Yury Zaitsev

Yury Zaitsev
Medal record

Representing the Soviet Union
Men's Weightlifting
Olympic Games
	1976 Montreal	-110 kg

Yuri Zaitsev (Russian: Юрий Константинович Зайцев; born 17 January 1951) is a Russian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union. He won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.^[1]

References

Olympic champions in weightlifting – Heavyweight

1920–1948: +82.5 kg, 1952–1968: +90 kg, 1972–1976: 90–110 kg, 1980–1992: 100–110 kg, 1996: 99–108 kg, 2000–2008: 94–105 kg

1920: Filippo Bottino (ITA) 1924: Giuseppe Tonani (ITA) 1928: Josef Straßberger (GER) 1932: Jaroslav Skobla (TCH) 1936: Josef Manger (GER) 1948+1952: John Davis (USA) 1956: Paul Anderson (USA) 1960: Yury Vlasov (URS) 1964+1968: Leonid Zhabotinsky (URS) 1972: Jaan Talts (URS) 1976: Yury Zaitsev (URS) 1980: Leonid Taranenko (URS) 1984: Norberto Oberburger (ITA) 1988: Yury Zakharevich (URS) 1992: Ronny Weller (GER) 1996: Timur Taymazov (UKR) 2000: Hossein Tavakkoli (IRI) 2004: Dmitry Berestov (RUS) 2008: Andrei Aramnau (BLR) 2012: Oleksiy Torokhtiy (UKR) 2016: Ruslan Nurudinov (UZB)

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