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Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev (Russian: Василий Иванович Алексеев; 7 January 1942 – 25 November 2011) was a Soviet weightlifter. He set 80 world-records and 81 Soviet records in weightlifting and won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 games. [3]
The weightlifting competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich consisted of nine weight classes, all for men only. Two new weight classes were introduced at these Games (flyweight and super heavyweight), marking the first changes to the Olympic program since 1952. This was the last year that the clean and press was included as one of the ...
Vladimir Ryzhenkov. Vladimir Ilyich Ryzhenkov ( Russian: Владимир Ильич Рыженков; 27 August 1948 – 14 August 2011) was a Soviet light heavyweight weightlifter. Between 1972 and 1974 he won one world and two European titles and set 12 official world records: six in the snatch, three in the clean and jerk and three in the ...
Russia: Nicu Vlad Romania: 2000 Sydney details: Hossein Tavakkoli Iran: Alan Tsagaev Bulgaria: Said Saif Asaad Qatar: 2004 Athens details: Dmitry Berestov Russia: Ihor Razoronov Ukraine: Gleb Pisarevskiy Russia: 2008 Beijing details: Andrei Aramnau Belarus: Dmitry Klokov Russia: Marcin Dołęga Poland: 2012 London details: Navab Nassirshalal ...
Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's +110 kg. This was the first time that the super heavyweight weight class was competed at an Olympics. The event was delayed one day due to the ongoing Munich massacre .
Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 75 kg. In an out-of-competition attempt to break the world record in the snatch, both Aimé Terme of France and Mohamed Tarabulsi of Lebanon attempted to lift 146.5 kg to break the world record, both competitors failed the lift. Yossef Romano of Israel was one of the victims of the 5 September ...
Arkady Nikitich Vorobyov (Russian: Аркадий Никитич Воробьёв; 3 October 1924 – 22 December 2012) was a Soviet and Russian weightlifter, weightlifting coach, scientist and writer. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won one bronze and two gold medals. Between 1950 and 1960 he set 16 official world records.
The following are the national records in Olympic weightlifting in Russia. Records are maintained in each weight class for the snatch lift, clean and jerk lift, and the total for both lifts by the Russian Weightlifting Federation (Федерация тяжелой атлетики России).