Russian sportman

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RUSSIAN SPORTMAN
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Aleksandr Karelin (Александр Александрович Карелин)

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INTRODUCTION
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Karelin is a Russian politician and
retired athlete. Karelin competed in Greco-Roman wrestling,
representing the Soviet Union and Russia between 1987 and
2000.
Using the reverse body lift, Karelin, who stood 1.9 metres (6
feet 3 inches) tall and weighed 131 kg (290 pounds), hoisted
his opponents into the air and slammed them violently to the
mat.

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He was inducted into the International Wrestling Hall of
Fame in 2003, and he was also named a Hero of Russia. ...
Despite losing his last match, Aleksandar Karelin will go
down as amateur wrestling's GOAT: The Greatest of All Time.
Afton, Wyoming, U.S. Rulon Ellis Gardner (born August 16, 1971)
is an American retired Greco-Roman Olympic Gold Medalist
wrestler. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won
the gold medal in 2000, defeating Russia's three-time reigning
gold medalist Aleksandr Karelin in the final.

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Mixed martial arts
On 21 February 1999 Karelin defeated Akira Maeda in a shoot wrestling
contest put on by RINGS that drew a gate of over $1 million. The match
gained widespread media coverage, including mentions in The New York
Times and Sports Illustrated.[36] The match took place in the Maedaowned professional wrestling organization RINGS. Though widely
considered to have been a shoot style wrestling contest, the match is
counted as an official mixed martial arts (MMA) match in Sherdog's
record database

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Legacy and awards
Karelin was named as the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of
the 20th century by the International Federation of Associated
Wrestling Styles (FILA) and one of the class of ten inaugural
inductees into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Famein
2003. He was also included in the 25 best world athletes of the
20th century.[40] Since 1992, an annual wrestling competition
is held in Novosibirsk in his honor

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PERSONAL LIFE
Karelin graduated from the Novosibirsk Institute of Transportation,
followed by the Siberian Academy of Physical Culture, a military
school of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD USSR) and the
Saint Petersburg University of MVD USSR. In 1998 he defended a
PhD and in 2002 a habilitation in sport-related pedagogy; he also
holds a degree in law. His PhD is titled: "Methods of execution of
suplex throw counters" (Russian: Методика проведения
контрприемов от бросков прогибом), and "Integral training
system for top-level wrestlers" (Russian: Система интегральной
подготовки высококвалифицированных борцов)

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Training style
Karelin was revered for his extraordinary strength and
unprecedented success in international competition. He
competed in the heaviest weight class of his day, 130 kg (286
lb). His coach was at first skeptical about a big but
undeveloped boy, yet he accepted Karelin and motivated
him for hard training, both in wrestling technique and
physical strength. As a result, over the years Karelin
progressed from 0 to 42 pull-ups

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Wrestling style
Karelin was famous for his reverse body lift, the Karelin Lift, where facing
the opponent who was lying flat on the mat to keep from being thrown,
Karelin hoisted his opponents into the air and slammed them violently to
the mat. This devastatingly effective maneuver, when properly executed,
awarded Karelin 5 points per throw, the maximum awarded in GrecoRoman wrestling. The throw had long been in use by lighter wrestlers but
not by heavyweights – because of the Karelin's ability to perform this
throw against elite opponents weighing as much as 130 kg amazed other
participants and observers of the sport.