Anatoly Kolesov

Anatoly Ivanovich Kolesov (Russian Анатолий Иванович Колесов; born January 18, 1938 Ossakarowka, Karaganda, † January 2, 2012 in Moscow) was a Soviet wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1964 in Tokyo and three-time world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the welterweight division.

Career

Anatoly Kolesov, a Russian, grew up in Kazakhstan. He came from a sports family and himself began at a young age with the gymnastics. Early on he showed a talent for wrestling, in which he focused soon. After initial successes in the field of youth, he was delegated to a sports school for rings to Alma- Ata, where a specialist in Greek and Roman. Style designed. At age 21 he made in 1959 for a minor sensation when he won the day wore as a completely unknown young wrestlers at the II Spartakiade the Soviet Union middleweight before Vladimir Rekow and Nikolai Tschutschalow.

After this victory, he moved to Moscow. However, he did not succeed yet in 1960, to qualify for the Soviet Olympic team for the Games in Rome. There started at middleweight Nikolai Tschutschalow for the USSR. 1960 succeeded Anatoly Kolesov, inter alia, in an international struggle of the USSR against the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow a points victory over George Utz from Kornwestheim.

In 1961 he came with the Soviet national team in the Federal Republic of Germany and defeated in an international match Georg Utz again on points.

In 1962 he made his first mission at a World Cup. Following a reform of the weight classification by the intern Wrestling Federation ( FILA ), he launched now in the welterweight division. In this weight class he was in Toledo / USA with five wins and a draw at first world champion. In 1963 he defended that title successfully at the World Championships in Helsingborg. He needed to seven wins. Among the defeated him wrestlers Rudolf Vesper was from Rostock.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 Anatoly Kolesov defeated three wrestlers, but struggled against Ion Ţăranu from Romania, Kiril Petkov from Bulgaria and Bertil Nyström from Sweden only draw. But ranged from these results, to make it an Olympic champion.

Finally, Anatoly Kolesov was welterweight champion at the World Championship 1965 in Tampere for the third time. He also defeated the German starter Werner Hoppe Köllerbach and Rudolf Vespers. Kiril Petkov counter handed him in the last fight a draw to win the title.

After this World Cup, he retired with 27 years of active competitive sports. He graduated from a university education for physical education teacher and was then active for many years as coach of the Soviet national team in Greco- röm.Stil. Later, Anatoly Kolesov devoted mainly the association's work and was also a member of the Soviet Olympic Committee. At the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, he was Head of Delegation ( Chef de Mission ) of the Russian Olympic team. The same task was assigned to him for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. However, Kolesov died on January 2, 2012 after a long illness.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, We = welterweight until 1961-74 kg from 1962-78 kg body weight, Mi = middleweight until 1961-79 kg from 1962-87 kg body weight)

Swell

• Journal Athletics from 1959 to 1966
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976, pages W -47, W -55, O- 75, W -65
• International Wrestling database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig