Valery Shary

Valery Shary (Belarusian: Валерый Пятровіч Шарый, born 2 January 1947) is a former Belarusian weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for the Soviet Union.^[1]

Valery Shary

Medal record
Representing the  Soviet Union
Men's weightlifting
Olympic Games
	1976 Montreal	75-82.5 kg

His 3 lift total of 527.5 kg (1,163 lb) in the 82.5k weight class was never surpassed.^[2]

Biography

Shary was born in Chervyen.

Shary won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal in light-heavyweight weightlifting, setting an Olympic record in the process.^[3][4] He also won the 1975 and 1976 World Championships in the same weight class.^[4]

George Eisen of Nazareth University included Shary on his list of Jewish Olympic Medalists (though he acknowledges that he may have included non-Jews).^[4][5][6][7] Eisen's list has been published and used in numerous other academia on Jews and Sports.^[8][9][10]

See also

• List of select Jewish weightlifters