Vladimir Cheboksarov
Vladimir Vasilyevich Tscheboksarow (Russian: Владимир Васильевич Чебоксаров, scientific transliteration Vladimir Vasil'evič Čeboksarov; born December 30, 1951 in Tyumen) is a former Soviet wrestler.
Career
Vladimir Tscheboksarow began as a teenager in the Siberian city of Tyumen with the rings. He was a member of Dynamo Tyumen and wrestled exclusively in the Greco- Roman style. Vladimir was a stocky, powerful wrestler with a size of 1.72 m and a weight of about 85 kg. His coach J. Petin led approach in single-minded to the Soviet and thus at the top. From 1975 he was part of the Soviet national team in Greco-Roman style, and came into this year for the first time at an international championship for use. He competed at the European Championships in Ludwigshafen and with seven victories in convincing style European champion at middleweight. At the European Championships in 1976 in their own country, however, he lost against the Olympic champion from 1972 Csaba Hegedus from Hungary and was runner-up.
In the Soviet qualifying for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, he sat down at middleweight against the world champion of 1974 and 1975 and silver medalist in 1972 by Anatoly Nazarenko. In Montreal, he delivered a good tournament from, won five fights, but surprisingly lost against the Yugoslav outsider Momir Petkovic and had to settle for the silver medal.
His first and only World Cup title won Vladimir in 1977 in Gothenburg. In the decisive battle he defeated the Romanians Ion Draica by disqualification. At the European Championships 1978 in Oslo Vladimir had bad luck. He won in the first round of the Czechoslovaks Miroslav Janota, but had to retire because of injury in his second battle against the Bulgarians Pawel Christow and retired. At the World Championships the same year in Mexico City, he was back in action, but could not repeat his previous success. He was defeated this time against both ion Draica and against Momir Petković, and was World Cup bronze medalist.
The fact that this was his last assignment at an international championship, was probably surprise even for Valeri Tscheboksarow. But competition in the former Soviet Union was extremely large. Beginning in 1979, ransomed him Taimuraz Abchasawa and Gennady Korban onto the international wrestling mat.
The results of international championships and some other tournaments that Vladimir Tscheboksarow participated are to be seen in the following section.
International success
Note: all contests in Greco -Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Middleweight, then to 82 kg body weight
Swell
- Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
- Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
- Journals Athletics and The Ringer