Aleksandr Medved
Alexander Vasilyevich Medved (Russian: Александр Васильевич Медведь, Belarusian Аляксандр Мядзведзь / Alyaksandr Mjadsweds; born September 16, 1937 in Bila Tserkva, Ukrainian SSR ) is a former Soviet wrestler and White Russian sports official.
Career
Medved was born the son of a forester and 1957 he entered the Red Army. Under coach Georgijew he made rapid progress, especially since he brought the best physical conditions for good heavyweight wrestler. He trained hard and was rewarded in 1959 with the third place at the II Völkerspartakiade the USSR. In 1961 he finished in the Allunionsmeisterschaft the 1st place in the super heavyweight and was sent out to the world championship in Yokohama. In this World Cup, he lost the final still the German Olympic medalist Wilfried Dietrich, but after that he began a one-time winning streak that would last until 1972 and only once, in 1965, was interrupted and allowed him to ascend to the triple Olympic champion.
In 15 major international championships (OS, WM, EM) he lost only twice, once against Dietrich and 1965 against Ahmet Ayik, Turkey, against which he could not win as the only wrestler in the world class in three fights.
After the 1972 Olympics Medved ended his career Ringer. At the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, he served as judges. He said the Olympic oath of the judges at the opening ceremony. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was accepted as one of the first in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in September 2003.
Even professionally Medved was very successful. After studying at the Sports University in Minsk, he became sports teacher at the Radio Technical Institute in Minsk. Today he is chairman of the inter- Faculty of physical development in the Belarusian Institute for Information, Research and Radio - electronics and Vice President of the National Olympic Committee of Belarus.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = Freestyle, SS = Super Heavyweight, and 1961 from 87 kg body weight, from 1962 to 1968 from 97 kg body weight, from 1969 from 100 kg body weight, S = Heavy weight, of 1962-1968 bis 97 kg body weight, from 1969 up to 100 kg body weight)
National success
Medved won all in the former Soviet Union to be awarded title several times, and it was often difficult because of the strong domestic competition to win these championships as an Olympic gold medal. In addition, he still won many international tournaments at home and abroad.