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Sep 20, 1913 Popivka, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine Died on 16 Dec 2005 (aged 92)
Russian amateur wrestler (1913-2005)
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About Aleksandr Mazur
- Aleksandr Grigoryevich Mazur (Russian: ????????? ??????????? ?????, 30 August 1913 – 16 December 2005) was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Ukraine who won a world title in 1955, aged 42.
- He retired the same year and between 1955 and 1990 coached wrestlers at his sports society CSKA Moscow.
- His trainees included Aleksandr Yurkevich, Anatoly Kolesov, Yury Kozin, Anatoly Kirov, Georgy Vershinin, Vladimir Novokhatko and Valery Anisimov.Mazur was born into a farmer's family and had two brothers and three sisters.
- He took up wrestling in 1934, and until 1941 worked as a professional wrestler in a circus.
- In mid-1941 he enlisted to the Soviet Army and until December 1942 fought as a sapper.
- After that he studied at the State University of Physical Education and won the Soviet heavyweight wrestling titles in 1944, 1945, 1947 and 1949, placing second in 1946, 1948 and 1950–1953 and third in 1943 and 1954.
- He later had minor roles in the Soviet films Wrestler and clown (1957) and Far from the war.
