Aleksandr Kolchinsky

Alexander Leonidovich Koltschinski ( born February 20, 1955 in Kiev, † July 16, 2002 ) was a Soviet wrestler.

Career

Alexander Koltschinski grew up in Ukraine. He began at an early age with the rings and it was soon very successful. At age 16, he became in 1971 Vice World Champion in the youth wrestling in the class over 87 kg body weight. He repeated this success in 1973 and in 1974 he became junior world champion. Around this time he joined the Soviet Army and was stationed in Kiev, where he trained in the sport club of the army. His coach was J. Vilensky. The young athlete weighed in at a size of 1.93 m at the beginning of his international career, only about 105 kg increased this weight over the years but to about 120 kg. In 1975, he became internationally. His greatest successes were the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 and in Moscow in 1980, where he won both times before the multiple world champion Alexandar Tomow from Bulgaria. Alexander Koltschinski was a very manoeuvrable and fast wrestler who thus ruled most of his competitors.

Alexander Koltschinski was after the end of his active wrestler career officer in the Soviet army. Later he worked as a businessman and in 1994 was convicted of extortion to imprisonment, of which he was serving but only a part, because he was pardoned in 1996 by President Leonid Kuchma.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, all matches in Greco -Roman style, Super Heavyweight, over 100 kg body weight (bw ) )