Leonid Zhabotinsky

Leonid Zhabotinsky
Zhabotinsky in 1968
Personal information
Born(1938-01-28)28 January 1938
Uspenka, Sumy, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died14 January 2016(2016-01-14) (aged 77)
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
Height1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Weight163 kg (359 lb) (1968)
Sport
SportWeightlifting
Medal record
Representing  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1964 Tokyo +90 kg
Gold medal – first place 1968 Mexico City +90 kg
World Weightlifting Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1963 Stockholm +90 kg
Gold medal – first place 1964 Tokyo +90 kg
Gold medal – first place 1965 Teheran +90 kg
Gold medal – first place 1966 East Berlin +90 kg
Gold medal – first place 1968 Mexico City +90 kg
European Weightlifting Championships
Silver medal – second place 1963 Stockholm +90 kg
Gold medal – first place 1966 East Berlin +90 kg
Gold medal – first place 1968 Leningrad +90 kg
USSR Weightlifting Championships
Silver medal – second place 1961 Dnipropetrovsk +110 kg
Silver medal – second place 1962 Tbilisi +110 kg
Silver medal – second place 1963 Moscow +102.5 kg
Gold medal – first place 1964 Kiev +102.5 kg
Gold medal – first place 1965 Yerevan +102.5k g
Gold medal – first place 1966 Moscow +102.5 kg
Gold medal – first place 1967 Luhansk +102.5 kg
Gold medal – first place 1965 Rostov-on-Don +110 kg

Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky (Ukrainian: Леонiд Іванович Жаботинський; 28 January 1938 – 14 January 2016) was a Ukrainian weightlifter who set 19 world records in the superheavyweight class, and won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games.[2][3]

  1. ^ Yuri Vlasov (1984). Справедливость силы. М.: Молодая гвардия. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Leonid Zhabotynskiy". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference nytimes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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