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With the support of "SIG" JSC in St. Petersburg on May 23, 2013, the VI Traditional Youth Judo Tournament in memory of the Honored Coach of Russia Anatoly Rakhlin will take place.

"Siberian Industrial Group" JSC announces the holding of the VI Traditional Youth Judo Tournament in memory of the Honored Coach of Russia Anatoly Rakhlin on May 23, 2018 in St. Petersburg in the Sports Palace "Jubilee".

The event is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of the Honored Coach of Russia. Anatoly Rakhlin is a Soviet and Russian judo coach, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation, Honored Coach of the Russian Federation, Vice President of the Russian Judo Federation. The blockade. For 50 years of coaching, has prepared more than 100 masters of sports in judo.

It is expected that the tournament will be attended by about 350 young athletes aged 12-14 years. Participate young athletes from Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, Serbia, Poland, France, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Greece, Israel, Argentina, Paraguay and Mongolia. Medals will be played in nine weight classes for boys and in seven for girls. The lightest category is up to 37 kg, and the heaviest category is over 66 kg.

"SIG" JSC desires a worthy performance for young athletes and expresses gratitude to all those who contributed to the organization of the tournament.

Biography of A.S. Rakhlina

Anatoly Rakhlin (May 23, 1938 - August 7, 2013). Honored coach of Russia. Born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in the family of an engineer of the Baltic plant and teacher of the Pedagogical Institute named after AI Herzen. All the 900 days of the blockade was on the territory of the besieged city. In 1953, he began to study in the Sambo section at the Palace of Pioneers of S. V. Dashkevich, one of the oldest wrestlers who came out on a carpet with Ivan Poddubny. In 1955, Anatoly Rakhlin entered the Faculty of Physical Education at the Pedagogical Institute. AI Herzen, who graduated in 1959. He served in the Black Sea Fleet, where he continued to engage in sambo. In 1964 he began to work as a coach in the Sambo section, coached an adult group. In 1965, he recruited his first youth group LOS DSS "Trud". Among his pupils of the first "youth appeal" were Arkady Rothenberg, Valentin Stepanov, Nikolai Kononov, Vladimir Putin, Alexander Borodulin. Training took place in the gym on the street. 21. Five years later, in 1969, Rakhlin was invited to co-operate in the sports club "Turbostroitel" of the Leningrad Metal Plant, where the Sambo section was opened. Together with him in the sports complex "Turbostroitel" the athletes from the first set moved in full. In 1973, he founded the international junior tournament in memory of the Hero of the Soviet Union V. Ya. Petrov. Conceived and embodied in life by Anatoly Semenovich, and to this day this oldest tournament in Russia is held in our city annually already under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. Since 2008 - head coach of the Russian women's national judo team. Under the guidance of Rakhlin, judoists of the Russian national team won in individual competitions and became prize-winners of European and world championships, and the national team won the European Championships three times. Under his leadership, the club "Yavara-Neva" became a repeated winner of the European Championships among club teams. In May 2013 he was awarded the Order of Honor, which was handed to him by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. Author of memoirs "President's Sensei".