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Yury Zaitsev

1951 - 2022

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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yury Zaitsev is the 1,805th most popular athlete (down from 1,789th in 2019), the 2,257th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,400th in 2019) and the 79th most popular Russian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yury Zaitsev ranks 1,805 out of 6,025. Before him are Óscar Cristi, Liu Hong, Fred Børre Lundberg, Karlo Stipanić, Juha Tiainen, and Roberto Larraz. After him are Birutė Kalėdienė, Otto Nilsson, Uli Vos, Henry Proctor, Eric Carlberg, and Claude Piquemal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Yury Zaitsev ranks 528. Before him are Brian Downey, Suad Amiry, Tomás Boy, Paul Carrack, Didier Flament, and Vilson Ahmeti. After him are Birger Jensen, Carmen Linares, Brian Grazer, Ahmed Tidiane Souaré, Júlio César Leal, and Pamela Bellwood. Among people deceased in 2022, Yury Zaitsev ranks 536. Before him are Gianni Celati, Danny Ongais, David Brenner, Jose Maria Sison, Zbigniew Namysłowski, and Judith Durham. After him are Jeroen Brouwers, Sergio Brighenti, Sture Allén, Alice von Hildebrand, Józef Zapędzki, and John McNally.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yury Zaitsev ranks 2,257 out of 3,761. Before him are Vagiz Khidiyatullin (1959), Aleksandr Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817), Anna Chapman (1982), Peter Lesgaft (1837), Tamara Lazakovich (1954), and Arseny Golovko (1906). After him are Stanislav Stepashkin (1940), Oleg Tinkov (1967), Andriy Nesmachniy (1979), Tina Karol (1985), Nadezhda Ilyina (1949), and Tatyana Averina (1950).

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Among ATHLETES In Russia

Among athletes born in Russia, Yury Zaitsev ranks 79. Before him are Vladimir Nevzorov (1952), Maria Golubnichaya (1924), Ellina Zvereva (1960), Aleksandr Klepikov (1950), Ivan Kizimov (1928), and Vyacheslav Vedenin (1941). After him are Nadezhda Ilyina (1949), Olga Kuzenkova (1970), Yury Sisikin (1937), Grigory Mkrtychan (1925), Tamara Bykova (1958), and Rinnat Safin (1940).

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