Nikolai Alexejewitsch Kolesnikow

Nikolai Alexejewitsch Kolesnikow ( Russian: Николай Алексеевич Колесников , English transcription Nikolay Kolesnikov ; born February 15, 1952 in Naratli , Tatarstan , Soviet Union ) is a former Soviet weightlifter . He was an Olympic featherweight champion in 1976 .

Career

Nikolai Kolesnikow, of Tatar origin, started lifting weights as a teenager and started for Trud Rostov-on-Don . Over the years he developed into a world class featherweight athlete, in the weight class up to 60 kg body weight. The first result that is known of him, however, he achieved as a bantamweight (up to 56 kg body weight). In 1973 he took 3rd place in a weightlifting tournament in Sochi in this weight class with 235 kg in a duel behind Vladimir Anikin , 250 kg and the like. Rafael Belenkow , 242.5 kg, bde. USSR .

In 1974 Nikolai Kolesnikow, meanwhile moved up to the featherweight division, could not start in the Soviet championship due to an injury. But he won the Baltic Cup in Växjö / Sweden with 275 kg (120-155) in a duel and was then used at the World Cup in Manila . He reached there 277.5 kg (120-157.5) and had to bend in a duel to the Bulgarian Georgi Todorov , who reached 280 kg, while he referred the 1972 Olympic champion Norair Nurikjan from Bulgaria to 3rd place.

In 1975 Nikolai Kolesnikow won his first Soviet championship with 280 kg (120-160). That year he also achieved his first world record in jerking with 160.5 kg, which he improved to 161 kg in the same year and to 161.5 kg the following year. At the World and European Championships this year in Moscow he had to admit defeat to Georgi Todorow, who scored 285 kg, with 277.5 kg (125-152.5). But he became vice world and European champion.

In the 1976 Olympic year he was initially unable to defend his Soviet featherweight championship. He lifted 275 kg (120-155) in this championship and had to give way to Vladimir Golowko, who also reached 275 kg, but was a little lighter than him. But he won at the European Championships this year in Berlin (East) with 282.5 kg (122.5-160) in front of the Bulgarians Todor Todorow , 280 kg and Georgi Todorow, 277.5 kg. This was his first title win at an international championship. This victory was soon followed by the Olympic victory in Montreal . He won there in featherweight with 285 kg (125-160) before his main rival Georgi Todorow, 280 kg u. Kazumusa Hirai from Japan , 275 kg.

In 1977 Nikolai Kolesnikow became the Soviet featherweight champion for the second time. He only needed 275 kg (122.5–152.5) ​​and thus clearly won ahead of Vladimir Sasanow, 265 kg and Wadim Babozhin, 265 kg. At the World and European Championships in Stuttgart , he met a new rival from Bulgaria, Janko Rusew . He defeated this with 280 kg (122.5–157.5) to 277.5 kg. Janko Rusew became one of the most successful weightlifters of all time in the light and middle weight classes.

For Nikolai Kolesnikow came the years 1978 and 1979, which were very successful for him. He did not lose a competition in these two years and became Soviet champions in 1978 and 1979 with 280 kg and 282.5 kg respectively. He was also European champion in 1978 in Havířov with the two-way world record of 290 kg (125-165) and in Gettysburg also world champion , with him 270 kg (117.5-152.5) ​​in a duel to win the title. In 1979 he was in Varna with 292.5 kg (127.5-165), which in turn meant a duel world record, again European champion and left Georgi Todorow by 20 kg behind. At the 1979 World Cup in Saloniki , he snatched 125 kg and then failed three times at his initial weight of 157.5 kg. He achieved no duel performance and remained unplaced.

At the beginning of 1980 Nikolai Kolesnikow won a duel in a featherweight competition in Podolsk with 275 kg (127.5-147.5). In this competition, however, he injured himself so badly in further attempts in pushing that he was canceled for all other competitions in 1980 and thus also missed his participation in the Olympic Games in Moscow.

