Alexey Voevoda

Alexey Voevoda is a Russian athlete, three-time world champion and three-time winner of the Professional Armwrestling World Cup, Olympic medalist in bobsleigh in twos and fours. His heroic strength has become the talk of the town, and its maintenance with a vegetarian diet still seems to many fans of Alexei's sports talent to be an unprecedented fairy tale.

The athlete was born in the village of Kalinovitsa, Chernihiv region and lived there until he was 5 years old. Then he moved with his parents to Sochi, where his father, a party worker, was transferred to the post of first deputy chairman of the city executive committee. Alexey was in love with sports since childhood.

At the age of 6, he got into the martial arts section, was engaged in several types of karate, as well as judo, in which he became a candidate for master of sports. Later, the boy was impressed by the strength of his grandfather, who bent coins with his fingers, and began to develop his strength.

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After school, Alexey planned to enter a higher police school, but could not pass the standards for physical training, so he became a student of the Faculty of Economics at the Sochi branch of the RUDN University.

He soon transferred to the Sochi University of Tourism and Resort Business and graduated from the Faculty of Tourism, Service and Sports. In his student years, the future athlete worked as a security guard at the enterprise. After receiving a diploma of higher education, Alexey entered postgraduate studies in economics and psychology, but did not complete his studies.

In his youth, the Voivode was known as a womanizer, before whom any girl is difficult to resist. He claims to have always treated his ladies with respect. At one time, Alexei did not dare to have a long relationship. As the bobsledder later explained in an interview, the reason for this was the unhappy youthful love for the red-haired beauty, whose name was Anna.

Later, a chosen one appeared in his personal life, who took all the thoughts of an athlete. He calls the girl Aurora the greatest love of his life. According to some reports, the lady of the heart became the wife of the Voevoda. There are no children in Alexei's family yet.

The voivode is a vegetarian. The athlete deliberately gave up meat and began to adhere to a vegetarian diet, since such a diet helps him to improve not only well-being, but also athletic performance.

Initially, the hero became a raw foodist. He needed to reduce his body weight before the competition, but he could not not eat - apathy and loss of strength began, and the protein diet caused excessive intoxication of the body. A raw food diet has become a way out for the athlete from this situation. For 3 months of such a diet, the Voivode felt a surge of strength, while his weight decreased, but his muscle mass remained.

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However, Alexey, as a person who should show excellent physical shape, needed amino acids, which means protein, so over time he switched to vegetarianism.

The bobsledder also became convinced of the inadequacy of eating meat. According to the athlete, it not only does not restore strength, but also slags the body. The governor also realized that he was unable to kill the animal, which became the ethical reason for vegetarianism.

Now the athlete's breakfast consists of a glass of water, salads and rolls. In the evening, Aleksey uses vegetables, fruits and juices. According to the athlete, such a diet saturates the body with a large amount of essential nutrients. For several years of a vegan diet, he formed his own nutritional system, according to which he is going to defend his Ph.D. thesis.

The bobsledder repeatedly talked about his power system on the air of Elena Malysheva's program "It's great to live!" Aleksey often becomes the hero of television programs, and not only of the Match TV channel. In 2019, he attended the TV show "Live", as well as the children's program "Good night, kids". Bobsledder speaks at radio stations "Nashe Radio", "Romance" and others.

Aleksey Voevoda does not have his own website, and the old page on the VKontakte network has been removed. But the deputy and the athlete maintains a personal microblogging on Instagram, where he posts photos from important work events.

Alexey Voevoda gained his first sports fame as a professional armwrestler. He started this sport in high school, training with his father, who loves this kind of competition. But I got into professional sports unplanned, accidentally hearing that the “Iron Hand of Sochi” competition will soon take place in the Zodiac bar, for participation in which an entry fee is required. Alexei did not have the money he needed, but his friends helped, so it was impossible to refuse.

At the competitions, the Voevoda made a splash, easily defeating all rivals, including the European champion Kote Razmadze, who until that moment had been considered invincible. Kote was so impressed by the young man's talent that he took him under his wing and became the first professional coach in Alexei's life.

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During a year of training, Voevoda became the world armwrestling champion, then twice repeated this achievement, and three more times raised the World Cup, organized by the Nemiroff holding, over his head. The best performances of Alexey are fights with John Brzenk, Michael Todd, Travis Budget. Denis Tsyplenkov was the strong man's sparring partner for a long time. Since both athletes trained with the same coach, they never went to the site against each other.

