Taranenko Leonid Arkadievich - weightlifter, weightlifter, a man of world renown. Many have heard about the achievements of this person. He managed to set a world record, and not one. But let's talk about everything in order ...
Soviet weightlifting school
Weightlifting is a sports discipline that combines speed and strength. Any sport, including weightlifting, is inextricably linked between two sides of human activity. This is, firstly, the refinement of special physical qualities, and, secondly, the development of technical skill. It is the combination of these two sides of human activity that allows us to optimally fully realize the potential inherent in the athlete, to achieve the highest results and records.
Throughout its history, the USSR created the most effective training methods for weightlifting athletes. From the debut of the Soviet weightlifting team at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki until the end of the twentieth century, Soviet and Russian weightlifters have always held leading positions in world and continental competitions.
The beginning of a sports career Taranenko
Leonid Arkadievich was born in June fifty-six in the small village of Malorito near Brest in Belarus. After graduating from high school and the death of his father, to help his mother, who has two children in her arms, Leonid graduated from a working school with a degree in milling and began to work by profession. At the same time, he began to attend the sports section on the bar, which was organized by Peter Satyuk at the plant. It was he who became his first coach and led him to the first serious victories and achievements.
Leonid Arkadievich himself, according to his recollections, in his childhood dreamed of becoming not a weightlifter, but a pilot. And even entered the flight school, but did not go through a medical commission.
After graduating from the State Belarusian Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, having received the specialty of "mechanical engineer", Leonid began to advocate for the Minsk volunteer sports community "Harvest". It was at the competitions for this society in the seventy-fourth year in the city of Borisov that the eighteen-year-old Taranenko was noticed by the coach Ivan Petrovich Logvinovich, whose cherished dream was to educate the Olympic champion. The meeting became crucial for both.
The main sports achievements of Taranenko
The first major achievement in his sports career was a bronze medal and third place in the All-Union Championship in seventy-seventh year. In 1979 and 1983, Taranenko won twice at the All-Union Spartakiad. In the spring of 1980, Taranenko at the European Championship sets his first world records.
The "finest hour" came in the career of Leonid Taranenko in the eightieth year. He won all three major championships of the planet - at the world and European championships, as well as at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Speaking in the weight category up to 110 kilograms, the representative of the Soviet Union again set two world records on the platform. In the clean and jerk, he took the weight of two hundred and forty kilograms, and in biathlon - four hundred twenty-two and a half kilograms.
Further sports life and achievements of Leonid Taranenko
After the Moscow Olympics-80, Leonid Taranenko was unable to take part in the 1982 World Cup, held in Moscow, due to a sudden serious illness. But after several complicated operations he managed to overcome the disease and return to training and to the big platform.
In 1984, he won the Friendship international tournament. Four years later he became the holder of the European title in the heavy weight category, and in 1985 he took the world championship title. Two pre-Olympic years in a row, in 1991-1992, Taranenko became the champion of Europe.
At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Leonid Taranenko won a silver medal in the second heavyweight. At the next Olympics in 1996 in Atlanta, Taranenko was disqualified for doping and after that ended his sports career. Currently works in Minsk as a sports consultant and trainer.
Leonid Taranenko: record
Throughout his bright sports career, Leonid Arkadevich set nineteen world records. The highest achievement officially registered by the Guinness Book of Records is the planet record set by Taranenko in the eighty-eighth year at the heavyweights cup in Australia in the city of Canberra. Then he succeeded in taking the “push” exercise to take the weight of two hundred sixty-six kilograms, and in the sum of two exercises - four hundred seventy-five kilograms. Until now, nobody has managed to repeat or surpass the world record of Leonid Taranenko.
The reasons for the success of Soviet weightlifting
Without exaggeration, we can say that weightlifting was one of the most popular sports in the Soviet Union and took one of the first places among the sports disciplines included in the Olympic program. We can say that the USSR created its own school for training weightlifting athletes with its own system, its own advanced methods for its time, and its own traditions. For the daily training of athletes and preparation for world-class competitions, the latest research and scientific discoveries were used. The achievements and latest developments of sports medicine and other sciences related to it were applied in a timely manner, affecting the body's indicators and increasing the success of the training process.
However, the emergence of an advanced training system for weightlifting athletes, based on a unique method of dosing loads on the athlete’s body during training and muscle building, was decisive. It was this Soviet system of training weightlifting athletes that made it possible to form a team in a fairly short period of time and compete worthily at world competitions, showing hitherto unrepeated and unsurpassed results and records.
Leonid Taranenko is a weightlifter who managed to do the seemingly impossible. This is a person to take an example from the young generation. After all, just such - healthy and strong - should be men!