Interesting facts about athletes will allow you to find out what everyone has long forgotten about!

• 1. Famous thinkers of Ancient Greece (Demosthenes, Socrates, Hippocrates, Democritus, Aristotle) ​​once took part in the Olympic Games. Moreover, Pythagoras became famous as a champion in fist fights, and Plato - in pankration martial arts.

• 2. Back in 1932, the 100-meter race was conquered by an athlete from Poland - Stanislava Valasevich. Then she set a world record. And only in 1980, after her death, an autopsy revealed that Stanislava Valasevich was a man. This was revealed by the genitals, although the chromosome set in this person was both female and male.

• 3. An interesting nickname in the Slavic interpretation has a four-time World Cup winner in alpine skiing and two-time Austrian Olympic champion Hermann Mayer - "Herminator".

• 4. Representative of China Song Mingming is the tallest basketball player in the world. His height is 236 centimeters, with a weight of 152 kilograms.

• 5. March 20, 1976 was remembered for the unusual match of Aston Villa against Leicester City. Then Chris Nicholl, the player of the first team, scored two goals each against the opponent's goal and his own. The match ended with the score 2: 2.

• 6. Interesting facts about athletes also relate to unusual, sometimes tragic, events during the competition. In 1998, during a football match in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, lightning struck a field. 11 players from the visiting team were killed, 30 fans were burned. But the representatives of the home team remained unharmed.

• 7. In 1957, baseball player Richie Ashburn hit a ball that hit a cheerleader and smashed her face. Surprisingly, after the resumption of the game, the same player again hit the same spectator who, after the previous blow, was carried away from the stadium on a stretcher.

• 8. Alexander Medved, a Soviet athlete, won ten world championships in freestyle wrestling - the most.

• 9. Haile Gebreselassie, the 10,000 meter Olympic champion from Ethiopia, has a very special running style. He presses his left hand to his body, more than his right, and bends it unusually. The athlete explains this posture during the competition by the fact that as a child he had to run 10 kilometers to school in the morning and in the evening back, holding textbooks in his left hand.

Sport is not only health, but also the desire to be better, to move forward. Sport also does not stand still, it develops and progresses together with humanity. New heroes appear, new records are set - both personal and team. The most interesting, fantastic and curious facts remain in the history of sports, in the memory of all fans, in our memory. Here are some interesting facts and statistics in sports.

1.The best karateka. Would you like to know which karate fighter is the best today? Yes, it is the “best” and no other. Whether you know the name Hirokazu Kanazawa, it is this person who is the most respected karateka in the world. Kanazawa was born in 1931 on the island of Honshu to a fisherman's family. Until the age of eleven, the boy did not do anything and was like the others, but then everything changed. Once, a fight took place between Kanazawa and his classmate, in which, naturally, our future sensei prevailed. Everything would be fine, but after this fight, Kanazawa received a slap from the father of his enemy - a 100 kilogram sumo wrestler, the boy fell into the mud and could not do anything. From that moment it all began - the boy became very offended, and he decided to take revenge. With incredible efforts, training day and night, cherishing the plan of revenge in his heart, the boy developed spiritually. When Kanazawa graduated from high school, he was already so strong not only physically, but also mentally that he forgave the old offender, and he died 2 years later. Today, Hirokazu Kanazawa is already over 80 years old, but being the owner of a black belt and 10-dan, he remains the best karate fighter of our time and his age is not a hindrance to him.

2.Where did the name of footballer Jan Vennegora of Hesselink come from? In modern European football, the longest last name belongs to former Netherlands national team player Jan Wennegaard of Hesselink, who is now retiring. This surname appeared in the 17th century, when representatives of two farming families became related - the Vennegor and Hesselinks. Since the families were equal in social status and wealth, it was decided to combine the two surnames into one. And not through a hyphen, but through the union "of", which in Dutch means "or".

3. Back in 1932, the 100-meter race was conquered by an athlete from Poland - Stanislava Valasevich. Then she set a world record. And only in 1980, after her death, an autopsy revealed that Stanislava Valasevich was a man. This was revealed by the genitals, although the chromosome set in this person was both female and male.

4. An interesting nickname in the Slavic interpretation has a four-time World Cup winner in alpine skiing and two-time Austrian Olympic champion Hermann Mayer - "Herminator".

5. Representative of China Song Mingming - tallest basketball player worldwide. His height is 236 centimeters, with a weight of 152 kilograms.

6. March 20, 1976 was remembered for the unusual match between Aston Villa and Leicester City. Then Chris Nicholl, first team player, scored two goals in the opponent's goal and his own. The match ended with the score 2: 2.

7.Longest parachute jump. The longest parachute jump was made by Joseph Kittinger - the captain of the US Army. 08/16/1960 the stratospheric balloon lifted the record holder to a height of 31,332 meters, from where the parachutist jumped. The movement to the ground lasted 13 minutes and 45 seconds - a third of this time the captain was in free fall, the maximum speed of the parachutist was 1149 km / h. I must say that this jump is considered the most dangerous, since it is impossible to make it without equipment. Kittinger himself lost consciousness during the fall, and was saved by a parachute that opened at an altitude of five and a half kilometers. After landing, the captain fell into the caring hands of doctors, who quickly put him on his feet.

