Yury Zaitsev (weightlifter)

Yury Konstantinovich Zaitsev (Russian: Юрий Константинович Зайцев; 17 January 1951 – 30 September 2022) was a weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for Soviet Union.^[1] He won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.^[2]

Yury Zaitsev

Zaitsev in 2020
Personal information
Born	(1951-01-17)17 January 1951 Pobedino, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	30 September 2022(2022-09-30) (aged 71) Dnipro, Ukraine
Sport
Sport	Weightlifting
Medal record Representing the  Soviet Union Men's Weightlifting Olympic Games 1976 Montreal -110 kg