Dmitry Klokov (see photo below) is a famous Russian weightlifter. Vice champion Olympic Games in Beijing (2008). Repeated medalist and winner of the world championships in the category up to 105 kilograms. Completed his career in 2015. The article will describe short biography athlete.
Childhood
Dmitry Klokov was born in 1983 in the city of Balashikha (Moscow region). It was there that the boy spent his entire childhood. Dmitry's father - Vyacheslav - was a weightlifter and instilled in his son a love for this sport. Soon he gave the boy to the section, but not with the goal of making him a future athlete, but exclusively for physical development... Dmitry liked lifting so much that he decided to make this activity an integral part of his own life.
Carier start
In 1998, Klokov took part in the All-Russian Championship. He was then only fifteen years old. The tournament was successful - Dmitry became the best among juniors. A year later, the young man went to the first serious competition in his life - the European Championship. There Klokov took third place, which significantly gave him confidence in his own abilities. The young man began to intensively prepare for future championships, gaining muscle mass and increasing working weight.
The next competition took place in Novgorod in 2004. Unfortunately, Dmitry did not perform very well there. He lost only a few points to his competitors. That result was considered by many to be rigged. But the weightlifter himself considered it fair and said that he would work more on his shortcomings.
Victory
In 2005, Dmitry Klokov went to Kursk for the Russian Cup. There the young man won his first champion title. This time he prepared himself much better, as indicated by a large lead in points from competitors. In addition to status and title, Dmitry gained many fans and won the audience's love.
In the same year, the young man went to Qatar for the World Championship, which promised international fame and a large cash prize. As a result, Klokov conquered the world stage with a perfectly prepared performance and his magnificent athletic appearance. The athlete received first place and a professional card.
Olympiad
Dmitry devoted the entire 2007 to preparing for these serious competitions. True, the weightlifter still managed to participate in several minor tournaments. The athlete's work paid off - he won a silver medal at the Beijing Olympics. Well, the first place went to the Belarusian Andrei Aryamnov.
After the Olympics
The vice-championship brought fame to Klokov in sports circles. Serious sponsors immediately drew attention to his talent and natural data. So, a new period began in Dmitry's life. The weightlifter now has experienced mentors who have written innovative training schemes. The main goal there was a rapid increase in mass and an increase in strength. Klokov was also invited to the national team of the Russian Federation. He could not refuse, because it was considered a great honor for any athlete. To justify his high status, Dmitry practically lived in a gym for the next two years. He tried to achieve excellence in his profession and conquer all future championships. And there were a lot of those in his sports career.
Klokov got a chance to show his skills in 2010 at the World Championships. There Dmitry became the silver medalist. Given his level of training and experience in sports, he was well aware that he could achieve more. Therefore, the athlete began to actively study all the nuances and subtleties of the training process. Klokov's skill grew every day, and the will and desire to win were amazing.
Completion of a career
In general, 2010 was a very eventful year for the athlete and brought him the champion title at a pan-European tournament, as well as the second place at the World Championship. Competitions held in Russia did not go unnoticed either. Dmitry Klokov agreed to participate in each of them. Already in 2011, the weightlifter became a three-time champion of the country, confidently winning his weight category... But after a couple of years, his luck left him. At the Russian Championship, he took only third place, letting young rivals go ahead.
For the next two years, Dmitry combined sports with running his own business. And that, and another came out with him very successfully. The increase in muscle mass and intense training allowed the athlete to move to the next weight category. In 2015, he became the bronze medalist of the Russian Championship (over 105 kg.). Immediately after the final, Klokov informed the press about the completion sports career... Dmitry decided to go into business more closely and devote more time to his family. The athlete's fans were very upset by his statement. After all, they are already accustomed to the fact that Dmitry regularly surprises them with his skill and the highest level preparation.
Personal life
She developed very well for the athlete. 2006 - this is the year when Dmitry Klokov got married. The wife of an athlete named Elena after some time gave birth to his daughter Anastasia. The newly minted father and mother were very happy. Soon, Dmitry Klokov's wife and her daughter went to all competitions and supported the head of the family. It is likely that it was the support of close people that allowed the athlete not only to win new titles, but also to confirm the existing ones.
State awards
In 2008, Dmitry Klokov received two honorary titles. The athlete was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports. The weightlifter was also awarded the Order of Merit to the Fatherland (2nd degree). Thus, the country's leadership noted Klokov's significant contribution to the development of sports and his high results at the 2008 Olympics.
Nutrition
According to Dmitry's assurances, he is not some kind of special gourmet when it comes to food. Depending on his training goals, his diet consists of two types of diets: high-carbohydrate and high-protein. At the same time, a large amount of fresh vegetables and water is necessarily included in the grocery basket. According to the athlete, in order to reduce the effects of stress after heavy physical exertion, you need to eat any lean meat daily.
Weightlifter Dmitry Klokov is a supporter healthy eating and denies the use of various chemical and steroid drugs. The athlete uses only approved pharmacology, which includes nutritional supplements, amino acids, proteins, and the like.