8. Which athlete overtook the world record holder by running a distance in a nearby stadium? At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi won all the races in which he competed. He became the first in individual and team cross-country, in the team race at 3000 m, as well as at distances of 1500 and 5000 m, the finals of which were held with a difference of only an hour. Nurmi was very upset that the Finnish delegation had not sent him to run for ten kilometers, but Ville Ritola. He won with a world record, but at the neighboring warm-up stadium, Nurmi started at the same time as the participants and finished earlier.

9. The greatest jump on a skateboard. Are you wondering who is the best seiktboarder and who set, well, simply the record skate jump? Danny Way - the name became a legend when in 2004, participating in the Skateboarding Big Air competition, which was held in Los Angeles, he set the world record for skate jumping. Climbing onto a tall ramp, Danny left it, accelerating his skate to a speed of 88 km / h, then he made a jump at a distance of 24 meters. This jump became the greatest in history. A year later, Danny Way decided to cement his name in the memory of people by jumping over the Great Wall of China on a skateboard. With his achievements, Way demonstrated his willpower and true courage to everyone.

10. Which famous footballer was named after the American president? Cristiano Ronaldo is not a first and last name, but a double name. Moreover, the name Ronaldo for Portugal is quite rare, but the boy got it because his father was a fan of the then US President Ronald Reagan.

11. Alexander Medved, a Soviet athlete, won ten freestyle wrestling world championships - the most.

12. Haile Gebreselassie, Olympic champion in 10 thousand meters from Ethiopia, has a special running style. He presses his left hand to his body, more than his right, and bends it unusually. The athlete explains this posture during the competition by the fact that as a child he had to run 10 kilometers to school in the morning and in the evening back, holding textbooks in his left hand.

13. The fastest man recognized by Usain Bolt from Jamaica. In 2009, he set world records: he ran a hundred meters in 9.58 seconds, and a distance of two hundred meters in 19.19 seconds.

14. The highest weight lifted in the bench press exercise. Everyone knows, but someone knows firsthand, that it is quite difficult to pull the barbell. Only a trained person can lift a lot of weight without harm to health. I would like to inform everyone that a new world record for the exercise "bench press" has been set. This record was set by Ryan Kenelli. The athlete managed to squeeze from the chest no less, no more than 486 kilograms. Ryan's record is absolute and so far no one has been able to break it. Even if Kenelli did not manage to perform the exercise cleanly - he did not manage to straighten his arms to the end, but all the same, the judges decided to count the result. One cannot but pay tribute to the champion, because that bar weighed 486 kilograms - almost half a ton.

15. Why did the Inter footballer draw a plus sign between the digits of his playing number? Having moved to Inter in 1998, Roberto Baggio asked for his favorite number 10. Ronaldo lost it, but demanded a jersey with number 9, under which Chilean Ivan Zamorano played. He took number 18, but drew a plus sign on the shirts between one and eight.

16. Which athlete became the best on the continent learning from YouTube videos? Kenyan Julius Yego learned to throw a javelin, using videos on Youtube with performances of Olympic champions as a textbook. Only after winning the All-African Games, the athlete began to study with a coach, although he continues to improve on his own for most of the year. In 2015, Yego won the World Championship and won a silver medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

17. "Throwing" dwarfs. In France, such a rough "sport" as throwing dwarfs at length was justly prohibited. But the dwarf Manuel Weikenheim (height 1.20 m) protested very strongly against this. He went on a hunger strike and then appealed to the International European Court of Justice. He stated that this ban meant for him a loss of monthly income, and in addition, he had the right to be scammed. This is a tradition, and he insists on it.

18.One-legged parachutist. Near the town of Pau, in southwestern France, a 70-year-old retiree landed after his first parachute jump. On landing, he had only one leg. At an altitude of 1500 meters, his prosthesis was unfastened. But despite this, the strong pensioner landed confidently on one leg.

19. Which footballer was wearing jersey number 0? When the Scottish football club Aberdeen signed the Moroccan Hisham Zerwali, fans immediately gave him a nickname from the first letters of his surname "Zero". This is why Zeruali started playing in jersey number 0, which had never happened before. In the following season, the football federations of Scotland and England imposed a ban on performing with such a number.

20. Guinness World Record for coup ascents. The famous Russian athlete Zalodny Denis entered his name in the famous Guinness Book of Records, making the largest number of lifts with a coup on the crossbar. During the exercise, the guy lost 1 kg, and he erased his hands, because he worked without gloves. By the way, it took 208 minutes to set the record of 1333 coups. Most notably, the athlete was only 21 years old. Coach Sergei Rachinsky said that in 2008, on April 28, his ward set another record - he squatted 210 times with a hundred kilogram barbell.

21. Which gymnast brought his team Olympic gold with a broken knee? At the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, during the team gymnastics competition, Japanese Sun Fujimoto broke his knee. Without saying a word, he continued his performances on horseback and on the rings, landing perfectly on both legs in the final, and only after that fell, writhing in pain. Thanks to his assessments, Japan bypassed the Soviet gymnasts and took first place.

