Fyodor Bogdanovsky

Fyodor Bogdanovsky

Pete George (left) and Fyodor Bogdanovsky (center) at the 1956 Olympics
Personal information
Born	16 April 1930 Sheteyevo, Tver Oblast, Russian SFSR
Died	2 October 2014 (aged 84) Saint Petersburg, Russia
Sport
Sport	Weightlifting
Club	Soviet Army, St. Petersburg
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne -75 kg World Weightlifting Championships 1954 Vienna Middleweight 1955 Munich Middleweight 1957 Tehran Middleweight 1958 Stockholm Middleweight 1959 Warsaw Middleweight European Weightlifting Championships 1954 Vienna Middleweight 1955 Munich Middleweight 1958 Stockholm Middleweight 1959 Warsaw Middleweight

Fyodor Fyodorovich Bogdanovsky (Russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Богдановский 16 April 1930 – 2 October 2014)^[1] was a Russian weightlifter. Between 1954 and 1959 he won an Olympic gold medal, four European titles, and five silver medals at world championships, losing to either Pete George or Tommy Kono. He set eight ratified world records, five in the press and three in the total.^[2]

Bogdanovsky took up weightlifting in 1948 and retired in 1963. Later he trained weightlifters in Saint Petersburg, and in the 1970s worked with the Soviet weightlifting team.^[3]

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