Viacheslav Ivanovski Explained

Vyacheslav Ivanovskiy
Native Name:Вячеслав Ивановский
Native Name Lang:Russian
Birth Date:14 August 1975
Weight:218 lbs (99 kg)
Sport:Weightlifting
Weight Class:Heavyweight

Vyacheslav Ivanovskiy (also "Viacheslav"; born August 14, 1975, Russia, Novosibirsk) is a Russian former Olympic weightlifter.[1]

Weightlifting career

Ivanovskiy won the silver medal at the 1995 Junior European Weightlifting Championships in Beer Sheva, Israel, in the Sub-Heavyweight class (lifting 370.0 kg).[2] He won the bronze medal at the 1996 European Weightlifting Championships, in the Sub-Heavyweight class (lifting 377.5 kg).[1]

Ivanovskiy competed for Israel at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, at the age of 20, in Weightlifting-Men's Heavyweight I (99 kg).[1] [3] He did not complete a lift in the snatch at 175.0 kg, and did not finish.[1] [4] When he competed in the Olympics, he weighed 218 lbs (99 kg).[1]

He won the gold medal in the 1998 European Weightlifting Championships, in the Heavyweight class (lifting 402.5 kg).[1] Ivanovskiy came in 4th at the 1999 European Weightlifting Championships in Spain in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 402.5 kg.[5]

Ivanovskiy came in 6th at the 2001 World Weightlifting Championships in Turkey in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 438.7 kg.[6] He came in 4th in the 2002 World Weightlifting Championships in Poland in the 105 kg class, with a total lift of 441.4.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vacislav Ivanovsky Bio, Stats, and Results. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418083513/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/iv/vacislav-ivanovsky-1.html. dead. 2020-04-18.
  2. Web site: IWRP - Weightlifting Database.
  3. Web site: Innovations in Sport Psychology: Linking Theory and Practice; Proceedings. 1 January 1997. Wingate Institute for Physical Education.
  4. Web site: IWRP - Weightlifting Database.
  5. Web site: IWRP - Weightlifting Database.
  6. Web site: IWRP - Weightlifting Database.
  7. Web site: IWRP - Weightlifting Database.