Ivan Sergeyevich Jarygin

Ivan Jarygin medal table
Wrestler
Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	1972 Munich	Heavy
gold	1976 Montreal	Heavy
World Championship
gold	1973 Tehran	Heavy
European Championship
silver	1970 Berlin	Heavy
gold	1972 Katowice	Heavy
silver	1974 Madrid	Heavy
gold	1975 Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Heavy
gold	1976 Leningrad	Heavy

Ivan Sergejewitsch Jarygin ( Russian Иван Сергеевич Ярыгин; born July 11, 1948 in Ust-Kamsas , Kemerovo Oblast ; † October 11, 1997 near Neftekumsk ) was a Soviet wrestler .

Career

Ivan Jarygin grew up in Sisaya, Krasnoyarsk Region . He attended school there and mainly played soccer. After school he went to Abakan and trained as a driver. In the meantime he had developed into a strong young man and began wrestling at a wrestling school. Later he belonged to Trud Krasnoyarsk . His first coach was VI Kharkov. After he was the first Soviet heavyweight (up to 100 kg body weight), freestyle champion in 1970 at the age of 22, he was appointed to the Soviet national team and used at the European Championships in Berlin in 1970 , where he, however, suffered a defeat against the experienced Ahmet Ayık from Turkey had to make do with second place. His coach was now Dmitri Mindiaschwili . At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , he defeated six opponents in a record time of 7 minutes and 20 seconds and won the gold medal. In 1976, a second gold medal followed, which he won in Montreal . After 1980, Iwan Jarygin ended his career as an active wrestler. He attended the Pedagogical University in Krasnoyarsk and in 1981 became the head coach of the Soviet national relay of freestyle wrestlers. During the difficult time of political change in the Soviet Union in 1991/92 he was elected President of the Russian Wrestling Association. He was killed on October 11, 1997 in a car accident near Neftekumsk in the Stavropol region . In his honor, the Russian Wrestling Association organizes the Iwan Jarygin wrestling tournament every year, at which a large part of the world's elite freestyle wrestlers meet. In September 2010 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1969	1.	Intern. Tournament in Minsk	Heavy	before Bondiaschwili, USSR and Raimow, Bulgaria
1970	2.	EM in Berlin	Heavy	with victories over Wasil Todorow, Bulgaria , Karel Engel, CSSR , Attila Balogh, Hungary , Gerd Bachmann, GDR and one defeat against Ahmet Ayık , Turkey
1971	1.	Grand Prix of Georgia in Tbilisi	Heavy	before Larry Kristoff , USA and Pschowrenkow, USSR
1971	1.	"Ivan Kolev" Memorial in Yambol	Heavy	before Choorloogin Bayan monk, Mongolia and Alahettin Yildirim, Turkey
1972	1.	EM in Katowice	Heavy	with victories over Bruno Jutzeler, Switzerland , Leif Norström, Sweden , Alahettin Yildirim, Wasil Todorow, Gerd Bachmann and Enache Panait, Romania
1972	gold	OS in Munich	Heavy	with victories over Alahettin Yildirim, Gerd Bachmann, Harry Geris, Canada , Abolfazed Anvari, Iran , Enache Panait and Chorloogiin Bajanmönch , Mongolia
1973	1.	World Cup in Toledo / USA	Heavy	before Russell Hellickson , USA and Claude Pillon, Canada
1973	1.	World Cup in Tehran	Heavy	with victories over Dimitar Nekow, Bulgaria, József Csatári , Hungary , Harald Büttner , GDR, James Dushen, USA and Yasunari Akiyama, Japan
1973	1.	Universiade in Moscow	Heavy	before Bak Detrich, USA and Dimitar Stankow, Bulgaria
1974	2.	EM in Madrid	Heavy	with victories over József Csatári, Enache Panait, Petr Drozda, CSSR , Edward Zmudziejewski, Poland and one defeat against Harald Büttner
1975	1.	EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Heavy	with victories against Mehmet Tepe, Turkey, Edward Zmudziejewski, Dimo ​​Kostow, Bulgaria, Petr Drozda and despite a defeat against Harald Büttner
1976	1.	World Cup in Toledo / USA	Heavy	before R. Sookkhtsarat, Iran and Gregory Wojchiechowski, Poland
1976	1.	EM in Leningrad	Heavy	with victories over Hans Ziegler, GDR, Mehmet Güclü, Turkey, Dimo ​​Kostow and Petr Drozda
1976	1.	Cup of Georgia in Tbilisi	Heavy	before Pawel Kurczewski, Poland and Lasarow, Bulgaria
1976	gold	OS in Montreal	Heavy	with victories over Petr Drozda, Daniel Vernik, Argentina , Russell Hellickson , USA, Dimo ​​Kostow and Harald Büttner
1977	1.	World Cup in Toledo / USA	Heavy	before Harold Smith, USA, Steve Daniar, Canada and Yoshiaki Yatsu, Japan
1978	2.	Georgian Grand Prix in Tbilisi	Heavy	behind Levan Tediashvili
1979	1.	World Cup in Toledo / USA	Heavy	before Bohna, USA, Barbaro Morgan, Cuba and Hiroaki Yamamoto, Japan
1979	3.	Spartakiad in Moscow	Heavy	behind Ilya Mate and Magomedow, both Soviet Union
1980	1.	World Cup in Toledo / USA	Heavy	before Larry Bielenburg, USA, Wyatt Wishart, Canada and Ibrahim Sarr, Senegal

Soviet championships

year	space	Weight class	Results
1970	1.	Heavy	before Vladimir Gulutkin and Alexei Atamazov
1972	2.	Heavy	behind Vladimir Gulutkin, in front of Nikolai Mukhanov
1973	1.	Heavy	before Vladimir Gulutkin and S. Ikayev
1975	3.	Heavy	behind Vladimir Gulutkin and Levan Tediashvili
1978	3.	Heavy	behind Ilya Mate and Aslanbek Bissultanow
1980	3.	Heavy	behind Ilya Mate and Levan Tediaschwili

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Heavy weight, then up to 100 kg body weight

literature

• 1) Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976
• 2) various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1970 to 1976

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  

Web links

• Profile of Iwan Jarygin at the Institute of Applied Exercise Science
• Iwan Jarygin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Biography of Ivan Yarygin (English)
• Biography of Ivan Jarygin (Russian)