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Vassily Alekseyev
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7 January 1942 - 25 November 2011
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Weightlifter Vasily Alekseev is a real record holder. During the heyday of his career in the 1970s, this Soviet There were no equals in the world arenas, the weightlifter returned from international tournaments exclusively with gold. Vasily Ivanovich was born on January 7, 1942 in one in the Ryazan region. In his youth he was engaged in athletics, volleyball, but soon he devoted himself entirely to the barbell. He lived and trained in Mines of the Rostov region, in 1970 he set his first world record.
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Weightlifter Vasily Alekseev is a real record holder. During the heyday of his career in the 1970s, this Soviet
There were no equals in the world arenas, the weightlifter returned from international tournaments exclusively with gold.
Vasily Ivanovich was born on January 7, 1942 in one in the Ryazan region. In his youth he was engaged in athletics, volleyball, but soon he devoted himself entirely to the barbell. He lived and trained in Mines of the Rostov region, in 1970 he set his first world record. In total, the career of the outstanding athlete will be 80 world and 81 national. Then, in 1970, he became world champion for the first time and since then he has risen to the top five times. Six times weightlifter won the highest title of the European tournament, twice – in 1972 and 1976 – became Olympic champion. He left the sport after the Moscow Olympics, where, unfortunately, he could not show his best result and was left without awards.
Upon completion of an active sports career, he engaged in coaching work. Among the achievements of the athlete are the highest government awards of the USSR, including the Order of Lenin, the Greeks in 1999 called him the best athlete of the 20th century, and the Americans in 1975 put a photo of Alekseev on the cover of the popular sportsman Sports Illustrated, signing it “the strongest man”.
Vasily Ivanovich died on November 25, 2011 due to heart problems that began during his participation in the show “Great Races”. He found rest in the central city cemetery Shakht.