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Ilya Ilyin

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Ilya Aleksandrovich Ilyin (Russian: Илья Александрович Ильин; born 24 May 1988) is a retired Kazakhstani weightlifter who won four world championships and was regarded as one of the greatest weightlifters of all time, until banned for doping abuse in both 2008 and 2012 Olympics. On 12 December 2015 at the President's Cup in Grozny, Russia, Ilyin set two world records in the −105 kg class. He lifted 246 kg in the clean and jerk and 437 kg in the total. Ilyin was named IWF World Weightlifter of the Year four times: in 2005, 2006, 2014, and 2015. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2024). Ilya Ilyin is the 3,913th most popular athlete (down from 3,001st in 2024), the 140th most popular biography from Kazakhstan (down from 118th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Kazakhstani Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ilya Ilyin ranks 3,913 out of 6,025. Before him are Svetlana Zakharova, An Baul, Kyriakos Ioannou, Tim Lobinger, Lukas Hofer, and Zhang Wenxiu. After him are Ralf Bartels, Janina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya, Vsevolods Zeļonijs, Natalya Pomoshchnikova-Voronova, Nicolas Hénard, and Jamie Dwyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1988, Ilya Ilyin ranks 551. Before him are Kenta Maeda, Luiza Gega, Maksim Mikhaylov, Juraj Sagan, Jonathan Tehau, and Simon Schempp. After him are Mubariz Ibrahimov, Kritika Kamra, Ezgi Eyüboğlu, Nathan Burns, Ivan Fedorov, and Lily Donaldson.

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In Kazakhstan

Among people born in Kazakhstan, Ilya Ilyin ranks 140 out of 193. Before him are Aliya Nazarbayeva (1980), Roman Sklyar (1971), Arawat Sabejew (1968), Lyudmila Prokasheva (1969), Ruslan Baltiev (1978), and Bakhtiyar Artayev (1983). After him are Samat Smakov (1978), Mukhtar Tleuberdi (1968), Ömürbek Babanov (1970), Evgeny Yarovenko (1963), Hidayet Heydarov (1997), and Alexander Parygin (1973).

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Among ATHLETES In Kazakhstan

Among athletes born in Kazakhstan, Ilya Ilyin ranks 16. Before him are Yermakhan Ibraimov (1972), Tatyana Lesovaya (1956), Vitaliy Savin (1966), Igor Potapovich (1967), Eduard Hämäläinen (1969), and Bakhtiyar Artayev (1983). After him are Hidayet Heydarov (1997), Alexander Parygin (1973), Dmitriy Gaag (1971), Zulfiya Chinshanlo (1993), Marina Aitova (1982), and Lee Dong-jun (null).

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