Aleksandr Ivanov (weightlifter)

Alexander Konstantinovich Ivanov (Russian: Александр Константинович Иванов; born July 22, 1989 in the Georgian SSR ) is a Russian weightlifter.

Personal

Alexander Ivanov was born on 22 July 1989 in the Georgian SSR. At the age of three, his family moved to southern Russia. Since then, he lives in the Cossack village Nowomyschastowskaja near Krasnodar. Ivanov began as a teenager with weight lifting, as even his older brother Leonid operation this sport and as a third in the Junior World Championship 2004 in the featherweight also had international success to 62 kg.

Sporting career

Alexander Ivanov's first international success was winning the European Youth Championship 2005 in Sofia. In the middleweight up to 77 kg, it took 325 kg (145 /180) the first place, before Siarhei Lahun from Belarus 324 kg. He completed his first Junior World Championships in 2006 in Hangzhou with 355 kg ( 160/195 ) in fourth place of the light heavyweight from. In the Junior European Championship in the same year ranged 349 kg ( 158/191 ) for the silver medal behind his compatriot Vassily Polownikow 351 kg.

In 2007, Ivanov won his first world championship title of the juniors. In Prague he raised in the light heavyweight 359 kg ( 163/196 ) in a duel, and thus won all three disciplines. He could repeat in Cali 365 kg (165 /200), and 2009 in Bucharest, now in the middle heavyweight, with 385 kg (175/210) 2008 this success.

2010 Ivanov was a Russian middleweight champion heavyweight with a capacity of 408.0 kg ( 183.0 / 225.0 kg ) and was nominated for his first participation in the World Championships for seniors. In this World Cup in Antalya, he was able to secure 403 kg ( 185/218 ) the title in the duel, and in the snatch. Only in pushing he was beaten Valeriu Calancea, who lifted 220 kg. Originally Ivanov was to have been used for the European Championships in Minsk, he could not go to the start for health reasons.

In 2011 he competed at the World Championships in Paris. After a good start, he was charged with 186 kg world champion in the snatch, he managed only 215 kg in the jerk and was even caught with a duel capacity of 401 kg of three competitors, so that he came only to the medal -less 4th place in the duel. Also in the Russian championship this year he did not win. With a duel capacity of 392 kg ( 177-215 ) he was almost surpassed by Andrei Demanow who came to 393 kg ( 175-218 ).

In the Russian championship in 2012 improved Alexander Ivanov, prepared by his trainer Alexander Kaurow well on the Olympic season, his personal best in a duel to 411 kg ( 185-226 ), with whom he the title ahead of Andrej Demanow, of the 407 kg ( 181-226 ) scored, won. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012, he reached in the middle heavyweight 409 kgt ( 185-224 ). With this performance, he won the silver medal. The Olympic champion Ilya Ilyin from Kazakhstan, who came to 418 kg ( 185-233 ), he could not compromise.

In the Russian championship in 2013 Alexander Ivanov was not at the start. But he won in July 2013 at the Universiade in Kazan, where he handed in a duel 395 kg ( 181-214 ) to a safe victory. At the World Championships in 2013 in Wroclaw he came to 402 kg ( 180-222 ) and won so before the two Kazakhs Almas Uteschow 397 kg ( 175-222 ) and Vladimir Sedov, 396 kg ( 180-216 ). In the individual events he won a gold medal in the jerk and a silver medal in the snatch.

International success

Russian championships

World Cup individual medals

  • World Championship gold medals: 2010/Reißen - 2011/Reißen - 2013/Stoßen
  • World Championship silver medals: 2010/Stoßen - 2013/Reißen

Personal best

  • Tearing: 185 kg on average heavyweight at the 2010 World Cup in Antalya
  • Launched: 226 kg on average heavyweight at the Russian Championships 2012
  • Duel: 411 kg ( 185/226 ) in the middle heavyweight at the Russian Championships 2012
  • All competitions in Zweikampg consisting of tearing and piercing
  • OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =
  • Middleweight weight class up to 77 kg, light heavyweight, to 85 kg Medium weight, weight category to 94 kg body weight
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