Vyacheslav Ivanovskiy (also "Viacheslav"; ; born August 14, 1975, Russia, Novosibirsk) is a Russian former Olympic weightlifter.

Weightlifting career

Ivanovskiy won the

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at the 1995 Junior European Weightlifting Championships in

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, Israel, in the Sub-Heavyweight class (lifting 370.0 kg). He won the

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at the

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, in the Sub-Heavyweight class (lifting 377.5 kg). Ivanovskiy competed for

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in the

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in Atlanta, at the age of 20, in Weightlifting-Men's Heavyweight I (99 kg). He did not complete a lift in the snatch at 175.0 kg, and did not finish. When he competed in the Olympics, he weighed 218 lbs (99 kg). He won the

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in the

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, in the Heavyweight class (lifting 402.5 kg). Ivanovskiy came in 4th at the

1999 European Weightlifting Championships The 78th European Weightlifting Championships were held in A Coruña, Spain from April 14 to April 18, 1999. There were a total number of 144 competing athletes from 29 nations. Medal overview Men Women ReferencesResults(sports123)ewf {{Euro ...

in Spain in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 402.5 kg. Ivanovskiy came in 6th at the 2001 World Weightlifting Championships in Turkey in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 438.7 kg. He came in 4th in the

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in Poland in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 441.4.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ivanovski, Viacheslav Living people Weightlifters at the 1996 Summer Olympics 1975 births Israeli male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Israel