Rafael Arkadu Tschimischkjan

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Rafael Arkadu Tschimischkjan ( Armenian Ռաֆայել Արկադու Չիմիշքյան , in scientific transliteration Ṙafayel Arkadow Č'imišk'yan; born August 20, 1929 in Tbilisi , Georgian SSR ) is a former Soviet weightlifter . Since he appeared internationally as the representative of the Soviet Union, he is best known under the Russified form of his name Rafael Arkadjewitsch Tschimischkjan ( Russian Рафаэль Аркадьевич Чимишкян ).

Career

Rafael Tschimischkjan, living in Georgia as the son of Armenian parents , came into contact with weightlifting as a teenager. He came into good coaching hands at the Dynamo Tbilisi sports club and made rapid progress. At the age of twenty he was allowed to compete for the USSR at the 1950 World Championships in Paris . He justified the trust placed in him by winning the runner-up world title. He was the first weightlifter in the Soviet Union who came from the south of the country and won a medal at a world championship. Many great athletes Rafael Tschimischkian from this region were to follow later. Until 1960 he remained in the absolute top of the world, even if he had grown up very tough rivals in his own country in Nikolai Saksonow , Ivan Udodow and Yevgeny Minajew , against whom he could not always prevail.

The trained mechanic joined the Red Army at the beginning of his sporting career and became an officer there.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Ba = Bantamweight, Fe = featherweight)

USSR championships

  • 1949, 1st place, Ba;
  • 1950, 2nd place, Fe, with 320 kg, behind Yevgeny Lopatin , 322.5 kg and in front of Moisey Kasyanik , 315 kg;
  • 1951, 1st place, Fe, with 330 kg, ahead of Nikolai Saksonow, 322.5 kg and Yevgeny Lopatin, 322.5 kg;
  • 1952, 2nd place, Fe, with 325 kg, behind Saksonow, 335 kg;
  • 1953, 2nd place, Fe, with 330 kg, behind Saksonov, 335 kg and in front of Chanukashvili, 312.5 kg;
  • 1954, 1st place, Fe, with 345 kg, ahead of Saksonow, 337.5 kg and Ivan Udodov , 332.5 kg;
  • 1955, 1st place, Fe, with 347.5 kg, ahead of Udodov, 340 kg and Mazurenko, 327.5 kg;
  • 1956, 3rd place, Fe, with 335 kg, behind Udodov, 340 kg and Tarelkin, 337.5 kg;
  • 1957, 2nd place, Fe, with 347.5 kg, behind Minajew, 357.5 kg and in front of Nemchilow, 340 kg;
  • 1958, 2nd place, Fe, with 345 kg, behind Minajew, 355 kg, and in front of Bondarenko, 345 kg;
  • 1959, 4th place, Fe, with 325 kg, behind Minajew, 355 kg, Bondarenko, 347.5 kg and Medvedev, 337.5;
  • 1960, 1st place, Fe, with 350 kg, ahead of Korsch, 345 kg and Medvedev, 340 kg;
  • 1962, 3rd place, Fe, with 342.5 kg, behind Yevgeny Kazura , 355 kg, Medvedev, 350 kg and in front of Minajev, 342.5 kg.

World records

(all scored at featherweight)

in two-armed tearing:

in two-armed thrusting:

  • 143 kg, 1954 in Vienna,
  • 143.5 kg, 1957 in Tehran.

in the Olympic three-way battle:

  • 337.5 kg, 1952 in Helsinki,
  • 340 kg, 1953 in Odessa ,
  • 342.5 kg, 1954 in Alexandria ,
  • 345 kg, 1954 in Petrozavodsk,
  • 350 kg, 1954 in Vienna.

literature

  • "Athletik" trade journal from 1950 to 1958.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Tschimischkjan, Rafael Arkadu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschimischkjan, Rafael Arkadjewitsch; (Рафаэль Аркадьевич Чимишкян, Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Georgian SSR