Nikolay Balboshin
Nikolai Fyodorovich Balboschin (Russian Николай Фёдорович Балбошин; born June 8, 1949 in Potsdam) is a former Soviet wrestler.
Career
Nikolai Balboschin, who was born the son of a stationed in Potsdam soldiers of the Red Army in this city, grew up in Moscow, where his father had been returned. He started as a teenager at age 13 along with his brother with the rings, where he focused on the Greco- Roman style. In 1967 he was a Soviet youth heavyweight champion. He was drafted to the troops of the Interior Ministry in 1968 and therefore became a member of Dynamo Moscow. He was especially Anatoli Parfenov, the Olympic champion in 1956 in the heavyweight division, supervised and funded accordingly. Later still Jurij Kolupow was added as a coach.
1969 won Nikolai Balboschin the Soviet " Dinamo " heavyweight championship and 1971 he was the first time Soviet champion in this weight class. Early 1970s, he had already been incorporated into the Soviet national team in Greco- Roman style wrestling. In 1971 he was re- Soviet heavyweight champion. In the international tournament in honor of the former Russian wrestler Ivan Poddubny 1972 in Minsk he beat in the heavyweight class the Olympic champion and multiple world champion Nikolai Yakovenko and had thus established itself in the world rankings.
It then lined up to 1980 success to success. Some times interrupted by serious injuries which required some competition breaks. The Wrestling World Championships in 1975, he took the only Soviet wrestler no medal in Greco- Roman style. For this he was Olympic champion in 1976 and a multiple world and European champions. At the Olympic Games in 1980 in his hometown of Moscow, he wanted to end his brilliant career with a second Olympic gold medal. But just in this tournament, he hurt his already in his second fight on the Achilles tendon and had to retire. Nikolai Balboschin also won several times at the Grand Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg and was always excellent fights.
In 1984 he was once again Soviet heavyweight champion and had the intention to go at the Olympic Games this year in Los Angeles at the start. However, the boycott of the Games by the Soviet Union prevented this project.
He was the first driver by profession and trained for physical education teachers on. He was then coach of Dynamo Moscow at the side of his former coach Nikolai Parfenov. In the 1990s, he was often referred to as supervisor of the Russian national team in Greco-Roman. Seen style. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was taken in September 2006 in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.
International success
(all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Heavyweight, then up to 100 kg body weight)