22. The child who squeezes out more than you. A boy named Ronak Atul Vitha is already 5 years old. At the age of 2.5, he seriously decided to start developing his body. According to Ronaka's mother, her son easily managed to perform various stunts, even those that were shown to viewers in the popular blockbuster Ghajini. It was this film that became the starting point of the future record holder. Ronak decided to try his hand at push-ups. He did push-ups 10 times every day. The child's body began to quickly get used to physical activity and after a week the boy was already doing 50 push-ups a day. After a little more time for Ronaka, 100 push-ups became a regular warm-up. Today, in the Guinness Book of Records in the column "push-up master" there is the name of a little athlete - Ronak mastered the "height" in 1482 push-ups, and it took about 40 minutes. A boy was born in 2005. At 2.5 years old, Ronak Atul Vitha set a life goal - to become the strongest child on Earth. In achieving this goal, the boy is helped by his loving family and his personal trainer named Satyajit Chaurasya, who comes to the child 3 times a week to conduct training.

23. Which hockey player survived after an opponent cut his throat with a skate? In 1989, Buffalo Sabers goalkeeper Clint Malarchuk was hit by a rival striker in a fall with a skate blade in the throat, severing the jugular vein. The blood immediately poured onto the ice, but Malarchuk was saved thanks to the skillful actions of physiotherapist Jim Pizzatelli, who grabbed the goalkeeper by the neck, pinched the vein and took him to the locker room. There, Pizzatelli, before the arrival of the intensive care unit, in addition to blocking the vein, pressed his knees on Malarchuk's collarbone. The goalkeeper lost a liter and a half of blood, but survived and returned to the ice after a week.

24. Which Olympic champion trained while lying on an anthill? Norwegian biathlete Magnar Solberg practiced shooting in the summer, lying on an anthill. As planned by the trainer, this exercise was supposed to teach the athlete to concentrate on the target and not be distracted by external factors and fatigue. Solberg, who had not even won a medal at the world championships before, became the Olympic champion in 1968 in Grenoble and repeated his success four years later in Sapporo.

25. Oscar Swann, who took 2nd place in the shooting competition, is the oldest male to have won an Olympic medal.

26. Who was killed for an own goal in the FIFA World Cup? Colombia defender Andres Escobar scored an own goal at the 1994 World Cup against the United States. Having lost this meeting, the Colombians could not leave the group and flew home. A few days later, Escobar was shot while in his car. The killer accompanied each shot with a shout: "Goal!"

27. The richest athlete in history. Are you wondering which athlete has made the most money in his career? The London Daily Telegraph reported that Peter Strack, a professor at the University of Chicago, calculated and found the richest athlete in history. This man was Guy Appuleius Diocles, who lived in ancient Rome in the second century AD. Guy was involved in a popular sport at that time - chariot riding. According to conservative estimates, Guy Appuleius Diocles earned about 15 billion dollars in modern currency during his sports career!

28. Which disabled person with a prosthesis won six Olympic medals competing with regular athletes? American athlete George Eiser at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis won six medals in one day: three gold (on parallel bars, in vault and rope climbing), two silver (in the championship on seven shells and on horseback) , as well as bronze on the crossbar. With all this, Eiser was disabled - instead of his left leg he had a wooden prosthesis. It is worth noting that no more than five athletes competed in each of the listed disciplines, and all of them represented the United States.

29. The hardest wrestler. What sport do you think the heaviest athlete in the world should choose for himself? Of course, it can only be a sumo wrestler. The way it is. The heaviest sumo wrestler in the world today is Emanuel Jabrauch. The weight of this giant is as much as 402 kilograms with an increase of 203 centimeters. Of course, such a complexion Emanuel owes much to the specifics of the sport in which he is engaged. Emanuel Jabrauch is a recognized seven-time world champion in sumo. The famous sportsman was born in 1964. Today, Emanuel Jabrauch is a member of the board of the Foundation for the development of children's sumo. The champion is trying in every possible way to support young novice sumo wrestlers.

30. Racer and Tester Mauro Kahlo set the record for the longest drift (controlled drift) in a Mercedes - it skidded to 2308 meters, after which further movement was impossible due to tire damage.

31. The first coach of Maria Sharapova was Yuri Yudkin. At the beginning of 2004, she was already included in the top 20 tennis players in the world.

32. Why was the clay target shooting champion not allowed to defend the title at the next Olympics? Trap shooting competitions at the Olympic Games have been held since 1968, and women took part in them on an equal basis with men. However, none of them could win a medal, so even before the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, ​​the IOC decided to limit women's participation in this discipline at the 1996 Olympics. But it was in Barcelona that the Chinese Zhang Shan won the gold. Despite the uproar, the decision was not changed, so Zhang was unable to defend her title four years later. Only since 2000 have women returned to Olympic trap shooting, but separately from men.

33. Olympic Champion Stanislava Valaskevich was both a woman and a man at the same time.

34. Who has run over 5,000 km with an amputated leg to help cancer patients? Canadian Terry Fox was diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of 19 and his leg was amputated above the knee. Then he conceived a project to help all cancer patients "Marathon of Hope", intending to cross the whole country and collect at least a dollar from every Canadian. After three years of training, Terry with a prosthesis started from the Atlantic Ocean and ran an average of 42 km per day. However, after 143 days of running and overcoming 5373 km, he stopped, as his illness progressed, and soon died. Before reaching the Pacific Ocean, Terry achieved another goal: his campaign attracted more than $ 24 million in donations, and then the population of Canada was just 24 million people.

