The death of Andrei Pushkar: what is known about the legend of Ukrainian sports. Andrey Pushkar - SportWiki encyclopedia Pushkar arm wrestling
Andrey Pushkar is a ten-time world champion and 11-time European champion in arm wrestling. Today, in the world ranking of armwrestlers, Andrey occupies 3rd (in the category over 95 kg on the left hand) and 4th (on the right hand) places, and this already says a lot. Now Andrey is only 26 years old and is only at the very beginning of his sports career. Of course, he has a strong opponent, a former citizen of Ukraine, but he was able to defeat him at the recent one.
Andrey Pushkar was born on August 6, 1985, and began playing sports at the age of 11, following the example of his father, who actively competed at Ukrainian championships in various types of martial arts. Andrey’s first sport was powerlifting, which strengthened the muscles of the future champion and developed a good base for the future arm wrestler.
Andrey started arm wrestling from childhood, because he and his father (the strongest arm wrestler in the city) constantly fought and he could never defeat him. As a result, this confrontation raised Pushkar into a junior world champion, because having defeated his father in competitions at the age of 14 and weighing 70 kilograms, against his father’s 105 kg, Andrei began performing at European armfight tournaments, and at the age of 18 he became the world champion.
Andrey Pushkar trains according to his own developed methodology 3 times a week, each training lasts 1.5 - 2 hours. During training, Andrey performs bench press with a weight of 200 kg, biceps curls with a weight of 75 - 86 kg for each arm, hammers with dumbbells of 50 kg each, and also trains the hands separately with a strong weight of 60 - 70 kg with a dumbbell. Pushkar does not train legs, so if you are going to arm wrestle, you can exclude the leg muscles from training.
In addition to his own training, Andrey himself is involved in coaching - he trains children in his own gym, which is located on the 1st floor of his house, and is also a trainer at the physical education center of Ternopil University and the president of the Ternopil Armwrestling Federation.
Andrey eats 5-6 times a day in small portions, preferring protein foods (meat, fish, eggs, cheese and milk). Andrey eats foods rich in carbohydrates only in the first half of the day. When it comes to sports nutrition, Andrei Pushkar prefers protein, amino acids and creatine.
Andrey advises future arm wrestlers to exercise regularly, eat more protein foods and not forget about static exercises.
At the end of the article, I suggest you watch a couple of videos with Andrey. In the first and second videos you will see 2 interviews with Pushkar, and in the third there will be a clip from Andrey’s performances under Nightwish and.
Information appeared on the Internet that arm wrestling athlete Andrei Pushkar died in a car accident on November 14, 2018. The accident occurred due to the fault of the driver of the car in which Andrey was traveling. The man died on the spot due to injuries that were incompatible with life. Throughout his entire sports career, Pushkar was able to win 200 medals and receive the title of world champion.
Representatives of the media learned that arm wrestler from Ukraine Andrey Pushkar died in a car accident on November 14, 2018. The incident happened on the highway that led to the city of Rivne. The athlete Oleg Zhokh, his father and Andrey were traveling in the car. Zhokh was driving the car. He lost control and crashed into a truck passing in the oncoming lane.
Andrei Pushkar died at the scene of the accident, Oleg’s father was taken to the hospital, but died without regaining consciousness. Zhokh is now in a medical facility under the constant supervision of doctors. Doctors report that Oleg fell into a coma after suffering a head injury. In addition, he was diagnosed with a fracture of 2 arms, as well as a hematoma on his head and internal organs were damaged. Doctors do not disclose other details of Zhokh’s health condition.
Life path of Andrei Pushkar
The famous athlete was born on August 6, 1985 in the city of Kremenets, which is located in the Ternopil region. The boy grew up in an ordinary working-class family. At school I got excellent grades and was interested in subjects such as mathematics and history. After graduating from school, Andrei decided to enter the regional humanitarian and pedagogical institute, which is located in the city of Kremenchug. While studying in his final years at a higher educational institution, Pushkar decided to get a second higher education. He was enrolled in the National Economic University of Ternopil at the Faculty of Accounting and Auditing.
At a young age, Andrei became interested in sports. Interest in this hobby arose after watching the film “Commando”. Pushkar was amazed by the physical form of Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as the stunts that the hero performed. At the age of 20, Andrey began working as a martial arts trainer under the patronage of the Ternopil National Economic University. The guy’s physical fitness was at the highest level, and he also had every chance of a brilliant sports career with a height of 193 cm and a weight of 130 kg.
The first competition for Andrey was a championship called “Cossack Games”, which took place in the city of Kremenchug. Pushkar won the sympathy of the audience after he was able to lift a deck weighing 70 kg 52 times. At the beginning of his career, Andrei was involved in the sport of powerlifting. This hobby allowed the man to build muscle mass and strengthen his muscles.
