Yarygin Ivan Sergeevich - a famous athlete, a Soviet wrestler, who represented freestyle. In the sports and near-sports environment, he is called the “Russian hero” both for physique, and for the manner of struggle and numerous achievements in his discipline. Ivan Yarygin, whose height, whose weight is quite impressive (weight - more than 100 kg, height - about 190 cm), has achieved a lot in his life. In honor of this fighter even the modern Russian supersonic bomber from the Tu-160 series is named. And the International Amateur Wrestling Federation has established special competitions in memory of Yarygin. The first such event was held in Abakan, and further in Krasnoyarsk.
Yarygin Ivan Sergeevich: biography
Some sources indicate that the athlete was born in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, in the village of Sizaya. In fact, he was born in the village of Ust-Kamzas, in the Kemerovo region, and his family moved to Sizayu only after some time. Nevertheless, Yarygin admitted that he considers Sizayu to be his small homeland.
Living in the Krasnoyarsk Territory has done its noble job in becoming a young wrestler. After school, he began to attend training under the leadership of Dmitry Georgievich Mindiashvili - a famous coach, who was subsequently recognized as the best coach of the USSR, and then Russia. Today Mindiashvili can be proud of the significant number of books written, among which two encyclopedias and a number of methodological manuals. And young Yarygin, undoubtedly, played an important role in this, being one of the best students.
However, in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the future champion did not live long. After graduating from school, he went to study in Abakan, the capital of Khakassia. He studied at an ordinary driver, as a diligent Soviet young man. However, he did not leave sports and in 1968 he won the youth championships first in Russia and then the USSR. After that, he began intensive preparation for the USSR championship, studying at that time with Vladimir Gusev, as well as Alexander Okhapkin. Training was not in vain - in 1970, Yarygin became the champion of the RSFSR, and after that - the USSR. The hero finally proved himself.
Athlete at the Olympic Games
Of course, the young hero was familiar not only with victory, but also with defeat. In 1971, he lost to Kiev wrestler Vladimir Gulyutkin. However, this did not bother him. The following year, he spoke at the Olympic Games in Munich, where he set a big record: he laid all his opponents in just 7 minutes and 20 seconds. At that time, freestyle wrestling did not know such speed. At this Olympics, he earned a gold medal, and it was not the only one on his track record. Career growth of Ivan Yarygin was very rapid. Already in 1976 at the Olympics in Montreal, he won the second gold. The real Soviet hero was so respected that they gave him the honor to carry the banner of the USSR team at the close of these Olympic Games.
In the future, Yarygin had victories at the World Championships in Tehran, and at the European and USSR Championships.
Yarygin - an outstanding coach
Since 1993, Ivan Sergeyevich Yarygin worked as a trainer and head of the Russian wrestling federation. He performed this duty until his death (1997). This period in his activity is also a struggle, and much more difficult and difficult. In the new Russia, the state stopped financing wrestling and other power sports, and Yarygin had to somehow independently obtain money to support his favorite sport.
Ivan Yarygin carried out coaching activities earlier, combining it with his own performances on the carpet. It is curious that at the next Spartakiad he lost to Ilya Mate, again a Ukrainian wrestler who was his own student. And when subsequently Yarygin was invited to speak at the next Olympics, the athlete unexpectedly lost this right to Mate. “It’s good, of course, to be a three-time Olympic medalist,” said Yarygin then, “but it’s more important to give way to young talents who are just starting.” This was the whole “Russian hero” - not only strong, but also unusually kind and generous.
A good attitude towards young people, and even towards competitors, was manifested even when Yarygin was just beginning to make progress in the struggle. Coaches are accustomed to seeing their pets cool-headed, secretive, and not allowing younger athletes to approach them, so they took Yarygin’s actions almost like sacrilege: he willingly shared the secrets of his skill with his comrades, taught them, and showed his best practices. Mentors tried to restrain him, but Yarygin was stubborn: let the guys learn.
By the way, he almost never applied his remarkable strength to the "practical". This was made possible due to the fact that in society Yarygin enjoyed reverence; good people respected him, but not very good people were afraid. It was enough for the athlete to fold his arms over his chest so that those around him understood that someone had become too defiant to behave. Only once did he open his hands, and even then - he protected the little boy from the two bandits who beat him. The hooligans were strong guys, but several blows were enough for Yarygin to “calm” the villains.
The athlete was generally very sociable, friendly, and even somehow rustic. They say that in the 90s he decided to play in a casino and won a large sum of money, and the next day he took it and distributed it to neighbors.
Ivan Yarygin: biography, relationships with family
The future world famous wrestler was born in a typical Soviet, even, one might say, “old Russian” village family. In total, his parents had ten children. To feed them, mother and father had to work hard, and older children were also involved in rural work. Despite the fact that Russian (and even Soviet) peasants - in principle, people are strong and tall, Ivan stood out in the family especially - he was very tall, muscular and strong. Fate foreshadowed him the life of an ordinary collective farmer, but Ivan from a young age loved sports very much. First of all, he loved football, of course, but at first he didn’t even think about wrestling. Father and mother were not very good at such an occupation, because the son had come to go to work in the field, but Ivan stood his ground: at the first opportunity he ran away with his peers to another field - a football field, where he most often acted as a goalkeeper.
Everyone wanted Yarygin!
Played football Yarygin and in Abakan. Local football fans even prophesied him a career as a professional goalkeeper. The director of the Abakan meat-packing plant even intended to make him the goalkeeper in the team of his enterprise. However, Vladimir Charkov, the director of the wrestling school, noticed a strong man who was simply created for the fight and clearly "stood out of place." Charkov did everything possible to approach Yarygin and offer him to attend wrestling classes at least once. Yarygin agreed ... and soon abandoned his favorite football, completely surrendering to a new hobby.
However, Charkov was not the only one who wanted to “get” a hero. The coaches from the basketball section also wanted this, who also thought that Yarygin was created for their sport. However, the newly made wrestler could not be stopped.
In this story, Ivan Yarygin turned out to be similar to another great fighter and also Ivan - Poddubny. He also came from a peasant (more precisely - Cossack) family and also had to work as a farm laborer in the field. Not wanting such a fate, Poddubny left for Sevastopol and worked as a port loader, and subsequently tried himself in the wrestling arena. Here the parallels between the two legendary wrestlers do not end there.
The death of a hero
Yarygin Ivan Sergeyevich, whose photo you see in the article, passed away suddenly and tragically ... When you look at such people, you get the impression that they are able to fight even with death itself and come out of it as a winner. However, Ivan Yarygin was not lucky: he died tragically at a fairly young age: in 1997 he was only 48 years old. The catastrophe overtook him on the Makhachkala-Kislovodsk highway in the Stavropol Territory, near Neftekumsk.
The famous “Russian hero” had many more plans that he really wanted to implement. He especially loved the city of Krasnoyarsk, which, like the village of Sizaya, became for him a kind of "big small homeland." He devoted a lot of work and effort to the development of sports in Krasnoyarsk, which resulted in freestyle wrestling competitions, which are attended by athletes from dozens of foreign countries.
Dmitry Mindiashvili, the first coach of Ivan Yarygin, still in service, he outlived his student. In the first Krasnoyarsk tournament of 1997, the Russian team took first place, and this was the best gift to "the most Russian hero".
There is a legend that a fortuneteller predicted the death in a car accident to Yarygin. You can believe it, you can not, but a few months before the accident, his son nearly died in the same accident. Something similar happened shortly before the death of Yarygin and other members of his family.