Dmitry Klokov's workouts
Like most professional weightlifters, the hero of this article does not have any one program divided into preparation for the offseason and competition. The specificity of practicing this sport implies a balanced training schedule, which includes a number of power blocks aimed at stimulating certain muscle groups.
In his post-professional career, Dmitry focuses on intensive training with free apparatus (dumbbells and barbells) in the style of the classic CrossFit program. Despite the fact that Klokov has become an idol for many thousands of fans around the world, he advises against imitating him. The athlete recommends going to a professional trainer, who will already draw up a harmonious program that takes into account the individual characteristics of the trainee.
Anthropometric data
Nature generously rewarded this athlete:
- Dmitry Klokov's height is 182 centimeters.
- Weight - 105 kilograms.
top scores
During the period of his professional career, Dmitry managed to achieve the following indicators:
- Barbell Squat - 325 kg
- Jogging thrust - 335 kg.
- Taking a barbell on the chest - 260 kg.
- Bench press - 230 kg.
- Classic snatch - 196 kg.
- Classic clean and jerk - 232 kg.
Dmitry Vyacheslavovich Klokov- was born on February 18, 1983 in the city of Balashikha, Moscow Region. Thanks to his father, a famous weightlifter, he is already with early years begins to play sports, including weightlifting. Perseverance in achieving the goal and the support of his father soon played a role and at the age of 15 Dmitry receives his first award for third place at the European Championship in Italy, and in 2004, after bronze at the Russian Cup, he begins his professional career.
This is followed by victories and prizes at the championships of Russia, the World and the Olympic Games in the weight category up to 105 kg and above. Dmitry also became the owner state awards"For services to the Fatherland" II degree - for an invaluable contribution to development physical culture and sports, and outstanding sports achivments at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where he won silver. In 2013, after performing at the Russian Championship in Kazan, Dmitry Klokov ends his professional weightlifting career.
In 2014-15, while vacationing in Thailand with and, where they had a mini championship in weightlifting and bodybuilding, Dmitry Klokov promised to prepare and perform at the Yashankin Cup. Possessing a very aesthetic figure as for a weightlifter, after 4 months of active training, he exhibits a fairly high-quality form and wins in the nomination “ Beach bodybuilding among friends".
At the moment, Dmitry Klokov continues to actively engage himself and train others. In addition to weightlifting training, he tries himself in bodybuilding and crossfit, maintains his blog and travels around the world with weightlifting seminars, instilling in youth a love of iron sports.
- Height- 183 cm
- The weight- 105 kg
- Dash- 202.5 kg
- Jolt- 242 kg
- Bench press- 230 kg
- Bench press- 180 kg
ACHIEVEMENTS
| Year | Competition | A place holding | Weight category | Dash | Push | A place |
| 2004 | Cup of Russia | Novgorod | up to 105 kg | 187.5 kg | 225.0 kg | 3 |
| 2004 | Russian championship | Ufa | over 105 kg | 200 Kg | 225 kg | 2 |
| 2005 | Cup of Russia | Nevinnomyssk | over 105 kg | 202.5 kg | 240.0 kg | 2 |
| 2005 | Russian championship | Kursk | up to 105 kg | 191.0 kg | 235.0 | 1 |
| 2005 | World championship | Doha | up to 105 kg | 192.0 kg | 227.0 kg | 1 |
| 2006 | Russian championship | Nevinnomyssk | up to 105 kg | 193.0 kg | 232.0 kg | 1 |
| 2006 | World championship | Santo Domingo | up to 105 kg | 188.0 kg | 218.0 kg | 3 |
| 2007 | Russian championship | Syktyvkar | up to 105 kg | 194.0 kg | 227.0 kg | 2 |
| 2007 | World championship | Chiang Mai | up to 105 kg | 190.0 kg | 221.0 kg | 3 |
| 2008 | Russian championship | Saransk | up to 105 kg | 195.0 kg | 235.0 kg | 3 |
| 2008 | Olympic Games | Beijing | up to 105 kg | 193.0 kg | 230.0 kg | 2 |
| 2010 | Europe championship | Minsk | up to 105 kg | 185.0 kg | 224.0 kg | 1 |
| 2010 | World championship | Antalya | up to 105 kg | 192.0 kg | 223.0 kg | 2 |
| 2011 | Russian championship | Penza | up to 105 kg | 195.0 kg | 232.0 kg | 1 |
| 2011 | World championship | Paris | up to 105 kg | 196.0 kg | 232.0 kg | 2 |
| 2013 | Russian championship | Kazan | up to 105 kg | 186.0 kg | 215.0 kg | 3 |
WORKOUT
Like most professional weightlifters, Dmitry does not have any personal training programs, all workouts are classic, focused on working out certain muscle groups... V recent times he began to pay more attention to intense circuit training with free weights... The video below is an example of one such workout.
According to Dmitry himself, he is not a great gourmet in terms of nutrition. Depending on the intensity of training, his diet is divided into a high-protein or high-carbohydrate diet, but with the obligatory consumption of large quantities of fresh vegetables and water. In his opinion, with active physical activity, low-fat meats must be present in the daily diet.
