Rudolf Plyukfelder
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Rudolf Vladimirovich Plyukfelder was a Soviet weightlifter and weightlifting coach. As a competitor he won world titles in 1959 and 1961 and an Olympic gold medal in 1964. As a coach he prepared a ser
Plyukfelder at the 1964 Olympics
Vasily Alekseyev
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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.
Rudolf Plyukfelder
…won world titles in 1959 and 1961 and an Olympic gold medal in 1964. As a coach he prepared a series of Olympic champions including Aleksey Vakhonin, Vasily Alekseyev, David Rigert, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Voronin and Viktor Tregubov. Plyukfelder was born to a Russia Germans family in Ukraine. His father and…
Alekseyev c. 1970