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Vasily Alekseev: biography. Records of the great Soviet weightlifter

Vasily Ivanovich Alekseev was born in the Ryazan Region, in a small village of Pokrovo-Shishkino, on 7.01.1942. Vasily was the fourth child in the family of an employee of a local alcohol-vodka factory. The boy grew up to be a quick and clever child, he was gullible to the outside world. A distinctive feature of this boy was the inquisitiveness and desire for knowledge.

Parting with their native places

At the age of eleven, Vasya said goodbye to the school in Ryazan because his family went to the northern regions of the Soviet Union, to the small village of Rochegda (Arkhangelsk region), where he went to study in the fifth grade of the local school.

Residents of the taiga settlement lived by felling the forest, followed by stacking and rafting along the Northern Dvina. The same thing began to engage the entire family of Basil, as soon as settled in the Arkhangelsk lands.

Logs and trolleys - the first barbells

In winter, the boy was trained in school, and in the summer he helped his parents in the forest, and this became an occupation from year to year. Logs of dumped spruce and pine trees became for Alexeyev the initial barbell. Next - the wheels from the trolley.

Once I saw a thirteen-year-old Vasya, as a neighbor ten times in a row squeezing iron things, and decided to compete with a young man. The first attempt with the trolley axis was unsuccessful. Then the future athlete woke up his sporting character: not knowing anything about weightlifting, Vasya squeezed the axle 12 times. A smart and strong boy was a real discovery for a teacher of physical culture at a local school. That's why since 1955 Alekseev attended all junior competitions of regional and regional level.

Difficult student years

Upon graduation from secondary school, Alekseev passed exams perfectly and enlisted in the Forestry Institute in Arkhangelsk. Then he remembered the child's weightlifting hobby. There was a good weightlifting section in the university. Vasily Alekseev did not have an opportunity to train in the school days. Training was rare, not on an ongoing basis. The students dinners were poor. Vasily did not want to expect help from the family because of his pride. That's why he often used to work on the sea archangel pier instead of training.

Family life

In 1961 Alekseev ended up with a sum of three hundred and fifteen kilograms. But he was not destined to increase this result, because he took an academic vacation: the young twenty-year-old athlete fell in love and, as expected, married the same immigrant as himself, named Olympiad.

In search of a normal salary Alekseev went to the Tyumen region for logging. Wishing to continue his athletic hobby, Vasily brought to the hostel where he lived, all kinds of metal things, equipped them with scrap and began to conduct his training in the evening. For this "self-will" of the young athlete was summoned to the executive committee for a conversation, where he was warned with a fine so that he would not make noise with metal, while others were resting. After such a collision, Vasily returned to the family and to university studies. Examinations passed well. He had two sons - Sergei and Dmitry. For a strong family nest, a decent salary was needed. And the athlete decides to go to the correspondence department. This gave him the opportunity to move to a small town of Koryazhma and become a master of the Kotlassky plant for the production of pulp and paper products. In connection with the excellent reputation of the student-extramural student raised to the head of the shift. The family grew up, and then Alexeyev continued weightlifting training. Vasily made the master's norm in just one year. But sports specialists in Arkhangelsk could not believe that a master-weightlifter could grow up in a small village, and, accordingly, the title of a master did not work for him. And so he and his family decided to leave for Shakhty (Rostov region), where weightlifters were coached by Rudolf Plukfelder, the Olympic champion. To begin with, he went there without a family to find work and housing.

In this regional city I found Vasiliev and the post at the mine, and training in a specialized hall. And, in addition, he submitted papers to the branch of the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute, to the Mining Department. And only with the champion of the Olympics could not find a common language.

The first victories in the national team

And then he decided to train independently and, moreover, achieved rare indicators.

Training weightlifters for the Olympics in Mexico City was held in the Caucasus Mountains - in the Tseisskogo gorge.

He represented the national team in international competitions "Friendship Cup". At the championship in Kiev in March 69, he outstripped the second Olympic champion in Mexico City Reading (Belgium), raising 530 kg.

First setbacks

Basil needed to maintain strength in the back in 1969, but he constantly competed. In the end, in the Rostov championship he found himself outside the lines of the winners.

The Soviet team was training for the Warsaw tournament, but the young weightlifter was not invited to it. According to the decision of Moscow doctors, he was forbidden to lift the bar, otherwise he was threatened with disability. Thus, Basil for 6 months left the mind of the masters.

With new forces

And forgotten by all the weightlifter for the only night broke 4 world records. On January 24, 1970 in Velikiye Luki the Soviet strongman at the age of twenty-eight years pushed him out of the world list of record holders Dyuba and Bednarsky (USA) and twice exceeded the level of Jabotinsky in the sum of triathlon.

