Ivan Yarygin
Ivan Sergeyevich Yarygin (Russian: Иван Сергеевич Ярыгин; born July 11, 1948 in Ust- Kamsa, Kemerovo Oblast, † 11 October 1997 in Neftekumsk ) was a Soviet wrestler.
Career
Ivan Yarygin grew up in Sisaja, Krasnoyarsk Territory, on. He went to school there and played mainly football. After school he went to Abakan and trained as a driver. Meanwhile, he had developed into a strong young man and began with the rings on a Ringer school. Later he became one of Trud Krasnoyarsk. His first coach was W.I. Kharkov. After the age of 22 in 1970 for the first time Soviet champion in the heavyweight (up to 100 kg body weight), Freestyle, was, he was appointed to the Soviet national team, and used at the European Championships in Berlin in 1970, where he, however, because of a loss against the experienced Ahmet had to make Ayik from Turkey with the second place. His coach was now D. G. Mindiaschwili. At the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, he defeated six opponents in a record time of 7 minutes and 20 seconds and won the gold medal. In 1976, a second gold medal he won in Montreal. Then Ivan Yarygin ended his career as an active wrestler. He attended the University of Education in Krasnoyarsk and in 1981 became head coach of the Soviet national team, the freestyle wrestler. In the difficult period of political change in the Soviet Union in 1991/92 he was elected President of the Russian Federation wrestlers. He was born on October 11, 1997 in a car accident near Neftekumsk in the Stavropol region killed. In his honor, organized by the Russian Wrestling Federation wrestlers every year the tournament Ivan Yarygin, in which meets every year, much of the world's elite freestyle wrestler. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was taken in September 2010 in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = Freestyle, S = Heavy weight, then up to 100 kg body weight)