Vasily Ivanovich Alexejew

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Vasily Alexeyev Weightlifting
Vasily Alekseyev 1970.jpg

Nationality: Soviet UnionSoviet Union USSR
Date of birth: January 7, 1942
Place of birth: Pokrowo Schischkino
Date of death: November 25, 2011
Place of death: Munich
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Wassili Ivanovich Alexejew ( Russian Василий Иванович Алексеев ; born January 7, 1942 in Pokrovo-Schischkino , Ryazan Oblast ; † November 25, 2011 in Munich ) was a Soviet weightlifter .

Career

Alexejew won the Olympic gold medal in the super heavyweight division in 1972 and 1976 and won numerous titles at world and European championships. During this time Alexejew set 80 world records, which is unmatched to this day. Alexeyev was one of the few weightlifters who gained worldwide fame through their sport.

Life

Vasily Alexejew was the fourth child of a factory worker in Pokrovo Shishkino in central Russia; When he was eleven, his family moved to Rotschegda in Arkhangelsk Oblast , where he regularly helped with woodwork in the summer. After finishing school in Arkhangelsk , he studied at the wood technology institute. As early as 1955, he took part regularly in regional and regional weightlifting championships and continued to train during his studies. In the 1960s he worked as a shift supervisor in a paper and cellulose factory.

Despite his regional successes, Alexeyev was largely unknown at the IV People's Partakiade of the USSR in 1967 when he surprisingly defeated the then master Leonid Shabotinsky . At the V. Völkerspartakiade in 1970 he was already the "star" and set seven world records in one evening.

After his successes at the Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976, Alexejew also became internationally known. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, however, he was already unable to cope with the initial weight: his streak of success came to an end. Since 1980 he worked as a coach in the city of Shakhty in Rostov Oblast . From 1990 to 1992 he was national coach of the USSR and CIS. Under his leadership, a United Team won ten medals in Barcelona in 1992 , five of which were gold medals.

Alexeyev last lived as a pensioner in Shakhty, whose honorary citizen he became in 1996 and which a school named after him. Vasily Ivanovich Alexejew died on November 25, 2011 in a Munich clinic, where he had gone to treat a heart disease.

Awards

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, S = super heavyweight, at that time over 110 kg, until 1972 all competitions in the Olympic three-way fight, consisting of pushing, tearing and pushing, from 1973 duel, consisting of tearing and pushing)

