Ivan Sergeyevich Yarygin ( rus, Иван Сергеевич Ярыгин, p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ jɪˈrɨɡʲɪn; 7 November 1948 – 11 October 1997) was a Soviet and Russian heavyweight

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. Between 1970 and 1980 he won all his major international competitions, except for the 1970 and 1974 European championships where he placed second. Yarygin was an Olympic champion in 1972 and 1976, being the first wrestler to go through an Olympic competition with straight pin victories and no foul points, a world champion in 1973, a

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winner five times, has never lost a single match in World Cup competition, and a European champion in 1972 and 1975–76, and won a world cup in 1973, 1976–77 and 1979–80. He also set a record for the fastest pin victory in the World Cup history at 27 seconds. After retiring in 1980, he headed the Soviet freestyle wrestling team from 1982 to 1992 and the Russian Wrestling Federation from 1993 until his untimely death in a car crash in 1997. An exceptional upper-body wrestler, Yarygin was widely regarded for his tremendous physique and high-strength aggressive style, always aiming to pin down his opponents, with most of his stoppage wins came by way of fall achieved through rapid

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and

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the opponent to the mat. One of the most prestigious tournaments in the World was put together in his honor - The

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Tournament is held annually in

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, Russia, and has the reputation of being one of the hardest tournaments in the World. The Yarygin Memorial annually sees the world's best wrestlers come to Siberia, with the added element that Russia's autonomous oblasts and republics such as

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and

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field independent teams alongside an All-Russia selection.

Biography

Childhood and early career

Yarygin was born as the sixth child in a family of ten siblings. Most members of his family were heavily built and physically active people. Since early age Yarygin helped his father at his

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workshop. As a teenager he wanted to become a football goalkeeper, and took up wrestling only in 1966, aged 18. He then was drafted and went on to win the

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heavyweight championships in Sambo wrestling, gaining the

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degree in Sambo. He then switched to freestyle wrestling, and won 1968 RSFSR national youth championships and 1969 Soviet youth championships.

Prime years

In 1970, he won the Soviet title competing in senior division, beating his main rival

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; he lost to Gulyutkin in 1971, but beat him again at the 1972 Olympic Trials and was selected for the Munich Olympics. At the Olympics he won all five bouts by fall, spending on the mat a little more than 7 minutes instead of 45. Three months prior to the Olympics, he won the 1972 European Championships, winning all bouts by fall. When first appeared in the United States for the 1973 World Cup and the subsequent wrestling tour, the U.S.—Soviet Olympic freestyle wrestling exhibition, where he and the USSR National Wrestling Team met the United States National Team (composed of both National AAU,

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and

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winners,) the American press described him as "a blue-eyed, red-haired, 24-year-old wrestler from the Soviet Union who spreads 220 pounds over an awesome, statuesque frame that might have been hammered and chiseled out of a granite block cornerstone from the Tomb of Lenin." He was a

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for the Soviet wrestling team while on the U.S. tour. When Yarygin wrestled

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(whom he had his shoulder disclocated at their previous match-up at the Olympics,) at Hellickson's hometown of

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, Yarygin let him up to prevent further injury, and wrestled just hard enough to protect himself until Hellickson finally fainted to pain. After the Olympics, he won the 1973 World Championships, again all bouts by fall. Thus Yarygin became the only wrestler to win three consecutive major competitions, scoring only fall victories. He then lost several minor contests, and decided to retire from competition, settled in his native village of Sizaya, where he worked as a

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forest. Outdoor activity helped him to regain his strength and confidence, and he came back in 1974 to continue his victorious streak. His next Olympic victory in 1976 was less spectacular because he wrestled the whole tournament with two broken ribs. After that Yarygin was selected as the Soviet Olympic flag bearer at the closing ceremony. Coming to

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for the match-up versus the American National Wrestling Team, Soviet wrestlers were welcomed officially by Mayor Walter Lisman, and were given a key to Wilkes-Barre by the mayor.

Retirement

While preparing for the Moscow Olympics Yarygin realized that the young Soviet wrestler

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has a better chance for the gold medal (which he indeed won). Yarygin retired from competition permanently in 1980 and became a wrestling coach. In 1982–92, he trained the Soviet freestyle wrestling team, and in 1993–1997 headed the Russian Wrestling Federation. He was a key organizer of the

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in Krasnoyarsk.

International competition record

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Lenin Palace of Sports Luzhniki Palace of Sports, formerly the Palace of Sports of the Central Lenin Stadium, is a sports arena in Moscow, Russia, a part of the Luzhniki Olympic Complex. Built in 1956, it originally had a spectator capacity of 13,700. In the past it wa ...

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Vasil Todorov Vasil Todorov ( bg, Васил Тодоров; born 20 October 1944) is a Bulgarian former wrestler who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, where he finished fourth in the 100 kg category. He was the bronze medalist at the 1969 and 1971 World Wr ...

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Ahmet Ayık Ahmet Ayık (born March 31, 1938), is a former Turkish World champion of Karachay origin and Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Light heavyweight class (97 kg) and a sports executive. He won the silver medal at the 1964 Olympics in Me ...

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Death and legacy

Yarygin was killed in a car crash in 1997, crashing his car into a roadside-parked heavy truck.Иван Ярыгин
Yarygin Wrestling Museum Earlier in 1990, an annual wrestling tournament in his honor has been initiated in

, the city where he lived since 1966; in 1998 a sports venue in Krasnoyarsk has been renamed into the

Ivan Yarygin Sports Palace Basketball venues in Russia Sports venues in Russia Indoor arenas in Russia Buildings and structures in Krasnoyarsk Krai ...

, and in March 2002 his monument was opened in the city. His other monuments were installed in Moscow in 1998, in

Stavropol Krai Stavropol Krai (russian: Ставропо́льский край, r=Stavropolsky kray, p=stəvrɐˈpolʲskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a Krais of Russia, krai) of Russia. It is geographically located in the North ...

(near the place of his death) in 2012, and in

Abakan Abakan (russian: Абака́н, p=ɐbɐˈkan; Khakas: , ''Ağban''/, ''Abaxan'') is the capital city of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia, located in the central part of Minusinsk Depression, at the confluence of the Yenisei and Abakan Rivers. A ...

in 2013. A secondary schoolМБОУ Московская средняя школа им. Ивана Ярыгина
Yarygin Museum and a wrestling complex in Moscow are named after Yarygin. In 2010 Yarygin was inducted into the

FILA Fila Holdings Corp. is a sportswear brand of shoes and apparel. The company was founded by Ettore and Giansevero Fila in 1911 in Coggiola, near Biella, Piedmont, Italy. In 2003, it was sold to United States-based Sports Brand International. Sub ...

International Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Books

*Yarygin I. S. (1989
''Ты выходишь на ковер''
Moscow. *Yarygin I. S. (1995

Krasnoyarsk.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yarygin, Ivan 1948 births 1997 deaths People from Kemerovo Oblast Soviet male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers of the Soviet Union Wrestlers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Russian male sport wrestlers Russian sambo practitioners Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in wrestling Road incident deaths in Russia World Wrestling Champions Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery Universiade medalists in wrestling Universiade gold medalists for the Soviet Union European Wrestling Championships medalists Sportspeople from Kemerovo Oblast