Yuri Vladimirovich Duganov

Yuri Wladimirowitsch Duganow ( Russian Юрий Владимирович Дуганов ; born July 27, 1921 ) is a former Soviet weightlifter .

Life

Duganow grew up in Slobodski and was a gymnast as a boy, played some basketball, did athletics and skied and skated in winter.

As a teenager, he focused on athletics. In winter he saw the weightlifters training in the gym and was also interested in them. In 1941 he began studying at the Institute for Physical Culture in Leningrad and trained for the Russian championships in athletics. These championships never took place.

Instead, he had to go to war. In 1942 he was wounded in a battle and was sent to a hospital. He barely survived there. He later trained in the military hospital to speed up the healing process with small dumbbells and, after recovering in 1945, decided to stick with weightlifting. He then won several regional championships.

In 1950 he was the first Russian middleweight champion. With his trainer Svetilko, he prepared specifically for two-armed tearing, his favorite discipline. He also managed to set several world records here. Yuri Duganov's career lasted until 1956, after which he became a coach.

International success

(WM = world championship, EM = European championship, Wed = middleweight, Ls = light heavyweight)

• 1953, 3rd place, World Championships in Stockholm , Wed, with 382.5 kg, behind Thomas Kono , USA, 407.5 kg and Dave Sheppard , USA, 397.5 kg;
• 1953, 1st place, EM in Stockholm , Wed, with 382.5 kg.

National successes

• 1950, 1st place, Russian (RSFSR) championship, Wed,
• 1952, tournament in Kiev , Wed, with 387.5 kg, in front of Pushkarew, 377.5 kg and Eisenstadt, 340 kg,
• 1953, 1st place, USSR Championship, Wed, with 387.5 kg, in front of Stepanow, 377.5 kg and Pushkarev, 372.5 kg,
• 1955, 1st place, USSR Championship, with 407.5 kg, ahead of Fjodor Bogdanowski , 402.5 kg and Mustafa Jagly-Ogly , 392.5 kg,
• 1956, 6th place, USSR Championship, Ls, with 392.5 kg, winner: Wassili Stepanow , 427.5 kg.

World records

in two-armed tearing, middleweight:

• 127.5 kg, 1950 in Leningrad ,
• 128 kg, 1950 in Moscow ,
• 128.5 kg, 1950 in Tallinn ,
• 129 kg, 1951 in Łódź ,
• 130 kg, 1952 in Leningrad,
• 130.5 kg, 1952 in Moscow,
• 131 kg, 1953 in Tallinn,
• 132.5 kg, 1955 in Leningrad,
• 133 kg, 1955 in Podolsk .

Web links

• Brief portrait of Yuri Duganow
• http://gazeta.mossport.ru/article.asp?articleid=7766&numberid=393 (Russian)