Romanchuk Romanchuk boxer biography

Roman Romanchuk. Big biography of the famous boxer. I present you a big detailed biography of the famous boxer. Childhood and youth, sports career, imprisonment, life after boxing and the reasons for the death of one of the most talented amateur boxers of our time. Childhood and Youth Roman Romanchuk was born on July 3 in the west of Ukraine in the city of Stry Lviv region.

The novel grew up in a simple working family. At the summer, I began to visit the boxing section. He trained under the leadership of the famous Ukrainian specialist - Lyubomir Grigorovich Palamara. After graduation, he entered the electrical technical school. The mother of Roman died in the year. The young man lived with his father and two brothers - Maxim and Edward. In the year, Romanchuk graduated from the technical school with a degree in Electric.

He successfully performed in the amateur ring, but did not see the prospects for further development in his hometown. In the year, Roman moved to Moscow. At first, he lived with a family friend. The boxer continued sports. The Boxing training in the Children and Youth School of the Olympic Reserve added speeches for kickboxing in the Moscow City Physical Educational and Sports Association "KITEK".

The results were not forced to wait. In the year, after six months of classes in a new sport, the novel became the winner of the European kickboxing championship, and won the gold medal at the youth world championship. In the year, Roman met the coach - Mark Ionovich Meltser. The young man completely switched to boxing. In the year he won the prestigious tournament "Olympic Hopes", became the second at the Russian Championship in the first heavyweight, won a bronze medal at the World Cup and joined the national team of Russia.

Romanchuk was right-handed in life, but worked in the right-sided rack of the Luchasha. He had good manual speed and perfectly set combinational work. Mark Meltzer is known for his ability to find an individual approach to each specific student. Under his leadership, Roman reached a high level of amateur boxing. He significantly added in physical power and the quality of the blow.

The only problem of the talented fighter was his discipline. This moment played a decisive role in the fate of Romanchuk. Success and failures in amateur ring Roman gained momentum. During his career, he twice won the Russian championship in the first heavyweight and became a silver medalist three times more. At the beginning of the 21st century, the national team was high competition.

In all weight categories, the fighters fought for the right to travel to the main tournament of the four years.

Romanchuk became the first number of the Russian team in the first heavyweight. He won his main competitor - Alexander Alekseev. Shortly before the Olympics in Athens, the year of the novel was transferred to a heavy division. The place of the first issue of the "royal weight" belonged to Alexander Povetkin. Romanchuk remained out of work and missed the Olympic Games.

The team’s coach openly “froze” the talented heavyweight. Reasons: regular violation of the regime, visiting nightclubs, alcohol use. These moments did not prevent the novel from winning victories. But the Russian sports leadership, accustomed to implicit subordination, ignored the success of a talented fighter and did not hide its biased attitude to his person. In the year, the novel became the second China in the world championship in the maniaan, losing to the Cuban Odlanier Solis in the final battle, and won a silver award at the European Championship in a swimmer of Bulgaria.

On the second Olympic cycle, Rakhim Chakhkiev became the main competitor Romanchuk. For two years, the confrontation between the two best representatives of the first heavy division continued. Like 4 years ago, the team coach preferred Romanchuk to the rival. Roman went to pre-Olympic fees to Vladivostok as a sparring partner of Rahim and a reserve participant. The situation was aggravated by an injury: rupture of ligaments of the left shoulder joint.

In January, the boxer flew to the Austrian clinic for surgery. He joined the composition of the national team. His mentor, Mark Melts, was dissatisfied with the status of his student. He persuaded the novel not to go to senseless fees. The boxer did not listen to the coach. The trip to Vladivostok became fatal for the whole future life of the novel. A fatal case, wound, imprisonment on June 28, on the day of the Navy, in the early morning near one of the nightclubs, Romanchuk had a conflict with the summer Oleg Meshkov.

After a verbal skirmish, bags shot a boxer from the traumatic pistol of the Osa brand in the head of the Boxer. The novel, being in a state of pain shock, grabbed the attacker and threw him to the ground. As a result of the struggle of two men from traumatic weapons, another shot was carried out. The bullet fell into the head of Meshkov. The young man died in the hospital two days after the conflict.

The police detained the wounded Romanchuk at the scene. The boxer had a contusion. Both young people were intoxicated. A long trial began.Romanchuk was accused under several articles of the Criminal Code: causing death by negligence, insulting representatives of the authorities during the detention, attempts to escape from the scene. Before the court decision, the boxer was in the investigative insulator.

The athlete was supported by the wife of Veronika, a familiar journalist Anna and coach Mark Meltser. The novel needed medicines, painkillers and regular medical procedures. The leadership of the Russian national team turned away from its boxer. The incident occurred on the eve of the Olympiad and Russian sports officials did not want hype in the media. The sports committee abandoned Romanchuk.

The process of detaining a boxer became a flagrant case of a police lawlessness. There were many inconsistencies in the protocol of the incident. The wounded novel was accused of resistance to representatives of the authorities and attempts to escape from the scene, while he himself was beaten by the police, while, at the same time, chained into handcuffs and with a bullet wound to the head.

Cruel detention aggravated the brain injury and led to blood loss. On a traumatic pistol, a boxer's fingers were not found. The shot, which led to the death of Meshkov, could not make a novel. Mark Meltser admitted in an interview that representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs extorted a large amount of money from him, knowing about Romanchuk's innocence. The coach found funds.

The court took place. The novel was accused under several articles. By the time the verdict was sentenced, he left his term in the investigative insulator and was released from custody. Attempts to return, life after conclusion, death Roman lost its former physical condition. The brain injury and a long stay in the pre -trial detention center negatively affected its functional, psychological and mental state.

The boxer broke up with his wife and left for his homeland - to Odessa. Romanchuk made attempts to return to great sport. He planned to take part in the WSB League, but the medical commission forbade him to enter the ring due to the consequences of his head injury. The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation did not support the boxer. The life of the novel was destroyed. He was left without means for existence.

He was deprived of the only accessible way of earning. Upon returning to Ukraine, the former champion went to the Odessa monastery. For some time he tried to engage in coaching and tried to return his former physical shape. For a long time, his death was unknown in the media. His brother, Edward, reported the tragedy. The novel was 37 years old. Six months before the death of the boxer, his father died.

Of the loved ones, Roma remained only brothers. They hardly managed to find money for the funeral of the famous fighter.