Dmitry Klokov is an ardent supporter of a healthy diet and denies the use of steroid drugs. As a supplement to the main food, he uses sports supplements, which contain proteins, amino acids and other dietary supplements high in various vitamins.
Dmitry Klokov Career: Weightlifter
Birth: Russia, 18.2.1983
Dmitry Klokov is by no means a darling of fate. These in weightlifting simply do not exist. At the age of thirteen, he chose the next goal of life. At twenty-two he did it. At the just held World Weightlifting Championships, he won gold medal... The second in the family. The first was won many years ago by his dad Vyacheslav Klokov. Dima considers Batu to be wise. Yourself hardworking. Refused the coach. Studies foreign languages... Himself and a lot. Can't get drunk. But he knows how to sleep soundly. Hates the word pitching. Has no right to step over the barbell or kick it. But he has the right to courage. What he uses.
Dima, two world champions in the house are very good.
This has never happened, for the first time in weightlifting. People close to the family suspected that this would end the occupation. Others hinted: what a dad you have, he is pushing you through.
And how is it allowed to push through on the platform? Whether you take weight or not
Do not know. Come on, I'm okay with that. The main thing is we are champions.
But do you understand that you personally have no choice?
Because they are obliged to give birth to a son at the moment. The third will be.
I am all for it. I really want this third champion in the family. And at the current moment I will put the close happy leotard in the locker. Dad won the world championship and held a champion towel for me, such a beautiful one. So I decided to put my wrestler in a solid box.
But they say, whoever gets up before the deadline, God gives him. What time do you wake up, Dima?
Yes, the manner of getting up at eight in the morning. Lifting, building, charging. Breakfast at nine. After him, with half-closed eyes, you run back to fit, at eleven, take off again. Because it's training at eleven. Two hours in the gym, lunch, ate, slept, at half past five another workout. I practiced and re-eaten the evening table.
Dozing again?
No, there really is who where.
Is training exhausting?
After I started the only one to train there. When I worked with the coach, I was terribly tired when they tell you: it must be, it must be exhausting. And when your own head you can do one thing, another, it's interesting. I can’t when someone presses from above, I don’t know how to obey.
Really, dad doesn't interfere, he just wants to at least transfer his skill.
Dad, I have a bigger manager. He's covering me. When the competition is approaching, some underwater currents immediately begin: who are friends with whom, whom to drag into the team? He cuts it all off. For me at least. It does not fit into the training course, it relies on my intuition one hundred percent.
And this happened because you stopped right away: so, dad, you are already the world champion, I am the coming champion
No, when my coach and I parted, dad thought that I had to study alone before the deadline, although he himself went through the same. Only when he was 23 he parted ways with the same coach, and I was 21. And he was also the only one to win the world championship. I tell him: you could, give me a chance to give proof that I am such a hefty one. I have four months of training to raise, everything is familiar, no, we will reflect. By that time, I had my best total of 185 in the snatch, 225 in the clean and jerk. I lifted after four months 200 in the snatch and 235 in the push. The result is, then there is no dispute. Then I added
Does this service force you to teach foreign languages? How many do you have?
With a dictionary or with teachers?
With dictionary. I will not say that I know them, but I study them.
That is, you open the dictionary and learn everything in a row? Do you have your own system?
I explain. I take a piece of paper, A4 format, at the top I write a word in Russian, which is often found and may be required in communication. Then, with a blue felt-tip pen, an English word, an orange Spanish word, and all the words, their pronunciation, in different colors appear on the piece of paper. I paste the papers on the wall. When you lie on the bed, all this appears before your eyes. I have a well-developed visual memory. And you don't need to teach anything. The first time you see a word in a textbook, the second you write, the third you highlight, that is, it always looms before your eyes. My father invariably said to me: teach, teach, learn the language, and so tortured me that I thought: why only English? I realized that Spanish, Italian, French are very similar, British as strict, and also Chinese.
Say something in Chinese.
I will not scold. There are many words of passion that sound indecent.
Well, say hello to me.
Decently. So, at the present time, having met a Chinese brother on the barbell, you can already hit him on the shoulder: no how, they say, brother, how do you do?
We had a joint training camp with them in Podolsk, and the only kid wanted to teach Russian. So, three times a week he came to my room and English language I explained the rules of Chinese, and I told him Russian in English. It was so curious, you can't imagine! Then I took the whole group on a fishing trip, I wanted the guys to make something nice. I loaded them into the car, handed out floats, fishing rods, and brought them to a paid lake. It's a pity, they didn't catch anything. They stood for a long time, in these stupid hoods, but only caught mosquitoes.
I had to dive like Papanov in the Diamond Hand. So what did God manage to give you by the age of 22?
Work. Rather, the ability not to turn work into hard labor. An athlete of the national team has eight workouts a week. I have for last year arbitrary day double workout. That is 14. And every training in bliss. When the Russian Championship was held in Kursk, where I won and automatically became the first number, dad sent me a message: Dima, we are proud of you, we are happy that we have you, and we wish you to become the world champion this year. These words became my incentive, I saved them. And I read every day before training.
