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Home » Artem Ivanov » Weightlifting News: Artem Ivanov (Crimean) gets Russian Passport

Weightlifting News: Artem Ivanov (Crimean) gets Russian Passport

April 2, 2014 By Gregor Winter

ukraine-russia-flagsYou have probably heard about the situation in Ukraine/ Crimea.

If you didn’t know, Artem Ivanov (94kg) is Crimean.

So the question was: What happens to the weightlifters living there?

Last week Sergey Syrtsov, president of the Russian Weightlifting Federation, told a news site that Ukrainian athletes will be able to participate in the Russian National Championships in Grozny (8-15 August) and that athletes are “now in the process of obtaining Russian citizenship”.

I asked Artem if he will indeed get a Russian passport and he confirmed that he will.

Yesterday there was a meeting between Crimean and Russian weightlifting officials (via).

Alexander Gerasimenko (IWF Vice president, and chairman of the supervisory board of Russian Weightlifting Federation) announced:

We agreed with the Ukrainian weightlifting federation that two athletes (Artem Ivanov, Denis Nikolaevich Smorodinova) and one coach will be part of the Russian team.

There you have it. Now you know the real reason for Russia’s ‘anschluss’ in Crimea.

PS: Watch Artem’s 190kg Snatch + 230kg Clean & Jerk from the Ukrainian Nationals before the 2012 Olympics.

Update: President of the Ukrainian National Olympic Committee, Sergey Bubka, wants Crimean athletes to continued to start for Ukraine. (via)

Update 04.05.2014: Artem talked about his plans. (via)

This year, most likely I will not compete. The next seven or eight months, I will focus on rehab. The goal is to qualify for the Russian team, then for the European Championships in early 2015, and the cup of the President of the Russian Federation, which will be held for the first time in 2015.

Filed Under: Artem Ivanov, News, Ukraine, weightlifting

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Comments

  1. Leon says

    April 2, 2014 at 18:48

    This means Russia has two of the best 94 athletes after Ilyin left the weight class. So probably place 1 and 2 will be hold by a A. Ivanov. That must be confusing in the team.

  2. Wally Broccoli says

    April 3, 2014 at 02:58

    Aukhadov ivanov and ivanov. Stacked Russian 94s

  3. mialnistaa says

    April 9, 2014 at 11:30

    do not forget about adrian zieliński who’s changed 85 for 94, so he can fight for first 3 place

    • grobpote says

      April 11, 2014 at 16:18

      Will see about that. I’m expecting Zielinski to become a main contender. He is young and powerful. Give him a year.

      • mialnistaa says

        April 19, 2014 at 14:47

        you’re right, I think he will be strong in Rio, he said he was ready to 220 in C&J on european champion but he made a mistake, he has 2 years to Rio and I expect 220-226

        • grobpote says

          April 22, 2014 at 14:35

          190-226 would be nice,hah? :)))

          • mialnistaa says

            April 22, 2014 at 16:11

            190 in clean and jerk?

            • grobpote says

              April 22, 2014 at 19:24

              Ha!Ha! NOO! 190 snatch and a 226 cnj of course :)))

              • mialnistaa says

                April 23, 2014 at 14:49

                ok, I get it 😀

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