Aleksandr Nikiforovich Voronin (russian: Александр Никифорович Воронин, May 23, 1951 – September 26, 1992) was a

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

and Olympic champion who competed for the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

. He was born in

Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk ( rus, Челя́бинск, p=tɕɪˈlʲæbʲɪnsk, a=Ru-Chelyabinsk.ogg; ba, Силәбе, ''Siläbe'') is the administrative center and largest city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia, with a ...

. Voronin won a gold medal at the

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."1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Weightlifting"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 23, 2008)

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* * 1951 births 1992 deaths Russian male weightlifters Soviet male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for the Soviet Union Weightlifters at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Deaths from falls 20th-century Russian people {{USSR-weightlifting-bio-stub