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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Aleksandr Ivanov (weightlifter), Aleksandr Kurynov, Aleksandr Voronin, Aleksei Aleksandrovich Petrov, Aleksey Vakhonin, Aleksey Yufkin, Alexey Vishnitsky, Alla Vazhenina, Anatoly Khrapaty, Andrei Chemerkin, Andrey Demanov, Apti Aukhadov, Arkady Vorobyov, Aslanbek Ediev, Boris Selitsky, David Rigert, Dito Shanidze, Dmitry Berestov, Dmitry Klokov, Dmitry Lapikov, Eduard Tyukin, Evgeny Chigishev, Fyodor Bogdanovsky, Gennady Chetin, Gleb Pisarevskiy, Grigory Novak, Igor Pedan, Ihor Rybak, Israil Arsamakov, Ivan Udodov, Kanybek Osmonaliyev, Khadzhimurat Akkayev, Leonid Taranenko, Marina Shainova, Mikhail Koklyaev, Mukharby Kirzhinov, Nadezhda Yevstyukhina, Natalia Zabolotnaya, Nikolay Kolesnikov (weightlifter), Nikolay Saksonov, Oksana Slivenko, Oleg Chen, Oleg Perepetchenov, Pavel Kuznetsov (weightlifter), Petro Korol, Rafael Chimishkyan, Rudolf Plyukfelder, Ruslan Albegov, Sergey Filimonov, Sergey Petrosyan, Sergey Syrtsov, Svetlana Podobedova, Svetlana Shimkova, Svetlana Tsarukayeva, Svetlana Ulyanova, Tatiana Kashirina, Tatiana Matveyeva, Trofim Lomakin, Valentina Popova, Valery Shary, Vasily Alekseyev, Vasily Kolotov, Viktor Bushuev, Viktor Kurentsov, Viktor Tregubov, Vladimir Belyayev (weightlifting), Vladimir Golovanov, Vladimir Kaplunov, Vladimir Smorchkov, Vladimir Stogov, Yevgeny Minayev, Yurik Sarkisyan, Yury Vlasov, Yury Zaitsev, Yury Zakharevich, Zarema Kasayeva. Excerpt: Vasiliy Ivanovich Alekseyev (Russian: January 7, 1942, village of Pokrovo-Shishkino, Ryazan Oblast - November 25, 2011, Germany) was a weightlifter from the Soviet Union. He set 80 world records and 81 Soviet records in weightlifting and won gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. At the age of 18, Alekseyev began practicing weightlifting at Trud Voluntary Sports Society, trained by his coach Rudolf Plyukfelder until 1968, when he began to train solo. He wasn't a naturally large man like other super heavyweights but was encouraged to gain strength by adding weight. In January 1970 Alekseyev set his first world record, and during the World Weightlifting Championship in Columbus, Ohio 1970 he was the very first man in competition to clean and jerk 500 pounds. During one of his early world records Oscar State OBE one of the finest administrators and supporters of the sport remarked that the weight of over 460 pounds in the Olympic press looked so easy it could have been a broomstick. This was the beginning a series of 80 world records the weightlifter set between 1970 and 1977. He received bonus funds every time he set a world record by the Russian Federation so he made it a point to gradually increase his world records by 1.1 pounds or 1/2 kilo. He was unbeaten and held the World Championship and European Championship titles for those eight years. He was the first man to total over 600 kg in the triple event. However, Alekseyev's performance in the Moscow Olympics of 1980 was a disappointment. He had by then become more of a recluse training by himself without a coach. In the snatch he set his opening weight too high and was unable to lift it, scoring zero kilograms as the result. He retired from weightlifting after the Moscow Olympics. In 1987, Alekseyev was elected to represent the Ryazan District for the Soviet Union's Congress of People's Deputies. Alekseyev worked as a coach between 1990 and 1992. Under his l
