Nikolai Michailowitsch Schmakow

Nikolai Schmakow medal table
Wrestler
Soviet Union
World Championship
gold	1965 Tampere	Heavy
silver	1966 Toledo	Heavy
European Championship
silver	1967 Minsk	Heavy

Nikolai Michailowitsch Schmakow (Russian: Николай Шмаков ; * 1936 ?; † 1993 ) was a Soviet wrestler and world heavyweight champion in 1965 in the Greco-Roman style.

Career

Nikolai Shmakov began as a teenager with rings . He belonged to the sports organization Spartak and was a heavyweight since the mid-1950s, exclusively in the Greco-Roman. Style rang. Around 1960 Iwan Bogdan dominated the action on the mat in the heavyweight class in the Soviet Union , who was last world champion in 1961 . Nikolai Schmakow fought with Anatoli Roschtschin and Anatoli Kochnev for his successor. This duel was ultimately won by Anatoly Roschtschin, but from 1965 to 1967 Nikolai Schmakow also came to several appearances at international championships and even became world heavyweight champion in Tampere in 1965 . The fact that he no longer won international titles was due on the one hand to the Hungarian newcomer István Kozma , who defeated Nikolai Schmakow at the 1966 World Cup in Toledo / USA and at the European Championships in Minsk and relegated to 2nd place in each case and, on the other hand, as already mentioned, to Anatoly Roschtschin, who was the best heavyweight wrestler in the Soviet Union from 1968.

Nikolai Schmakow first drew attention to himself in 1961 with his victory in the heavyweight division at the Spartakiade of the trade unions. In the same year he was also the third winner of the Soviet championship behind Ivan Bogdan and Anatoly Roschtschin. He became champion of the Soviet Union in 1965.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1961	1.	Union Spartakiad	Heavy
1962	1.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	Heavy	before Miroslaw Citakovic, Yugoslavia , Bohumil Kubát , CSSR , Milic Stojkovis, Yugoslavia a. Ragnar Svensson , Sweden
1965	1.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	Heavy	before Anatoli Roschtschin , USSR a . Roland Bock , FRG
1965	1.	World Cup in Tampere	Heavy	with victories over Ragnar Svensson, Arje Nadbornik, Finland , Petr Kment , CSSR , Radoslaw Kasabow , Bulgaria a . István Kozma , Hungary
1966	2.	World Cup in Toledo / USA	Heavy	with victories over Ryszard Dlugosz, Poland , Radoslaw Kasabow, Ragnar Svensson, Osmo Hekkala, Finland a. Peter Kment et al. a loss to István Kozma
1967	2.	EM in Minsk	Heavy	with victories over Giyasettin Yilmaz, Turkey , Lennart Eriksson , Sweden, Constantin Bosoiu, Romania , Wilfried Dietrich , FRG a. Petr Kment et al. a loss to István Kozma
1970	1.	Klippan tournament	Heavy	before Horst Schwarz, Germany and Arne Robertsson, Sweden

Soviet championships

year	space	Weight class	Results
1961	3.	behind Ivan Bogdan and Anatoly Roschtschin
1962	2.	behind Anatoly Roschtschin , in front of A. Abramjan
1963	2.	behind Anatoly Roschtschin, in front of T. Khantarishvili
1964	1.	before Anatoly Roschtschin and Vladimir Shkaran
1965	1.	before Anatoly Roschtschin and Vladimir Shkaran
1966	1.	before Anatoli Kochniew and Alexander Podjunksi
1967	2.	behind Anatoly Roschtschin, in front of Valery Anissimov
1969	1.	before Vladimir Susnietsch and N. Shevchenko

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Heavy weight, up to 1961 over 87 kg, from 1962 over 97 kg

International battles

In 1964, Nikolai Shmakov scored three victories over Marcucci in three international matches between the Soviet Union and Italy in Savona , Naples and Florence .

literature

• 1) Fachzeitschrift Athletik , numbers: 17/1961, page 16, 21/1961, page 16, 23/1962, page 16, 9/1964, page 16, 7/1965, page 16, 13/1965, page 9, 14 / 1966, page 9, 6/1967, page 8
• 2) Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976, pages W-66, W-73 u. E 55

Web link

Profile of Nikolai Schmakow at the Institute for Applied Training Science