Vladimir Stepanov

Vladimir Alekseyevich Stepanov (Степанов, Владимир Алексеевич; born 1958) is a Russian armwrestler. He is one of the strongest Russian armwrestlers in Grand-master class (over 50 years of age), multiple world champion in less than 100 kg category. He is a current arm wrestling team member of Russian Federation and Sverdlovsk region. Arm wrestling came to his life by accident. Vladimir Stepanov, alongside his childhood friend Vladimir Levitsky, visited some relatives in West Ukraine in August 1978. At approximately that time, World Arm wrestling Federation (WAF) started to create events. Arm wrestling was very popular in western part of USSR. Vladimir Stepanov and Vladimir Levitsky were invited to participate in minor amateur tournaments. All opponents were defeated because by then both Vladimirs were well trained weightlifters. From 1997 and until now, Vladimir Stepanov started participating in major competitions across Ural region, Russian Federation and worldwide. From 1997 to 2001 Vladimir had trained in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region. Since 2002 he has trained in Ekaterinburg under supervision of Ivan Getmansky. Biography Vladimir was born on 22 July 1958, in Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk region, Russia. From 1977 to 1983 Vladimir Stepanov was studying at Ural State University of Railway Transport in Ekaterinburg. At that time he got involved in weightlifting under coaching of Nikolai Guselnikov. After graduating as a railway engineer, Vladimir Stepanov also graduated from Russian Customs Academy in 1999, Moscow and got a degree of Manager of Customs, Diploma with Honors. From 1990 to 2006 Vladimir Stepanov had worked at The Federal Customs Service of Russia in Ural region. Since 2007 Vladimir Stepanov has worked at the Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision. Sport achievements