Vladimir Alexandrovich Kanygin

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vladimir Alexandrovich Kanygin ( Russian Владимир Александрович Каныгин ; born September 19, 1948 , † April 27, 1990 ) was a Soviet weightlifter .

Career

A year before the 1972 Olympic Games , Vladimir Kanygin, who was still training with "Spartak" Blagoveschensk, immediately became the Soviet middleweight champion at the 1971 Soviet championships. In the same year he was able to prove himself at the World Championships in Lima , where he certainly won the world title ahead of the Norwegian Leif Jensen and Anselmo Silvino from Italy . As a result, he had finally won the trust of the Soviet sports officials, because they put Vladimir in the middleweight division at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and preferred him to the multiple world champion and Olympic champion of 1968 Viktor Kurenzow .

At the games in Munich everything went very well, because he won the press . In tearing but he had some problems. In the first and second attempt, he tore his initial weight of 135 kg twice too far and had to throw the dumbbell behind his body. On the third attempt he pulled too timidly and the barbell fell to the floor in front of his body. The Olympic participation was over in tears.

As soon as Vladimir Kanygin appeared on the international weightlifting stage, he disappeared again. In the results lists of that time, he only appears once among the top three winners.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, Wed = middleweight, then up to 75 kg body weight)

  • 1971, 1st place , WM in Lima , Wed, with 477.5 kg, ahead of Leif Jensen , Norway , 467.5 kg and Anselmo Silvino , Italy , 460 kg;
  • 1972, unplaced , OS in Munich , Wed, after 3 unsuccessful attempts in the snatch, winner: Jordan Bikow , Bulgaria , 485 kg;
  • 1973, 2nd place , tournament in Sochi , Wed, with 310 kg (duel), behind Mikhailov, USSR, 315 kg and in front of Galkin, USSR, 305 kg.

Medals individual disciplines

(awarded since 1969)

  • World Cup gold medal: 1972, press, Wed;
  • World Cup silver medals: 1971, press - 1971, tear, Wed.

USSR championships

  • 1971, 1st place, Wed, with 460 kg, ahead of Mikhailov, 455 kg and Galkin, 455 kg.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kanygin, Vladimir Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Каныгин, Владимир Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1948
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1990