Vladimir Sedov
Vladimir Sedov ( Владимир Владимирович Седов; born March 2, 1988 in Almaty) is a Kazakhstani weightlifter. He was 2009 World champion at middleweight heavyweight.
Career
Vladimir Sedov began as a teenager in his hometown with the weight lifting. He quickly developed into an outstanding athletes, especially since he good physical conditions for a lift in the light heavy or medium heavy weight class brings in a size of 1.73 meters.
His first start in an international championship, he graduated in 2005 at the Junior World Championship in Busan. He scored there in the middleweight division in a duel 329 kg ( 153-176 ), thus placing 4th. In the same year he started even at the Asian Youth Championship in Dubai, where he reached in the light heavy weight 326 kg ( 156-170 ). With this result, he came back to 4th place.
At the World Junior Championship in 2006 in Hangzhou, Vladimir Sedov increased in the light heavyweight division in a duel to 351 kg, but also handed this power still no medal. He came on the 5th Place.
After intense preparation, he started in 2008 at the Olympic Games in Beijing. In the light heavyweight division he scoring 380 kg ( 180-200 ). He achieved the same performance as the winner of the bronze medal Tigran Vardan Martirosyan from Armenia, but was a bit heavier than this and had to be content with 4th place.
The change in the middle heavyweight in 2009, marked an important step for him. He was no longer compelled many kilos unlearn what in particular, positively manifested itself in his performance in the pushing, which was relatively weak. Already at the World Championships in Goyang / South Korea, he started in this weight class and scored in a duel excellent 402 kg ( 185-217 ), which he was the clear winner before returning after a two-year doping suspension Nizami Pashayev from Azerbaijan, who scored 387 kg in the total.
In 2010, Vladimir Sedov was at the World Championships in Antalya not defend his title. He arrived there in a duel to 390 kg ( 180-210 ), which he just finished in 6th place. He won with his performance in the snatch of 180 kg or a World Cup bronze medal. In April 2011 he won at the Asian Championships in Tongling / China Medium weight 387 kg ( 180-207 ) 2nd place behind the South Koreans Kim Man -jae, who came to 388 kg. At the World Championships this year in Paris, he was employed by the Kazakh Weightlifting Association at heavyweight. With 94.65 kg body weight it was to far too easily and came with his performance of 385 kg ( 180-205 ) only to 13th place. Winner in this weight class was the Russian Chadschimurat Akkajew, who scored 430 kg in the total.
2012, Vladimir Sedov did not qualify for the team of Kazakhstan for the Olympic Games in London. In the Middle heavyweight dor Ilya Ilyin and Almas Uteschow launched for Kazakhstan. At the World Championships in 2013 in Wroclaw Vladimir Sedov was again zurvor at the start and in better shape than in the three years. He scored there in the middle heavyweight in a duel 396 kg ( 180-216 ), with which he won the bronze medal. Bronze medals he won also in the snatch and thrusting.
International success
World Cup individual medals
- World Championship gold medals: 2009/Reißen
- World Championship silver medals: 2009/Stoßen
- World Cup bronze medals: 2010/Reißen - 2013/Reißen - 2013/Stoßen
- All competitions in a duel, consisting of tearing and piercing,
- OS = The Olympic Games, WM = World Championship,
- Middleweight, up to 77 kg Light Heavyweight, to 85 kg Medium weight up to 94 kg and heavy weight, up to 105 kg body weight