Viktor Sidjak
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Viktor Sidjak |
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Gold | 1968 Mexico City | Sabre team | |
Gold | 1972 Munich | Sabre individual | |
Gold | 1976 Montreal | Sabre team | |
Gold | 1980 Moscow | Sabre team | |
Silver | 1972 Munich | Sabre team | |
Bronze | 1976 Montreal | Sabre individual |
Viktor Sidjak (born November 21, 1943) (Russian: Виктор Александрович Сидяк) - an extremely successful left-handed sabreur from the Soviet era, pupil of Mark Rakita and David Tyshler. As a fencer, Sidjak was famous for his aggressive style. He was one of the best known exponents of the "Russian preparation" or the "one-and-a-half tempo attack".
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[edit] Biography
Sidjak was born in the town of Anzhero-Sudzhensk in the Kemerovo Oblast but spent most of his childhood in Donetsk. He started fencing aged fifteen. Sidjak trained at Armed Forces sports society. In the 1960s, training in Lvov, he represented Ukraine on the internal Soviet circuit. In 1970 he moved to Minsk and joined the then mighty Belarussian fencing lobby (whose other luminaries include Elena Belova, Alexandr Romankov and Nikolai Alekhine).
[edit] Olympic Games
At the 1972 Olympics, Sidjak became the first Soviet sabreur to win individual Gold. At the same Olympics, he famously fenced in the team final with his right eye bandaged over after having a fragment of the Italian Michele Maffei's blade removed from his eye the previous day. Besides Sidjak, the team consisted of Vladimir Nazlymov, Eduard Vinokurov and Viktor Bazhenov. The Soviet and Italian teams met again in the finals, Italy taking Gold, and USSR Silver.In 1994 Maffei's 1972 team-mate Mario Aldo Montano invited Sidjak to coach the young fencers, including his own son, at his club in Livorno.
[edit] World Championship Records
Apart from the Olympics, Sidjak's victories include
- 1969 World Championship (individual)
- 1969 World Championship (team)
- 1970 World Championship (team)
- 1971 World Championship (team)
- 1972 World Cup
- 1973 World Cup
- 1974 World Championship (team)
- 1975 World Championship (team)
- 1979 World Championship (team)
[edit] Today
At present, Sidjak is the chairman of the Professional Boxing Association of Belarus.
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