Alexander Kowalczuk: “It doesn’t matter how you fight, it matters how you resist” 09:00 03/28/2014 Alexander Kowalczuk is a world – class sportsman. He holds the titles of Master of Sports, Champion of Russia, Europe and World. Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. There is a lot of information on the Internet about Alexander’s achievements, but not much is known about how he got where he is. The “Bear” armed response company soldier tells us about his road to armwrestling. Alexander, how did you get into armwrestling? It was January 2003. I was a student and we used to wrestle on school benches, two of my friends wound up in the finals. I weighed about 67 kg, Ilya Troshkov, nicknamed “ Tiny ” , weighed some 114 kg. Each one of us won in one hand, lost in the other. One the 23 rd February my coach, Alexander Pozdnjakov, posted an information about city championships. My friends got me to participate. I tried to resist, until Ilya himself leaned on me to enter. He was