Vasily Alekseyev, Russian-German weightlifter and coach (died 2011)

Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev was a Soviet weightlifter. He set 80 world records and 81 Soviet national records in weightlifting and won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 games.

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