Nigul Pavlovich Maatsoo ( Est. Nigul Maatsoo ; until 1935 - Nikolai Matsov ; December 26, 1902 , Tallinn - November 11, 1967 , ibid.) - Soviet Estonian boxing coach. He worked as a trainer in the Tallinn sports society Dynamo , a coach of the national teams of the USSR and the Estonian SSR , a personal trainer of several titled Soviet boxers, including Roman Kariste (Karelin) , Martin Linnamyagi , Nikolai Stepulov and others. Honored coach USSR (1957).
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| Full name | Nigul Pavlovich Maatsoo |
| Citizenship |  Estonia  the USSR |
| Date of Birth | December 26, 1902 |
| Place of Birth | Tallinn , Estonia |
| Date of death | November 11, 1967 ( 64) |
| Place of death | Tallinn , USSR |
| Trainer | Kharlampiev A.G. |
| Team | FSO Dynamo |
Biography
Nikolai Matsov was born on December 26, 1902 in Tallinn . He began to actively engage in boxing at the age of fourteen in 1916. In the period 1921-1924 he underwent training under the guidance of the famous mentor Arkady Georgievich Kharlampiev , one of the founders of the Russian boxing school.
In 1924, Matsov himself engaged in coaching, having founded his own boxing club Sport in Tallinn. In 1935, he took the Estonian name Nigul Maatsoo. Since 1940, he has been coaching at the Tallinn Council of the Dynamo Sports and Fitness Society. He coached the national team of the Estonian SSR , as a coach he was repeatedly involved in the national team of the Soviet Union, in particular, he trained the Soviet national team for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki .
Over the years of coaching, he prepared a number of titled boxers who achieved great success at the all-Union level. Among them are USSR champion Roman Kariste (Karelin) , silver and bronze medalist of the USSR championships Martin Linnamägi , participant of the European championship Karl Kaby, Estonian champions Hillar Loskit, Anton Raadik , Lembit Maurer , participants of the Olympic Games Evald Seeper and Nikolai Stepulov . For outstanding achievements in the field of coaching in 1957, Maatsoo was awarded the honorary title " Honored Coach of the USSR " [1] .
He was awarded the medal " For Labor Valor ".
He died on November 11, 1967 in Tallinn at the age of 64.
In 1968-1981, a memorial boxing tournament in memory of Nigul Maatsoo was held annually in Tallinn.
His younger brother Peeter Matsov was also a prominent figure in Estonian boxing [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Boxing. Encyclopedia / Compiled by V. A. Markov , V. L. Steinbach . - M .: "Man", 2011. - 656 p. - ISBN 978-5-903639-26-7 .
- ↑ Henn Saarmann, Erlend Teemägi. "Eesti spordi biograafiline leksikon". Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus. Tallinn 2001
Links
- Maatsoo Nigul Pavlovich - page on the site “Sport-strana.ru”
- Maatsoo Nigul (est.) - curriculum vitae on the ESBL website
- Maatsoo Nigul Pavlovich - profile on the website of the Boxing Federation of Russia