Biography of Fedor Emelianenko
Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko, the legendary champion in fights without rules, was born in 1976 in the town of Rubezhnoe, Lugansk region. The undefeated fighter has many titles, including the title of World Champion according to Pride, according to Rings, the champion of the Grand Prix Pride, three times the World Sambo Champion. The athlete conducts fights in the heavyweight category. The physical data of Fedor are as follows: height 183 cm, weight 104 kg. Of the 26 fights, the athlete won 25.
The sportsman was born in a family of workers. In 1978, a family from Ukraine moved to Russia, the city of Stary Oskol. In the biography of Fedor Emelianenko, the fascination with martial arts manifested itself at the age of 10 years. Then he began to study in the Sambo and Judo section, where Vasily Ivanovich Gavrilov was the coach. In 1987, Fyodor entered the sports class of Voronov’s coach Vladimir Mikhailovich. After graduating from school in 1991, the athlete began to study
In addition, 1998 brought many other victories in the treasury of the achievements of the athlete. Fedor won first and third place in the Russian judo championship, took third place in the Sambo Championship. Also the sportsman became the champion in the competitions of the armed forces of Russia, and in the absolute weight category of this competition took the second place. The following year Fedor Emelianenko won international competitions in sambo. Then the team of the athlete at the European Championships was the first.
However, the athlete did not stop there. In 2000, he began to study the technique of hand-to-hand combat with the coach Alexander Mikhchkov. Fedor began to participate in battles without rules,
Without stopping to engage in sambo, Fedor won the Russian championship in 2002, and then the World Championships in Greece. In Panama, Fedor became the first in the absolute weight category at the World Championship in Combat Sambo. Then in 2003 Fedor Emelianenko won the title of world champion in fights without rules “Pride” version, defeating former champion Antonio Rodrigo Nagieira. Many of the strongest fighters were defeated in the fight with Fedor, among them Sam Schilt, Heath Hiring, Kazuyuki Fujita, Gary Goodridge.
In 2004, in the biography of Fedor Emelianenko, several outstanding battles were fought with such rivals as Kevin Rendleman, Naoya Ogawa, Mark Coleman, Antonio Nogueira. Fedor received two more titles: the Grand Prix champion, the world champion in fights without rules “Pride” version. The following year, the athlete became the third time champion of the world “Pride”, and also became a three-time champion in sambo. In 2006, Fedor Emelianenko was awarded the title of four-time world champion in fights without rules under the version of Pride.
So, in the biography of Fedor Emelianenko there were many victories. The athlete is a master of sports in sambo and judo, has a national award “Golden Belt”.
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