In March in Minsk, a Soviet weightlifter at competitions for the "Friendship Cup" established a unique achievement of its kind. With this started a new era of six hundred!

In June 1970, the first European weightlifters gathered in Szombathely (Hungary). Alekseev a little unwell, but went to the platform and the 4th time in 6 months "strolled through the achievements." Rvanuv 219.5 kg, he crossed the record Reading, then ripped the usual 170 and pushed 225.5. To the latter he added a new winning sum - 612.5 kg.

At competitions in the United States of America, Basil jerked a 500-pound projectile, and he became a pioneer for a similar bar.

After winning the European Championship in Sofia in 1971, he successfully defended his diploma and graduated from high school, becoming a mining engineer.

Absolute World Champion

On the platform in Lima (Peru) Vasily Alekseev repeatedly reached the title of absolute world champion.

The triumph in Lima further strengthened Alekseev's prestige. Workers of the media around the world again brought it to the list of the best athletes of the year. In addition, given the records of Vasily Alekseev, the French Sports Academy gave the Soviet weightlifter the title of "Sportsman No. 1 of 1971". He was awarded the President's Prize.

For the 1972 games in Munich, the main nominees for the first places came up with the following results: Alekseev - 645, Patera - 635, Mang - 630, Serge Reding - 620 kg.

After 2 tests Vasiliy had 410 kg, and Manga - 395. In the last standings, he pushes 230 kg and in total is 640. Zhabotinsky's record, which was set in Tokyo, is bypassed at 67.5 kg.

For 2.5 years weightlifter Vasily Alekseev 54 times exceeded world records. Absolute record-holder of 3 European championships, 3 world championships, winner of 20 Olympic Games.

After the Munich games, the weightlifter suffers from previous injuries, he increasingly tends to a measured lifestyle. In order to save energy, he rarely participates in competitions. The principle of his training has changed: now it was not necessary to squeeze daily up to 30 tons of metal. He took care not about increasing the muscle mass, but about its quality indicator. In addition to everything, after the Munich Olympics they canceled the press. The reason for this was Alekseev's triumph of strength. Vasily Alekseev again set a record in June 1973 in Madrid at the European Championship. In the same period, he wins the World Cup in Cuba (Havana).

In 1974 (in May), the Soviet weightlifter ahead of all at the championship in Verona, takes the record in a dash - 187.5, and again he is the bearer of all world achievements. At the championship in Manila, the Soviet athlete defeated 425 kg, throwing Reading at 35 kg.

The plaque leaves Plachkov at the age of 22 years (Bulgaria), who showed himself, lifting in a snatch 192.5 kg, immediately on 5 kg exceeding the Alekseev's achievement. Many fans now preferred the new-found strongman.

12,000 fans who came to Luzhniki, witnessed the record of Vasily Alexeyev: in the jerk - 245.5 and the amount - 427.5. Plachkov outpaced the world record, but blundered in the jerk.

Competing in Karaganda, he for the 7th time achieved the title of champion of the Soviet Union. Alekseev Vasily Ivanovich set the 76th world record - 435 kg in the biathlon.

At the Montreal Olympics, Bonk started from 165 kg and graduated with only 170 kg. Alekseev really wanted to start at 180, but he was persuaded with 175 kg. In the 3 rd standings, he easily lifted the bar to 185 kg.

After listening to the coach, Alekseev in the beginning pushed 230 kg. And then - 255. It was long held by the audience. The applause sounded endless, and Vasily gave them a Russian bow. He refused the third set-off.

"Stuttgart Zeitung" on September 26, 1977. reported that for the 8th time the Soviet weightlifter won the title of champion in the heavyweight.

On 1.11.77, Alekseev pushed the bar at 256 kg, showing a new world record.

At the XXII Olympic Games in Moscow , only Heiser (world champion 1978) and Rakhmanov (the prize-winner of 1979 in Thessaloniki) competed with him. The victory was won by Rakhmanov. He was able to reproduce the Olympic record of Alexeyev in the biathlon (440 kg).

What prevented the Soviet weightlifter from winning? Probably, the Soviet strongman did not take into account the main thing - after a long break athletes-weightlifters do not feel the platform. 2 years Vasily did not participate in any championships, he tried to save his strength for the Moscow Olympics. And this became his huge mistake. He did not remember how to behave in competitions. 10 years Alexeyev Vasily Ivanovich sat on the throne as the most powerful weight lifter on the world scale, however he was forced to make room for the sake of the young.

Now the head coach

Then he was elected head coach of the Soviet national team. With him, which can also be attributed to the absolute achievement, not a single member of the team was injured (according to a special technique, trainings took place) and no one received a "zero" rating. Alekseev left the Soviet team when the Soviet Union collapsed. This, we can say, and ended the sports biography of Vasily Alekseev.

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