In parallel with powerlifting, Andrey was engaged in armfight. Having reached adulthood, the guy received the title of World Armfight Championship. Pushkar told reporters that he does not take any doping, and his diet includes a lot of food containing protein and as little animal fat as possible. At the beginning of the 21st century, Andrei received the title of Honored Master of Sports. 2012 was a special year for the athlete. He was able to win 2 gold medals at the World Arm Wrestling Championship.
Throughout his life, Pushkar was able to win about 200 medals. Andrey received 30 medals in competitions that took place in other countries. In addition, he is the winner of the “Russian open” tournament, “in memory of Vitaly Sorokin”, the World Arm Wrestling Championship “Golden Tour”, a series of heavyweight arm wrestling competitions and took 1st place at the World Cup Championship in 2016.
On Wednesday, November 14, near Rivne, the famous Ukrainian armwrestler, coach, Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine Andrey Pushkar died in a terrible accident. Information about the fatal accident appeared on the website of the Main Directorate of the National Police in the region.
Thus, law enforcement officers received a report of an accident on the Kyiv-Chop highway at about 15:00.
“It is known that on the highway between the villages of Gai-Levyatinskiye and Krupets, a 26-year-old resident of the Ostrozhsky district, a famous Ukrainian athlete, according to preliminary information, the driver of a Citroen, lost control, drove into oncoming traffic, where he collided with a truck driven by 30 -year-old resident of the Chernivtsi region,” the message said.
Details of the fatal accident 
On the highway between the villages of Gai-Levyatynskie and Krupets, a 26-year-old resident of the Ostrozhsky district, a famous Ukrainian athlete, according to preliminary information, the driver of a Citroen lost control, drove into oncoming traffic, where he collided with a truck driven by a 30-year-old resident of Chernivtsi region,” the press service of the Rivne region police reported.
As a result of the accident, the driver of the van was taken to a medical facility in serious condition.
According to the information released, there were two more passengers in the van: the driver’s father, a 50-year-old resident of the Ostrog region, and a 33-year-old athlete from the Ternopil region. They received injuries incompatible with life.
The police did not name the victims, while at the same time, the investigative journalistic agency “Chetverta Vlada” notes on its Facebook page that the world champion in arm wrestling Andrei Pushkar died in the accident, another athlete Oleg Zhokh is in serious condition in the hospital.
An investigation team quickly arrived at the scene of the accident to establish the circumstances of the incident.
According to TSN, Ukrainian athletes were traveling to competitions in Poland.
Andrey Pushkar - biography
Andrey Pushkar was born on August 6, 1985 in the city of Kremenets, Ternopil region. He is a graduate of the Kremenets Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Institute named after Taras Shevchenko.
At the age of 11, after watching the film “Commando” with Arnold Schwarzenegger, he decided that he would become an athlete.
My father took part in many martial arts competitions. Pushkar’s first sport was powerlifting, or popularly, powerlifting. This sport perfectly strengthened Andrei’s ligaments, bones and muscles. A good base for starting in the new sport of arm wrestling. 
Since childhood, he has been actively involved in arm wrestling with his father. Because he was the champion of the city. They often sparred. Thus, Pushkar grew into a real champion, who first defeated his father at 71 kilograms at the age of 14, while his father weighed about 110.
Ecuadorian authorities have denied Julian Assange asylum at the London embassy. The founder of WikiLeaks was detained by British police, and this has already been called the biggest betrayal in the history of Ecuador. Why are they taking revenge on Assange and what awaits him?
Australian programmer and journalist Julian Assange became widely known after the website WikiLeaks, which he founded, published secret documents from the US State Department in 2010, as well as materials related to military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But it was quite difficult to find out who the police were leading out of the building, supporting him by the arms. Assange had grown a beard and looked nothing like the energetic man he had previously appeared in photographs.
According to Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, Assange was denied asylum due to his repeated violations of international conventions.
He is expected to remain in custody at a central London police station until he appears at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
Why is the President of Ecuador accused of treason?
Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called the current government's decision the biggest betrayal in the country's history. “What he (Moreno - editor’s note) did is a crime that humanity will never forget,” Correa said.
London, on the contrary, thanked Moreno. The British Foreign Office believes that justice has triumphed. The representative of the Russian diplomatic department, Maria Zakharova, has a different opinion. “The hand of “democracy” is squeezing the throat of freedom,” she noted. The Kremlin expressed hope that the rights of the arrested person will be respected.
Ecuador sheltered Assange because the former president had left-of-center views, criticized U.S. policies and welcomed WikiLeaks' release of secret documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even before the Internet activist needed asylum, he managed to personally meet Correa: he interviewed him for the Russia Today channel.
