Sergei Beloglazov

Sergei Alexeyevich Beloglasow (Russian: Сергей Алексеевич Белоглазов; born September 16, 1956 in Kaliningrad ) is a former Soviet wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1980 in Moscow and 1988 in Seoul in free style bantamweight.

Career

Sergei Beloglasow grew up in Kaliningrad and began with his twin brother Anatoli in 1968 with the rings. The two brothers were very talented and determined and developed very quickly to good wrestlers. After the first major successes at the national level they have been delegated to the sports club Dynamo Kiev. There they were able to concentrate fully on the rings and received in garnet Taropin a young ambitious coach who led them into the absolute world leader in free style. Both wrestlers were very light. But in order to go out of the way senior Sergei always a weight class higher than Anatoli, first in the fly and then bantamweight.

Already in the juniors the first successes came when Sergei one on the international wrestling mat. At 18, he was in 1974 in the Swedish Haparanda European junior flyweight champion. At the Junior World Championship 1975 in Haskovo but he was beaten and was runner-up to the Japanese Suekichi Murayama. It took until 1979 before Sergei was first used in international Veterans Championships. It was the European Championships in Bucharest. Sergei convinced right away and was in superior style European champion bantamweight. Also at the World Championships the same year showed Sergei very good performances, won six fights and met in the finals of the Japanese ex world champion Hideaki Tomiyama. Sergei lost that fight on points and just came on the 2nd place. This was the final defeat by Sergei at an international championship. From the 1980 Olympics to the 1988 Olympic Games won Sergei every championship and every World Cup tournament in which he took part. This series should be exceeded only in the 1990s by Alexander Karelin.

That Sergei twice Olympic champion was "only" was that he could not compete in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles because of the Olympic boycott by the Soviet Union.

In 1983, Sergei succeeded at the World Championships in Kiev, the rematch against Hideaki Tomiyama for the defeat of 1979, when he clearly beat this in the final on points. Tomiyama was 1984 Olympic champion in Los Angeles.

Sergei Beloglasow also did not hesitate to start back in 1982 at the World Championships in Edmonton at featherweight. Also in this weight class he was superior to its rivals hands down.

After his active career as a wrestler, from which he resigned in 1989, Sergei was trained as a wrestler and coach practicing in the 1990s, for many years the office of the Russian national team coach for the free style. Now Sergei is Beloglasow coach at the " Sunkist Kids" in Phoenix, Arizona, is perhaps the most established American Ringer club.

For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2004.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, F = free style, Fl = flyweight, bantamweight = Ba, Fe = featherweight, then 52 kg, 57 kg and 62 kg body weight)

Swell

• Various editions of the journals " Athletics " from the years 1974 and 1975 and " The Ringer " from the years 1976 to 1988
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
• Website of the Sunkist Kids Ringer Clubs in Phoenix, Arizona