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Facts

Born January 7, 1942 • Soviet Union
Died November 25, 2011 (aged 69) • Germany
Awards And Honors Olympic Games • Order of Lenin (1972)

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Vasily Alexeyev of the Soviet Union lifts a loaded barbell overhead during the super heavyweight weightlifting competition at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
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Ludmilla Tourischeva
Ludmilla Tourischeva
Soviet gymnast
Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Andrianov
Soviet gymnast
Soviet wrestler Aleksandr Medved
Aleksandr Medved
Russian wrestler
Weightlifting winners' podium at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games
Arkady Vorobyev
Soviet weightlifter
Olympic diver Klaus Dibiasi
Klaus Dibiasi
Italian athlete
Shirley Babashoff, 1976.
Shirley Babashoff
American athlete
Saneyev, Viktor
Viktor Saneyev
Soviet athlete
Tatyana Kazankina clinching the gold medal in the 1,500-metre race at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
Tatyana Kazankina
Soviet athlete
Lev Yashin holds the Golden Ball trophy above his head while standing with Soviet soccer teammates in uniforms marked CCCP, in a stadium, 1964.
Lev Ivanovich Yashin
Russian football (soccer) player
Sugar Ray Leonard in white trunks throws a punch at Marvin Hagler, who is blocking with his arms, during their 1987 middleweight title fight in a boxing ring.
Sugar Ray Leonard
American boxer and television commentator
Cuba's Teofilo Stevenson, wearing boxing gloves and shorts labeled Cuba, faces USSR's Pjotr Zayev in the ring during their 1980 Olympic heavyweight final match.
Teófilo Stevenson
Cuban boxer
Champion boxer Michael Spinks
Michael Spinks
American boxer
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Lasse Virén
Finnish distance runner
Ruth Fuchs
Ruth Fuchs
German athlete
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Hans Günter Winkler
German athlete
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Pertti Karppinen
Finnish athlete
Katō Sawao
Katō Sawao
Japanese gymnast
András Balczó
András Balczó
Hungarian athlete
Olympic diving champion Phil Boggs
Phil Boggs
American diver
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Yuriy Sedykh
Soviet athlete

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