Vladimir Vasilyevich Cheboksarov

Wladimir Wassiljewitsch Tscheboksarow ( Russian Владимир Васильевич Чебоксаров , scientific transliteration Vladimir Vasil'evič Čeboksarov ; born December 30, 1951 in Tyumen ) is a former Soviet wrestler .

Career

Vladimir Cheboksarov began wrestling as a teenager in the Siberian town of Tyumen . He was a member of Dynamo Tyumen and wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style. With a height of 1.72 m and a weight of approx. 85 kg, Wladimir was a stocky, powerful wrestler. His coach J. Petin led him purposefully to the Soviet and thus to the world elite. From 1975 he was part of the Soviet national team in the Greco-Roman style and was also used for the first time in an international championship that year. He started at the European Championships in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and was European middleweight champion with seven wins in convincing style. At the European Championships in 1976 in his own country, however, he lost to the 1972 Olympic champion Csaba Hegedűs from Hungary and became runner-up.

In the Soviet qualification for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal , he prevailed in the middleweight division against the 1974 and 1975 world champion and 1972 silver medalist Anatoli Nasarenko . In Montréal he delivered a good tournament, won five fights, but surprisingly lost to the Yugoslav outsider Momir Petkovic and had to be content with the silver medal.

Vladimir won his first and only world championship title in 1977 in Gothenburg . In the decisive fight he defeated the Romanian Ion Draica by disqualification. At the European Championships in Oslo in 1978 , Vladimir had bad luck. He won in the first round over the Czechoslovak Miroslav Janota , but had to give up in his second fight against the Bulgarian Pawel Christow due to injury and was eliminated. He was back in action at the World Cup in Mexico City that same year , but could not repeat his previous year's success. This time he lost to both Ion Draica and Momir Petković and was third in the World Cup.

That this was his last appearance in an international championship was probably also a surprise for Valery Cheboksarov. But the competition in what was then the Soviet Union was immense. From 1979 he was replaced by Taimuraz Abchasawa and Gennadi Korban on the international wrestling mat.

The results of the international championships and some other tournaments in which Vladimir Cheboksarov participated can be seen in the following section.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1975	1.	Klippan tournament in Sweden	medium	before Frank Andersson , Sweden, Kurt Elmgren , Sweden, Roland Andersson , Sweden, and Kurt Spaniol , FR Germany
1975	1.	EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	medium	with victories over Dietmar Jeglic, Austria , Constant Bens, Belgium , André Bouchoule , France , Jean-Marie Chardonnes, Switzerland , Frank Andersson, Sweden, Ion Enache , Romania , and Ömer Suzan , Turkey
1976	2.	EM in Leningrad	medium	with wins over Apostolos Messiakagaris, Greece , Enache, Miroslav Janota , Czechoslovakia , Iwan Kolew , Bulgaria , Keijo Manni , Finland , and one defeat against Csaba Hegedűs , Hungary
1976	silver	OS in Montréal	medium	with wins over Kazuhiro Takanishi, Japan, Manni, Miroslav Janota, Kolew and Leif Andersson , Sweden, and one loss against Momir Petkovic , Yugoslavia
1977	1.	Klippan tournament	medium	before Leif Andersson, Jan Dolgowicz , Poland , and Kurt Spaniol
1977	1.	World Cup in Gothenburg	medium	with victories over Maruharu Hanawa, Japan, Keijo Manni , Franz Pitschmann , Austria , Dan Chandler , USA , Miklós Hegedűs , Hungary, Jan Dolgowicz, Momir Petković and Ion Draica , Romania
1978	11.	EM in Oslo	medium	with victory over Miroslav Janota, and defeat (injury) against Pawel Christow, Bulgaria
1978	3.	World Cup in Mexico City	medium	with victories over Kurt Spaniol , Franz Pitschmann and Jan Dolgowicz and defeats against Ion Draica and Momir Petković

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, middleweight, back then up to 82 kg body weight

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer

Web links

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