However, in 2017, the government in Ecuador changed, and the country set a course for rapprochement with the United States. The new president called Assange “a stone in his shoe” and immediately made it clear that his stay on the embassy premises would not be prolonged.
According to Correa, the moment of truth came at the end of June last year, when US Vice President Michael Pence arrived in Ecuador for a visit. Then everything was decided. “You have no doubt: Lenin is simply a hypocrite. He has already agreed with the Americans on the fate of Assange. And now he is trying to make us swallow the pill, saying that Ecuador is supposedly continuing the dialogue,” Correa said in an interview with the Russia Today channel.
How Assange made new enemies
The day before his arrest, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristin Hrafnsson said that Assange was under total surveillance. “WikiLeaks uncovered a large-scale spy operation against Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy,” he noted. According to him, cameras and voice recorders were placed around Assange, and the information received was transferred to the Donald Trump administration.
Hrafnsson clarified that Assange was going to be expelled from the embassy a week earlier. This did not happen only because WikiLeaks released this information. A high-ranking source told the portal about the plans of the Ecuadorian authorities, but the head of the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry, Jose Valencia, denied the rumors.
Assange's expulsion was preceded by the corruption scandal surrounding Moreno. In February, WikiLeaks published a package of INA Papers, which traced the operations of the offshore company INA Investment, founded by the brother of the Ecuadorian leader. Quito said it was a conspiracy between Assange and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and former Ecuadorian leader Rafael Correa to overthrow Moreno.
In early April, Moreno complained about Assange's behavior at Ecuador's London mission. “We must protect the life of Mr. Assange, but he has already crossed all boundaries in terms of violating the agreement that we came to with him,” the president said. “This does not mean that he cannot speak freely, but he cannot lie and hack.” ". At the same time, back in February last year it became known that Assange at the embassy was deprived of the opportunity to interact with the outside world, in particular, his Internet access was cut off.
Why Sweden stopped its prosecution of Assange
At the end of last year, Western media, citing sources, reported that Assange would be charged in the United States. This was never officially confirmed, but it was because of Washington’s position that Assange had to take refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy six years ago.
In May 2017, Sweden stopped investigating two rape cases in which the portal’s founder was accused. Assange demanded compensation from the country's government for legal costs in the amount of 900 thousand euros.
Earlier, in 2015, Swedish prosecutors also dropped three charges against him due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
Where did the investigation into the rape case lead?
Assange arrived in Sweden in the summer of 2010, hoping to receive protection from American authorities. But he was investigated for rape. In November 2010, a warrant was issued for his arrest in Stockholm, and Assange was put on the international wanted list. He was detained in London, but was soon released on bail of 240 thousand pounds.
In February 2011, a British court decided to extradite Assange to Sweden, after which a number of successful appeals followed for the WikiLeaks founder.
British authorities placed him under house arrest before deciding whether to extradite him to Sweden. Breaking his promise to the authorities, Assange asked for asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy, which was granted to him. Since then, the UK has had its own claims against the WikiLeaks founder.
What awaits Assange now?
The man was re-arrested on a US extradition request for publishing classified documents, police said. At the same time, Deputy Head of the British Foreign Ministry Alan Duncan said that Assange would not be sent to the United States if he faced the death penalty there.
In the UK, Assange is likely to appear in court on the afternoon of April 11. This is stated on the WikiLeaks Twitter page. British authorities are likely to seek a maximum sentence of 12 months, the man's mother said, citing his lawyer.
At the same time, Swedish prosecutors are considering reopening the rape investigation. Attorney Elizabeth Massey Fritz, who represented the victim, will seek this.
World arm wrestling champion Andrei Pushkar died on the way to the airport a few days before the competition in Poland.
The accident on the highway near Rovno on the afternoon of November 14 was reported by the regional police. The message said that a 33-year-old famous athlete had died. It was also reported that the second passenger of the CITROEN BERLINGO was killed when it collided with a truck, and that a 26-year-old athlete was seriously injured.
Local publications reported that Andrei Pushkar died in the accident, and Oleg Zhokh was injured. The second person killed was his father. According to the police, Oleg was driving, he lost control, drove into oncoming traffic and was hit by a truck. The driver of the van is also in hospital. Photos released by police show the car was crushed in half. They helped get the bodies out of the car rescuers.
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"KP" in Ukraine" found several communities on social networks dedicated to arm wrestling. All the latest messages are dedicated to the death of Pushkar. President of the Professional Armwrestling League, a native of Ukraine Igor Mazurenko confirmed the fact of the accident and said that "Oleg Zhokh's condition is very serious."
There are no bleedings, but there are many fractures... The head is intact, but something is damaged in the internal organs. Stable condition... will live, - wrote he is on his VKontakte page.
Andrei Pushkar is survived by his wife Svetlana, she is also an athlete.
