Sergei Alexejewitsch Beloglasow

Sergei Alexejewitsch Beloglasow ( Russian Сергей Алексеевич Белоглазов ; born September 16, 1956 in Kaliningrad ) is a former Soviet wrestler . He was Olympic champion in 1980 in Moscow and in 1988 in Seoul in free style in bantamweight.

Career

Sergei Beloglasow grew in Kaliningrad on and started with his twin brother Anatoli 1968 with the rings . The two brothers were very talented and determined and quickly developed into good wrestlers. After the first major successes in the national field, they were delegated to the Dynamo Kiev sports club . There they could concentrate fully on the wrestling and received in Granat Taropin an ambitious young trainer who led them to the absolute top of the world in free style. Both wrestlers were very easy. In order to get out of the way, Sergei always wrestled a weight class higher than Anatoli, first in flyweight and then in bantamweight.

Sergei had his first successes on the international wrestling mat at the juniors. At the age of 18, he was in 1974 in the Swedish Haparanda junior European flyweight champion. At the Junior World Championships in 1975 in Chaskowo he had to admit defeat to the Japanese Suekichi Murayama and became vice world champion. It was not until 1979 that Sergei was used for the first time at international senior championships. It was the European Championships in Bucharest . Sergei convinced right away and became European bantamweight champion in a superior style. Sergei also showed very good performances at the world championship of the same year, won six fights and met the Japanese former world champion Hideaki Tomiyama in the final . Sergei lost this fight just on points and came in 2nd place. This was Sergei's last defeat in an international championship. From the 1980 Olympic Games to the 1988 Olympic Games, Sergei won every championship and World Cup tournament he participated in. This series was not to be surpassed until the 1990s by Alexander Karelin .

The fact that Sergei was “only” twice Olympic champion was due to the fact that he could not start at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles because of the Olympic boycott by the Soviet Union .

In 1983, Sergei managed to take revenge against Hideaki Tomiyama at the World Cup in Kiev for the 1979 defeat, when he defeated him clearly on points in the final. Tomiyama then became Olympic champion in Los Angeles in 1984.

Sergei Beloglasow did not shy away from starting in 1982 at the world championship in Edmonton in the featherweight division. In this weight class, too, he was vastly superior to his rivals.

After his active wrestling career, from which he resigned in 1989, Sergei trained as a wrestler trainer and in the 1990s also held the post of Russian national free style trainer for many years. Sergei Beloglasow is now a trainer at the “ Sunkist Kids ” in Phoenix , Arizona , perhaps the most successful American wrestling club.

In 2004 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantamweight, Fe = featherweight, then up to 52 kg, 57 kg and 62 kg body weight)

