories over Victor Dolipschi, Petr Kment, Alexandar Tomow and Wilfried Dietrich

Successes at Soviet championships

year	space	Weight class	Results
1961	2.	Heavy	behind Ivan Bogdan , in front of Nikolai Shmakov
1962	1.	Heavy	before Nikolai Schmakow and A. Abramjan
1963	1.	Heavy	before Nikolai Schmakow and T. Khabalishvili
1964	2.	Heavy	behind Nikolai Schmakow, in front of Vladimir Shkaran
1965	2.	Heavy	behind Nikolai Schmakow, in front of Vladimir Shkaran
1967	1.	Heavy	before Nikolai Schmakow and Valeri Anissimow
1968	2.	Heavy	behind Vladimir Susietsch, in front of B. Abelentschew
1971	1.	Heavy	before Anatoly Selenko and Anatoly Kochniev
1972	2.	Heavy	behind Anatoly Selenko, in front of Alexander Motin

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Heavy weight, up to 1961 over 87 kg, from 1962 over 97 kg

literature

1. Various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1961 to 1972,
2. Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ушел из жизни чемпион Article on rsport.ru (Russian) ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Profile of Anatoli Roschtschin at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Anatoli Roschtschin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )