Ruslan Savchenko (Руслан Савченко, born ) is a Ukrainian male

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 ...

, competing in the 76 kg category and representing Ukraine at international competitions. He participated at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

in the 77 kg event. He competed at world championships, most recently at the

1997 World Weightlifting Championships The 1997 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from December 6 to December 14, 1997. In the men's tournament there were a total number of 189 athletes (51 nations) competing, while there were 143 women in action from ...

. He set two middleweight world records in November 1993 at the world championships, in the snatch and total (snatch + clean & jerk). The snatch world record of 170.0 kg has never been broken and after 1997 this weightclass was discontinued.

Major results

: - 1993 World Championships Middleweight class (370.0 kg) : - 1994 World Championships Middleweight class (360.0 kg) : - 1994 European Championships Middleweight class (355.0 kg) : - 1997 European Championships Middleweight class (350.0 kg)

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* 1971 births Living people Ukrainian male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters for Ukraine Place of birth missing (living people) World Weightlifting Championships medalists World record setters in weightlifting World record holders in Olympic weightlifting 20th-century Ukrainian people 21st-century Ukrainian people {{Ukraine-weightlifting-bio-stub