Nikolai Kolesnikow did not take up his weightlifting career after the recovery. He completed his training as a trainer and was a trainer in the Soviet and Russian weightlifting associations for many years. For several years he was responsible for the Russian junior team in the 1990s.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1973	3.	Tournament in Sochi	Bantam	with 235 kg behind Wladimir Anikin , 250 kg u. Rafael Belenkow , 242.5 kg
1974	2.	Intern. Tournament in Yerevan	feather	with 262.5 kg, behind Kazumusa Hirai , Japan , 267.5 kg, in front of Jakub, Poland , 250 kg
1974	1.	Baltic Cup in Växjö / Sweden	feather	with 275 kg (120-155), before Wasylisczyn, Poland, 255 kg u. Norrback, Sweden, 240 kg
1974	2.	World Cup in Manila	feather	with 277.5 kg (120–157.5), behind Georgi Todorow , Bulgaria , 280 kg, in front of Norair Nurikjan , Bulgaria, 277.5 kg
1975	2.	Friendship tournament in Zaporozhye	feather	with 272.5 kg (120–152.5), behind Golubzow, 272.5 kg u. before Dito Schanidze , 272.5 kg, bde. USSR
1975	2.	WM + EM in Moscow	feather	with 277.5 kg (125–152.5), behind Georgi Todorow, 285 kg, in front of Antonin Pawlak , Poland, 275 kg
1976	1.	EM in Berlin (East)	feather	with 282.5 kg (122.5-160), before Todor Todorow , 280 kg a. Georgi Todorow, 277.5 kg, bde. Bulgaria
1976	gold	OS in Montreal	feather	with 285 kg (125-160), before Georgi Todorow, 280 kg a. Kazumusa Hirai, 275 kg
1976	1.	Tournament in Sverdlovsk	feather	with 280 kg (127.5–152.5), before Wladimir Sasanow, 270 kg a. Viktor Masin , 265 kg, bde. USSR
1977	1.	WM + EM in Stuttgart	feather	with 280 kg (122.5–157.5), ahead of Janko Rusew , Bulgaria, 277.5 kg a. Gregorz Cziura , Poland, 270 kg
1977	1.	Friendship Cup in Ryazan	feather	with 270 kg (117.5–152.5), in front of Melkonjan, 265 kg
1978	1.	Friendship tournament in Moscow	feather	with 280 kg (117.5-162.5), in front of Laszlo Szarasz , Hungary, 265 kg a. Perez, Cuba , 257.5 kg
1978	1.	EM in Havířov	feather	with 290 kg (125-165), in front of Laszlo Szarasz, 275 kg a. Valentin Todorov , Bulgaria, 270 kg
1978	1.	World Cup in Gettysburg	feather	at 270 kg (117.5-152.5), ahead of Saito, Japan, 267.5 kg and the like. Valentin Todorov, 267.5 kg
1979	1.	EM in Varna	feather	with 292.5 kg (127.5–165), before Georgi Todorow, 272.5 kg a. M. Grigoras, Romania, 270 kg
1979	unpl.	World Cup in Saloniki	feather	after 125 kg in snatch, three failed attempts in pushing with 157.5 kg
1980	1.	Tournament in Podolsk	feather	with 275 kg (127.5–147.5)

WM + EM individual medals

• World Cup gold medals: 1974 / push / spring - 1976 / push / spring - 1977 / tear / spring - 1977 / push / spring
• World Cup silver medals: 1979 / tear / spring
• World Cup bronze medals: 1978 / pushing / spring

• EM gold medals: 1975 / tearing / spring - 1976 / pushing / spring - 1977 / tearing / spring - 1977 / pushing / spring - 1978 / tearing / spring - 1978 / pushing / spring
• EM silver medals: 1979 / tear / spring
• European Championship bronze medals: 1975 / pushing / spring -

1976 / tear / spring

Soviet championships

year	space	Weight class	Result
1973	5.	Bantam	with 235 kg, behind Rafael Belenkow , 247.5 kg, Wladimir Anikin , 245 kg, Gennadi Chetin , 242.5 kg u. Starschinski, 237.5 kg
1975	1.	feather	with 280 kg (120-160), before Wladimir Golowko , 270 kg a. Ivan Kazakov, 270 kg
1976	2.	feather	with 275 kg (120–155), behind Wladimir Golowko, 275 kg, in front of Iwan Kazakow, 275 kg
1977	1.	feather	with 275 kg (122.5–152.5), before Vladimir Sasanow, 265 kg and Wadim Babozhin, 265 kg
1978	1.	feather	with 280 kg (125–155), before Wladimir Golowko, 272.5 kg a. Wadim Babozhin, 270 kg
1979	1.	feather	with 275 kg (120–155), before Wiktor Masin , 282.5 kg a. Viktor Lavrenjuk, 280 kg

World records

date	place	discipline	Weight class	power
17.3.75	Zaporozhye	Bump	feather	160.5 kg
5.7.75	Vilnius	Bump	feather	161 kg
7/20/76	Montreal	Bump	feather	161.5 kg
19.9.77	Stuttgart	Bump	feather	162 kg
6/12/78	Havířov	Duel	feather	290 kg
5/21/79	Varna	Bump	feather	166 kg
5/21/79	Varna	Duel	feather	292.5 kg

Explanations

• all competitions in single combat, consisting of snatch and push,
• OS = Olympic Games,
• WM = World Championship,
• EM = European Championship,
• Bantam weight, then up to 56 kg body weight,
• Feather weight, back then up to 60 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal athletics ,
• Website "www.sport-komplett.de",
• Website "www.chidlovski.net"

Web links

• Portrait of Nikolai Kolesnikov
• Nikolai Alexejewitsch Kolesnikow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )