page_title: Ivan Poddubny
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Ivan Poddubny / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Українська: Іван Максимович Піддубний на поштовій марці України English: Stamp of Ukraine Русский: Иван Максимович Поддубный на почтовой марке Украины
context_page_description: Ivan Maximovich Poddubny was a professional wrestler from the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union. He began his sports career around 1900; his career lasted for about forty years and he lost only two times.
context_section_description: His first wife, Antonina, cheated on him and ran away with another, stealing his gold medals. Antonina later regretted her actions and attempted to return, but Ivan would not forgive her.
  According to the director of the Krasenivka museum, Ivan had three sisters (Motrona, Maryna, and Yevdokiya) and three brothers (Omelyan, Mykyta, and Mytrofan). The fate of Omelyan and Mykyta is unknown, while Mytrofan continued to live in Krasenivka where he died in 1966. The last relative of Ivan Piddubny who lived in Krasenivka was his granddaughter Hanna Zakharivna who died sometime before 2011. It is also known that both Motrona and Maryna had three children each, yet the most close relations Ivan kept with his youngest sister Yevdokiya and was as godfather of her daughter Mariya. Eventually, Yevdokiya moved to the neighboring village of Bohodukhivka and later to Zolotonosha.
  Ivan's father name was Maksym Ivanovych Piddubny. According to the Krasenivka museum, Ivan Piddubny's height was 180 cm (71 in), his weight was 118 kg (260 lb), his biceps girth was 44 cm (17 in), and his neck was 60 cm (24 in) thick.
  Among Ivan Piddubny's friends was Dmytro Yavornytsky who lived in Dnipropetrovsk (Yekaterinoslav).
caption: Ukrainian stamp with Piddubny
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