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Born January 7, 1942 • Soviet Union
Died November 25, 2011 (aged 69) • Germany
Awards And Honors Olympic Games • Order of Lenin (1972)

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Soviet gymnast
Nikolai Andrianov
Nikolai Andrianov
Soviet gymnast
Soviet wrestler Aleksandr Medved
Aleksandr Medved
Russian wrestler
Weightlifting winners' podium at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games
Arkady Vorobyev
Soviet weightlifter
Olympic diver Klaus Dibiasi
Klaus Dibiasi
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Shirley Babashoff, 1976.
Shirley Babashoff
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Saneyev, Viktor
Viktor Saneyev
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Tatyana Kazankina clinching the gold medal in the 1,500-metre race at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow
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Teófilo Stevenson
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Michael Spinks
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Ruth Fuchs
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Katō Sawao
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András Balczó
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