Yury Zaitsev (weightlifter)
.jpg) Zaitsev in 2020 | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 17 January 1951 Pobedino, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 September 2022 (aged 71) Dnipro, Ukraine | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
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Yury Konstantinovich Zaitsev (Russian: Юрий Константинович Зайцев; 17 January 1951 – 30 September 2022) was a weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for Soviet Union.[1] He won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "В Днепре скончался мировой рекордсмен и олимпийский чемпион по тяжелой атлетике Юрий Зайцев".
- ^ "Yury Zaytsev". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2010.
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