Beloglazov Sergey: biography and photos

Beloglazov Sergei - a famous Soviet athlete. Two-time Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling. Multiple winner of the world championships, Europe and the USSR. Winner of the title "Honored Master of Sports of the USSR."

Biography of the athlete

Beloglazov Sergey was born in Kaliningrad in 1956. Parents were simple workers - Aleksei Yakovlevich Starokulov and Antonina Alekseevna Beloglazova. Once in a big sport, Sergei took a more euphonious name of his mother.

Wrestling began to deal with his twin brother Anatoly. At the age of 14. Then they both weighed less than 30 kilograms. Their first coach was Granit Ivanovich Toropin. Both were capable and talented wrestlers. The only problem was that both Sergei and Anatoly performed in the same weight category. Toropin decided to breed them. Sergei had to recover from the plan and move to the category of those who weigh more than 52 kilograms. Anatoly remained in the lighter category.

Brother Anatoly

The brother of Sergey Anatoly also achieved certain successes in freestyle wrestling. He became a three-time world champion. At the moment he is the coach of the Russian youth team for this sport. Works in the club CSKA.

He began his professional career in the club of the armed forces in Kaliningrad, then he played for Kiev Dynamo.

In 1980 he won at the Olympic Games in Moscow. In the weight category up to 52 kilograms in the final match met with the Polish athlete Vladislav Stetsik. Victory won for a clear advantage.

Moving of Sergey to Kiev

In 1977 Beloglazov Sergey moved from Kaliningrad to Kiev. Soon he began to play for the local sports club "Dynamo".

On the eve of higher education he received at the Krasnodar State Pedagogical Institute, later graduated from the Higher Command School in Saratov, which bore the name of Felix Dzerzhinsky. Received the title of officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

First international successes

Beloglazov Sergei after a series of victories at the All-Union competitions became part of the USSR team. The first major international start for him was the European Championships in the Romanian capital Bucharest, which was held in April 1979.

Beloglazov Sergey, wrestler, performed in the category up to 57 kilograms. In the finals he met with Romanian athlete Aurel Neagu. The victory was for the Soviet athlete. At that European championship the Soviet team won in the overall standings. Soviet athletes won 8 of 10 gold medals. Once were second. No prizes were left only in the category up to 62 kilograms.

In the same year Beloglazov Sergey, whose biography was closely connected with the sport, took part in the World Championship for the first time. The competition took place in the capital of California, San Diego.

In the category of up to 57 kilograms, Beloglazov lost to Japanese athlete Hizaki Tokimiyama. The Soviet team in the world championship in the overall medal standings (and freestyle, and Greco-Roman wrestling) took first place. The active athletes of the Soviet Union were 9 gold, 5 silver and two bronze medals. Only in four weight categories did not one of the domestic athletes climb the podium.

Olympic Gold

Sergei Olympic Games in Moscow in the category of up to 57 kilograms Sergei Beloglazov. Freestyle wrestling was one of the richest disciplines on the medal. In total, 10 sets were played.

The brothers Beloglazovs were invincible. Anatoly won in his category, defeating Pole Vladislav Stetsik in the final, and Sergei in the decisive match was stronger than the representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Lee Ho Pen.

In the overall standings, Soviet wrestlers won seven out of ten gold medals. Only in the category of up to 48 kilograms Sergei Kornilayev remained third, and the gold was taken away by the Italian Claudio Pollio. And among the athletes weighing 74 and 82 kilograms, the Bulgarians - Valentin Raichev and Ismail Abilov - took the lead.

Second gold

After the US boycotted the Olympics in Moscow, the following 1984 Games in Los Angeles passed without Soviet athletes. Secretary General Chernenko noted that he considers it inexpedient to send athletes to the Olympics, as America grossly violates the basic principles of the Olympic Charter and deploys massive anti-Soviet propaganda against the USSR. Therefore, XXIII Games of Soviet wrestlers were not and the first place in the team event went to the Americans.

Next time for the Olympics, Sergei Beloglazov, a photo of which was in all sports newspapers, went in 1988. The games took place in Korean Seoul. His brother Anatoly was no longer the leader in his weight class. His place was taken by Vladimir Toguzov, who won a bronze medal.

Sergei also confidently passed qualification and in the final fight he fought with Iranian Askari Mohammadian. A convincing victory and the second gold Olympic medal in the asset.

Achievements

In his career, many victories won Beloglazov Sergey. Awards he won at the largest competitions on the planet. In addition to two Olympic gold medals, 6 times he won world championships - in American San Diego, Macedonian Skopje, Canadian Edmonton, Kiev, twice in Budapest and once again in French Clermont-Ferrand.

4 times won the World Cup in freestyle wrestling in the category up to 57 kilograms. 5 times he won at European championships - in Hungary's Bucharest, Bulgarian Varna and Veliko Tarnovo, Swedish Jencheping, English Manchester.

In 1984 he won a series of international competitions between the states of the socialist camp, which were held in parallel with the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Coach career

Having finished with great sport, Beloglazov joined the Dynamo sports club as a coach. Then, together with the master of sports Dmitry Mindiashvili and two-time Olympic champion Ivan Yarygin, he coached the USSR national wrestling team.

He worked with the national team for only two years, and left the country during perestroika. Until 1994 he worked as a senior coach of the American Olympic team, then for another 4 years he prepared for participation in the largest international competition of wrestlers from Japan. He returned to Russia in 1998.

At home Beloglazov immediately got a place in the national team. He became a senior coach of the men's team. Together with the team in 2000 went to the Olympics in Australian Sydney. At the competitions, only 8 sets of awards were played out. The Russian team led by Beloglazov took first place in the team event, winning 4 gold and one silver. The victories were won by Murad Umakhanov, Adam Saitiev, Sagid Murtazaliyev and David Musulbes. Worthy competition was made by wrestlers from the United States, Iran, Azerbaijan and Canada, who have one gold medal.

In 2003, Beloglazov again went to prepare American wrestlers. The second return to Russia took place in 2006. This time, he was entrusted with the training of the women's national wrestling team. In 2009, he was appointed head coach of the national team of Singapore.

Currently he works in Russia. Trains a team of the Moscow region and a freestyle wrestling club in the CSKA sports society.

Sergey Beloglazov is married. He has four children, two of whom are from his first marriage.