Yury Konstantinovich Zaitsev (russian: Юрий Константинович Зайцев; 17 January 1951 – 30 September 2022) was a Soviet weightlifter and Olympic champion who competed for Soviet Union. He won a gold medal at the

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in Montreal.

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1951 births 2022 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 Olympic medalists in weightlifting European champions in weightlifting Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR World Weightlifting Championships medalists Sportspeople from Sakhalin Oblast {{USSR-weightlifting-bio-stub