Sultan Rachmanov

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Sultan Rachmanov, 1980

Sultan Saburovich Rachmanow ( Russian Султан Сабурович Рахманов ; born July 6, 1950 in Turtkul , Karakalpakistan , † May 5, 2003 in Dnipropetrovsk , Ukraine ) was a Soviet weightlifter . He was Olympic champion in 1980 and super heavyweight world champion in 1979.

Career

Sultan Rachmanov came to Dnepropetrovsk at a young age and began lifting weights there. At the sports club Avangard Dnipropetrovsk , Eduard Browko became his trainer, who led him to the top of the world in long work. For the first time he appeared in 1973 in an important competition in the list of winners, when he took second place in a duel at the Soviet junior championship (U 23) in the super heavyweight division with 352.5 kg.

It was not until 1976 that he won a medal at a Soviet senior championship. In that year he was in the super heavyweight division with 420 kg (185 kg snatch and 235 kg push) behind Vasily Alexejew , 435 kg and Valentin Kuzmin, 422, 5 kg, third winner. In the cup competitions of the Soviet weightlifters towards the end of 1976 in Sverdlovsk, he increased his duel performance to 432.5 kg (192.5-240) and finished second behind Aslanbek Jenaldijew , who achieved 435 kg.

In 1977, Sultan Rachmanov stagnated. He was absent from the Soviet championship and achieved his best duel of the year in a weightlifting tournament in Opole with 422.5 kg (187.5-235). In 1977 he started in Germany for the first time . He won the Grand Prix of Berlin (East) with 412.5 kg (182.5-230) clearly ahead of Gerd Bonk , GDR , who only came to 380 kg.

In 1978 Sultan Rachmanow won the Soviet super heavyweight championship with 430 kg (192.5-237.5) and thus replaced Vasily Alexejew as the best Soviet lifter in the super heavyweight class. He was then used at the 1978 World Cup in Gettysburg . There he showed nerves, however, because he did not come close to his performance in the Soviet championship and had to with 417.5 kg (187.5-230) the much lighter German Jürgen Heuser , who also came to 417.5 kg , give up.

At the beginning of 1979 Sultan Rachmanow achieved at the Friendship Tournament in Leningrad 435 kg (195-240) and thus clearly won ahead of Anatoli Pisarenko , USSR , 390 kg and Jan Nagy , CSSR , 375 kg. The Soviet championship in 1979 saw him with 420 kg for the second time before Aslanbek Jenaldijew, who scored 410 kg, as the winner. On the international weightlifting stage, however, he suffered a major setback when he had three failed attempts at pushing at the European Championships this year in Varna and thus remained unplaced in the duel.

Surprisingly, the Soviet Weightlifting Association held on to him and sent him to the 1979 World Cup in Saloniki . There he won with 430 kg (192.5-237.5) in front of the two Germans Jürgen Heuser , 420 kg and Gerd Bonk , 412.5 kg.

1980 Sultan Rachmanow concentrated first on the European championship in Belgrade and won there with 430 kg (190-240) the title in the duel of the super heavyweight before Eugen Popow , Bulgaria , 417.5 kg and Gerd Bonk, 407.5 kg. His main focus was on the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . There he went to the start very well prepared and achieved a new personal best with 440 kg (195–245), which brought him the gold medal in front of Jürgen Heuser, 410 kg and the Pole Tadeusz Rutkowski , 407.5 kg.

In 1981 Sultan Rachmanow was once again Soviet champion and achieved an excellent performance again with 440 kg (195–245) in a duel. He won ahead of Aslanbek Jenaldijew, 435 kg (185-250) and Leon Kaplun, 410 kg. At the following international championships he was no longer used, but the new star weightlifting Anatoli Pisarenko . Sultan Rachmanov's career as a weightlifter came to an end. As a competitor he had weighed between 145 kg and 150 kg at a height of 1.88 meters. In his career, the duels he fought with the two German weightlifters Gerd Bonk and Jürgen Heuser were particularly noteworthy .

