3. Weightlifting
achievements
Olympic champion (1960);
Silver medalist in Olympic Games
(1964);
Four-time senior world champion
(1959, 1961–1963);
Silver medalist in Senior World
Championships (1964);
Six-time consecutive senior European
champion (1959–1964);
Set thirty four world records during
career.
4. Vlasov is a unique
Phenomenon
Described as «superman wearing rim
glasses», Yuri seemed to go against all
stereotypes attached to weight-lifting
5. born December 5, 1935
Yury was born in Makeyevka,
Ukrainian SSR , studied at the Saratov
Suvorov military school (1946–1953)
then at the Zhukovsky Air Force
Academy in Moscow, from which he
graduated with a Gold Medal in 1959.
In Academy he became interested in
weightlifting,
6. I want to tell you about this person because he was named the strongest
men on the planet so we should remember him and his achievements
