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Vasily Alekseyev

1942 - 2011

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Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev (Russian: Василий Иванович Алексеев; 7 January 1942 – 25 November 2011) was a Soviet weightlifter. He set 80 world records and 81 Soviet national records in weightlifting and won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 games. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasily Alekseyev is the 73rd most popular athlete (down from 42nd in 2019), the 630th most popular biography from Russia (down from 526th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vasily Alekseyev ranks 73 out of 6,025. Before him are Hubert Van Innis, Marina Doria, Zoltán Horváth, Jim Lightbody, Ibolya Csák, and Frederick Schule. After him are John Walker, Fritz Hofmann, Glenn Davis, Gustav Flatow, Godfrey Brown, and Charles Moore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Vasily Alekseyev ranks 176. Before him are Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Étienne Balibar, Nicole Fontaine, Rei Kawakubo, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Pedro Rocha. After him are Richard Williams, Daniela Bianchi, Robert Ballard, Eliso Virsaladze, Milton Nascimento, and Bill Conti. Among people deceased in 2011, Vasily Alekseyev ranks 97. Before him are Harold Garfinkel, Pinetop Perkins, Ange-Félix Patassé, Danielle Mitterrand, Lyudmila Gurchenko, and Paul Baran. After him are Archduke Felix of Austria, Shigeo Yaegashi, Lidia Gueiler Tejada, Hidemaro Watanabe, Raúl Ruiz, and Pak Seung-zin.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vasily Alekseyev ranks 630 out of 3,761. Before him are Jean Béraud (1849), Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (1864), Vasily Degtyaryov (1880), Tode Mongke (1282), Lilya Brik (1891), and Valery Gergiev (1953). After him are Vladislav Volkov (1935), Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mikhailovna of Russia (1826), Pavel Axelrod (1850), Lyubov Orlova (1902), and Aleksandr Mikhailovich of Tver (1301).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Vasily Alekseyev ranks 3. Before him are Irena Szewińska (1946), and Yuriy Sedykh (1955). After him are Valeriy Brumel (1942), Pyotr Bolotnikov (1930), Elvīra Ozoliņa (1939), Nadezhda Olizarenko (1953), Vera Krepkina (1933), Nadezhda Chizhova (1945), Yelena Isinbayeva (1982), Nina Ponomaryova (1929), and Vsevolod Bobrov (1922).

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