Презентация, доклад по английскому языку My favourite sportsman ( 7 класс)

later the Soviet Union.  He began his sports career around 1900; his career lasted for about forty years and he lost only two times. Poddubny was born in 1871 into a family of Zaporozhian Cossacks in the village of Krasenivka, in the Zolotonosha county (uyezd) of the Poltava Governorate ( Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine). Having a big family Poddubny senior had a difficult time to provide for his big family, therefore Ivan was forced to leave the father's house before turning 20.

fitter in the ports of Sevastopol and Feodosiya for seven years earning a nickname of Ivan the GreatSometime since 1897[1]-1898 he started traveling with circus tours and performed at first Sevastopol and later Kiev arenas.
Sometime in 1903 Poddubny joined the Saint Petersburg Athletic Club with which he participated in World Championships in Moscow and Paris. In 1905 he became the World Champion in wrestling in Paris and later toured Italy, Algeria, Belgium, Berlin, winning a championship in Nice. In 1906 Poddubny won two more World Cups in Paris and Milan. Before returning to his home in Krasenivka in 1910, he also won several more world cups in Vienna, Paris, and Frankfurt.

most authoritative of them – in Paris (1905–08). In 1925–27 he performed in Germany and US.   During his tour in the United States he was forced to fight freestyle as his opponents. At age 56 Ivan won a beauty contest among men in the United States