Dad is cunning, and you are some kind of terrible jumble of sentimentality and obstinacy. But I still did not understand: have you already reached the level where a coach is not needed in principle?
Yes, many cannot practice without a coach, due to the fact that he is holding back. You want to step on the weight, but it's traumatic. And not everyone knows how to say no to themselves.
A Olympic champion Berestov says about you that you are very impulsive, in training you scream under the barbell as much as you can, and at competitions you generally start with half a turn.
But how does the ability to say no get along with impulsiveness?
The fact that I can do this is the merit of my father.
And the fact that he is a world champion ever put pressure on the psyche?
He didn't want me to do the barbell.
This is such a common thought, but what does it mean?
I tell you: Dad, his friend Aydar Yarulin, my mother, the initial coach Anikanov, all studied at the same institute. They had such a party. And Yarulin kept pestering his father when I was already a little older: Slav, look what a dude you have! Look at everything as similarly as consciously for the barbell: legs, arms Dad: No, times have changed, today education is needed. At some point, they quarreled more than that. And after a week I came to the bar, on December 10, 1995, I was almost 13 years old. Dad ran into the hall after the school, he perceived it as a whim: Forget it quickly, you better study, study Here my sister is just studying for someone else, my dad nevertheless won back at Moscow State University, at the faculty of important politics. She turned out smart with us. + The son is an athlete, the daughter is smart.
Do not be apologetic, but did you at least somehow learn?
He graduated from high school with three fours, the other fives ... And when he went to the European Championship among youths under 16, he became the third. Here, for the first time, Dad believed that I could do something in the barbell. I don't remember what he said, I remember that he started helping me. Like a professional. My main dream was to beat him in the combined event. I am forever, if I needed some combination of numbers, cipher, code, I wrote 442.5. Now I have the best amount of 442.5.
Did you feel sorry for your dad?
Yes, he is glad that there is! Do you know what a cool moment is? When you hold the barbell and know: at the current time, you will lower it, and you are the starting one. When you quit, all the senses cool down. Perhaps, because of this, I do not like all these congratulations and celebrations. In fact, I did a usual occupation, a native occupation.
Of course, there are hardly any champions in Russia! But tell me better, you were in heavyweight, and after that you returned to the category up to 105 kg. What for?
This is Yarulin's fault.
How, again?
And he is the key one, everything that we do with Batya, from his submission, sets up specifically. He constantly dreamed that I would become a champion in the category over 105, and he pushed me and my father there. And I am dry in structure, it is not easy for me to gain weight. Vaughn Chigishev (his own strongest heavyweight) while gaining these one hundred and thirty kilograms, eats from morning to evening. I tried it, half a year, moreover, more, sat in the dining room. As a result, it was not difficult for me to have a disgust for food. I took part in the next competitions, gathered everyone and say: everyone!
I can’t take it anymore, today I’ll sing
He said so. It's easier for me to eat protein foods than to get too full. The table is breaking, and it is necessary to gobble it all up hard.
A muscle mass also not infinite, apparently.
A lot of time is needed for the form: that is, cross out two or three years without delay. Our Olympic champion in heavy weights weighs 160 kilograms, moreover, Chigishev will struggle with him without any fuss.
Your existence is difficult.
Do you get jittery?
My courage interrupts all the jitters. But this also needs to be cultivated in oneself. Previously, it burned like this before the competition, lost three kilograms in the dark, but before the World Championships I did not lose it at all.
Like this? I mean lost kilograms.
You lie, all the time thinking: how do you lift, how do you not lift, you have already won internally and performed badly, you will perform tomorrow, and you are lying under this blanket The body temperature rises, right? And accordingly, energy consumption. So there is a weight loss. Many because they cannot forget to sleep. And what is more, after I won, I went to rest. Although someone goes to town, to a cafe, and I do not like to fumble like that.
Are you an ascetic or what?
No, I like to walk as a standard and I am famous for this in the national team, groovy, they say. I sing and dance. I love karaoke. And I choose songs that I can sing. I don't take the first one I come across, but rehearse first. In general, I invariably do what I know, this is what I need to do.
Some kind of inconsistency: courage and unwillingness to dare.
Well, that's not a risk. It’s easy for me to dislike thinking funny.
That's shameful?
This is not a shame, it is undignified.
Fourteen workouts a week, and the lower back, legs, what do they say?
Here, restoration plays the main image, it is also professionalism. Anyone can boot, one must be able to relax. Sometimes in the national team they make fun of us in the bathhouse: Oh, Klokov once again for a massage! And physical massage is not so cute, you won't long for it. But I come to the gym and feel great, I didn't strain my workout, but they'll hang their noses, it hurts here, it hurts there. Because they went into the bathhouse and went out. I have a sauna all day. Broom preparation, steaming, massage, stretching, and as a beginner.
They say, Dima, did Arnold Schwarzenegger take note of you?
We were invited to appear at the Arnold-Classic tournament. I packed my bag, like driving to a neighboring village, drove off, performed robustly, won. I took a picture with Schwarzenegger, I was lucky that I made my way to him through the guards. And because, if openly, and went with one task to make such a photograph, I did not think about the competition at all. I will not say that he is my idol, but
Do you respect?
