Vasily Alekseev biography

Awards Biography Vasily Alekseev rightfully wore the title of legend of Soviet sports. The weightlifter beat the record behind the record that fell into the Guinness Book. The Russian hero, who managed to develop his own training methodology and show it in action, Vladimir Vysotsky dedicated the song “Salt”. Childhood and youth is the strongest person on the globe - a simple village guy, the fourth child in the family.

When the boy was 11 years old, parents for family reasons decided to move to the Arkhangelsk region and settled in the village of Roched. Basil Vasily Alekseev free from school classes and summer holidays took work. Little Vasya helped father and mother to harvest the forest for the winter, had to lift heavy logs. Once, with the older boys, he arranged competitions-who will be able to squeeze the axis of the trolleys.

The opponent managed to do this 12 times, but the future champion did not succeed. After the defeat, Vasily began to engage in sports under the leadership of a school physical education center. Soon without Alekseev, not a single competition of district and regional scale was complete. Vasily Alekseev in his youth in the year, a student of the Arkhangelsk Forestry Institute received the first volleyball category.

At the same time, Vasily began to be interested in athletics. It seemed little to Vasily Alekseev, the young man also graduated from a branch of the Novocherkassk Polytechnic Institute. He managed to live in the Tyumen, Ryazan and Arkhangelsk regions. He spent several years in the city of Koryazhma, where he worked as a master at the Kotlas cellulose-paper plant, and he grown to the shift manager.

Heavy athletics have a heavy athletics came into the life of Alekseev with coach Semen Mileiko - under his leadership took the first steps on the way to the championship. The year of training has given excellent fruits. Vasily Ivanovich raised, 5 kg, this was enough to be called a master of sports. But in Arkhangelsk, they did not want to recognize the achievements of the bar, so he went to the city of mines.

Basil Alekseev here, at the Yuzhnaya mine, trained the glorious athlete, Olympic champion Rudolf Pluckfelder. The raised master of sports took Vasily under his wing, but the student and teacher soon parted, not finding understanding among themselves. Alekseev devoted a year to independent training, during which he invented and developed his own system of effects of physical activity on the human body.

The attempt for the first time to play for the USSR national team failed, Vasily was expelled from the composition for health reasons - in training, the Seedgist tore off his back. Doctors strictly forbidden to pull the iron, but Alekseev did not obey the doctors and in the winter of the year beat the records of Joseph Dude and Robert Bednarsky. Vasily Alekseev at competitions in March of the same year in the total of the Troeoborye KG set a record.

And three months later, world achievements with Alekseev’s light hand were adjusted in seven points. At the World Championships, held in America, Vasily delighted the sports fans, managing to raise the bar weighing in pounds. Then they were waiting for victories at the World Cup in Sofia, in the world championship in Lima. Vasily Ivanovich reached the total weight in KG to his first Olympic Games.

And at the competitions themselves in Munich, he chose smooth tactics instead of a sharp bench press and set a new record in the sum of the Troeborye - kg. In addition to world recognition, Alekseev noted in his homeland, handing the Order of Lenin. Vasily Alekseev, the weightlifter spoke brilliantly at the next Olympics in Montreal. In the year, the Russian hero managed to push the kg and raise the kg and again got a gold medal.

By the age of 35, the athlete managed to occupy the world champion for eight times, and raising the bar for kg, set a record. There were no equal athletes in the bench press. In the year, the champion decided to move away from the "large" arena, stopped participating in competitions, and directed his strength to educate the younger generation. Vasily Alekseev founded and stood at the helm of the club "", where schoolchildren were engaged.

And also tried on the image of the coach of the USSR national athletics team and prepared new champions for up to a year. Vasily Alekseev and the bar after that, the man was at the head of the Soviet Union, subsequently the CIS - in this position the athlete also achieved recognition: at the XXV Olympic Games, the ward team brought the country five gold, four silver and three bronze medals.

Personal life personal life, like a sports career, was a success with Vasily Alekseev. In the year, the beginning weightlifter married. By a happy chance, the wife was called the Olympics. The athlete joked that he had won three Olympics, among them one was a wife. Vasily Alekseev and his family Vasily Ivanovich really considered the second half his talisman and assured that there would be no championship victories without her support.

The woman accompanied her husband in competitions, was for him a cook, a masseur, and a psychologist. At the sunset of life in an interview, the man admitted: “My wife is the only and beloved. In separation, we miss.Now it’s good, there is a phone, you’ll call 12 times per day, and it is 12 times, only 24.

” For three decades, Vasily Alekseev lived in mines in a one -story wooden house. The couple raised two sons, acquired four grandchildren. Both heirs by education are lawyers. The younger Dmitry from childhood followed in the footsteps of his father, who generously shared his knowledge in heavy athletics. Vasily Alekseev and his wife, however, when Alekseev became the head coach, forbade his son to study further.

He justified such an act with Soviet education-I did not want someone to accuse of promoting his own child, of taking his son abroad. The eldest son Sergei did not show traction for sports, but endowed with a talent for science. He graduated from a university with a red diploma, received the degree of a doctor of sociological sciences. By the Letti, Vasily Alekseev dreamed of two things - to learn by heart from crust to the crust of "Eugene Onegin" and start writing memoirs.

But I did not have time. Death in the late autumn of the year Vasily Alekseev grabbed his heart, a two -time Olympic champion fell into the Munich cardiological clinic. The monument to Vasily Alekseeva could not be normalized. On the evening of November 25, the hero, who glorified Russia throughout the world, died. Vasily Ivanovich was buried in mines. Awards - a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Munich - a gold medal at the Olympic Games in Montreal - - 8 gold medals at the world championships - 6 gold medals at the European Championships.