Aleksey Medvedev (weightlifter)

Alexei Sidorovitch Medvedev (Russian: Алексей Сидорович Медведев; * 1927, † 2003) was a Soviet weightlifter.

Career

Alexei Medvedev came from a working class family in Moscow and began in 1947 with 20years in the sports association " Krylia Sovetov " with the weight lifting. His models were the " Master of Sports " Grigori Nowak and Yakov Kuzenko. Both weightlifters of world renown in the 1940s. In the first years of the officer achieved in the Soviet Army under the guidance of coach shatov and mechanics every year considerable progress, but it took until his 30th birthday to his performances were so good that he is the responsible international coaches at a Championship was used. His tenacity and perseverance was rewarded by winning the world title in the heavyweight division in 1957 and 1958. Olympic fame, however, he did not come because of him now meteoric still front Come Yuri Vlasov 1960 barred the route to Rome. Alexei Medvedev remained active until the mid- 1960s and was then coach.

His clients as head coach of the Soviet weightlifting team until 1972. From 1968 to 1992 he worked in senior positions of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF ) and the European Federation (EWF ). In this time and then he wrote some textbooks and numerous articles about weight lifting.

After his coaching career, he was a professor at the International Academy of Information and Head of the Department weightlifting at the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture.

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European, all -offs made ​​in the heavyweight division )

USSR Championships

World Record

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