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]
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Born | Pobedino, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR | 17 January 1951||||||||||||||
Died | 30 September 2022 Dnipro, Ukraine | (aged 71)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
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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.