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Born | Pobedino, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR | 17 January 1951||||||||||||||
Died | 30 September 2022 Dnipro, Ukraine | (aged 71)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
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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. [1] He won a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. [2]