Valeriy Vasylovych Dvoynikov ( uk, Валерій Васильович Двойников, born 4 May 1950 in
Ozersk) is a
Ukrainian
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judoka
is an unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponica, "Judo"). ...
who competed for the
Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal in the
middleweight division.
Dvoynikov was also vice
world champion
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
in
Vienna 1975 and
European champion in
Kyiv 1976.
Isao Inokuma
was a Japanese judoka. He won a 1964 Summer Olympics medal table, gold medal in the heavyweight division (above 80 kg) at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and a world title in 1965.[Vladimir Nevzorov
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Nevzorov (russian: Владимир Михайлович Невзоров, born 5 October 1952 in Maykop) is a Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summe ...]
, the victor in the
light-middleweight class in the Montreal Olympics, Dvoinikov of the Soviet Union, who was runner-up in the middleweight division at the same Olympics, and
Dietmar Lorenz of East Germany, who won the 95-kilograms-and-under class in the
Jigoro Kano Cup
The Grand Slam Tokyo (formerly ) is an international judo competition held as part of the International Judo Federation (IJF) World Tour Grand Slam series.
Venues
*1978–2006: Nippon Budokan
*2007–present: Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Pa ...
International Judo Tournament held in Tokyo in 1978".
Dvoynikov is also a co-founder in 2016 with his son, a politologue and poet Valery Dvoinikov, of the Peter the Great's International Foundation working for the cultural reconciliation between Europe and Russia.
References
External links
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* https://web.archive.org/web/20110819041105/http://judo-ozersk.ru/dvoynikov.html
* http://www.musatovs.ru/dvoinikov.html
* http://www.dvoinikov.info/
1950 births
Living people
Russian male judoka
Ukrainian male judoka
Soviet male judoka
Olympic judoka for the Soviet Union
Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in judo
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Judoka at the 1976 Summer Olympics
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