Artem Klimenko was born on 26 of April, 1986 in Chelyabinsk city, where he lives up to the present day.

He came to gim at the first time when he was twelve. Artem is doing armwrestling for the period of nine years, all this time he was training under the supervision of his coach – Averianov Sergej, in one gim reequiped for armwrestling trainings. Artem never went in for another kind of sport before.

Artem took his first World Championship among seniors gold medal in USA when he was 16 years old.

At the present time Artem study in University on speciality «World International Traiding» on 5 course, ful-time course of study.

Achievements :

Nonprofessional tournaments:

Three-times Russian champion
Six-times Europe champion
Six-times World champion

Professional tournaments:

IPAA tournaments:
08.08.2006. Win over Ruslan Kokoev 3:0 in rating wrestle in Moskow
29.07.2006. Win over Farid Usmanov 2:1 in Saint-Petersburg.