I respect. A man in three directions became the first: politics, cinema, sports. It is worthy of respect.
What do weightlifters call themselves?
I don’t know how, I’ll tell you how I don’t like it when they call us, pitching. And we are weightlifters and weightlifters. Pancakes are actually discs. But we also call them pancakes. And we observe the signs: by means of the barbell, in particular, it is forbidden to step over it will be offended, and it is forbidden to hit it. Some throw, kick her when something goes wrong, foreigners in particular. We have this banned.
Do foreigners have better barbells?
The metal is more elastic. It's not bad for me, I know how to use it. Good for technical athletes. When you hold the barbell on your chest, our bar is firm, it does not bend, and the foreign barbell sways. If you sit down and catch her wave it helps. But in general we are famous for our technology. The Slavs have always given great sympathy to this.
And the Turks were doping, they were not allowed to the World Cup. Is it a painful subject at all?
Yes, everyone knows what is permissible and what is prohibited. It's just that drugs, really legal and effective, are very expensive. The Slavs are strong, and if everyone is in equal financial conditions, of course, we will be stronger. When we come to the competition, we see how the same Iranians, a rich oil power, do not worry about doping without any fuss, they come full, as if to a celebration. This is annoying. The rest are depleting their bodies, all traumatized, angry, hungry, but, truth, on the courage in character, but we will get out.
Dima, excuse me, I suddenly remembered quite inopportunely how Chemerkin and Petrov, having won the Olympics in Atlanta, had a lot of fun at a press conference about squeezed beds, from which they fell to the floor. Weightlifters still have fun sleeping?
We push through, but where to go? We have been living at the base for years. As a rule, each has its own bed, its own number. You come to the same bed, the same weight presses, and it is lower and lower. Come on, the main thing is to grab the weight. And the bed will not hurt.
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It has never happened before, for the first time in weightlifting. People close to the family suspected that this would end the case. Others hinted: what a father you have, he is pushing you through.
- And how can you push on the platform? Either you take weight or you don't ...
Do not know. Come on, I'm calm about it. The main thing is that we are champions.
- But do you understand that you personally have no choice?
- Because now they are obliged to give birth to a son. The third will be.
I am all for it. I really want this - the third champion in the family. And now I'll put my happy leotard in the locker. Dad won the world championship and held a champion towel for me, such a beautiful one. So I decided to put my wrestler in a deep box.
Best of the day
- But they say, who gets up early, God gives him. What time do you wake up, Dima?
Yes, it’s a habit to get up at eight in the morning. Lifting, building, charging. Breakfast at nine. After him, with half-closed eyes, you run back to go to bed, at eleven you get up again. Because at eleven - training. Two hours in the gym, lunch, ate, slept, at half past five another workout. I trained and ate again - dinner.
- Sleep again?
No, there really is who where.
- Is training exhausting?
After I started training alone, no. When I worked with a coach, I was terribly tired - when they tell you: it is necessary, it is necessary - it is exhausting. And when you have your own head - you can do one thing, another, it's interesting. I can’t when someone presses from above, I don’t know how to obey.
- Really, dad does not interfere, he simply wants to convey his experience.
Dad, I have a bigger manager. He's covering me. When the competition is approaching, some underwater currents immediately begin: who are friends with whom, whom to drag into the team? He cuts it all off. For me at least. V training process does not climb, completely trusts my intuition.
- And it happened because you stopped right away: so, dad, you are already the world champion, I am the future champion ...
No, when my coach and I parted, my father felt that it was too early for me to study alone, although he himself went through the same. Only he parted with the same coach at 23, and I parted with 21. And he also won the world championship alone. I tell him: You could, give me a chance to prove that I am as strong. I have four months of training - I will raise it, everything is fine, no - we will think. By that time I had best result- 185 kilograms in the snatch, 225 in the clean and jerk. After four months I lifted 200 in the snatch and 235 in the push. There is a result - it means there are no disputes. Then I added ...
- And this job makes you learn foreign languages? How many do you have?
- With a dictionary or with teachers?
With dictionary. I will not say that I know them, but I study them.
- That is, you open the dictionary and learn everything? Do you have your own system?
I explain. I take a piece of paper, A4 format, at the top I write a word in Russian - which is often found and may be needed in communication. Then, with a blue felt-tip pen - an English word, an orange - a Spanish word, and all the words, their pronunciation, in different colors appear on the piece of paper. I paste the papers on the wall. When you lie on the bed, all this appears before your eyes. My visual memory is well developed. And you don't need to learn anything. The first time you see a word in a textbook, the second time you write it, the third time you highlight it, that is, it constantly looms before your eyes. My father always said to me: learn, teach, learn the language - and so tortured me that I thought: why only English? I realized that Spanish, Italian, French are very similar, English is mandatory, and also Chinese.
- Say something in Chinese.
I will not swear. There are many words that sound indecent.
- Well, say hello to me.
- Decent. So, now, having met your Chinese brother on the barbell, you can already slap him on the shoulder: no how, they say, brother, how do you do?
