Anatoli Belaglazov

Anatoly Beloglazov

Beloglazov at the 1978 World Championships
Personal information
Born	16 September 1956 (1956-09-16) (age 60) Kaliningrad, Russia
Height	155 cm (5 ft 1 in)
Sport
Sport	Freestyle wrestling
Club	Dynamo Kiev
Coached by	Granit Taropin
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1980 Moscow 52 kg World Championships 1977 Lausanne 48 kg 1978 Mexico City 52 kg 1982 Edmonton 57 kg 1983 Kiev 52 kg

Anatoly Alekseyevich Beloglazov (Russian: Анатолий Алексеевич Белоглазов; born 16 September 1956) is a retired Russian freestyle wrestler. He won gold medals at the 1980 Olympics and 1977, 1978 and 1982 World Championships, placing third in 1983. In 2010 he was inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame.

Beloglazov was born in Kaliningrad, but later moved to the south and graduated from an institute of pedagogy in Krasnodar. He spent most of his life alongside his twin brother Sergei, who also became Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling.

Beloglazov took up wrestling in 1968 and debuted internationally at the 1974 European Junior Championships, where he won a gold medal; next year he won the 1975 World Junior Championships, and in 1976 started competing among seniors, winning the European title that year. Domestically he won four Soviet titles: in 1977, 1979–80 and 1982. He retired from competitions after the 1984 season, missing the 1984 Olympics due to their boycott by the Soviet Union, and then had a long career as a wrestling coach. He headed the Canadian (1990–96), Australian (1996–98), and then Russian and Belarusian national freestyle teams. Since 1998, an annual freestyle wrestling tournament honoring Beloglazov brothers has been held in Kaliningrad.