Vlasov weightlifting biography

Years of life: - Born on December 5 in the city of Makeevka, Donetsk region. Father - Peter Parfenovich - was a scout, diplomat, journalist and specialist in China. Mother - Maria Danilovna - was the head of the library. Father gave Yuri to the Saratov Suvorov School. There, he stood out not only with brilliant successes in his studies, but also with physical strength.

Having decided to try himself in sports, he took up the struggle, becoming the champion of Saratov, skiing, skates, pushing the nucleus.

In the year he graduated from the school with honors. Since years, he studied at the N. Zhukovsky Air Force Academy in Moscow, where he took up heavy athletics. After graduating from the Academy, he was awarded the title of senior lieutenant with a degree in Aviation Radio Engineer. From the years, he was an inspector of Sports CSKA. In the year, in the rank of captain, he was dismissed of his own free will.

He achieved the first success at the USSR championships in the year, while taking 3rd place with the overall result of the kg. In the year, he managed to seize heavyweight leadership, and he did not lose to the Olympic Games of the year. He became the Olympic champion at the Olympics in Rome of the year. At the Olympic Games of the year in Tokyo, Yuri arrived as a favorite.

However, he lost his teammate Leonid Zabotinsky. Immediately after the games in Tokyo, he refused active training. But already in the fall, he resumed training. In the year, he officially said goodbye to big sports, setting 41 records of the USSR, 31 world records. Repeated world champion 4 times and the European champion 6 times. In the year he was awarded the Order of Lenin, and in the year he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

He was recognized as the best athlete of the twentieth century. In February, American actor Arnold Schwarzenegger came to Moscow and one of his trips was a meeting with his idol Yuri Vlasov that Arnold made the athletics at the Moscow sports club the House of Pioneers of the Kalininsky district. After the USSR State Sports Sports in April recognized athletic gymnastics bodybuilding as a sport, a federation was formed, the first president of which was Yuri Vlasov.

From the years - a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. In the year he ran for the post of chairman of the State Duma. In the year he ran for the post of President of the Russian Federation. The urn with ashes is buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.