  • 1970: 1st place , Grand Prix of the USSR in Minsk, SS, with 600.0 kg, ahead of Stanislaw Batishchev , USSR , 587.5 kg, and Manfred Rieger , GDR , 530 kg
  • 1970: 1st place , EM in Szombathely , S, with 612.5 (217.5, 170.0, 225.0) kg, ahead of Kalevi Lahdenranta, Finland , 577.5 (192.5, 172.5, 212 , 5); Manfred Rieger, GDR, 565.0 (192.5, 162.5, 210.0)
  • 1970: 1st place , World Championships in Columbus / USA , S, with 612.5 (215.0, 170.0, 227.5) kg, ahead of Serge Reding , Belgium , 590.0 (215.0, 160.0 , 215.0) kg; Kalevi Lahdenranta , Finland, 577.5 (195.0, 172.0, 210.0) kg, Dube, 577.5 kg and Rieger, 555 kg
  • 1971: 1st place , EM in Sofia , S, with 630.0 (225.0, 172.5, 232.5) kg; before Stanislaw Batishchev, USSR , 607.5 (217.5, 170.0, 220.0); Rudolf Mang , FRG 602.5 (212.5, 175.0, 215.0)
  • 1971: 1st place , World Championship in Lima , S, with 635.0 (230.0, 170.0, 235.0) kg, ahead of Ken Patera , USA, 592.5 (212.5, 167.5, 212 , 5) kg; Ivan Atanaszov, BUL, 532.5 (195.0, 140.0, 197.0) kg
  • 1972: 1st place , EM in Constanța , S, with 632.5 (225.0, 175.0, 232.5) kg; before Rudolf Mang, FRG, 630.0 (230.0, 177.5, 222.5) kg; Gerd Bonk , GDR, 565.0 (200.0, 150.0, 215.0) kg
  • 1972: Gold medal , OS + WM in Munich , S, with 640.0 (235.0, 175.0, 230.0) kg; before Rudolf Mang, FRG, 610.0 (225.0, 170.0, 215.0) kg; Gerd Bonk, GDR, 572.5 (200.0, 155.0, 217.5) kg
  • 1973: 1st place, tournament in Sochi, SS, with, 395.0 kg, ahead of Stanislaw Batschtschew 390.0 kg, and Kosinzew, USSR, 380.0 kg
  • 1973: 1st place , EM in Madrid , S, with 417.5 (177.5, 240.0) kg; before Stanislaw Batschtschew, USSR, 395.0 (170.0, 225.0) kg; Rudolf Mang, FRG, 387.5 (172.5, 225.0)
  • 1973: 1st place , World Championships in Havana , S, with 402.5 (177.5, 225.0) kg; before Rudolf Mang, FRG, 400.0 (180.0, 220.0) kg; Stanislav Batschtschew, USSR, 392.5 (175.0, 225.0) kg; and Gerd Bonk, GDR, 382.5 (157.5, 225.0) kg
  • 1974: 1st place , EM in Verona , S, with 422.5 (187.5, 235.0) kg; before Gerd Bonk, GDR, 402.5 (167.5, 235.0) kg; Serge Reding, Bel, 400.0 (175.0, 225.0) kg
  • 1974: 1st place , World Championships in Manila , S, with 425.0 (185.0, 240.0) kg; before Serge Reding, Bel, 390.0 (170.0, 220.0) kg; Jürgen Heuser , GDR, 382.5 (165.0, 217.5) kg
  • 1975: 1st place , WM + EM in Moscow , S, with 427.5 (185.0, 242.5) kg; before Gerd Bonk, GDR, 422.5 (180.0, 242.5) kg; Plachkow, Bulgaria, 420.0 (195.0, 225.0) kg
  • 1976: Gold medal , OS + WM in Montreal , S, with 440.0 (185.0, 255.0) kg; before Gerd Bonk, GDR, 405.0 (170.0, 235.0) kg; Helmut Losch , GDR, 387.5 (165.0, 222.0) kg
  • 1977: 1st place , WM + EM in Stuttgart , S, with 430.0 (185.0, 245.0) kg; off Aslanbek Jenaldiev , USSR, 422.0 (182.5, 240.0) kg; Jürgen Heuser, GDR, 420.0 (182.5, 237.5) kg
  • 1978: 1st place , EM in Havířov , S, with 415.0 (180.0, 235.0) kg, ahead of Jürgen Heuser, GDR, 407.5 (175.0, 232.5) kg; Gerd Bonk, GDR, 402.5 (172.5, 230.0) kg
  • 1978: unplaced , World Championships in Gettysburg , S, with 3 failed attempts in pushing; Tearing 185.0 kg
  • 1980: unplaced , OS + WM in Moscow , S, with 3 failed attempts in pushing; Tearing 180.0 kg

USSR championships

(up to 1972 all competitions in the Olympic three-way fight, consisting of pushing, tearing and pushing, from 1973 onwards, a duel consisting of tearing and pushing)

  • 1968: 3rd place, S, with 540.0 (190.0, 145.0, 205.0) kg; behind Leonid Schabotinsky 585.0 (195.0, 170.0, 220.0) kg and Stanislaw Batishchev 555.0 (182.5, 165.0, 207.5) kg |
  • 1970: 1st place, S, with 607.5 (215.0, 170.0, 222.5) kg
  • 1971: 1st place, S, with 640.0 (225.0, 180.0, 235.0) kg
  • 1972: 1st place, S, with 645.0 (235.0, 172.5, 237.5) kg
  • 1973: 1st place, S, with 407.5 (177.5, 230.0) kg
  • 1974: 1st place, S, with 420.0 (180.0, 240.0) kg
  • 1975: 1st place, S, with 422.5 (177.5, 245.0) kg
  • 1976: 1st place, S, with 435.0 (185.0, 250.0) kg

Individual evidence

  1. ^ World Records and titles of Vasily Alekseyev (accessed November 25, 2011).
  2. ↑ Itar Tass: Знаменитый советский штангист Василий Алексеев скончался в клинике в Германии (accessed November 25, 2011).
  3. ↑ Weightlifting-World record holder Alekseyev dies at 69 (accessed November 25, 2011).
personal data
SURNAME Alexejew, Vasily Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Алексеев, Василий Иванович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Pokrowo Schischkino
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2011
Place of death Munich