Grigory Novak
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| Medal record | |||
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| Men's weightlifting | |||
Competitor for the  Soviet Union |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Silver | 1952 Helsinki | Middle Heavyweight | |
| World championship | |||
| Gold | 1946 Paris | Light Heavyweight | |
| European championship | |||
| Gold | 1947 Helsinki | Light Heavyweight | |
Grigory Irmovich Novak (Russian: Григорий Ирмович Новак, March 5, 1919 – July 10, 1980) is a former Russian weightlifter, World champion and Olympic medalist, who competed for the Soviet Union.
He was born in Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR.
Novak became World champion in in 1946, and received a silver medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.[1]
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- ^ "1952 Summer Olympics – Helsinki, Finland – Weightlifting" – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 24, 2008)
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