Yury Zaitsev

Yury Zaitsev
Medal record

Competitor for the Soviet Union
Men's Weightlifting
Olympic Games
Gold	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 1924: Giuseppe Tonani 1928: Josef Straßberger 1932: Jaroslav Skobla 1936: Josef Manger 1948+1952: John Davis 1956: Paul Anderson 1960: Yury Vlasov 1964+1968: Leonid Zhabotinsky 1972: Jaan Talts 1976: Yury Zaitsev 1980: Leonid Taranenko 1984: Norberto Oberburger 1988: Yury Zakharevich 1992: Ronny Weller 1996: Timur Taymazov 2000: Hossein Tavakkoli 2004: Dmitry Berestov 2008: Andrei Aramnau 2012: Oleksiy Torokhtiy