Sultan Rakhmanov
Sultan Rakhmanov Saburowitsch (Russian Султан Сабурович Рахманов; born July 6, 1950 in Turtkul, Karakalpakstan; † 5 May 2003 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) was a Soviet weightlifter. He was Olympic champion in 1980 and world champion in 1979 at super heavyweight.
Career
Sultan Rakhmanov came at an early age according to Dnepropetrovsk and began with the weight lifting. At the sports club Avangard Dnepropetrovsk was Eduard Browko his coach, who led him into a long work in the world's best. For the first time it was published in 1973 in an important competition in the list of winners, as he finished with 352.5 kg in the Soviet Junior Championship (U 23) in the super heavyweight in the duel 2nd place.
Up to the first medal win at a Soviet Championship of seniors, it took until 1976. This year he was in the Super Heavyweight 420 kg ( 185 kg snatch and 235 kg put) behind Vasily Alexeyev, 435 kg and Valentin Kuzmin, 422, 5 kg, the third winner. In the cup competitions of the Soviet weightlifter towards the end of the year 1976 in Sverdlovsk, he increased his duel power to 432.5 kg ( 192.5 to 240 ) and finished in behind Aslanbek Jenaldijew, who scored 435 kg, the 2nd place.
In 1977, Sultan Rakhmanov stagnated. He was missing at the Soviet Championship and posted a weightlifting tournament in Opole with 422.5 kg ( 187.5 to 235 ) his best result of the year duel. In 1977 he started for the first time in Germany. He won it at the Grand Prix of Berlin (East) with 412.5 kg ( 182.5 to 230 ) clearly before Gerd Bonk, East Germany, who only came to 380 kg.
1978 won Sultan Rakhmanov at the Soviet Championship Super Heavyweight 430 kg ( 192.5 to 237.5 ), sparking Vasily Alexeyev as best Soviet lifter in the super heavyweight class. He was then also used in the 1978 World Cup in Gettysburg. There, however, he was nervous because he came nowhere near to his performance at the Soviet Championship and had to deal with 417.5 kg ( 187.5 to 230 ) to the much lighter German Jürgen Heuser, who also came to 417.5 kg, admit defeat.
At the beginning of 1979 reached Sultan Rakhmanov at Tournament of Friendship in Leningrad 435 kg ( 195-240 ) and won so clearly before Anatoly Pisarenko, USSR, 390 kg and Jan Nagy, CSSR, 375 kg. The Soviet Cup in 1979 saw him with 420 kg for the second time before Aslanbek Jenaldijew who scored 410 kg as the winner. At the international weightlifting stage followed him, however, a major setback when he had recorded three failed attempts in pushing at the European Championships this year in Varna and thus remained unplaced in a duel.
Surprisingly, however, the Soviet Weightlifting Federation held on to him and sent him to the World Cup in 1979 after Salonica. There he had his nerves in check and won at 430 kg ( 192.5 to 237.5 ) before the two German Jürgen Heuser, 420 kg and Gerd Bonk, 412.5 kg.
1980 Sultan Rakhmanov initially focused on the European Championship in Belgrade, where she won with 430 kg ( 190-240 ) the title in the duel of the super heavy weight before Eugene Popov, Bulgaria, 417.5 kg and Gerd Bonk, 407.5 kg. But his main focus was on the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. He was very well prepared at the start, scoring 440 kg ( 195-245 ), a new personal best, giving it the gold medal ahead of Jürgen Heuser, 410 kg, and the Poland Tadeusz Rutkowski, 407.5 kg earned.
In 1981, Sultan Rakhmanov was once a Soviet champion, scoring 440 kg ( 195-245 ) in a duel again an outstanding performance. He won so before Aslanbek Jenaldijew 435 kg ( 185-250 ) and Leon Kaplun, 410 kg. The following international championships but no longer he the new star Anatoly Pisarenko was weightlifter, but used. The career of Sultan Rakhmanov as a weightlifter was the end. He had weighed as a competitor at a size of 1.88 meters between 145 kg and 150 kg. During his career, especially the duels were remarkable, which he delivered with the two German weightlifters Gerd Bonk and Jürgen Heuser.
After his career as an active weight lifter Sultan Rakhmanov hired as president of an international association of invalids and veterans of the sport and was also for many years president of the Aikido Federation of Ukraine. However, he soon fell ill very hard and finally died at the age of only 53 years of a heart attack.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, SS = Super Heavyweight, over 110 kg of body weight)
World Cup individual medals
- World Championship gold medals: 1978/Reißen, 1979/Reißen, 1979/Stoßen, 1980/Reißen, 1980/Stoßen.
- World Cup bronze medal 1978/Stoßen.
EM individual medals
- European gold medals: 1979/Reißen, 1980/Reißen, 1980/Stoßen.
USSR Championships
World Records
Swell
- Journal athletics, numbers 7/1973, 10/1976, 1/ 1977 3/1977, 2 /1978, 8/1978, 10 /1978, 11/1978, 6/ 1979 7/1979, 12/ 1979 6 / 1980, 8/ 1980.
- Website " www.chidlovski.net ".
- Website " www.temych2000.narod.ru ".