We had a training camp with them in Podolsk, and one guy wanted to learn Russian. So, three times a week he came to my room and explained the rules of Chinese in English, and I explained Russian to him in English. It was so interesting, you can't imagine! Then I took the whole group on a fishing trip - the guys wanted to do something nice. I loaded them into the car, handed out floats, fishing rods, and brought them to a paid lake. It's a pity, they didn't catch anything. They stood for a long time, in these stupid hoods, but only caught mosquitoes.
- I should have dived like Papanov in the Diamond Hand. So what did God manage to give you by the age of 22?
Work. Rather, the ability not to turn labor into hard labor. An athlete of the national team has eight workouts a week. I have had a double workout every day for the past year. That is 14. And every workout is a pleasure. When the Russian Championship was held in Kursk, where I won and automatically became the first number, dad sent me a message: Dima, we are proud of you, we are happy that we have you, and we wish you to become the world champion this year. These words have become a stimulus for me, I have kept them. And I read it every day before training.
- Dad is cunning, and you are some terrible mixture of sentimentality and obstinacy. But I still did not understand: have you already reached the level where a coach is not needed in principle?
Yes, many cannot practice without a coach, because he is holding back. You want to go on weight, but it's traumatic. And not everyone knows how to say no to themselves.
- And the Olympic champion Berestov says about you that you are very impulsive, in training you scream under the barbell with all your might, and at competitions you generally start with half a turn.
- But how does the ability to say no get along with impulsiveness?
The fact that I can do this is the merit of my father.
- Did the fact that he is a world champion ever put pressure on your psyche?
He didn't want me to do the barbell.
- This is such a common phrase, but what does it mean?
I tell you: Dad, his friend Aydar Yarulin, my mother, the first coach Anikanov - all studied at the same institute. They had such a party. And Yarulin kept pestering his father when I was already a little older: Slav, look what kind of guy you have! Look - everything seems to be specially for the barbell: legs, arms ... Dad: No, times have changed, now we need education. At some point, they even quarreled. And a week later I came to the bar, on December 10, 1995, I was almost 13 years old. I ran to the gym after school - Dad perceived it as a whim: Forget it soon, you better study, study ... My sister is just studying with me - my dad still won back at someone - at Moscow State University, at the Faculty of World Politics. She turned out smart with us. + The son is an athlete, the daughter is smart.
- Do not be apologetic, but did you at least somehow learn?
He graduated from high school with three fours, the rest - fives ... And when he went to the European Championship among youths under 16, he became the third. Here, for the first time, Dad believed that I could do something in the barbell. I don't remember what he said, I remember that he started helping me. Like a professional. My main dream was to beat him in the combined event. I always, if you needed some combination of numbers - a cipher, a code, - wrote 442.5. Now I have the best amount - 442.5.
- Did you feel sorry for your dad?
Yes, he is glad that there is! Do you know what the coolest moment is? When you hold the barbell and know: now lower it, and you are the first. When you quit, everything - feelings cool down. Maybe that's why I don't like all these congratulations and celebrations. In fact, he did his usual business, his business.
- Of course, you never know champions in Russia! But tell me better, you were in the heavyweight, and then again returned to the category up to 105 kg. What for?
This is Yarulin's fault.
- How, again?
And he is in charge of us, everything that we do with Batya - from his submission, he sets up specifically. He always dreamed that I would become a champion in the category over 105, and he pushed me and my father there. And I'm dry in structure, it's hard for me to gain weight. Vaughn Chigishev (our strongest heavyweight) while gaining these one hundred and thirty kilograms, eats from morning to evening. I tried it, six months, even more, sat in the dining room. As a result, I just developed an aversion to food. I took part in the next competitions, gathered everyone and say: everyone!
- I can’t take it anymore, now I’ll sing ...
He said so. It's easier for me to eat protein foods than to get too full. The table is breaking, and you have to eat it all - it's hard.
- And the muscle mass is also not unlimited, apparently.
It takes a lot of time for the form: that is, cross out two or three years at once. Our Olympic heavyweight champion weighs 160 kilograms, even Chigishev with him - well, it's just hard to fight.
- Your life is hard.
Heavy.
- Do you get jitters?
My courage interrupts all the jitters. But this, too, must be brought up in oneself. It used to be like this - he burned before the competition, lost three kilograms per night, but before the World Championships he did not lose at all.
- Like this? I mean lost kilograms.
You lie, constantly thinking: how do you lift, how do you not lift, you have already mentally won, and performed poorly, you will perform tomorrow, and you are lying under this blanket ... The body temperature rises, right? And accordingly, energy consumption. So there is a weight loss. Many people cannot sleep. And even after I won, I went to bed. Although someone goes to the city, to a cafe, and I do not like to fumble like that.
- Are you an ascetic, or what?
No, I normally like to take a walk and I am famous for this in the national team, groovy, they say. I sing and dance. I love karaoke. And I choose songs that I can sing. I do not take the first one I come across, but rehearse from the beginning. In general, I always do what I know - I will be good at it.
- Some kind of inconsistency: courage and unwillingness to take risks.
Well, that's not a risk. I just don't like to sound funny.
- That's shameful?
