Vasiliy Alekseev

Vasily Alekseev rightfully bore the title of the legend of Soviet sports. The weightlifter broke record after record, which got into the Guinness Book. Vladimir Vysotsky dedicated the song "Weightlifter" to the Russian hero who managed to develop his own training method and show it in action.

The strongest man on the globe is a simple country boy, the fourth child in the family. Vasily Ivanovich was born in the village of Pokrovo-Shishkino (Ryazan region). When the boy was 11 years old, for family reasons, his parents decided to move to the Arkhangelsk region and settled in the village of Rochegda.

Free time from school and summer vacations were spent at work. Little Vasya helped his father and mother to harvest the forest for the winter, they had to lift heavy logs. Once I arranged a competition with the older boys - who will be able to squeeze the axle of the trolley.

The opponent managed to do it 12 times, but the future champion did not succeed. After the defeat, Vasily began to actively engage in sports under the guidance of a school gymnast. Soon, not a single regional and regional competition was complete without Alekseev.

In 1961, a student of the Arkhangelsk Forestry Institute received the first category in volleyball. At the same time, Vasily began to take an interest in athletics.

Education alone seemed to Vasily Alekseev not enough, the young man also graduated from the branch of the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute. I managed to live in the Tyumen, Ryazan and Arkhangelsk regions. He spent several years in the city of Koryazhma, where he worked as a foreman at the Kotlas Pulp and Paper Mill, and grew up to be a shift manager.

Weightlifting entered Alekseev's life with coach Semyon Mileiko - under his leadership he took the first steps towards the championship. A year of training has given excellent results. Vasily Ivanovich lifted 442.5 kg, which was enough to be called a master of sports. But in Arkhangelsk they did not want to recognize the achievements of the weightlifter, so he went to the city of Shakhty.

Here, at the Yuzhnaya mine, the famous sportsman, Olympic champion Rudolf Plukfelder trained the heavyweight guys. The chilled master of sports took Vasily under his wing, but the student and the teacher soon parted ways, not finding understanding between themselves. Alekseev devoted a year to independent training, during which he invented and developed his own system of impact of physical activity on the human body.

An attempt to play for the USSR national team for the first time failed, Vasily was expelled from the composition for health reasons - during training, the weightlifter tore his back. Doctors strictly forbade pulling iron, but Alekseev did not obey the doctors and in the winter of 1970 broke the records of Joseph Dube and Robert Bednarsky.

In March of the same year, he set a record in triathlon (600 kg). And three months later, with the light hand of Alekseev, world achievements were adjusted in seven points. At the World Championships in America, Vasily delighted sports fans with a 500-pound barbell.

Then they waited for victory at the World Championship in Sofia, in the world championship in Lima. By his first Olympic Games, Vasily Ivanovich reached a total weight of 645 kg. And at the competitions themselves, held in Munich, he chose smooth tactics instead of a sharp bench press of the maximum weight and set a new record in the total triathlon - 640 kg. In addition to world recognition, Alekseev was also noted at home by presenting the Order of Lenin.

The weightlifter performed brilliantly at the next Olympics in Montreal. In 1976, the Russian hero managed to push 255 kg and lift 185 kg and again got the gold medal. By the age of 35, the athlete managed to take the podium of the world champion eight times, and having lifted the barbell by 256 kg, he set the 80th record. In the bench press, the athlete had no equal in the whole world.

In 1978, the champion decided to move away from the "big" arena, stopped participating in competitions, and directed his efforts to educating the younger generation. Vasily Alekseev founded and took over at the helm of the "600" club, where schoolchildren studied. He also tried on the image of the coach of the USSR national athletics team and trained new champions until 1990.

After that, the man was put at the head of the national team of the Soviet Union (later the CIS) - in this position the athlete also achieved recognition: at the XXV Olympic Games, the team of the wards brought the country five gold, four silver and three bronze medals.

Personal life, like a sports career, Vasily Alekseev was a success. In 1962, the aspiring weightlifter got married. By a happy coincidence, the spouse's name was Olympiada. The athlete joked that he won three Olympics, among them one - his wife.

Vasily Ivanovich really considered the second half as his talisman and assured that without her support there would not have been so many championship victories. The woman accompanied her husband at competitions, was for him a cook, a massage therapist, and a psychologist. At the end of his life, in an interview, the man admitted:

For three decades Vasily Alekseev lived in Shakhty in a one-story wooden house. The couple raised two sons and got four grandchildren. Both heirs are lawyers by training. The youngest Dmitry, from childhood, followed in the footsteps of his father, who generously shared his knowledge in weightlifting.

However, when Alekseev became the head coach, he forbade his son to study further. He justified such an act by Soviet upbringing - I did not want someone to accuse him of promoting his own child, of taking his son abroad.

The eldest son Sergei did not show craving for sports, but he is endowed with a talent for science. Graduated from high school with honors, received a doctorate in sociological sciences. By his 70th birthday, Vasily Alekseev dreamed of two things - to memorize "Eugene Onegin" from cover to cover and start writing his memoirs. But he didn't have time.

In the late autumn of 2011, Vasily Alekseev's heart contracted, the two-time Olympic champion ended up in the Munich Cardiology Clinic.

The grave condition could not be normalized. In the evening of November 25, the hero who glorified Russia throughout the world died. Vasily Ivanovich was buried in Shakhty.

1972 - gold medal at the Munich Olympics 1976 - gold medal at the Montreal Olympics 1970-1977 - 8 gold medals at the 1970-1978 world championships - 6 gold medals at the European championships

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