Konstantin Nerchenko

Konstantin Nerchenko, called Kostya, is a Russian bodybuilder, powerlifter, strongman and Master of Sports in Sambo, born in 1985, who also works as a personal trainer. As a teenager he trained in a range of athletic and combat sports. He is a super-heavyweight bodybuilder of about 100 kilograms whose first contest, the Moscow Oblast Championships in October 2009, brought second place in the 100 kilogram plus class; that month he was seventh at the Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast Championships, then fifth at the 2009 Moscow City Championships and sixth at the 2011 Moscow Cup. He is also a prize-winning powerlifter and a three-time champion of the Moscow and Moscow Oblast bench press championships. He lives in the Moscow region and has worked as a trainer at a pilates and fitness studio since gaining his first experience in 2003; the magazine Muscles and Testosterone called him the most underrated person in athletic sports history.