Vitaly Valeryevich Makarov

Vitaly Valeryevich Makarow ( Russian Виталий Валерьевич Макаров ; born June 23, 1974 in Teguldet ) is a former Russian judoka who competed in the lightweight. He won an Olympic silver medal and was 2001 world champion.

Athletic career

Makarov was junior world champion in 1994 and won the silver medal at the junior European championships. In 1995 he won his first Russian championship. In 1997 he took third place with the Russian team at the European Team Championships. In 1998 he was fifth at the European Championships. In 1997 and 1998 he won the Russian championships against Anatoly Laryukov . At the European Championships in 1999 Makarow lost early to the Estonian Aleksei Budõlin , but then fought his way to the bronze medal with three wins in the hope round, in the battle for bronze he defeated the German Martin Schmidt . At the 1999 World Championships in Birmingham, he reached the final by beating the Hungarian Miklós Illyés , in the final he lost to the US judoka Jimmy Pedro . In May 2000 Makarov won the silver medal at the European Championships after a final defeat against the Portuguese Michel Almeida . At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 Makarow retired after the opening defeat against the Kazakhs Asqat Shacharow . At the end of 2000 Makarov won his fourth Russian championship title.

At the 2001 World Championships in Munich , Makarow defeated the Poles Kryzsztof Wiłkomirski in the semifinals and the Japanese Yūsuke Kanamaru in the final and won his most important title. In 2003 Makarov won his fifth Russian championship. At the 2003 World Championships in Osaka, he lost to French Daniel Fernandes in the semifinals and defeated Uzbek Egamnazar Akbarov in the battle for bronze . At the 2004 Olympics , he defeated Fernandes in the semifinals. In the final he was defeated by the South Korean Lee Won-hee . His international career ended in 2006.

After the end of his career, Makarow was successful as a judo trainer, he looked after world and Olympic champions as Russian national trainer.

Web links

• Vitaly Valeryevich Makarov at JudoInside.com
• Vitaly Valeryevich Makarow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ Interview with three national coaches (Benjamin Neumaier in the Mittelbayerische Zeitung, April 19, 2013, accessed on May 6, 2018)