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.
Alekseyev c. 1970
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
Vasily Alekseyev
…and won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 games. At the age of 18, Alekseyev began practicing weightlifting at Trud VSS, trained by his coach Rudolf Plyukfelder until 1968, when he began to train solo. He was not a naturally large man like other super heavyweights but was encouraged to gain strength by adding…
Plyukfelder at the 1964 Olympics