Valery Shary ( be, Валерый Пятровіч Шарый, born 2 January 1947) is a former
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by R ...
ian
weightlifter
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and Olympic champion who competed for the
Soviet Union
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.
Biography
He was born in
Chervyen
Červień or Chervyen ( be, Чэрвень, ; Ігумен – ''Ihumen'' till 1923; russian: Червень ''Cherven''; pl, Czerwień; yi, Humen/Igumen, lt, Červenė), also spelled Cherven, is a Belarusian town in Minsk Region. It is the adm ...
.
Shary won a gold medal at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Events January
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in
Montreal
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in light-heavyweight weightlifting, setting an Olympic record in the process.
["1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Weightlifting"]
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 23, 2008) He also won the 1975 and 1976 World Championships in the same weight class.
Dr. George Eisen of
Nazareth College included Shary on his list of Jewish Olympic Medalists (though he acknowledges that he may have included non-Jews).
Eisen's list has been published and used in numerous other academia on Jews and Sports
[''Jews and the Olympic Games – Sport: A Springboard for Minorities'' by Paul Yogi Mayer, 2000]
See also
*
List of select Jewish weightlifters
References
External links
*
1947 births
Living people
People from Chervyen
Belarusian male weightlifters
Russian male weightlifters
Soviet male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters of the Soviet Union
Weightlifters at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Minsk Region
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