35. Youngest hockey player in NHL history, who was recognized as the "most valuable player in the league" at 19 years old - Wayne Gretzky.

36. Judo founder Dhigaro Kano. Of the 51 games he played Mike Tyson's first professional fight, he ended up with 21 knockouts in the first round (40.8%).

37. The athlete who is considered the youngest, managed to win the national championship was a resident of Jamaica, his name is Jay Foster... This event took place in 1958. He was only 8 years old at the time.

38. Hardest Sumo Wrestler- world champion in this sport discipline Emanuel Jabrauch. His height is more than two meters, his weight is over 400 kilograms.

39. Cycling acrobatics is very dangerous to health. However, cyclists sometimes do tricks that are so difficult that they are recorded as records. At the age of 24, cyclist Jed Mildon did a triple backflip on his bike at a BMX show. The athlete had been preparing the trick for three months.

40. The longest skate jump was in 2004 Danny Wayne at the Los Angeles skateboarding competition. Coming off the high ramp, Danny reached a speed of 88 kilometers per hour, with the subsequent jump flying 24 meters. The next year, the athlete turned his jump into a real show by skating on the Great Wall of China.

There are many curious facts and achievements in the world of sports, which we will tell about in this article.

The most popular exercise machine

There is no need to explain to anyone that sport is health? Yes, maybe everyone knows this, but not everyone has enough time to go in for sports. There is a way out - a home exercise machine. But which simulator is better to choose? What is the most popular exercise machine? It turns out that the most popular home exercise machine is the orbitreck. As for the model of the simulator, users prefer the Turneo Vento C-207, this particular simulator is the most popular among people who want to be healthy and who do not have enough time to go to the gym. The Turneo Vento C-207 exercise machine can replace the treadmill, exercise bike, stepper and rowing machine.

Most expensive baseball card

Everyone knows that the price of rare collectibles is incredibly high. Baseball cards are no exception. The most expensive and coveted loot is the T 206 Honus Vagner baseball card. Now its price is $ 2.8 million, although more recently it was $ 2.35 million. Only 27 of these baseball rarities were recorded at open auctions. Anyone who has the required amount in stock can buy them.

Why is the price of some kind of card so high? They were released at the beginning of the 20th century, when Honus Wagner was fighting against smoking. A hundred years have passed, and only 50-60 copies have survived to this day.

The best karateka

Would you like to know which karate fighter is the best today? Yes, it is the “best” and no other. Whether you know the name Hirokazu Kanazawa, it is this person who is the most respected karateka in the world. Kanazawa was born in 1931 on the island of Honshu to a fisherman's family. Until the age of eleven, the boy did not do anything and was like the others, but then everything changed. Once, a fight took place between Kanazawa and his classmate, in which, naturally, our future sensei prevailed. Everything would be fine, but after this fight, Kanazawa received a slap from the father of his enemy - a 100 kilogram sumo wrestler, the boy fell into the mud and could not do anything.

From that moment it all began - the boy became very offended, and he decided to take revenge. With incredible efforts, training day and night, cherishing the plan of revenge in his heart, the boy developed spiritually. When Kanazawa graduated from high school, he was already so strong not only physically, but also mentally that he forgave the old offender, and he died 2 years later. Today, Hirokazu Kanazawa is already over 80 years old, but being the owner of a black belt and 10-dan, he remains the best karate fighter of our time and his age is not a hindrance to him.

Longest parachute jump

The longest parachute jump was made by Joseph Kittinger - the captain of the US Army. 08/16/1960 the stratospheric balloon lifted the record holder to a height of 31,332 meters, from where the parachutist jumped. The movement to the ground lasted 13 minutes and 45 seconds - a third of this time the captain was in free fall, the maximum speed of the parachutist was 1149 km / h. I must say that this jump is considered the most dangerous, since it is impossible to make it without equipment.

Kittinger himself lost consciousness during the fall, and was saved by a parachute that opened at an altitude of five and a half kilometers. After landing, the captain fell into the caring hands of doctors, who quickly put him on his feet.

The Greatest Skate Jump

Are you wondering who is the best seiktboarder and who set, well, simply the record skate jump? Danny Way - the name became a legend when in 2004, participating in the Skateboarding Big Air competition, which was held in Los Angeles, he set the world record for skate jumping. Climbing onto a tall ramp, Danny left it, accelerating his skate to a speed of 88 km / h, then he made a jump at a distance of 24 meters. This jump became the greatest in history.

A year later, Danny Way decided to cement his name in the memory of people by jumping over the Great Wall of China on a skateboard. With his achievements, Way demonstrated his willpower and true courage to everyone.

The highest weight lifted in the exercise "bench press

Everyone knows, but someone knows firsthand, that it is quite difficult to pull the barbell. Only a trained person can lift a lot of weight without harm to health. I would like to inform everyone that a new world record for the exercise "bench press" has been set. This record was set by Ryan Kenelli. The athlete managed to squeeze from the chest no less, no more than 486 kilograms.

Ryan's record is absolute and so far no one has been able to break it. Even if Kenelli did not manage to perform the exercise cleanly - he did not manage to straighten his arms to the end, but all the same, the judges decided to count the result. One cannot but pay tribute to the champion, because that bar weighed 486 kilograms - almost half a ton.

