Nikolai Ivanovich Soloduchin

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Award ceremony in the light weight at the 1980 Olympic Games: Pawłowski , Nedkow , Soloduchin, Damdin (from left to right)

Nikolai Ivanovich Soloduchin ( Russian: Николай Иванович Солодухин ; born January 3, 1955 in Paserkowo , Kursk Oblast ) is a former Soviet judoka . The 1.64 m tall athlete competed in the half-light weight (up to 65 kg) and won an Olympic gold medal and two world championships in this weight class.

Athletic career

Soloduchin won his first Soviet championship title in 1975, in the same year he also won an international U21 tournament in Bad Homburg. He won his first international medal at the European Championships in 1978 , at which he was only defeated in the final against Torsten Reissmann from the GDR. In the autumn of the same year he received the silver medal behind France at the European team championships with the Soviet team. At the European Championships in Brussels in 1979 , Soloduchin won the final against the West German judoka James Rohleder . Two and a half months later he won the pre-Olympic tournament in Moscow, which took place as part of the People's Spartakiad . In October 1979 Soloduchin won the title at the European Team Championship with the Soviet team against France. In December 1979 the 1979 World Championships took place in Paris . Soloduchin defeated Janusz Pawłowski from Poland in the quarter -finals, the Romanian Constantin Niculae in the semifinals and the French Yves Delvingt in the final .

The climax of 1980, especially for Soviet athletes, was the Olympic Games in Moscow . Soloduchin won in the quarter-finals against the Bulgarian Ilijan Nedkow and in the semifinals against Torsten Reissmann. In the fight for the gold medal he defeated the Mongol Tsendiin Damdin by a coca rating. At the European Championships in 1981 , Soloduchin took fifth place. 1982 Soloduchin lost with the Russian team the final against the French at the European Team Championships.

In May 1983 the European Championships took place in Paris . Soloduchin lost in the round of 16 against Frenchman Thierry Rey , but then fought his way to the bronze medal. In October at the World Championships in Moscow Soloduchin won the quarter-finals against the Bulgarian Valentin Minew and in the semifinals against Janusz Pawłowski. In the final he met the Japanese Yoshiyuki Matsuoka and won his second world title. Soloduchin won his last big tournament victory in 1984 at the competitions of the Socialist States, a replacement event for the athletes who were not allowed to take part in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of the Olympic boycott of the Eastern Bloc countries .

Soloduchin won the Soviet championship titles in 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980 and 1982. He began as a physical education teacher at Dynamo Kursk and rose in the course of his professional career to become a colonel in the Kursk police force. In 2008 he published his autobiography, in which he described his way from the village to the Olympic Games.

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  1. ↑ The representation of the championship title follows the representation in the Olympic database sports-reference. According to Volker Kluge (Die Chronik III, p. 835, note 249) it won 1979 not 1978.
  2. ↑ Nikolai Iwanowitsch Soloduchin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME Soloduchin, Nikolai Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Солодухин, Николай Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet judoka
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Paserkowo , Kursk Oblast