Valery Shary (, born 2 January 1947) is a former
Belarus
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ian
weightlifter
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and Olympic champion who competed for the
Soviet Union
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.
His 3 lift total of in the 82.5k weight class was never surpassed.
Biography
Shary was born in
Chervyen
Chervyen or Cherven, previously known as Ihumen until 1923, is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Chervyen District. In 2016, its population was 9,718.[1976 Summer Olympics
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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.
George Eisen of
Nazareth University 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
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1947 births
Living people
People from Chervyen
Belarusian male weightlifters
Russian male weightlifters
Soviet male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for 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
20th-century Russian sportsmen
20th-century Belarusian sportsmen
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