Oleksandr Kolchynskyi

Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Александр Леонидович Колчинский
Transl. :	Aleksandr Leonidovič Kolčinsky
Transcr. :	Alexander Leonidowitsch Kolchinsky
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Олександр Леонідович Колчинський
Transl. :	Oleksandr Leonidovyč Kolčyns'kyj
Transcr. :	Oleksandr Leonidowytsch Kolchynskyj

Oleksandr Leonidowytsch Kolchynskyj (Russian Alexander Leonidowitsch Kolchinski ; born February 20, 1955 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ; † July 16, 2002 in Kiev, Ukraine ) was a Soviet wrestler .

Career

Oleksandr Kolchynskyj began wrestling at an early age and was soon very successful. At the age of 16 in 1971 he was runner-up in youth wrestling in the class over 87 kg. He repeated this success in 1973 and in 1974 he became Junior World Champion. Around this time he joined the Soviet Army and was stationed in Kiev , where he trained in the Army Sports Club. His trainer was J. Wilenski. At the beginning of his international career, the young athlete only weighed around 105 kg with a height of 1.93 m, but over the years increased this weight to around 120 kg. It was used internationally as early as 1975. His greatest successes were the Olympic victories in 1976 in Montreal and 1980 in Moscow , where he both times before the multiple world champion Aleksandar Tomov from Bulgaria won. Oleksandr Kolchynskyj was a very agile and fast wrestler who dominated most of his competitors.

After the end of his active wrestling career, Oleksandr Kolchynskyj was an officer in the Soviet Army. He later worked as a businessman and was sentenced to a prison term for extortion in 1994, only part of which, however, because he was pardoned by President Leonid Kuchma in 1996 .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, super heavyweight, over 100 kg body weight (KG))

year	space	competition	Weight class
1973	2.	Youth competitions of friendship in Suhl	Kl. Over 87 kg body weight	behind Henryk Tomanek , Poland a . in front of Stojan Nikolow , Bulgaria
1975	3.	EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Super heavy	with victories over Einar Gundersen, Norway , Roman Codreanu , Romania a . János Rovnyai , Hungary and one loss to Nikola Dinew , Bulgaria
1975	2.	World Cup in Minsk	Super heavy	with victories over Roman Codreanu, János Rovnyai, Richard Wolff , BRD a . a loss to Alexandar Tomov , Bulgaria
1976	2.	EM in Leningrad	Super heavy	with victories over Józef Nagy, Hungary a. Roman Codreanu and defeats against Wolff a. Tomow
1976	gold	OS in Montreal	Super heavy	with victories over Henryk Tomanek, Poland , Gundersen, Carlos Braconi, Argentina , Codreanu and the like. Tomow
1977	2.	EM in Bursa	Super heavy	with victories against Kenan Ege, Turkey, Zygmunt Andrecki, Poland, János Rovnyai, Victor Dolipschi , Romania a. a loss to Dinew
1977	2.	World Cup in Gothenburg	Super heavy	behind Dinew u. before Arne Robertsson, Sweden , Gundersen, János Rovnyai u. William Lee, USA
1978	1.	World Cup in Mexico City	Super heavy	with victories over Tomanek, Seiji Matsunaga, Japan , Gundersen u. Roman Codreanu et al. a loss to Dinew (both wrestlers were disqualified for being passive)
1979	4th	EM in Bucharest	Super heavy	with victories over Ege u. Defeats against Alexandar Tomow u. János Rovnyai (Rovnyai and Kolchinski were disqualified for being passive)
1979	2.	World Cup in San Diego	Super heavy	with victories over József Farkas , Hungary, Tomanek, Artur Diaz, Cuba , Bob Walker, USA a. a loss to Alexandar Tomow (both wrestlers were disqualified)
1980	gold	OS in Moscow	Super heavy	with victories over Diaz, Antonio Lapenna, Italy, Codreanu, József Farkas, Hassan Ali Bechara , Lebanon and the like. Alexandar Tomov

Web links

• Profile of Alexander Kolchinski at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Oleksandr Kolchynskyj in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )