Vladimir Maneyev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vladimir Maneyev

Olympic wrestler

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1932

Place of Birth: Novokuznetsk, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1985

Profession: amateur wrestler

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Vladimir Petrovich Maneyev (Russian: ???????? ???????? ??????; 5 February 1932 – 8 January 1985) was a Russian Greco-Roman wrestler.
He won the world welterweight title in 1955 and placed second at the 1956 Summer Olympics.Maneyev took up wrestling in 1948 while working as a machinist in a metallurgy plant.
He won the Soviet welterweight titles in 1954–55, placing second in 1952 and 1956.
Besides his 1955 world title he also won the 1956 World Cup.
After the Olympics, he switched to middleweight and then light-heavyweight, but his only major achievements in the heavier weights was silver medal at the 1962 national championships.
He retired in 1976.Maneyev graduated from the Siberian Metallurgic Institute with a mining degree in 1959, and in 1960–68 worked as a mine foreman, and later as section head at the Ordzhonikidze coal mine near his native Novokuznetsk.
From 1968 to 1985 he took various positions at the Listvyansky coal mining quarry.
He died of a heart attack aged 52.
Since 2006 a memorial tournament in his honor has been held in Novokuznetsk.