The Soviet and Russian freestyle wrestler only once rose to the highest level of honor at the Olympic Games. At the same time, he won the world championships many times. Alexander Ivanitsky is rightfully considered the pride of national sports.
Starting conditions
The practice of the last decades convincingly testifies that the active life of an athlete is very short. All people involved in sports know about it. Alexander Vladimirovich Ivanitsky went in for sports all his adult life. The future Olympic champion was born on December 10, 1937 in an ordinary Soviet family. Parents at that time lived in Donbass. My father worked as an accountant in the road construction department. The mother was engaged in housekeeping and raising children.
Two years after the birth of the child, the Ivanitskys moved to Leningrad, where a bypass road was being laid around the city. When the war began, they had to spend the most difficult winter in the besieged city. And only the next winter they were taken to the Urals along the famous "Road of Life", laid on the ice of Lake Ladoga. The family returned to the destroyed city on the Neva only after the blockade was lifted in 1944. Life was slowly getting better. After seven years, Sasha decided to get a specialized education at the local radio technical college.
Sports achivments
A seventeen-year-old boy, thin, 190 cm tall, together with a friend came to the sambo wrestling section. Quite unexpectedly for the specialists, Alexander in a couple of months became the champion of the city among youths. It was at this time that the famous freestyle wrestling coach Sergei Alexandrovich Preobrazhensky saw him. After some deliberation, Ivanitsky agreed to leave sambo and go in for freestyle wrestling. Systematic training and general physical training began. In 1958, Alexander was drafted into the army. To serve as a wrestler was assigned to a special company of CSKA.
The sports career of a heavyweight wrestler developed gradually, without disruptions and accidental ups. He was enrolled in the national team of the Soviet Union in 1959. Three years later Ivanitsky won the title of world champion. At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, the Soviet wrestler won a gold medal. It is important to note that Alexander did not win at the expense of "body fat". He used his individual tactics based on high mobility. Figuratively speaking, Ivanitsky acted like lightning.
Recognition and privacy
The multiple champion completed his sports career in 1967. But Ivanitsky did not even think to part with sports. He wrote several books in which he shared his experiences with readers. In 1973, Alexander Vladimirovich was appointed Chief Editor of sports programs on all-Union television.
In Ivanitsky's personal life, as well as in sports creativity, everything turned out well. Alexander got married immediately after serving in the army. The husband and wife raised and raised two children - a son and a daughter. Today six grandchildren come to visit them - the Olympic champion has a large family.