After his career as an active weightlifter, Sultan Rachmanov served as president of an international association of disabled and veterans of the sport and was also president of the Aikido Federation of Ukraine for many years. However, he soon became very ill and eventually died of a heart attack at the age of 53.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, SS = super heavyweight, over 110 kg body weight)

  • 1976, 1st place , Baltic Cup in Lahti / Finland , SS, with 415 kg (192.5–222.5), ahead of Valentin Kuzmin, USSR , 375 kg a. Taisto Haara, Finland, 360 kg;
  • 1976, 2nd place , cup tournament in Sverdlovsk , SS, 432.5 kg (192.5–240), behind Aslanbek Yenaldiev , 435 kg (187.5–247.5) and before Powaga, 422.5 (180-242.5), vol. USSR;
  • 1977, 1st place , Grand Prix of Berlin (East), SS, with 412.5 kg (182.5–230), ahead of Gerd Bonk , GDR , 380 kg a. Gartschew, Bulgaria, 350 kg;
  • 1977, 1st place , IV. Zgondek Memorial in Opole , SS, with 422 kg (187.5–235);
  • 1977, 2nd place , cup tournament in Ryazan , SS, with 405 kg (182.5–222.5), behind Powaga, 410 kg a. before Okorokow, 402.5 kg, bde. USSR;
  • 1978, 1st place , Baltic Cup in Wolfsburg , SS, with 420 kg (190–230), ahead of Gerd Bonk, GDR, 400 kg;
  • 1978, 2nd place , World Cup in Gettysburg , SS, with 417.5 kg (187.5–230), behind Jürgen Heuser , GDR, (185–232.5) and before Gerd Bonk , 410 kg (175-235);
  • 1978, 2nd place , tournament in Las Vegas , SS, with 410 kg (180–230), behind Vasily Alexejew , 412.5 kg (180–232.5);
  • 1979, 1st place , Friendship Tournament in Leningrad , SS, 435 kg (195–240), ahead of Anatoli Pisarenko , USSR, 390 kg a. Jan Nagy , CSSR , 375 kg;
  • 1979, unpl. , EM in Varna , after 3 failed attempts in pushing, SS; Winner: Gerd Bonk, 427.5 kg (185–242.5), ahead of Jürgen Heuser, 422.5 kg (180–242.5);
  • 1979, 1st place , WM in Saloniki , SS, with 430 kg (192.5–237.5), ahead of Jürgen Heuser, 420 kg (187.5–232.5) a. Gerd Bonk, 412.5 kg;
  • 1980, 1st place , EM in Belgrade , SS, with 430 kg (190-240), ahead of Eugen Popow, Bulgaria, 417.5 kg a. Gerd Bonk, 407.5 kg;
  • 1980, gold medal , OS in Moscow , SS, with 440 kg (195–245), ahead of Jürgen Heuser, 410 kg and Tadeusz Rutkowski , Poland , 407.5 kg

World Cup individual medals

  • World Cup gold medals: 1978 / tear, 1979 / tear, 1979 / push, 1980 / tear, 1980 / push.
  • World Cup bronze medal: 1978 / pushing.

EM individual medals

  • EM gold medals: 1979 / tearing, 1980 / tearing, 1980 / pushing.

USSR championships

  • 1976, 3rd place, SS, with 420 kg (185–235), behind Wassili Alexejew , 435 kg a. Valentin Kuzmin, 422.5 kg;
  • 1978, 1st place, SS, with 430 kg (192.5–237.5), ahead of Powaga, 412.5 kg a. Valentin Kuszmin, 410 kg;
  • 1979, 1st place, SS, with 420 kg (185–235), ahead of Aslanbek Jenaldijew , 410 kg a. Vladimir Martschuk, 397.5 kg;
  • 1981, 1st place, SS, with 440 kg (195–245), before Aslanbek Jenaldijew, 435 kg (185–250) and Leon Kaplun, 410 kg.

World records

  • 1978 in Kiev, 200.5 kg in the snatch;
  • 1981 in Donetsk, 201 kg in the snatch.

swell

  • Trade journal Athletik , numbers 7/1973, 10/1976, 1/1977, 3/1977, 2/1978, 8/1978, 10/1978, 11/1978, 6/1979, 7/1979, 12/1979, 6 / 1980, 8/1980.
  • Website "www.chidlovski.net".
  • Website "www.temych2000.narod.ru".

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Rachmanov, Sultan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rachmanov, Sultan Saburovich (full name); Рахманов, Султан Сабурович (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Turtkul , Karakalpakistan , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2003
Place of death Dnipropetrovsk , Ukraine