• 1974, 1st place , European Junior Championships (Espoirs) in Haparanda , F, Fl, ahead of Petre Brindusan, Romania , Imre Szalontai , Hungary , Hussein Osmanow, Bulgaria , Francesco Piroddu, Italy and Bernd Bobrich , GDR ;
• 1975, 2nd place , Junior World Championships (Espoirs) in Chaskowo , F, Fl, behind Suekichi Murayama , Japan and in front of Gentcho Iwanow, Bulgaria, Bernd Bobrich and Imre Szalontai;
• 1975, 1st place , tournament in Tbilisi , F, Fl, ahead of Arsen Alachwerdijew , USSR, Ali Ashari, Iran and Dimitar Filipow, Bulgaria;
• 1977, 1st place , "Dan Kolew" tournament in Jambol , F, Fl, ahead of Nermedin Selimow , Bulgaria and Dugarsürengiin Ojuunbold , Mongolia ;
• 1979, 1st place , EM in Bucharest , F, Ba, with victories over Milan Mendel, CSSR , Diego Lo Bruto, France , Aurel Neagu, Romania and Iwan Zotschew , Bulgaria;
• 1979, 2nd place , World Cup in San Diego , F, Ba, with victories over Bernd Bobrich, Dugarsürengiin Ojuunbold, Imre Szalontai, Stefan Iwanow , Bulgaria, Aurel Neagu and Joe Corso , USA and one defeat against Hideaki Tomiyama , Japan;
• 1980, 1st place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Ba, ahead of Nick Gallo, USA, Michael Barry, Canada and Junichi Koizumi, Japan;
• 1980, gold medal , OS in Moscow , F, Ba, with victories over Iwan Zotschew, Antonio La Bruno, Italy, Sándor Németh , Hungary, Wieslaw Kończak, Poland, Li Ho Pyong, North Korea and Dugarsürengiin Ojuunbold;
• 1981, 1st place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Ba, ahead of Njamdawaagiin Ganbaatar , Mongolia and Rick Dellegatta, Canada ;
• 1981, 1st place , World Championships in Skopje , F, Ba, with victories over Dan Cummings, USA, Jacques Mercader, France, Aurel Neagu, Seip Hosseini, Iran and Stefan Iwanow;
• 1982, 1st place , EM in Warna , F, Ba, ahead of Imre Szalontai, Stefan Iwanow, Hans Partsch , FRG , Aurel Neagu and Josef Schwendtner , CSSR;
• 1982, 1st place , World.Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Ba, ahead of Gene Mills , USA, Chung Sung-Gy, South Korea and Michael Barry;
• 1982, 1st place , World Championships in Edmonton , F, Fe, ahead of Simeon Schterew , Bulgaria, Jozsef Orban, Hungary, Randy Lewis , USA, Marian Skubacz, Poland and Trajan Marinescu, Romania;
• 1983, 1st place , World Championships in Kiev , F, Ba, ahead of Hideaki Tomiyama, Japan, Stefan Iwanow, Simeon Schterew, Rafael Torres , Cuba, Bernd Bobrich and Andrzej Jendryas, Poland;
• 1984, 1st place , EM in Jönköping , F, Ba, with victories over Hans Partsch, Josef Schwendtner, Georgi Kaltschew , Bulgaria, Bernd Bobrich and Brian Aspen , Great Britain ;
• 1985, 1st place , World Super Championships (no official World Championships) in Tokyo , F, Ba, ahead of Gene Mills and Yutaka Kakuchiyama, Japan;
• 1985, 1st place , World Championships in Budapest , F, Ba, ahead of Kevin Darkus , USA, Georgi Kaltschew, Toshio Asakura , Japan, Kong Wee-Young, South Korea and Alejandro Puerto, Cuba ;
• 1986, 1st place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, F, Ba, ahead of Alejandro Puerto and Barry Davis , USA;
• 1986, 1st place , “Goodwill” games in Moscow , F, Ba, ahead of Kevin Darkus, Stefan Iwanow, Njamdawaagiin Ganbaatar , Mongolia, Toshihiyo Morishita, Japan and Ahmet Ak , Turkey;
• 1986, 1st place , World Super Championships (no official World Championships) in Tokyo, F, Ba, ahead of Kevin Darkus and Yutaka Kakuchiyama;
• 1986, 1st place , World Championships in Budapest , F, Ba, ahead of Georgi Kaltschew, Barry Davis, Alejandro Puerto, Haltmaag Batuul, Mongolia and Sándor Németh;
• 1987, 1st place , EM in Veliko Tarnowo , F, Ba, ahead of Zoran Sorov , Yugoslavia , Georgi Kaltschew, Béla Nagy , Hungary, Ahmet Ak and Josef Schwendtner;
• 1987, 1st place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , F, Ba, ahead of Barry Davis, Ahmet Ak, Stefan Iwanow, Li Chol, North Korea and Georg Auer, Austria ;
• 1988, 1st place , FILA-Grand-Prix-Gala in Budapest, F, Ba, in front of Valentin Iwanow, Bulgaria, Tibor Tihanics and Tibor Kacsor, bde. Hungary;
• 1988, 1st place , EM in Manchester , F, Ba, ahead of Ahmet Ak, Stefan Iwanow, Béla Nagy, Zoran Sotov and Rolf Monschau , FRG;
• 1988, gold medal , OS in Seoul , F, Ba, ahead of Askari Mohammadian , Iran, Noh Kyung-Sun, South Korea, Ahmet Ak, Valentin Iwanow and Béla Nagy

swell

• various issues of the specialist magazines "Athletik" from 1974 and 1975 and "Der Ringer" from 1976 to 1988,
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Website of the Sunkist Kids wrestling club in Phoenix, Arizona

Web links

• Profile of Sergei Beloglasow at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Sergei Beloglasow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )