[2] Golovanov took weightlifting in 1957 while serving with the Soviet Army in the Russian Far East.

In 1965 he was injured and recovered only by 1968, when he won a Soviet heavyweight title and set his last world record.

He retired in 1972, after finished third at the national championships, and later coached weightlifters in Khabarovsk.

In 1985 he became president of the Russian Far East weightlifting federation, and from 1998 until his death headed a sport school in Khabarovsk.

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