Oleg Sergeevich Stepanov

Award ceremony at the 1964 Olympic Games: Eric Hänni (left), Takehide Nakatani , Oleg Stepanow

Oleg Sergejewitsch Stepanow ( Russian Олег Сергеевич Степанов ; * December 10, 1939 in Moscow ; † February 27, 2010 ibid) was a Soviet judoka who competed in the lightweight (up to 68 kg, from 1966 up to 70 kg) in the 1960s. He won an Olympic bronze medal and a European title in this weight class.

The 1.75 m tall athlete from CSKA Moscow won the European Team Championship with the Soviet team in 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966, and in 1967 the Soviet team took third place.

Judo was first part of the Olympic program at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo . At the Olympic competitions , 25 participants from 18 countries competed in the first competition, the lightweight. Stepanov won his first three fights, in the semifinals he was defeated by Takehide Nakatani . Together with his Soviet teammate Ārons Bogoļubovs , Oleg Stepanow received the first judo bronze medals behind the Japanese Olympic champion Takehide Nakatani and the Swiss Eric Hänni .

In 1965 in the lightweight and 1966 in the welterweight, Stepanow was European judo champion. At the Judo World Championships in Rio de Janeiro in 1965 , he won a bronze medal behind two Japanese.

Soviet judo championships did not exist until 1973. Oleg Stepanov was 1961 and from 1964 to 1968 Soviet featherweight champion in sambo , a Russian martial art with references to judo, which Stepanov had started in 1955.

After his active career, he worked for many years as a sambo and judo trainer at his home club CSKA Moscow.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

• Oleg Sergejewitsch Stepanow at JudoInside.com
• Oleg Sergejewitsch Stepanow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )