Granit Taropin
Russian wrestler
- Born
- 23 February 1940
- Citizenship
- Russia, Soviet Union
- Sport
- amateur wrestling
- Occupation
- coach, amateur wrestler
Granit Taropin was born in the city of Peltun on North Sakhalin Island in Russia on February 23, 1940.
In high school Taropin first became interested in wrestling after reading a booklet about a wrestler from Tula. After he graduated in 1958, he went to Tula in the hopes of finding this wrestler. While there, he became a Master of Sports in wrestling at the age of 20.
Then, in 1961 he entered a sports college in Malakhovka near Moscow. After he graduated in 1963, he went to the Institute of Sports in Smolensk, where he stayed until he graduated in 1967.
After he received his degree from the Institute of Sports, he began his first job as a professional coach in Kaliningrad where he would spend the next 10 years.
While in Kaliningrad, he worked at a children’s sports school with over two hundred wrestlers at a time. It was at this time when he first met his most famous wrestlers, Anatoly and Sergei Beloglazov.
When Taropin finally left Kaliningrad in 1977, he moved to Kiev as the head coach of Club Dynamo as well as one of the national team coaches of the Soviet Union.
Awards and honours
- Master of Sport of the USSR
- Merited Coach of the USSR
- Order of the Badge of Honour
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q19916985 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.