Aleksandr Nikiforovich Voronin (, May 23, 1951 – September 26, 1992) was a

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

weightlifter Weightlifting or weight lifting generally refers to physical exercises and sports in which people lift weights, often in the form of dumbbells, barbells or machines. People engage in weightlifting for a variety of different reasons. These can ...

and Olympic champion who competed for the

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

. He was born in

Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk; , is the administrative center and largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, seventh-largest city in Russia, with a population ...

. Voronin won a gold medal at the

1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ...

Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...

."1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Weightlifting"
– ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 23, 2008)

References

External links

* * 1951 births 1992 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 Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Olympic medalists in weightlifting Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Deaths from falls 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{USSR-weightlifting-bio-stub