Alym Adamovich Achichaev ( May 17, 1949 , Kazakh SSR , USSR ) - Soviet weightlifter , champion of the USSR (1975-1977), USSR Cup winner (1975), USSR master of sports of the international class , the first Chechen who became the USSR champion in weightlifting.
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| Floor | male | |
| A country |  USSR →  Russia | |
| Specialization | Weightlifting | |
| Date of Birth | May 17, 1949 (aged 70) | |
| Place of Birth | Kazakh SSR , USSR | |
| Sports career | 1970-1979 | |
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| Weight | up to 100 kg | |
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Biography
Born in deportation in Kazakhstan on May 17, 1949. His father, a math teacher, died in 1963 in a traffic accident. Alym, as the eldest of the children in the family, had to take care of his two brothers and two sisters.
I started playing sports on my own. Together with a friend, he got up long before dawn, ran cross- country courses , studied on the horizontal bar , lifted weights, went to fight in the school section.
In 1967 he was drafted into the army . He served in Blagoveshchensk . After completing the service, he left for Khabarovsk , where he began to work at a shipbuilding plant. He started weightlifting under the leadership of Alexander Dmitrievich Alekseenko. For full training, he switched to the Amurcable factory, which owned the weightlifting hall [1] .
A year after the start of training, he became the champion of the Khabarovsk Territory , and in 1972 he fulfilled the standard of a master of sports .
In 1973, at the Russian Championship in the city of Shakhty, he received the “steering wheel” (zero result) and dropped out of the competition. After the competition, Rudolf Plukfelder approached him and offered to train with him. Achichaev accepted the invitation and moved to the Mines.
In 1974, at the USSR Championship, Achichaev took 7th place with a total of 335 kg (150 + 185). Then he won a number of major tournaments, in particular, the championship of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions and the Central Committee Trud. April 28, 1975 in Balashikha in the final of the VI summer Spartakiad of the peoples of Russia won with a total of 365 kg (160 + 205) [1] .
December 15, 1975 in Chelyabinsk won the USSR Cup in the category up to 100 kg with a total of 370 kg. There, in the framework of the USSR championship in separate exercises, he became the champion of the country in the clean and jerk with a result of 207.5 kg.
At the USSR Championship in Karaganda on May 15, 1976 he won in the snatch (172.5 kg) and in the combined biathlon (380 kg), having fulfilled the standard of the USSR master of sports of international class.
After the victory, Plukfelder approached Achichaev along with CSKA coach Stogov. “I, thanks to you, won the argument against him,” said Plukfelder, laughing. It turns out that at the Russian championship in the Stogov Shafts and Plukfelder argued. Stogov claimed that Plukfelder takes away the most talented and promising athletes, and it’s easy to make champions out of them. Another thing is to make a champion out of a weak athlete. Plukfelder promised to make a champion out of anyone. Then Stochov caught the eye of Achichaev, who had just received the "steering wheel" [1] .
Weight category up to 100 kg was not in the competition program of the upcoming Olympic Games in Montreal , so Achichaev could not take part in it.
On December 13, 1976, the USSR Cup and the USSR championship in separate exercises were held in Pervouralsk. Achichaev won the snatch competition with a score of 172.5 kg. He also won the qualifying tournament held in Karaganda for the World Cup, ahead of silver medalist Vladimir Kozlov by 15 kg [1] .
Relations with Plukfelder became strained. Achichaev moved to Dneprodzerzhinsk and convinced his first coach Alexander Alekseenko to move from Khabarovsk to him. Alekseenko found for himself in a new place a job, housing and a spouse [1] .
On December 18, 1977, at the USSR Championship and Cup in separate exercises, he won first place in the snatch with a result of 172.5 kg. At the USSR Championship in 1978 in Kiev, Alym became the second after Sergei Arakelov from Krasnodar. At the end of 1979, lifting 405 kg (177.5 + 227.5) at his last competitions in Kiev, Achichaev retired from the sport and started coaching [1] .
In 1986 he returned to Chechen-Ingushetia . He was a coach of the Sports School , prepared many first-class students and candidates for master of sports, such as Umar Edelkhanov [1] .
Achievements
- Winner of the USSR Cup in 1975, total biathlon 370 kg.
- USSR champion in 1975 in the clean and jerk (207.5 kg).
- Champion of the USSR in 1976 in the snatch (172.5 kg) and the total (172.5 + 207.5 = 380).
- USSR champion in 1977 in a jerk (172.5 kg).
- Silver at the 1978 USSR Championship in total (172.5 + 210 = 382.5).
Family
Brothers Achichaeva Ahmad and Magomed moved to him to Ukraine, began to train with him, and also achieved serious success in weightlifting.
Ahmad Achichaev performed in the category up to 100 kg, set four world records for juniors, won the national championship, became the silver medalist of the European and world championships, fulfilled the standard of an international class master of sports. In 1985 in Volgograd he became the champion of the USSR with a result of 390 kg (175 + 215). In November 1986, in Lviv, speaking in the category of up to 110 kg, he won the championship of the Soviet Army and Navy, lifting a total of 432.5 kg (192.5 + 240).
Magomed in training fulfilled the standard of an international class master of sports, but on the eve of the competition he was injured and was forced to leave the sport.
Personal qualities
According to Muslim Gapuev, head of the information and analytical center of the Council of Trade Unions of the Chechen Republic, Achichaev has a sense of humor. So, at one of the tournaments in Poland, Achichaev was awarded the prize as the funniest weightlifter [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Lezinka of the winner