Yury Vlasov, Ukrainian-Russian weightlifter and politician (died 2021)

Yury Vlasov

Soviet and Russian weightlifter (1935–2021)

Yury Petrovich Vlasov was a Soviet and Russian heavyweight weightlifter, writer and politician. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1960 and a silver in 1964; at both games, he was the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union. During his career,…