This is not a shame, it is undignified.
- Fourteen workouts a week, and the back, legs, what do they say?
Here, restoration plays a major role - this is also professionalism. Anyone can boot, you need to be able to relax. Sometimes in the national team they make fun of them - they come to the bathhouse: Oh, Klokov is back for a massage! And sports massage is not so pleasant, you will not miss it. But I come to the gym and feel good, the workout has not strained me, but they will hang their noses, it hurts here, it hurts there. Because they went into the bathhouse and went out. I have a bath - it's all day. Preparation of brooms, steaming, massage, stretching, and - as good as new.
- They say, Dima, did Arnold Schwarzenegger take note of you?
We were invited to speak at the Arnold-Classic tournament. I packed my bag, as if to go to a neighboring village, went, performed well, won. I took a picture with Schwarzenegger, I was lucky that I made my way to him through the guards. But, to be honest, I was driving with one task - to take such a photo, I did not think about competitions at all. I won't say that he is my idol, but ...
- Do you respect?
I respect. A man in three directions became the first: politics, cinema, sports. It is worthy of respect.
- And what do the weightlifters call themselves?
I don’t know how, I’ll tell you, how I don’t like it when they call us - pitching. And we are weightlifters and weightlifters. Pancakes are actually disks. But we also call them pancakes. And we observe the signs: for example, you cannot step over the barbell - you will be offended, and you cannot beat it. Some throw, kick her when something goes wrong, especially foreigners. We have this banned.
- Do foreigners have better barbells?
The metal is more elastic. It's good for me, I know how to use it. Generally good for technical athletes. When you hold the barbell on your chest, our bar is rigid, it does not bend, and the foreign barbell sways. If you sit down and catch her wave, it helps. But in general we are famous for our technology. The Slavs have always paid great attention to this.
- And the Turks are doping, they were not allowed to the World Championship. Is this a painful topic at all?
Yes, everyone knows what is allowed and what is not. It's just that drugs that are really legal and effective are very expensive. The Slavs are strong, and if everyone is in equal financial conditions, of course, we will be stronger. When we come to the competition, we see how the same Iranians, a rich oil country, simply don’t worry about doping, they come fed up, like on a holiday. It hurts. The rest are depleting their bodies, all injured, angry, hungry, but, true, on the courage - on the character, but we will get out.
- Dima, forgive me, I suddenly remembered completely inopportunely how Chemerkin and Petrov, having won the Olympics in Atlanta, had fun at a press conference about squeezed beds, from which they fell to the floor. Do weightlifters still have fun sleeping?
We push, but where to go? We have been living at the base for years. As a rule, everyone has their own bed, their own number. You arrive - the same bed, the same weight presses, and it is lower and lower. Come on, the main thing is to take the weight. And the bed will not hurt.
We proud of you!!!
Elya Igor Ilya (Novikovs) 07.05.2006 10:22:27
DYMAN! Our admiration has no limit: 2 DAYS AGO IT HAS ABSOLUTELY RANDOMLY LEARNED ABOUT YOUR SUCCESS IN SPORTS. MO-LO-DETS !!! THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT WE ARE A MAN OF GREAT OPPORTUNITIES AND A Doubtless FUTURE OLYMPIC CHAMPION !!! HEALTH GOOD LUCK AND SUCCESS IN EVERYTHING FOR WHAT YOU DO NOT TAKE PLACE FOR, now we will look forward to your appearances on television.
We admire your parents and rejoice for you and Anya. THANKS TO YOU, YOU FINALLY HAVE FINALLY MANAGED TO LEARN A LITTLE ABOUT DAD, SORRY IN YOUR INTERVIEWS, VERY LITTLE, ALMOST NOTHING, IS NOT WRITTEN ABOUT MOM.
HAPPINESS, HEALTH, AND PEACE OF MIND FOR YOUR WONDERFUL FAMILY
WITH DEEP RESPECT, FAMILY OF NEWS =)
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Dima Brathella! This is Ilya, I looked through the articles about you, just like my parents were shocked and also delighted! At first it was hard to believe that it was you, but then, having downloaded your photos to a computer, I resigned myself to how you matured and changed. Terribly missed aunt Larissa, uncle Slava, Anyutka, and of course you! I hope we will see each other someday!
I know that you do not have free time, but I would be glad and grateful if you could take the time to contact the somnaya on the following programs ...
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Hello Dima!!!
Stripka 25.11.2006 01:06:43
Dmiriy Klokov, a wonderful guy! Dima, maybe you remember the village of Volynshchino, which is near Ruza, Moscow region? I am writing to you from there! I know Dima, since 2001, I know him as good friend and also as a person who draws beautifully! Dima, answer me! We have not communicated for a hundred years, I really want to chat!
Dmitry Vyacheslavovich Klokov - Russian weightlifter, world champion, European champion, silver medalist at the Beijing Olympic Games (2008). Dmitry was born on February 18, 1983 in Balashikha near Moscow. The boy's father was professionally involved in weightlifting, received the title of world champion, twice silver medalist of the World and European Championships.
