1. In Feodosiya, Ivan started to practice with kettlebells and participated in some wrestling fights.
12 Facts About Ivan Poddubny
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Sometime in 1903, Ivan Poddubny joined the Saint Petersburg Athletic Club with which he participated in World Championships in Moscow and Paris.
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In 1906, Ivan Poddubny won two more World Cups in Paris and Milan.
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Sometime in 1913, Ivan Poddubny participated in another World Cup in Moscow where he became a runner-up.
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On February 2,1926 in New York City, Ivan Poddubny lost to world heavyweight wrestling champion Joe Stecher, which is considered Ivan Poddubny's first loss in 25 years.
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At age 56 Ivan Poddubny won a beauty contest among men in the United States.
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Later Ivan Poddubny continued to perform in the Russian circuses retiring finally aged 70.
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Ivan Poddubny maintained a lifelong professional rivalry with wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko.
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Ivan Poddubny died undefeated on 8 August 1949, in the town of Yeysk, in the Kuban region in Southern Russia from a heart attack.
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Ivan Poddubny was buried in Yeysk in a park outside of the city.
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The last relative of Ivan Poddubny who lived in Krasenivka was his granddaughter Hanna Zakharivna who died sometime before 2011.
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The festival which gathers up to 10,000 people was visited once by a grandson and great grandson of Ivan Poddubny who arrived from Kazakhstan.