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]
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]