Zakharevich Yuri Biography
The Olympic champion from Ulyanovsk celebrated the anniversary of the Olympic champion, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, the author of the 41 world record - Yuri Zakharevich received congratulations on the Letnie. So much is said about Yuri Ivanovich that it is already impossible to find or come up with some qualitatively new epithet characterizing it. You can only repeat the most important: the legend of heavy athletics, the pride of the nation, the block of domestic and world sports.
The modern generation, which no longer found Zakharevich-Sportsman, is probably difficult to imagine the scale of his popularity. And he, this scale, without exaggeration, was planetary! At the same time, the anniversary itself never had a “star” manner of manner of manner, remaining a rather modest and simple man. However, the true greatness of the barliness consists in another - in his history of incredible overcoming.
In the year, speaking at international competitions in Hungary, Summer Zakharevich, who only ascended to the Olympus of "iron" sports, received a terrible injury to his hand - the separation of tendons and rupture of the ligaments. After such damage, 99 percent of weightlifters simply end in a sports career. But the hero from Dimitrovgrad managed the impossible.
Having successfully transferred the operation, as a result of which an artificial, lavsanovy bunch was sewn into his elbow, a student of the outstanding coach Viktor Naumenkov returned to the platform a year later to further win five European championships, three championships, goodwill and “gold” XXIV summer Olympic Games, simultaneously setting 15 more world records!
In his brilliant career there could be another holiday of five rings - in Barcelona, but because of the disagreements with the coach of the national team, he remained outside the national team and soon left great sport. And before that he made his debut in ... cinema! Zakharevich played an episodic role in the film adaptation of the historical novel “Hops”, but did not want to continue the film career.
After that, Yuri Ivanovich organized his business and transferred his family from Dimitrovgrad to Moscow, where he later entered the leading composition of the All-Russian Federation of Wilds, first as vice president and then the president. Having long been leaving functionary posts, Zakharevich still lives in Moscow, but he also looks in his native region periodically.
So, in April, Yuri Ivanovich, along with other Olympic champions from our region - Vitaly Konstantinov and Vladimir Krylov - became an honorary guest of the regional athletics relay race for the prize of the newspaper Ulyanovskaya Pravda. The editors of the newspaper "Champion", together on the entire sports public of the region, congratulates the hero of the day, wishes him good health and all kinds of success!
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