Nikolai Ivanovich Shatov

Nikolai Iwanowitsch Schatow ( Russian: Николай Иванович Шатов , scientific transliteration Nikolaj Ivanovič Šatov ; * 1909 in Borissow ; † March 7, 1992 in Moscow ) was a Soviet weightlifter .

Career

When the Soviet Union was accepted into the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) in 1950 and took part in all international championships from 1952, Nikolai Shatov was one of the Soviet teams that competed in these championships for many years. He was the head of the delegation, referee, supervisor and together with Alexei Medvedev and Israel Mechanics , later Alexander Boschko joined this team, coach of this team. As a guardian of Soviet interests, he was feared, but also recognized by the international functionaries of the IMF. Hardly anyone knew that he was also an excellent weightlifter. He was Soviet champion eleven times in the 1930s and 1940s, and at his only start at a European championship, which he was able to do because of the separation of sport into civil sport and workers' sport, he became European champion in Helsinki in 1947 . The achievements that Shatov showed in his active career would have enabled him at any time in the 1930s to compete for medals at the Olympic Games in 1936 and the World Championships in 1937 and 1938.

International success

(FK = pentathlon, consisting of one-armed tearing and pushing and pushing with both arms, tearing and pushing, OD = Olympic three-way competition, consisting of two-armed pushing, tearing and pushing, Le = lightweight, Mi = middleweight)

• 1946, 4th place , World Championship in Paris , OD, with 367.5 kg (105-117.5-145), behind Khadr Sayed El Touni , Egypt , 377.5 kg, John Terpak , USA , 375 kg, Frank Spellman , USA, 372.5 kg and before Alexander Boschko , USSR and 357.5 kg and Nelson, Sweden , 352.5 kg
• 1947, 1st place , European Championship in Helsinki , OD, Wed, with 367.5 kg, ahead of Alexander Boschko , USSR , 360 kg and Georges Firmin , France , 340 kg.

USSR championships

• 1932, 3rd place, FK, Le, with 404.5 kg;
• 1933, 1st place, FK, Le, with 455 kg;
• 1934, 1st place, FK, Le, with 473 kg, in front of Israel Mechanics , 445.5 kg;
• 1935, 1st place, FK, Le, with 482.5 kg, in front of mechanics, 465 kg;
• 1936, 1st place, OD, Le, with 335.5 kg, in front of mechanics, 322.5 kg;
• 1937, 1st place, OD, Le, with 330 kg, in front of mechanics, 327.5 kg;
• 1938, 1st place, OD, Le, with 347.5 kg (102.5-110-135), before mechanics, 335 kg;
• 1940, 1st place, OD, Le, with 355 kg (105-110-140);
• 1944, 1st place, OD, Le, with 342.5 kg, in front of mechanics, 322.5 kg and Wladimir Swetilko , 315 kg;
• 1945, 1st place, OD, Wed, with 360 kg (110-110-140), in front of Alexander Boschko , 350 kg;
• 1946, 1st place, OD, Wed, with 352.5 kg, ahead of Vladimir Pushkarew , 345 kg;
• 1947, 1st place, OD, Wed, with 370 kg (110-115-145), ahead of Boschko, 357.5 kg;
• 1948, 3rd place, OD, Wed, with 357.5 kg;
• 1949, 3rd place, OD, Wed.

World records

(unofficial as the USSR was not a member of the IMF at the time)

in two-armed tearing:

• 111 kg, 1937 in Tbilisi , Le,
• 113 kg, 1938 in Moscow , Le,
• 115 kg, 1938 in Moscow, Le,
• 115.5 kg, in 1938 in Kuybyshev ,
• 117.5 kg, 1940 in Moscow.

in the Olympic three-way battle:

• 365 kg, 1938, Le.

Web links

• Article in the Great Olympic Encyclopedia (in Russian)
• Short biography (in Russian)