Guinness World Record for coup ascents

The famous Russian athlete Zalodny Denis entered his name in the famous Guinness Book of Records, making the largest number of lifts with a coup on the crossbar. During the exercise, the guy lost 1 kg, and he erased his hands, because he worked without gloves. By the way, it took 208 minutes to set the record of 1333 coups. Most notably, the athlete was only 21 years old.

Coach Sergei Rachinsky said that in 2008, on April 28, his ward set another record - he squatted 210 times with a hundred kilogram barbell.

Drifting record

Cars, speed, drifting (controlled skid) - how popular it is today. And what can we say about the records, because they are here too. For example, have you ever thought about the length of the longest drift? It happened at the Mercedes World training ground located in Britain. A special circular track was prepared. Mercedes test driver Mauro Kahlo decided to show what real drifting is.

In fact, he was not going to go for a record, but simply tested what the Mercedes C63 AMG can do. Kalo managed to keep the car in a skid at a distance of 2308 meters, he would have gone further, and the car did not mind, but there was one problem - the tire let down. However, the record was set - the length of the longest drift is 2308 meters.

The child who squeezes out more than you

A boy named Ronak Atul Vitha is already 5 years old. At the age of 2.5, he seriously decided to start developing his body. According to Ronaka's mother, her son easily managed to perform various stunts, even those that were shown to viewers in the popular blockbuster Ghajini. It was this film that became the starting point of the future record holder.

Ronak decided to try his hand at push-ups. He did push-ups 10 times every day. The child's body began to quickly get used to physical activity and after a week the boy was already doing 50 push-ups a day. After a little more time for Ronaka, 100 push-ups became a regular warm-up. Today, in the Guinness Book of Records in the column "push-up master" there is the name of a little athlete - Ronak mastered the "height" in 1482 push-ups, and it took about 40 minutes.

A boy was born in 2005. At 2.5 years old, Ronak Atul Vitha set a life goal - to become the strongest child on Earth. In achieving this goal, the boy is helped by his loving family and his personal trainer named Satyajit Chaurasya, who comes to the child 3 times a week to conduct training.

First triple backflip

The young BMX rider, whose name is Jed Mildon, has contributed to the history of cycling. This athlete is the founder of the triple backflip. It was this trick that Mildon showed at a sports event that took place in New Zealand in the athlete's hometown. The 24-year-old rider has delighted people with three perfect back flips on a BMX bike. This BMX show was attended by representatives of the Guinness Book of Records, seeing the talents of the young rider, they could not pass by. The trick, on which Jed Mildon worked for three months, brought the young athlete not only fame, but also a new record.

145 water skiers hit the Guinness Book of Records

New day and new record. Every day all over the world some records are set, because there are enough disciplines in which you can show your talents. For example, let's take 145 water skiers who are in the Guinness Book of Records. What did they have to do? Just hold out on the water for 1.85 kilometers.

All that is nothing, but the fact is that they were all attached to the same boat, can you imagine this sight? It happened on the west coast of Tasmania, in Strahan in McQuire Bay.

The most dangerous sport

For some reason, all of us find it hard to live in peace - we constantly want a surge of emotions and adrenaline. That is why people sign up for extreme sports. Have you ever wondered what kind of sport is the most dangerous? No? Now, you will know. The most dangerous sport is considered to be “Base jumping”. What it is? These are skydiving from a very low altitude. The first danger that awaits athletes is the destabilization of the body, which turns into uncontrolled rotation. Hence the next threat arises - the parachute may not open, and also, when rotating, it is easy to get entangled in the lines. Here, of course, everyone should understand that no one will have a chance to fix everything!

The next most dangerous kind of sport is considered "Heli-ski" - unconventional skiing. Then we have cave diving, diving, rodeo, rock climbing, hockey, football, surfing, rafting. Like this!

The richest athlete of all history

Are you wondering which athlete has made the most money in his career? The London Daily Telegraph reported that Peter Strack, a professor at the University of Chicago, calculated and found the richest athlete in history.

This man was Guy Appuleius Diocles, who lived in ancient Rome in the second century AD. Guy was involved in a popular sport at that time - chariot riding. According to conservative estimates, Guy Appuleius Diocles earned about 15 billion dollars in modern currency during his sports career!

The hardest wrestler

What sport do you think the heaviest athlete in the world should choose for himself? Of course, it can only be a sumo wrestler. The way it is. The heaviest sumo wrestler in the world today is Emanuel Jabrauch. The weight of this giant is as much as 402 kilograms with an increase of 203 centimeters. Of course, such a complexion Emanuel owes much to the specifics of the sport in which he is engaged. Emanuel Jabrauch is a recognized seven-time world champion in sumo.

The famous sportsman was born in 1964. Today, Emanuel Jabrauch is a member of the board of the Foundation for the development of children's sumo. The champion is trying in every possible way to support young novice sumo wrestlers.

Tennis court - skyscraper

Oh, these extreme people! There is a five-star hotel in Dubai called Jumeirah, and it is there that you can find the tallest tennis court, soaring in the air at a distance of 1000 feet (about 300 meters) from the ground. In between tennis matches taking place, the court serves as an excellent landing area for helicopters. From the tennis court at Jumeirah you can see most of Dubai.

There is such a height that it will take your breath away even when you look at the photographs, because 300 meters is practically a 100-storey building. Naturally, every tennis fan would like to play on such a court at least once.