Due to the fact that Alexey fulfilled all the necessary standards to obtain the title of Honored Master of Sports in arm wrestling in just over a year, a certain incident arose. The fact is that, according to the rules, this title is awarded only after five years of training. An interesting precedent was formed, which, to the credit of the sports federation, was decided in favor of Aleksey Voevoda.

In 2016, the athlete took part in armwrestling competitions, where his opponent was American Tim Bresnan. But over the years of his bobsled career, Voevoda lost his armwrestling skills, as a result he lost in five rounds out of six. After the tournament, the Russian congratulated his opponent and promised to promote this sport among young people.

Almost by accident, the athlete, whose height is 194 cm, and weight - 116 kg, got into bobsleigh. After winning the next title of champion in arm wrestling, he noticed that in the sports press only one small note was devoted to his victory, while bobsledders, who took only 8th place at the Olympics in the American Salt Lake City, were given a whole newspaper spread.

Alexey Voevoda decided to find out what kind of sport it was, went to the location of the national team and overtook all the team members in test races with a 100-kilogram sled. The coach of the national team Valeriy Leichenko immediately included the Voevoda in the squad and made him an overclocker in pairs and fours.

During his sports career in bobsleigh, Voevoda experienced two dangerous falls. This happened for the first time in Vancouver, during the opening of the track. Then Alexei still had long hair, which during the jump broke out from under the helmet, and it was severely pinched, which could lead to serious consequences. The athlete after the rental made himself a short haircut.

The second time a bobsledder was kicked out of a bob was during a competition in Calgary. A muscular corset saved Alexei from serious injuries, but he still tore two ligaments. For 2 years he dropped out of bobsleigh and devoted them to arm wrestling, where he continued to win all kinds of prizes. After the operation and full recovery, the Voivode returned to the sleigh and in 2006 at the Olympic Games in Turin won a silver medal, and in 2010 - a bronze medal winner.

They are back! Bobsledders Alexander Zubkov and Alexey Voevoda took second place in the competition two at the Cup stage ...

The athlete distinguished himself with no less significant results at the world championships. In 2008, in Cesana, his deuce came to the finish line third, and in 2011, the Voivode, together with the pilot Alexander Zubkov, won gold in Königsze.

In 2013, the athlete joined the Sochi 2014 ambassadors team and did a lot to popularize the upcoming Olympics. Voevoda himself did not initially plan to participate in the competition, but a month before the start he nevertheless accepted the invitation of the coaches and proved that he was in great shape: at the home Olympics, Alexei won two gold medals as part of a four-crew and a two-crew, becoming the Olympic champion.

Then Alexey Voevoda accepted the invitation of Channel One and became a member of the new entertainment program "Without Insurance", which television began broadcasting at the end of January 2016. This is an extreme sports show, where celebrities, together with professional gymnasts, had to show the audience the most difficult balancing act on a weekly basis.

In 2017, a special IOC commission hearing was held, at which a decision was made to deprive the Russian national team of three gold medals won at the Sochi Olympics. Two of them belonged to Alexander Zubkov and Alexei Voevoda. The pilot was charged with doping. Later, the Voivode was also recognized in the substitution of doping tests and was banned from participating in the Olympic Games for life. Later, this measure was replaced by a refusal to participate only in the Olympic Games in Korea.

In 2016, the athlete's biography entered a new round: Alexei became a member of the United Russia party. In September, he took part in the elections to the State Duma from the Krasnodar Territory, where he gained the majority of votes. The voivode headed the committee for ecology and environmental protection.

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In 2017, the athlete established a personal award for participants in the armwrestling competition at the Greenlandia art song festival, which was held for the 25th time on the Vyatka land at the initiative of the Russian State Duma deputy Oleg Valenchuk.

In September, Alexey made comments on the termination of the WADA doping investigation against 95 Russian athletes. The voivode said that this is another victory for the Russian side in a big information war.

Now the main activity of Alexei is political and social activity. State Duma deputy is receiving citizens on social issues. In 2019, the Voevoda became a guest of the XV International Congress of the Winter Sports, Tourism and Active Leisure Industry WinterCongress-2019, where he congratulated the winners of one of the nominations - JSC "Resorts of the North Caucasus".

At the beginning of February 2020, the show of the reality show "The Last Hero" started, in which the famous bobsledder became a participant. In addition to Alexei, Natalya Bardo, Ptakha (David Nuriev), Nadezhda Angarskaya and others decided to test their strength on a desert island.

2006 - silver medal at the Turin Olympics 2008 - bronze medal at the 2008 World Championship - gold medal at the 2010 European Championship - bronze medal at the Vancouver Olympics 2011 - gold medal at the 2011 World Championship - gold medal at the European Championship

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