Pavel Kuznetsov (russian: Павел Викторович Кузнецов; born 10 July 1961) is a former Soviet

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 ...

, Olympic champion and world champion. He won the gold medal in the heavyweight I class at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

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* * 1961 births Living people People from Alexandrovsky District, Vladimir Oblast Russian male weightlifters Soviet male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters of the Soviet Union Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics World Weightlifting Championships medalists Sportspeople from Vladimir Oblast {{USSR-weightlifting-bio-stub