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Sergey Lopovok
Sergey Lopovok
Birth date: 18.03.1969
Birth place: Kstovo, USSR
Achievements: 6-time world champion, 5-time European champion, 12-time World Cup winner, Honored Master of Sports, Awarded the Order of Friendship
Couches: Vladimir Panov
Fact: reached a qualifying standard for a master of sports at 17, at 22 won his first European champion title, at 24 became the world champion. His signature techniques include a knee lever and the so-called "strigunok" – an undercut with a fall and the foot support in the stomach. Also studied at the music school learning to play a traditional Russian instrument, bayan.
"A sambist can run a marathon, can beat any football player, can perform acrobatics. They are unique athletes and it is a unique sport."
Having completed the sports career Sergey Lopovok has remained in sambo. He is the head coach of the sambo school in Kstovo, a deputy of the city council, the chairman of the sports club "Sambo."
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Did you see it? 12 AprilCongratulations on Cosmonautics Day from test cosmonaut, master of sports in sambo Oleg Artemyev
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Did you see it? 10 AprilDimitar Dimitrov conducted a master class in Brussels
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Did you see it? 28 AugustAustralian sambist visited the International SAMBO Center and spoke about her plans to compete at the Olympics
- Watch World SAMBO Cup 2024 in Armenia 7 April 2024
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Кaleidoscope 24 AprilAustralia plans to develop SAMBO for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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Anti-doping 23 AprilFIAS invites sambists to a new series of ITA webinars
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Federations 22 AprilMilyanto Cup: SAMBO in southern Chile
- Watch World Sambo Championships 2022. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 17 November 2022
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Кaleidoscope 24 AprilAustralia plans to develop SAMBO for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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Anti-doping 23 AprilFIAS invites sambists to a new series of ITA webinars
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Federations 22 AprilMilyanto Cup: SAMBO in southern Chile