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Rudolf Plyukfelder

1928 - Today

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Rudolf Vladimirovich Plyukfelder (Russian: Рудольф Владимирович Плюкфельдер, born 6 September 1928) is a retired Soviet weightlifter and weightlifting coach. As a competitor he won world titles in 1959 and 1961 and an Olympic gold medal in 1964. As a coach he prepared a series of Olympic champions including Aleksey Vakhonin, Vasily Alekseyev, David Rigert, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Voronin and Viktor Tregubov. Plyukfelder was born to a German family in Ukraine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Plyukfelder is the 1,805th most popular athlete (down from 1,233rd in 2019), the 920th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 879th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Ukrainian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Rudolf Plyukfelder ranks 1,805 out of 6,025Before him are Tamara Bykova, John McNally, Haruki Uemura, Rinnat Safin, Tamara Manina, and Bob Hayes. After him are Juhani Suutarinen, Harold Smith, Curtis Stevens, Teodor Kocerka, Willie Applegarth, and Lyudmila Titova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Rudolf Plyukfelder ranks 514Before him are Fatima Meer, Richard M. Sherman, Türkân Akyol, Garry Winogrand, Sture Allén, and Elizabeth F. Neufeld. After him are Gino Munaron, Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Russell Mockridge, Douglas Rain, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, and Sheila Lerwill.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Rudolf Plyukfelder ranks 920 out of 1,365Before him are Yulia Ryabchinskaya (1947), Eugenie Schwarzwald (1872), Dmytro Chygrynskiy (1986), Hanka Bielicka (1915), Janusz Majewski (1931), and Jerzy Antczak (1929). After him are Lev Arnshtam (1905), Hennadiy Kernes (1959), Raya Dunayevskaya (1910), Adam Papée (1895), Gersh Budker (1918), and Steven Geray (1904).

Among ATHLETES In Ukraine

Among athletes born in Ukraine, Rudolf Plyukfelder ranks 30Before him are Ihor Rybak (1934), Tatyana Prorochenko (1952), Irina Kirichenko (1937), Nina Dumbadze (1919), John Kelly (null), and Yulia Ryabchinskaya (1947). After him are Vladimir Yashchenko (1959), Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (1963), Boris Shukhov (1947), Yaroslava Mahuchikh (2001), Svetlana Krachevskaya (1944), and Valentyna Kozyr (1950).