Artem Manko. Fidelity is his credo! 17:00 06/13/2014 Overcoming difficulties and never giving up – that's how he pays homage to armwrestling. Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. Artem knows armwrestling from childhood. His father often took him to the gym, where he trained alog people like Oleg Mackiewicz, Dmitrij Shmyko, Aleksander Jankowski and Sergey Sergel. But his first club wasn't an armwrestling one, but a sambo club. I needed five years to realize I wasn't that much into sambo – says Artem. - But I have no regrets for the time spent doing it. When I turned 14 I started looking for new ways to challenge myself. I've found armwrestling by chance. Artem's first coach was Oleg Mackiewicz – one of the most accomplished Belarussian armwrestlers. Artem found it hard to get used to the new discipline. He lost to everyone in right hand. He was a little better in left, but he couldn't face the more experiencesd people. - The fact that I was weaker than everyone else