Record fast electric car

People create amazing things. For example, a group of students from Brigham Young University have created a record electric car called the Electric Blue. It took about 7 years to implement this project, and 130 people worked on it. Recent tests carried out at a traditional test site, which is located in the Bonneville Desert, have shown that this electric car is capable of developing a cruising speed of 250 km / h, and its peak speed is 281 km / h.

This figure is a speed record in the category up to 500 kilograms. What about the electric car itself? There are two of the most important things about the car: the carbon fiber body and the lithium phosphate batteries.

Interesting sports facts about different sports:

In our article, we want to talk about strong people. Yes Yes. It is about them. After all, the strong people of Russia have not yet died out.

How to identify the strongest?

How to determine who is the strongest? Finding such a person is not so easy. After all, one must not make a mistake and determine the real leader. And for this, various international championships are held.

We have our own competition in our country, which determines who is the strongest person - the Russian championship. It attracts many spectators and fans. You yourself understand that this spectacle is distinguished by a special emotionality. People come to it from the most remote corners of the country and even from

Elbrus Nigmatullin

The strongest man in Russia is He who occupied himself for a long time. The strong man himself was born in Bashkiria. He began to demonstrate his extraordinary strength and capabilities as early as childhood. At ten years old, he could calmly pull up forty times, which is beyond the power of an ordinary adult man. However, Elbrus is famous throughout Russia not only as the most powerful person in the Russian Federation. He is known both as a politician and as an actor. E. Nigmatullin was called the strongest for four years in a row. More than one world record has accumulated in his track record. For example, in 2006 a strongman pulled the steamer "Ivan Kalita" ten meters along the Moscow River, weighing one hundred and eighty-six tons.

In addition, the strongman is a master of sports in powerlifting and armwrestling, as well as a national champion in these sports and six-rounds.

But in 2010 Elbrus did not take part in the competition for the title of "The strongest man in Russia." His place was taken by Sergei Kharlamov.

Who is on the list of the strongest people in the country?

Rating of the most powerful people in modern Russia

We'll start our list from tenth place and gradually work our way up to the leader in first place.

Before moving on to the strongmen, we want to note by what parameters, in fact, human strength is currently being determined. For many athletes and coaches, the most important metric is the deadlift. What it is? This is, in fact, the weight that a strong man is able to lift from the ground. This is the strength of the athlete. Therefore, in our rating there are only those strongmen whose records were recorded at official competitions, and not at home or in training.

Who are these strong people in Russia?

The strongest and hardiest people in Russia:

10. Livshits Oleg (375 kilograms). He is a prize-winner of many international and national competitions, a world record holder in deadlift, as well as a prize-winner of the Russian bench press championship.

9. Kalinichenko Vladimir (377.5 kilograms). He is a master of sports in powerlifting, as well as a national record holder in eventing and a multiple winner in extreme power competitions.

8. Sarychev Kirill (380 kilograms) - an international-class athlete (master of sports) in powerlifting, as well as lying push-ups. He is the absolute world champion in the junior squad, the record holder of the Russian Federation and Europe. He set the country's absolute record in a prone position without equipment - three hundred twenty six kilograms.

7. Alexey Serebryakov (380 kilograms). He is the winner of the Russian Cup in the sport of powerlifting in 2001, the champion of Russia in the same year. He also became world junior champion in 2000.

6. Klyushev Alexander (385 kilograms). We can safely say about him that he is one of the strongest people on our planet. has a large number of records in competitions such as power extreme. He is not only an international master of sports in powerlifting, but also a European champion in this sport. And, finally, he has the title "The Strongest Man in Russia" in the power extreme in 2008, 2009 and 2011.

Five of the strongest

5. Belyaev Andrey (395 kilograms) - repeated champion of the Russian Federation in powerlifting, world champion in the WPC version.

4. Malanichev Andrey (400 kilograms) - multiple champion of the Russian Federation in powerlifting and master of sports, winner of many international tournaments, winner (five times) of the Titans' Cup.

3. (400 kilograms) is just a true world-class powerlifting legend. He joined the gold team of the Russian Federation, which has not lost for eight years. Since 2007, unfortunately, he has not participated in competitions.

2. Pozdeev Konstantin (400 kilograms). He became the absolute record holder of the world, Russia and Europe in deadlift in the weight category up to one hundred and ten kilograms. He is also the champion of Russia, the world and Europe in powerlifting (IPF version) and a master of sports of international class.

1. And, finally, who is the most powerful person in Russia? It takes the first place in the rating (417.5 kilograms). It's hard to imagine, but this athlete is an eight-time national champion in (weight category - over 105 kilograms). He set an absolute record for Russia in deadlift, which amounted to 417.5 kilograms. In addition, he is an international master of sports in weightlifting as well as powerlifting.

These are the extraordinary strongest, agile and hardy people of Russia.

Historical excursion

Our country has always been famous for its strong men. In Russia there was and is a certain cult of physical strength. This has happened since ancient times. Remember who the heroes of the first epics and legends were? Of course, the heroes. There were enough strongmen in the history of the country. There is even a list of the most powerful people in the history of Russia. It highlights seven famous people who are worth talking about in more detail.