Master of Sports in 1997 was invited to the post of President of the Russian Weightlifting Federation. Dmitry has a sister, Anna. At an early age, Dmitry played football. The boy was engaged in judo, at the competitions in the junior category he twice took the third place.
Weightlifting
In 1995 he began training with his mentor Gennady Anikanov. Vyacheslav Klokov at first was against his son starting a weightlifting career, nevertheless he created all the conditions for the teenager for training. In addition to daily many hours of training, Dmitry received a weekly professional massage, the young man adhered to the strictest diet... In 1998, Klokov took first place at the All-Russian Championship among juniors.
A year later, in Italy, at the European Weightlifting Championship, Dmitry won a bronze medal. In 2001 Dmitry becomes a member of the Russian national team. From the age of 18 he studied at the School of Higher sportsmanship Republic of Bashkortostan, after which he entered the Ural Institute of Physical Education. In addition to the first mentor Gennady Anikanov, Dmitry was coached by Vyacheslav Klokov and Aydar Yarullin.
Dmitry Klokov has never used steroids or other chemicals to achieve the result. The athlete adhered only to a balanced diet, used biological food additives containing essential proteins and amino acids. Thanks to a balanced training program that includes a number of strength blocks with elements of bodybuilding and powerlifting, the athlete has achieved impressive results in short term... With a height of 183 cm, Dmitry's weight fluctuates around the 105 kg mark.
In 2004, the athlete won bronze at the Russian Cup, held in Novgorod, and began professional biography... It took the weightlifter a year to take first place in the 2005 Russian championship. In the same year, having performed at the World Championships in Doha, with the result of 419 kg in total, Dmitry received gold, thereby repeating his father's achievement. The next two years at the world championships, Klokov took third place.
The athlete devotes 2007 to a responsible event - preparation for the upcoming Olympic Games. At the World Championships, held in Saransk, the top three leaders were selected within the Russian team, who were supposed to enter the Olympic team. It was not easy to win the tournament, as five of the strongest weightlifting champions competed in one category - Dmitry Berestov, Gleb Pisarevsky, Vladimir Smorchkov, Dmitry Lapikov and Dmitry Klokov.
As a result, in Olympic reserve along with Klokov, Lapikov and Piskarevsky hit, who took the bar of 430 kg. At the next Russian championship, Dmitry injured his back, after which the athlete had to perform on painkillers, which affected the results of the Olympics. At the 2008 Olympic Games, which were held in Beijing, Dmitry Klokov lost only to his colleague from Belarus Andrei Aryamnov and won a silver medal. The athlete went to his victory overcoming pain.
In the same year, the athlete received the title of Master of Sports of Russia. In 2010, Dmitry took part in the world powerlifting championship, where he took silver, in the same year he became the European champion. A year later, Klokov repeated the result at the World Championship in weightlifting. At the 2010 Russian Championship, Dmitry became the first for the third time.
Since 2011, the weightlifter, without giving up sports, has gone deep into the development of his own business, which he has been running since 2006. Klokov opened a clothing brand and sports equipment Winner, which was implemented via the Internet. By advertising tracksuits Dmitry Klokov himself often took part in photo shoots as a model, after which the photos were posted on the official website of the trade brand. In 2013, Klokov won a bronze medal at the Russian Championship in Kazan, where he already competed in the category over 105 kg. Two years later, the weightlifter announced the end of his professional career.
Personal life
WITH future wife Elena Dmitry met in 2005. Young people began to live together almost immediately. The girl accompanied the athlete on his trips, at the World Championships in Santo Domingo Elena supported her beloved fans from the tribune. At the end of 2006, the young people got married.
Olympic medal Klokov dedicated 2008 to his wife, since the performance according to the schedule fell on the day of his acquaintance with Elena - August 18. In July 2010, the wife gave Dmitry a daughter, Anastasia.
On Instagram, the athlete maintains his own account, to which 297 thousand users have already subscribed. On the page, Dmitry uploads video and photo announcements of events in which he plans to participate, as well as pictures from the family archive.
Dmitry Klokov now
Leaving professional sports, the weightlifter took up the popularization of weightlifting in youth circles. Dmitry Klokov organized the Klokov Power Weekend tournament, where he invites stars of show business, crossfit, bodybuilding, fitness and other sports. For entertainment, the competition program included six types of exercises. Now Dmitry Klokov conducts master classes in two areas - crossfit and weightlifting.
Classes are held all over the world, and then broadcast on an individual YouTube channel, which Dmitry has been developing since 2010. The weightlifter conducts about 50 seminars per year. In September 2017, with the participation of Dmitry Klokov, the II International educational training camp on cross-lifting, for which the registration of participants is already in progress. Dmitry has a weeklong weightlifting seminar in Hong Kong in November.
Achievements
- World Champion - 2005
- Three-time champion of Russia - 2005, 2006, 2011
- Two-time bronze medalist of the World Championships - 2006, 2007
- Silver medalist of the Russian Championship - 2007
- Two-time bronze medalist of the Russian Championship - 2008, 2013
- Silver medalist of the Olympic Games - 2008
- European Champion - 2010
- Two-time silver medalist of the World Championships - 2010, 2011