Beloglazov Sergey is a famous Soviet athlete. Two-time Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling. Multiple winner of the world championships, Europe and the USSR. Winner of the title "Honored Master of Sports of the USSR".
Athlete Biography
Beloglazov Sergey was born in Kaliningrad in 1956. Parents were simple workers - Alexei Yakovlevich Starokulov and Antonina Alekseevna Beloglazova. Once in a big sport, Sergei took a more harmonious surname of his mother.
He began to deal with the fight with his twin brother Anatoly. At 14 years old. Then they both weighed less than 30 kilograms. Their first coach was Granit Ivanovich Toropin. Both were capable and talented wrestlers. The only problem was that both Sergei and Anatoly performed in the same weight category. Toropin decided to separate them. Sergei had to plan to recover and go into the category of those who weigh more than 52 kilograms. Anatoly remained in the lighter category.
Brother Anatoly
Sergey’s brother Anatoly also achieved some success in freestyle wrestling. He became a three-time world champion. At the moment, he is the mentor of the youth team of Russia in this sport. Works at the club CSKA.
He began his professional career at the club of the armed forces in Kaliningrad, then played for Dynamo Kyiv.
In 1980, the Olympic Games in Moscow became the winner. In the weight category up to 52 kilograms in the final match he met with the Polish athlete Vladislav Stetsik. He won a clear advantage.
Sergey moving to Kiev
In 1977, Sergey Beloglazov moved from Kaliningrad to Kiev. Soon he began to play for the local sports club Dynamo.
On the eve of his higher education, he received at the Krasnodar State Pedagogical Institute, and later graduated from the Higher Command School in Saratov, which was named after Felix Dzerzhinsky. Received the rank of officer of the Ministry of the Interior.
First international successes
Beloglazov Sergey, after a series of victories at the All-Union competitions, joined the USSR national team. The first major international start for him was the European Championship in the capital of Romania - Bucharest, which was held in April 1979.
Beloglazov Sergey, a wrestler, performed in the category of up to 57 kilograms. In the final, he met with Romanian athlete Aurel Neagu. The victory was for the Soviet athlete. At that European championship, the Soviet team won the overall standings. Soviet athletes won 8 out of 10 gold medals. Once were the second. Without prizes, they remained only in the category of up to 62 kilograms.
In the same year, Sergey Beloglazov, whose biography was closely related to sports, first participated in the World Cup. The competition took place in the capital of California, San Diego.
In the category of up to 57 kilograms, Beloglazov lost to Japanese athlete Hizaki Tomiyama. The Soviet team at that world championship in the overall medal standings (in both freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling) took first place. The assets of the athletes of the Soviet Union were 9 gold, 5 silver and two bronze medals. Only in four weight categories did not one of the domestic athletes climb the podium.
Olympic gold
At the Olympic Games in Moscow , Sergey Beloglazov performed in the category of up to 57 kilograms. Freestyle wrestling was one of the richest in medal disciplines. In total, 10 sets were played out.
The Beloglazov brothers were invincible. Anatoly won in his category, defeating Pole Vladislav Stetsik in the final, and Sergei in the decisive match was stronger than the representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Lee Ho Pen.
In the overall classification, Soviet wrestlers won seven out of ten gold medals. Only in the category of up to 48 kilograms Sergey Kornilayev remained the third, and the Italian Claudio Pollio took the gold. And among athletes weighing up to 74 and 82 kilograms, Bulgarians took the lead - Valentin Raichev and Ismail Abilov.
Second gold
After the US boycotted the Olympics in Moscow, the next 1984 Games in Los Angeles were held without Soviet athletes. Secretary General Chernenko noted that he considered it inappropriate to send athletes to the Olympics, as America blatantly violates the basic principles of the Olympic Charter and is launching massive anti-Soviet propaganda against the USSR. Therefore, at the XXIII Games of Soviet wrestlers did not appear and the first place in the team event went to the Americans.
The next time Sergey went to the Beloglazov Olympics, whose photo was in all sports newspapers, he went in 1988. The games were held in Korean Seoul. His brother Anatoly was no longer a leader in his weight category. His place was taken by Vladimir Toguzov, who won a bronze medal.
Sergei confidently qualified and in the final match fought with Iranian Askari Mohammadian. A convincing victory and the second Olympic gold medal in the asset.
Achievements
During his career, Sergey Beloglazov won many victories. He won awards at the largest competitions on the planet. In addition to two Olympic gold medals, he won 6 world championships - in American San Diego, Macedonian Skopje, Canadian Edmonton, Kiev, twice in Budapest and once more in French Clermont-Ferrand.
4 times won the World Cup in freestyle wrestling in the category up to 57 kilograms. He won 5 times in European championships - in Hungarian Bucharest, Bulgarian Varna and Veliko Tarnovo, Swedish Jonkoping, English Manchester.
In 1984, he won a series of international competitions between the states of the socialist camp, which were held in parallel with the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Coaching career
Having finished with great sport, Beloglazov joined the Dynamo Sports Society as a coach. Then, together with master of sports Dmitry Mindiashvili and two-time Olympic champion Ivan Yarygin, he coached the USSR national team in freestyle wrestling.
He worked with the national team for only two years, and during the perestroika he left the country. Until 1994, he worked as a senior coach of the American Olympic team, then he trained 4 more wrestlers from Japan for participation in major international competitions. He returned to Russia in 1998.
In the homeland, Beloglazov immediately got a place in the national team. He became the head coach of the men's team. Together with the team in 2000 went to the Olympics in the Australian Sydney. Only 8 sets of awards have already been played at competitions. The Russian team led by Beloglazov took first place in the team event, winning 4 gold and one silver. The victories were won by Murad Umakhanov, Adam Saitiev, Sagid Murtazaliev and David Musulbes. Wrestlers from the USA, Iran, Azerbaijan and Canada, who have one gold medal each, were worthy of competition.
In 2003, Beloglazov again went to train American wrestlers. The second return to Russia took place in 2006. This time he was entrusted with the training of the women's national freestyle wrestling team. In 2009, he was appointed head coach of the Singapore national team.
Currently working in Russia. Coaches the team of the Moscow region and the club in freestyle wrestling in the sports society of CSKA.
Sergey Beloglazov is married. He has four children, two of whom are from their first marriage.