Tsar Peter the First

The list is headed by Tsar Peter the First. It is difficult to call him an ordinary king. He stood out among the autocrats primarily in height (204 centimeters). Peter possessed remarkable strength and irrepressible energy. He twisted coins with his fingers, cast-iron pans - in the Tsar, checking the strength of the horseshoes, he could also twist them. If she succumbed, then, then, bad.

Evpatiy Kolovrat

Evpatiy Kolovrat is a real historical figure, despite the epic image. The hero became famous for his strength and courage in the fight against the Mongols. He had a squad, with which he entered into battles with an enemy that outnumbered him. Evpatiy also defeated the most powerful Mongol warrior sent by Khan Batu himself.

The enemy did not manage to defeat Kolovrat's squad in any way until they thought of using stone-bit guns in the war. After the death of the hero, Khan Batu ordered to give his body to the squad. He did this as a sign of respect for the bravery of the warrior.

Rusakov Grigory

Rusakov Grigory (turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) - the winner of bears and bulls. He was born in Donbass and worked in a mine. Once he became a champion, and he was invited to work in a circus in Moscow. Since then, he has become a fighter. Having won the love of the audience and popularity in the capital, he began to tour Russia, and then around the world. He became the winner of the championship in Paris and Argentina. Nicholas II freed the fighter from military service. However, his career was cut short in 1917 when the revolution took place. According to some sources, he continued to live in Murmansk, and according to others - in the settlement of Mikhailovka. However, the hero died somehow completely ridiculous. The reason was the fall from the truck. Rusakov wanted to break a branch on the move and fell. He was paralyzed and died a year later. He was known for his fights with bears, the ability to bend rails and horseshoes.

Ivan Poddubny

Poddubny Ivan was also a famous fighter. He began his career in the Beskorovainy circus. He lost his first competition and since then began to train a lot every day, sparing no effort. He quickly became famous both in Russia and in Europe. His main opponent was Raoul de Boucher (French).

They faced in the ring three times, and always Ivan Poddubny came out the winner, despite the dishonest methods of the Frenchman. The strongman conquered not only Europe, but also America. There he gathered many spectators. However, he did not stay there for a long time and returned to his homeland.

Alexander Zass

He remained in history as Iron Samson. He gained fame during the First World War. He worked in a Hungarian circus and himself staged performances in which he demonstrated miracles of strength and endurance. Strongman toured with his performances in France, Italy, England, Switzerland, England. In 1924, Zass moved to England for good, where he was awarded the title "Strongest Man on Earth". One of his achievements is that he developed a system of special exercises to strengthen the tendons. Thanks to such trainings, the strongman was able to withstand enormous loads.

Vasily Alekseev

Vasily Alekseev can be called, perhaps, the last strongman of the Soviet era. He lived in a small town near Rostov. With worldwide fame, he led a fairly simple lifestyle, paying close attention only to his favorite weightlifting. Foreign fans called him the Russian bear.

He was twice the Olympic champion, and the world champion - six times, and the same amount - the European champion. For seven years in a row, he held the championship of the Union. During his sports career, he set eighty world records and eighty-one national records. An interesting fact is that he became the eternal owner of the world record for the sum of three exercises (645 kilograms). He trained with himself, setting new records. He was the first to conquer the 600 kilogram mark. Until 1992, Alekseev was engaged in coaching in weightlifting. He developed a revolutionary training system, thanks to which none of his charges received a single injury. Alekseev criticized the lifting of large loads in training, suggesting to rely on endurance, combining different types of training. The famous coach died in Munich in 2011.

Alexander Karelin

Karelin Alexander is perhaps the most famous Russian wrestler. They called him San Sanych. He left the big sport more than fifteen years ago, back in the two thousandth year. At the age of fourteen, he became interested in Greco-Roman wrestling. Four years later, he became the world youth champion. Throughout his sports career, he collected many titles, three times took gold medals at the Olympics, nine times won the title of world champion and twelve times - the champion of Europe. In addition, he won gold medals thirteen times at the championships of the Union and Russia.

He was even awarded four times as the best wrestler on the planet "Golden Belt". In the ninety-ninth year, Karelin was invited to fight by a Japanese fighter, who was reputed to be completely invincible in his homeland. And so Akira Maeda decided to make a show by challenging Alexander. However, this was his mistake, because after a few minutes he became for the Russian strongman just a dummy for throwing. Although, I must say that Karelin used only techniques from wrestling (Greco-Roman).

Instead of an afterword

And now the competition "The Strongest Man of Russia" is being held. Since the country has always been famous for its strong men, the event is spectacular. Athletes are offered six exercises. They are all completely different. There are also relay races, which participants pass with heavy loads. And there is also such a test as to hold, for example, a Mercedes minibus. It is difficult to guess who will become the absolute leader in such competitions.

Speaking about power records and how the strongest person in Russia lives, you need to understand that such achievements are not easy to achieve. They are not subject to everyone. Before reaching such heights, each strongman has come a long way of exhausting training. Yes, and having won titles and titles, becoming a champion, none of them stops and continues to train, because there are always many new athletes around who also strive to climb the sports Olympus. For each of them, sport has become the meaning of life.

Interesting facts, interesting information about athletes and other people - this is information about health, strength, endurance, agility. In antiquity and in modern times, there were amazing people whose skills are difficult to repeat and they continue to amaze with their achievements and inspire modern athletes for daily training. Unfortunately, in our time, many victories are based on doping, unsportsmanlike behavior. But there are still many athletes who achieve success through daily training, perseverance, training not only muscles, but also tempering the character.

