Vladimir Mineev is a multiple European and world kickboxing champion. In addition, the athlete can be seen in mixed martial arts and Thai boxing fights. He started playing sports from early childhood, achieved his first serious success at the age of 18, having won a kickboxing fight at the Russian Championship.
Young years of Mineev
Vladimir Mineev was born into a family of doctors. Despite the fact that his parents predicted a medical career for him, he followed the path of an athlete, unlike his older brother. His first coach was Evgeny Golovikhin. The father brought the 9-year-old boy to the sports section, as he was simply tired of his son’s constant fights. Splashing out energy during training, Eugene no longer had the strength to fight outside the walls of the sports section. When Mineev was 14 years old, his father died, and it was Yevgeny Vasilyevich who became his support. He helped him not only mentally, but also financially.
Once, a boxer arrived in the village where Vladimir lived. And it so happened that Mineev had a fight with him. Having received several blows to the head, the young man decided to master the technique of boxing. Golovikhin introduced him to coach Vladimir Merchin, who taught Thai boxing. A year after the start of classes, Vladimir became the first in the championship in Thai boxing.
In parallel to training, Vladimir graduated from the Ulyanovsk school and entered the agrarian university. In 2014, he received an engineering degree. Having graduated, he began to devote more time to sports.
Sports career Mineev
In his native Ulyanovsk, Mineev won the fights one by one, and when there were no more defeated sparring partners, he left to conquer Moscow. Vladimir achieved his first global success in 2008, when he won a gold medal at the Russian kickboxing championship. After this victory, he was invited to the national team. Next was a victory at the European Championships in Portugal. But not everything was so rosy: at the final match in Austria, Mineev was defeated and took second place.
To support his family, Vladimir Konstantinovich was forced to leave boxing in professional kickboxing. In this sport, he received the WAKO Pro World Champion title. From 2011 to 2014, Mineev performed in the rings of different countries. During this period, he became the champion of Europe WBKF, the world according to WKA and WKN. In 2014, fans first saw him in sparring in mixed-rules fights.
