Soviet and Russian athlete Ivan Yarygin: biography

Yarygin Ivan Sergeevich - a famous athlete, a Soviet wrestler, representing a free style. In sports and around sports, he is referred to as the "Russian hero" both for his physique and for the manner of the struggle and for numerous achievements in his discipline. Ivan Yarygin, whose height is rather impressive (weight - more than 100 kg, height - in the area of 190 cm), achieved much in his life. In honor of this fighter even the modern Russian supersonic airplane-bomber from the Tu-160 series is named. And the International Federation of Amateur Wrestling has established special competitions in memory of Yarygin. The first such event was held in Abakan, and the next one 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 Sizay only after a while. And yet, Yarygin admitted that he considers Sizay his small homeland.

Living in the Krasnoyarsk Territory has made its noble cause in the formation of a young fighter. After school, he began attending training under the direction of Dmitry Georgievich Mindiashvili - the famous coach, who was later recognized as the best coach of the USSR, and then Russia. Today Mindiashvili can be proud of a significant number of written books, including two encyclopedias and a number of methodical manuals. And the 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 finishing school, he went to study in Abakan, the capital of Khakassia. He studied for an ordinary chauffeur, like a diligent Soviet young man. However, he did not leave sports and in 1968 he won at the youth championships first of Russia, and then the USSR. After that, he began intensified preparations for the USSR championship, while at the time he was engaged in Vladimir Gusev, as well as Alexander Okhapkin. Training was not in vain - in 1970 Yarygin became a champion of the RSFSR, and after that - and the USSR. Bogatyr has finally proved himself.

Bogatyr at the Olympic Games

Of course, the young bogatyr knew not only victories, but also defeats. In 1971, he lost to the Kiev wrestler Vladimir Gulutkin. However, this did not embarrass him. The following year, he performed in Munich at the Olympic Games, where he set a major record: he packed all his rivals in just 7 minutes and 20 seconds. Such speed of free-style wrestling in those days did not know. At this Olympiad, he earned a gold medal, and it was not the only one in his track record. The 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 respected so much that they gave him the honor to carry the banner of the USSR team at the closing of these Olympic Games.

Later, Yarygin won both at the World Championships in Tehran, and at the European and Soviet championships.

Yarygin is an outstanding coach

Since 1993 Yarygin Ivan Sergeevich worked as a coach and head of the Russian Federation of wrestling. This duty he performed until his death (1997). This period in his work is also a struggle, and much more difficult and difficult. In the new Russia, the state stopped financing the fight and other power sports, and Yarygin had to miraculously get money to support his favorite sport.

Coaching Ivan Yarygin carried out earlier, combining it with their own performances on the carpet. It is interesting that at the next Spartakiade he lost to Ilya Mate - again to the Ukrainian wrestler, who was his own student. And when later Yarygin was offered to perform at the next Olympiad, the athlete unexpectedly lost this right to Mate. "It's good, of course, to be a threefold prize-winner of the Olympics," Yarygin said at the time, "but it's more important to give way to young talents who are just beginning." This was the whole "Russian hero" - not only strong, but also unusually kind and generous.

A good attitude towards young people, and even competitors, was evident even when Yarygin was just beginning to make progress in the struggle. Trainers are accustomed to seeing their favorites cool, secretive, not allowing younger athletes, therefore they took Yarygin's actions almost as blasphemy: he willingly shared with his comrades the secrets of his skill, taught them, showed his best tricks. Mentors tried to restrain him, but Yarygin was stubborn: let the guys learn.

By the way, he practically never applied his remarkable strength to heroic practice "in practice". This became possible due to the fact that in society Yarygin was revered; Good people respected him, and not very good people were afraid. It was enough for the athlete to lay down his arms on his chest, so that others could understand: someone had become too provocative to behave. Only once he dismissed his hands, and even then - he defended the little boy from two bandits who beat him. Hooligans were tough guys, but Yarygin had enough punches to "reassure" the scoundrels.

The athlete was on the whole very sociable, friendly and even somehow peasant simple-minded. It is said that in the 90s he decided to play in a casino and won a large sum of money, and the next day he took and distributed them to his neighbors.

Ivan Yarygin: biography, relationships with the family

The future world-famous wrestler was born in a typical Soviet, even, you might say, "old Russian" village family. All in all, his parents had ten children. To feed them, the mother and father had to work hard, and older children were also involved in rural work. Despite the fact that the Russians (and even the Soviet) peasants - in principle, people strong and tall, Ivan stood out in the family especially - he was very tall, muscular and strong. Fate foreshadowed the life of an ordinary collective farmer, but Ivan loved sports very little. First of all, he fell in love, of course, football, but at first he did not even think about fighting. The father and mother were not very good at this activity, because the son had time to go to work in the field, but Ivan stood on his own: at the first opportunity he ran away with his peers to another field - football, where he most often acted as goalkeeper.

Yarygin wanted everything!

I played football in Yarigin and in Abakan. Local football fans even predicted his career as a professional goalkeeper. The director of the Abakan meat-packing plant intended to even expose him as a goalkeeper in the team of his company. However, Vladimir Charkov, the director of the wrestling school, spotted the strong man, who was simply created to fight and clearly "was not in his place." Charkov did everything possible to approach Yarygin and invite him to visit wrestling classes at least once. Yarygin agreed ... and soon abandoned his favorite football, giving himself entirely to the new hobby.

However, Charkov was not the only one who wanted to "get hold of" the hero. The coaches from the basketball section wanted this, too, who also thought that Yarygin was created for their sport. However, the new fighter was no longer able to stop.

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 - a 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 later tried himself on the wrestling arena. Here the parallels between the two legendary fighters do not end.

The death of the 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 enter into a fight with the very death and get out of it as a winner. However, Ivan Yarygin was not lucky: he tragically died at a fairly young age: in 1997 he was only 48 years old. The catastrophe overtook him on the highway Makhachkala-Kislovodsk in the Stavropol Territory, near Neftekumsk.

The famous "Russian hero" had many more plans, which 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 little homeland". The development of sports in Krasnoyarsk, he devoted a lot of work and effort, resulting in a competition in freestyle wrestling, which come athletes from dozens of foreign countries.

Dmitry Mindiashvili, the first coach of Ivan Yarygin, is still in the ranks, he survived his pupil. In the first Krasnoyarsk tournament in 1997, the Russian team took first place, and this was the best gift "to the Russian hero himself."

There is a legend that allegedly death in a car accident Yarygin predicted fortune-teller. You can believe in it, you can not, but a few months before this accident, almost the same nearly killed his son. Something similar happened not long before Yarygin's death and with other members of his family.