Force

Interesting facts about sports in ancient times. Sport and intelligence may seem to be incompatible concepts, but the ancient Greek scientists - Socrates, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Democritus, Demosthenes were famous athletes and participated in the Olympics, they had significant strength in addition to the mind. Pythagoras was a champion boxer, and the fistfights of antiquity were much more brutal than modern ones - hands were wrapped in bull skin so as not to injure the hands, and such a fist could do much more harm to the enemy than an unarmed hand. Plato played in the discipline of pankration - a mixture of boxing and wrestling, such fights could be as fierce as fist fights.

The most productive Soviet freestyle wrestler is Alexander Medved, who became world champion 10 times.

The maximum weight of the bar, wrung out from the chest in the prone position, was 486 kilograms. The record was set by weightlifter Ryan Kenelli, while performing the exercise, he could not fully straighten his arms, as required by the rules, but the result was still counted, counting that no one will be able to lift a barbell weighing almost half a ton anyway.

Russian Zalozny Denis is very hardy - in one hour he made 1333 lifts with a coup on the crossbar. This athlete owns another record achievement (it was not officially registered) - 210 squats with a barbell weighing 100 kilograms.

Children often make great athletes. Five-year-old boy Ronak did 1482 push-ups in 40 minutes. The child achieved this result by doing push-ups every day from the age of 2.5 years.

Ancient athletes could earn much more than modern athletes. Roman sportsman Guy Appuleius Diocles (2nd century AD) hosted chariot racing. If you count his fees in modern money, then his earnings amounted to 15 million dollars.

The hardest sumo wrestler is the world champion in this sports discipline Emanuel Jabrauch. His height is more than two meters, his weight is over 400 kilograms.

Agility

The tallest basketball player in the world is Chinese Sun Minmin, he can be a record holder not only among athletes, but also among ordinary people - with a height of 2.36 meters, he has a very low weight - 152 kilograms, which allows him to move freely and achieve noticeable sports success.

In 1976 there was an amazing football match in which the Aston Villa player scored four goals - two against Leicester City, two against his own. The game ended in a draw, with a score of 2: 2, surprising and possibly angering the fans.

In 1957, at a baseball game, athlete Richie Ashburn hit the ball so that he smashed the face of a woman who was sitting in the stands. The match was interrupted, a woman with a broken head on a stretcher was taken to the infirmary. After bandaging her head, the cheerleader returned to her seat and the same baseball player again hit the same woman with the ball.

Parachuting has its own records - in 1960, the American soldier Joseph Kittinger jumped from a stratospheric balloon, which climbed to a height of more than 31 kilometers, reaching a speed of 1149 kilometers per hour. Before the parachute was deployed, the athlete flew for more than 13 minutes. During the jump, Kittinger passed out, his life was saved by a parachute, which automatically opened at an altitude of 5.5 kilometers. The jump was made in special equipment, the parachutist looked a little like an astronaut.

Cycling acrobatics is very dangerous to health. Nevertheless, cyclists sometimes do tricks that are so difficult that they are recorded as records. At the age of 24, cyclist Jed Mildon did a triple backflip on his bike at a BMX show. The athlete had been preparing the trick for three months.

The largest number of water skiers who simultaneously drove behind one boat - 145, athletes rode in such a composition for almost two kilometers along the coast of Tasmania, setting a record that was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

The tallest tennis court is located in Dubai, in a five-star hotel at an altitude of about three hundred meters. It is not equipped on the roof, but attached to the side of the building and seems to float in the air. When no one is playing on the court, helicopters can land on it.

Speed

Interesting information about athletes-athletes. Ethiopian Haile Gebreselissie won the 10 km race. While running, he presses his left hand to the body - this is a consequence of the fact that as a child he ran ten kilometers every day on the way to school, clutching his textbooks.

Jamaican track and field athlete Usain Bolt runs the fastest in the world. In 2009, he set two records - in the 100-meter race he covered the distance in 9.58 seconds, at the 200-meter distance he finished in 19.19 seconds.

The longest jump with a skateboard was made in 2004 by Danny Wayne at the Los Angeles skateboarding competition. Coming off the high ramp, Danny reached a speed of 88 kilometers per hour, with the subsequent jump flying 24 meters. The next year, the athlete turned his jump into a real show by skating on the Great Wall of China.

Racer and test driver Mauro Kahlo set the record for the longest drift (controlled drift) in a Mercedes - it skidded to 2308 meters, after which further movement was impossible due to tire damage.

Base jumping is considered the most dangerous sport - parachute jumping at low altitudes, in which the body can rotate uncontrollably, and the parachute may not open in time.

Motorsport is also a sport. Now electric cars are very popular. The fastest electric car was created by students from the American University of Brigham Young (Whittingham, Vermont, USA). More than a hundred people worked on the project for seven years. The maximum speed exceeds 280 kilometers per hour, and at a slightly lower speed, 250 kilometers per hour, the car can go for quite a long time. The body of the car is lightweight, made of carbon fiber, the batteries are lithium phosphate. This is not just an experimental car, it is a real racing car, at least among electric vehicles.

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